Episode 12. The White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle

Plus the Grey Man of Bellister, ghostly goings-on at the Holy Pool of Melrose and the superstition of ’The Sign of Life’

Welcome to Episode 12. In this episode, the Boggart tells the tale of the White Lady of Blenkinsopp Castle in Northumberland, said to be the ghost of the wife of Sir Bryan de Blenkinsopp doomed to haunt the castle until her buried and hidden treasure is found… then we follow the Blenkinsopp line to Bellister Castle where an unfortunate minstrel met a grisly death and haunted the Baron til his dying day. This episode’s archive story comes from the Berwickshire News and General Advertiser, with a ghost story dated 6th June 1905 recanting the tale of the ghost of Melrose Abbey. The episode finishes with a look at the whimsical superstition of ‘The Sign of Life’…