SCARLAN SEMINARY, SCOT HIGHLANDS

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SCARLAN SEMINARY, SCOT HIGHLANDS

Is this the ghost of a monk staring out of an abandoned farmhouse?

The hooded figure was snapped lurking in the window of a remote former seminary where 18th century priests tried to escape being hunted and murdered by government soldiers.

Although there is no record of any dying violently at the abandoned Scalan Seminary in the Scottish Highlands, a teacher called John Paterson died there of natural causes in 1783.

Spooky: The figure stands wearing a cloak looking out

A website for the seminary states: "He was a tall man, and he needed a long coffin, and such a coffin would not fit through the low door, and into the narrow corridor and the steep staircase."

The remote farmhouse lies deep in the hills, and can only be reached by a half-mile walk up a rough farm track.

Neil Robertson, of Tomintoul, sparked a huge debate after he posted the snap on Facebook and wrote "The old Scalan seminary in the Braes Of Glenlivet.

"Top left hand window reflection? Thoughts."

Neil Robertson/Deadline News:
A spooky hooded figure has been photographed in the window of a building where 18th century Catholic trainee priests tried to escape persecution

Monk: Ghost hunters are excited over the photo

Amy Winsor wrote: " A hooded monk - it was a seminary after all."

Marie Hanlin wrote: " A hooded figure, I've seen similar before."

Nichola Murray posted: "Definitely looks like someone at the window - spooky!"

But others were less convinced, with Martin Parsons joking: "Someone in a tiger onesy" whilst some even suggested it looked like a member of the Klu Klux Klan."

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