- New evidence of ghosts in Edinburgh's underground city
have been recorded on tape by a radio producer.
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- Debbie McPhail claims to have made a recording of a ghoulish
voice hissing the words: "Get out" or "Go away" in
Gaelic.
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- Mrs McPhail described herself as "a cynical person
by nature" - but said she had no explanation for the ghostly voice.
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- The otherworldly voice ruined a recording she was making
in Edinburgh underground vaults with the former rugby international Norrie
Rowan, who owns a section of the underground city.
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- Mrs McPhail said: "I found the place so creepy,
I let the presenter go down to do the interview himself.
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- "When I was listening back to it, I could hear Norrie
Rowan chatting and then I heard another voice.
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- "It was close by to the microphone because you can
tell if voices are far away or not. I knew it wasnât the presenter
or Norrie because the voice had a slightly Irish accent.
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- "When the presenter came back up I asked him who
they had met in the vault and he said nobody. I asked a colleague who spoke
Gaelic and she said they could be saying 'get out' or 'go away'."
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- Gordon Stewart, assistant director at Mercat Tours, which
conducts visits around the vaults said the recording could be the first
actual evidence of psychic phenomena in the vault.
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- "It is an unusual story and quite chilling. I think
it could be the first time anything like this has been recorded in Edinburgh.
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- "People who come on our tours have been scratched,
had their hands jostled and come into contact with unknown things."
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- Psychologist Richard Wiseman, who has conducted research
into the paranormal goings on beneath Edinburghâs South Bridge, said
a third of the subjects in his study had some sort of experience in the
vaults, including having their clothes pulled, hearing their names whispered
or feeling tugs on their clothing.
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- But he said the phenomena could have been psychological
effects suggested by the damp dripping walls and the dark dismal atmosphere
of the underground city.
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- Dr Paul Stevens, a research fellow at Edinburgh Universityâs
Koestler Parapsychology unit, said: "The vaults are not mapped in
places and you donât know what walls are backing on to.
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- "At one time someone there thought they were hearing
strange sounds, but the wall actually backed on to a massage parlour and
that was where the funny noises were coming from.
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- "It is very creepy down there, so even water dripping
can sound like footsteps."
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