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johnny.story

[From Brandon Gillespie's Archive X]


                                JOHNNY ONE ARM


Date Received: January 30 1995
Location: Edinburgh, Scotland. UK
Story-type: Personal Experience
Source: Email submission
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   I am currently studying at university in the very old , historic city
   of Edinburgh. This is a true story which happened to me and two
   friends (Kirsty and Carol) during the winter months of 1992. Those who
   have visited Edinburgh will know that the old part of the town is
   extremely creepy, cold and damp especially at night. It is also where
   all the best bars in town are.
   
   This experience happened one weekend when my pal Kirsty was visiting
   me I decided to show her the nightlife in Edinburgh. We had only been
   to a couple of pubs so we were in complete control of all our
   faculties. After stopping to get some chips, we decided to make our
   way to the next pub. Not knowing the city very well, I thought it
   would be quicker to take a short cut through some of the dark alley
   ways. BIG MISTAKE. Anyway whilst walking through an alley called
   Brodericks Close, we felt a really wierd sensation. Like someone had
   thrown cold water over us. We started to walk faster, and began to
   panic. I thought someone was following us and began to run, with
   Kirsty and Carol in hot pursuit.
   
   We were pretty shaken by this experience but it was soon forgotten
   after a couple more Jack Daniels.Until the next evening...
   
   Edinburgh has a reputation as one of the most haunted cities in Europe
   and there are plenty of ghost tours to cater for the tourists. I
   decided to take Kirsty on one of these guided tours the next evening,
   we were enjoying the tour until the guide stopped at the top of the
   alley we had walked down the night before, Brodericks Close! He took
   the group down and proceeded to tell us its history. During the 16th
   century a man shot and killed a judge. He was then caught and hung,
   drawn and quatered. His body was hung at the city gates as a warning
   to others. One night his body was taken down and buried at the murder
   site (Bordericks Close) without a Christian burial. Story has it that
   this was done so that the constant footsteps of people walking through
   the close would keep his soul awake in torment. A few years back when
   renivating the close his body was discovered and given a christian
   burial.
   
   We told the tour guide what had happened the previous night and he
   said that the close had a bad repuation. Up until the body was found
   there were often sightings of the ghost who was named Johnny One Arm
   (stupid name for a ghost), though since the body had been removed
   there had been no sightings but people on the tour often commented on
   the uneasy feeling they had when in the close.
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