Supernatural - The White Wife of Unst
Strange tales from Scotland’s thin places... by Thomas MacCalman Morton
Photo Tom Pennington / Muness Castle, Unst / CC BY-SA 2.0 Muness Castle,Unst
The White Wife of Unst
T
he island of Unst is not just the most northerly in the Shetland Isles, and therefore Scotland, but it is also one of the most...I
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was going to say haunted. But perhaps it’s better to say, as one local historian told me, that it’s a place where the barriers between the past and the present, this life
and the afterlife, the physical and the spiritual, are exceptionally thin. Scotland is full of thin places.
