91. They Said They Were Collecting For Charity. In the Middle of the Night.

About this episode

Eight figures in hooded robes. Burning torches. A freshly dug grave in a Scottish churchyard. This is Into the Fog Embers, my companion series, where I share case updates and shorter paranormal accounts sent in by viewers. Not every story becomes a full documentary investigation, but some are too intriguing not to tell. Tonight's Embers case comes from a viewer and centres on two strange incidents connected to St Lolan's Church and burial ground, also known as Kincardine Graveyard, at Blair Drummond, near Stirling, in Scotland. The first took place in the early 1980s. Darren's mother was cycling home past the old cemetery in the early hours of the morning when she saw something she has never forgotten. She told a neighbour, who went down to the graveyard to confront them himself, and came away with a perfectly ordinary explanation. It was only afterwards that he realised how strange that explanation really was. The second comes from the late 1990s, when Darren's uncle was working in the same cemetery. Two men, years apart, both affected by the same grave enclosed in iron railings — and by what its 1813 inscription actually says. Do you know this churchyard, or have you hea