Qualla: Tulloch Castle https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle en-us © 2026 Bendyline Mon, 20 Jul 2026 10:21:24 GMT Qualla serial false Qualla support@bendyline.com yes https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/tulloch-castle-wp/hero-small.webp Qualla: Tulloch Castle https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle Tulloch Castle: Introduction https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle/ Photo credit David Maclennan, CC BY-SA 2.0. On 28 May 2008, a fourteen-year-old boy named Connor Bond claimed he had photographed a ghost. The picture, taken on a digital camera at Tulloch Castle, appeared to show a disembodied hand on a stair railing with something pale floating behind it. The castle's owners were unsurprised. Tulloch had been gathering ghost stories for centuries, including the famous Green Lady who is said to haunt the building, and one more sighting changed nothing. The castle was already a hotel by then, and the kind of guests who book a stay in a reputedly haunted Highland tower were not put off by a teenager with a camera.

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/tulloch-castle-wp/gfhz-tulloch-castle-intro.mp3 0:06 1 full Tulloch Castle: Born in the Tower https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle/ Photo credit Hartmut Josi Bennöhr (user:josi / de:user:josi), CC BY-SA 3.0. Tulloch's history begins in the late 14th century, when it was the birthplace of Mariota Leslie, daughter of Euphemia I, Countess of Ross. Mariota became the wife of Donald Macdonald, Lord of the Isles, which made the tower a footnote in the long Atlantic story of the western sea...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/tulloch-castle-wp/gfhz-tulloch-castle-born-in-the-tower.mp3 0:06 2 full Tulloch Castle: The Davidsons https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle/ Photo credit Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1762 Kenneth Bayne sold the estate to his cousin Henry Davidson, and a Davidson dynasty settled in for the next 150 years. Henry's brother Duncan, who inherited in 1781, served as MP for Cromartyshire. Four generations of Davidsons followed, until Duncan Davidson, the 11th bar...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/tulloch-castle-wp/gfhz-tulloch-castle-the-davidsons.mp3 0:06 3 full Tulloch Castle: Dunkirk and After https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle/ Photo credit Euan Nelson, CC BY-SA 2.0. In 1940, with British soldiers being plucked off the beaches at Dunkirk, Tulloch Castle was turned into a hospital for the wounded. After the war the Vickers family let it go. In 1957 the local education authority bought it and turned it into a hostel for west coast students atte...

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]]> Sat, 30 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://qualla.com/_m/g/f/h/z/tulloch-castle-wp/gfhz-tulloch-castle-dunkirk-and-after.mp3 0:06 4 full Tulloch Castle: Tunnel and Folly https://qualla.com/tulloch-castle/ Photo credit Julian Paren, CC BY-SA 2.0. A tunnel is said to have run from the basement of Tulloch under the town of Dingwall to the old site of Dingwall Castle. It has collapsed now, though for years it could be glimpsed through an air vent on the front lawn. There is a Davidson family cemetery in the grounds, fenced o...

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