Phantasmal Crime 46 - Murder on the Hill of Christie

History Goes Bump: Ghost Tours For The Mind

Diane Student

Travel, History, Places & Travel, Paranormal, Haunted, Society & Culture, Ghosts

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🗓️ 1 July 2025

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

The Gaelic name for the Cairngorm Mountains of the Scottish Highlands translates to The Red Mountains. The mountains are formed from granite and once had a rosy hue to them before time and the rough conditions battered them into a more grayish coloring. The Cairngorms have always been popular for skiing and hiking and feature high plateaus and rounded summits. In and amongst these mountains was an area once referred to by locals as the Hill of Christie. That hill was the scene of a murder mystery that took place centuries ago and the key to solving that mystery came at the hands of a ghost.

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0:00.0	Listener discretion is advised.
0:14.2	True crime can be strangely fascinating.
0:18.0	This true crime is odd, macab, and haunted. I'm Diane, your guide into the shadows.
0:25.4	Welcome to fantastical crime. The Gaelic name for the Karengorm Mountains of the Scottish
0:33.9	Highlands translates to the Red Mountains. The mountains are formed from granite and
0:38.4	once had a rosy hue to them before time and the rough conditions battered them into a more grayish
0:43.1	coloring. The Karengorms have always been popular for skiing and hiking and feature high plateaus
0:49.3	and rounded summits. In and amongst these mountains was an area once referred to by locals as the Hill of Christy.
0:56.4	That hill was the scene of a murder mystery that took place centuries ago, and the key to solving that mystery came at the hands of a ghost.
1:33.0	The In June of 1750, a young shepherd by the name of Alexander McPherson set off to make his rounds upon the Hill of Christy. On this particular day, though, he wasn't just out wrangling the flocks.
1:38.5	The shepherd had a purpose to a step and a goal in mind. He was seeking something very specific,
1:43.5	and he found it. This was a bundle that had
1:45.9	been tucked away out of sight. He pulled at the bundle with his staff, and it unfolded,
1:50.8	setting free a human skull that had very little flesh and only a few tufts of hair that were still
1:56.0	tied back with a long black ribbon. McPherson did not jump back in surprise. He opened the bundle up further and revealed
2:02.5	the rest of the nearly skeletal body still wearing a pair of brown brogues. McPherson reported his
2:08.6	find, and when asked when he was not shocked by the discovery, he claimed he had been directed to the bundle.
2:14.4	When asked by who, McPherson answered that a ghost had told him where to find the bundle.
2:20.6	The skeleton belonged to Sergeant Arthur Davies. Now, let me describe to you a little bit about this,
2:26.1	gentleman. He was a newly married man whose wife was the widow of the former paymaster of a regiment
2:31.5	that he belonged to. Writing about the case for his 12 Scots
2:35.8	trials in 1913, William Rowhead described Davies as a likable man of a genial disposition,
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