WW2 spirit lingers in village

Reading in Craigie last week about claims of poltergeist activity in Perthshire in the 1990s has set Tam Brown’s thoughts racing.

The Bankfoot resident writes: “I always find the items by paranormal investigator Mr David Cowan of Crieff so interesting.

“I sometimes find ghostly goings-on, for want of a better explanation, coincide with historical events, but when Mr Cowan relates the strange happenings in a Crieff shop it’s a trigger for me to tell about strange happenings in my house in Garry Place.

“Each evening after dinner I take a cholesterol tablet – I have done so for many years. My wife places the tablet for me in a little container and I always knew it to be there, but recently a strange thing began to

happen which more than baffled both of us. For when I went to take the tablet it was not there, and I knew it had been placed there as always. Well, the first time it happened we thought perhaps she’d forgot to put the tablet in the container, but then it happened again.

“In fact, it occurred for a few days. We both knew where the tablet was, but then it vanished. We made an examination of the little container – nothing was wrong with it, so why was the tablet going missing?

“This was more than baffling. Eventually the situation returned back to normal, as it is now, but it baffles us even yet as one of those more than strange happenings which seem to defy explanation.

“Historically, part of the area where I reside during the war was a camp which housed Italians. We were always told they were prisoners – well, they say life has many mysteries and this certainly is one. I have an open mind but it is a big question mark.”