A CHARITY fundraiser with a difference is being ‘staged’ this October at the Theatre Royal in Dumfries. Our award-winning team of tour guides and storytellers are teaming up with local charity Food Train for a spooktacular event. We are inviting fundraisers to spend a whole night in the town’s theatre - which is the...

Dumfries and Galloway is a region of remarkable beauty and dramatic, awe-inspiring contrasts; remote wilderness, breathtaking coastal views, historic sites and sensory delights. It has unique magical qualities that emanate throughout the year, but there’s something a little special about the winter time and especially close to Christmas and New Year, when that little...

Read all about the team’s big day out when they became Tourism Champions for the second time! The Dumfries & Galloway Life People of the Year Awards is a red letter event in the local calendar; a glittering occasion where guests get glammed up, enjoy mouth-watering fine dining and share in the joy of...

Ghosts, legends, curses and vampires – ghastly ingredients for an extraordinary event! On Saturday 17 May as part of Dumfries & Galloway Arts Festival 2014, we were thrilled to launch our atmospheric new storytelling tour - Legends and Lore at Lochmaben Castle… It was a gorgeous calm evening as we trundled up the well-worn,...

Halloween season is really special to us; apart from being synonymous with ghosts and the supernatural, the launch of our paranormal investigation team, ghost walk, theatre tour and new Haunted Highways Tour have all taken place on or around that date. Therefore, it seemed most fitting to celebrate the end of an historic era...

Welcome to Mostly Ghostly’s fabulous 50th blog! For over a year now, we’ve been providing our valued web visitors with regular, informative updates covering a wide range of subjects such as paranormal investigations in Dumfries and Galloway, local ghost stories, ghost tours and paranormal events. We felt the best way to mark this ‘Mostly milestone’...

November kicked off with a unique and inspiring series of events collectively named Inbetween:Dumfries. Organised by artists hub, The Stove, these innovative events were designed to celebrate Dumfries Town with a keen eye on the future. Running from 5 – 10 November, Inbetween featured everything from Nith Scoping, where people could explore the River...

Christmas is a time when everyone loves to get huddled round to listen to a good ghost story. There’s something about a tale well told that builds anticipation, raises the heart rate and chills the listener to their core. This Saturday night (15th December) sees the first of a double-bill of ghostly delights over...

Mostly Ghostly recently celebrated Dumfries Theatre Royal’s 220th anniversary with a sell-out Haunted Theatre Tour. There was fun, laughter and chills galore as we led our intrepid group behind the scenes of Scotland’s oldest working theatre… The Theatre Royal in Dumfries has consistently proved fruitful in terms of ghostly activity, both on our paranormal investigations...

Ghostly Guides On Display… As you may have read in a recent post, we’ve been working with Fife artist, Mike Inglis on his Devorguilla Street Shrines Project. Our role has mainly consisted of assisting Mike with his historical research, in particular, the story of the lives and characters behind one of his physical shrines....