FALKLAND (Fife): Where History Meets Mystery & Spooky

Amidst the rolling hills of Fife, lies the charming village of Falkland Steeped in history, brimming with character and so much more The wind is making it very difficult for me to film today, so apologies for a lot of voiceovers Today we are in a small town north of Edinburgh called Falkland Now Falkland is a beautiful medieval renaissance town It has a palace with gardens It has a church It has a fountain in the middle of the village Falkland is also home to one of the most haunted hotels in Scotland, if not in Britain The hotel has some very eminent guests, ghostly guests there And I lived there for 6 months 20 years ago And I have a couple of ghost stories for you Falkland was once the dwelling of the Stuart kings and queens As they hunted deer and wild boar in the wild forests of Fife Falkland Castle possibly rooted back to the 12th century Where it was said to have served as a hunting lodge And converted into a castle by the Earl of Fife King James I confiscated Falkland Estate in 1425 After the murder of his brother And Falkland and the surrounding village were elevated to Royal Burg The palace was built by 1337 It would have been atop a pre-existent castle strategically placed here And it has been the home to the Stuart family from that day onwards But Falkland Palace owes the most to King James IV and King James V Who turned it into a magnificent example of Renaissance architecture James V was the king who spent most of the time at Falkland Palace That is, besides Mary, Queen of Scots Mary enjoyed some of her happiest times in Falkland And so did James VI, who later became James I of England I said, oh my God, he's opening by himself! Charles II was the last monarch to spend some time at the palace Before the long period of decline began Until the palace was restored in the 1800s Crazy weather out there! This has been set up by the National Trust as an apothecary There had been an apothecary in the palace at the time The apothecary was used during Outlander season 2 They took everything away after the production of the episode And the palace staff has rebuilt it their own way It looks pretty cool, doesn't it? I actually lived here where there were just over a thousand souls And now it's past the 1,100 And that is not including cows and sheep I was here for work and my company found me a place to stay Which was an apartment in the Covenanter Hotel Which is one of the most haunted hotels in Scotland, if not in Britain The Covenanter Hotel is a charming 17th century coaching inn It gets its name from the Scottish people who signed the National Covenant in 1638 Then miss out the next video on Greyfriars Kirkyard if you want to know more The Covenanter Hotel is said to be haunted by Mary Queen of Scots There are noises heard inside the hotel Bangs and things like that I don't understand why she would stay there instead of the hotel up here This is one of those things But a couple of things happened when I was living there And I didn't know that it was one of the most haunted hotels in Scotland at the time I found out possibly about ten years later And they made kind of sense So one of the things I found really funny is that When I saw the first episode of Atlanta And it says it was in Venice in the 1940s And I looked at it and said, oh my god, that's Falkland! I live there! So here's my own story Inside that apartment there was a tiny little window And the strangest thing about the window is that it looked against the wall It felt like I was being watched Which didn't make any sense because there was a wall there There was nothing else But you get the feeling of someone watching I had to door the curtains It was just a very weird feeling On another occasion we crossed the garden at the back of the building From the actual hotel to the homes at the back of the garden I remember running all the way back to the hotel I am not afraid of the dark, ok But it felt like there was something there And that is the story I've been telling for the last 20 years Until one day I checked up the hotel on the internet And I found out that I'd been living for six months In one of the most haunted hotels in Scotland That was so awesome! I hope you enjoyed this video And if you did, please give us a thumb up And I'll see you in the next one! Thank you for watching! Bye!