Mackenzie's malevolent presence is said to have the ability to leave the graveyard and attach itself to visitors, following them home and continuing its attacks. According to the lore, those who encounter the ghost in the Covenanters Prison or mausoleum suffer not just pushing and scratching, but bruises, burns, and even a broken finger. As of 2006, there were more than 450 recorded attacks attributed to the Mackenzie poltergeist. Whoever disturbed the tomb unleashed a vengeful spirit. Reports on the event that disturbed the spirit vary some say it was children avoiding punishment, while others maintain it was an unhoused man seeking shelter. A Spirit Disturbedĭespite the graveyard's gruesome past, there are no known reports of paranormal activity until nearly the end of the 20th century, when claims of a violent, unseen presence proliferated after someone broke into Mackenzie’s mausoleum. He died 1691 and was interred in a stately mausoleum in Greyfriars Kirkyard-the very same cemetery where the imprisoned Covenanters had once suffered. He published books on religion, philosophy, and the monarchy, and founded the Advocates Library in 1689. Mackenzie, meanwhile, continued to serve in public office. All but the shipwrecked were buried in a mass grave in the kirkyard. The majority of those who survived were hanged or sentenced to indentured servitude in America, only to drown when their ship went down in a storm (just 47 of the nearly 260 imprisoned people aboard the vessel managed to survive). Trapped in the makeshift jail, with no shelter and insufficient food for months, many of the Covenanters were dead before winter's end. Their failed uprising of 1679 was met with an act of retribution so brutal that the man responsible for it, Lord Advocate George "Bluidy" Mackenzie, was widely held to be damned as a result.Īfter the Covenanters suffered a crushing defeat at the Battle of Bosworth Bridge, Mackenzie herded the 1200 survivors Covenanters into a small section of Greyfriars Kirkyard now known as the Covenanters Prison. In addition to the Catholic-Protestant divide that was tearing its way through Europe, Covenanters, protestants who resisted the King's control of the church, were subjected to vicious persecution. Scotland in the 1600s was riven by religious conflict. A Biographical History of England: from Egbert the Great to the Revolution, Wikimedia Commons // Public Domain
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