The Legends of Bo'ness

No:57
Kinneil Hoose Ghost

The year is 1651, n efter sneaking oot fur too many Broon Fish Suppers fi Corvis' Lady Alice Lilbourne, wis, quite correctly, chastised by her irate husband General Lilbourne. She wis loakt in an attic room on the West Side of Kinneil Hoose overlooking the rocky ravine through which flows the Gil burn. Stervin' tho, n dyin ti sook oan a pickled egg, she managed to escape wearing only a see-through, skimpy white night-gown, but was quickly recaptured and yince again imprisoned in the attic.

In desperation she flung herself oot i the windae to her death, snuffn it oan the rocks 200 feet below.

Despite her untimely death, her ghost, the aptly named "White Lady" can be seen roamin' Kinneil Wids and heard within the auld Hoose itself, muttering phrases such as "pit plenty sauce oan that hen" and "anither ingin anaw Bertie".

Oan Monday 1st October 1962 a 400-strong crowd, mainly of the Grant, Sneddon & Hamilton families, gathered ootside Kinneil House because of eerie noises coming fi Kinneil Hoose. Polis hud ti haud back the hysterical throng. Press and TV were present with the celebrated TV reporter Bill Tennant on the scene only to find that the culprit was a small asthmatic barn owl.

Bit the legend i the White Lady lives oan..........