The Courier & Advertiser (Perth and Perthshire Edition)
Investigator captures ghostly image
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A paranormal investigator believes he may have captured on camera the ghost of a young woman imprisoned in the East Neuk.
Lenny Low, 48, pictured below, from Largo and author of The Weem Witch, took the photo at the tollbooth in Pittenweem where people accused of being witches in the 17th and 18th centuries were locked up, tortured, tried and sentenced to death by burning.
He is convinced it could be the ghost of a forlorn young woman spotted there on several occasions over the decades.
He said: “I did a tour at Pittenweem tower last week with guests, including fellow paranormal investigator Greg Stewart.
“We intended to go to Newark Castle at St Monans to see if we could catch an image of another ghost said to roam there, as featured in The Courier last year, but before I left, I took several photos inside Pittenweem tower and left motion sensors running on two floors.
“I used up both my infra- red camera and digital camera memory cards on the castle shoot on an amazing moonlit night.
“When I had erased all the castle shoot pics and was into my tower photos, I erased a few dark ones until nearly erasing this one that caught my eye.
“I had this pic on its side and thought I had nothing and was about to delete it until I dropped the camera and held it lengthways.
“I lightened the image and this is what I saw.”
As the tower, which adjoins a church, was a 17th-Century jail, the families of those incarcerated during the witch trials would have had the duty of bringing food.