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Haunted Rossmount Inn of St. Andrews's
The cache is located near the Rossmount Inn. It is not on their
property but very close. You will have to pull over to a little
pull off that has a sign "Rossmount Inn -Private Property" but do
not have to go past this sign. Instead the cache will be off to the
side in a patch of woods. You will know what I mean when you get
there. I have notified the owners, so they are aware. Happy Hunting
and Haunting.
Be sure to stay in Room #21 while visiting St. Andrews.
This cache is designed to be easy for even small ghost hunters, as
it does not involve any bushwacking. We encourage you to list any
ghostly experiences you may have had in the logbook...who knows,
you might even see a spirit around the cache.
Cache is a small lock 'n' lock container with traders, logbook,
pencil and sharpener.
Enjoy, and let us know if you see any ghosties!!
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Rossmount Inn
Dinner Ghost Theatre at the Rossmount Inn is a favourite segment
of Elaine Bruff’s historic presentations in St. Andrews and the
participating ghost is one of her favourite characters.
“She is a neat ghost, “Elaine said, “and has been a part of the
property just about forever.”
“The original property was owned by a Mr. McLaughlin and from what
we can find, going back in the records, he was not a very nice man.
A grumpy man…I’m talking now this was way back in the 1750s.
“this woman worked for him and she had been out in the fields and
she was very, very tired but Mr. McLaughlin wanted her to tend the
fires for him. Because she was so very, very tired once she had the
fires tended she dozed off in front of the one in the dining room
and, while she was sleeping her clothes caught fire from a flying
spark and she died sitting beside the fire that day. All that was
left of here was a small pile of ashes.
“She is not a mean ghost, she is seen regularly throughout the
house tending to her business of caring for the rooms and generally
tidying up.
“By 1889 the house had been purchased by the town and the townsmen
thought it was so haunted that they tore it down. This is an
historic fact, a fact that can be found in the archives of the Ross
Museum of St. Andrews.
“A new house was built on the same foundation and they thought
they had ridded themselves of the ghost, but it was not to be. The
ghost came back and stayed.”
Again, in 1961 Rossmount burned. But again it was rebuilt and
again the ghost returned, going her quiet way about her work.
The story is that, although the dining room has been changed
slightly from the original, visitors may still look in one mirror
and see, reflected in the mirror over the mantle, a maid in a very
old-fashioned dress standing by the fire, going about her chores in
a dining room the same, yet different, from that of the present
day.
Although the furnishings look hauntingly familiar when the visitor
turns from the mirror the furnishings they see are not quite the
same, just similar. And the maid they saw has mysteriously
disappeared. When today’s dining room staff does appear none is
dressed like the maid in the mirror nor do they resemble her in any
other way.
Elaine claims it is said that one room in the Inn, believed to be
#21, has never been known to require the use of a duster. Its
furnishings remain dust-free from year-to-year.
The owners, Jean and Peter McKenzie don’t go along with this part
of the story at all, “ …I wish it were true,” Mrs. McKenzie says, “
it would save me a lot of work!”
When Elaine does the dinner theatre featuring the Gourmet Ghost
she plays the role of the ghost and sits in a rocker by the fire
place, wearing a long white dress.
Her greatest disappointment is that, to date, she has failed to
see the ghost herself in the many times she has been at the inn,
day or night.
Elaine offers this address for the Rossmount Inn through her
brochure description of the Gourmet Ghosts: “Come dine at historic
Rossmount Inn, one mile east of the Ghost Road, on Route 127,
Chamcook.”
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