Ma Cameron’s
Ma Cameron’s
Ma Cameron’s was once nothing more than a simple holstery on the western border of Aberdeen City surrounded by open fields and the river Denburn. Owned by few families throughout its years, the inn has been host to concealed drama and events of a darker nature. Not the to mention the room that has never been unlocked. In the modern Day Cameron’s Inn is possibly Aberdeen’s oldest and most haunted pub.
Little Belmont Street,
Aberdeen City,
Aberdeen
Ghost Hunt at Cameron’s Inn
Ghost Hunting At Ma Cameron’s
Ma Cameron’s was first established over 300 years ago, and was most famously ran by Ma Cameron. Locals still know it today as Ma Cameron’s. Despite its warm and homely feel making it a favourite home away from home for many of Aberdeen’s working men Ma Cameroon’s has something very different going on behind the scenes. Something alot darker.
The Snug is the oldest part of the pub, not much has changed since the pub was opened. From our experience this setting seems to attract alot more ghosts. Making them feel more at home, and this certainly is the case with Ma Cameron’s. Stepping through an ancient serving hatch you enter into a world forgotten, but maybe it is a part of the building that is best left alone. Poltergeist activity is rife in this snug. Staff leave the room only to return and find the beer taps on time and time again as well as the light switch turning itself on and off. Reports of a dark shadow shifted around the room are seen by staff and customers. Aswell as a foreboding sense of being watched and followed.
The most mysterious part of the building is a locked room on the upper levels from which footsteps and hangs are heard, despite the fact no person is ever in there. One story goes that when two decorators where working directly under the room, they where puzzled by the constant bangs and footsteps coming from directly above them. So they passed it off as old pipes or perhaps and draft until the bangs became louder and more frequent. So out of curiosity one of the men took the tip of his paintbrush and tapped 3 times on the ceiling. Immediately whatever or whomever was up there turned the painters knocks with 3 crashing ones of its own, needless to say both men turned white faced and fled in pure terror. Whatever is up there it is intelligent but is it trapped ?
The Main bar is the most haunted part of the building with more frequent activity than any other part of the building. It is also home to something perhaps darker than anything else present in Ma Cameroon’s. People are thrown from bar stools, nudged, they have there drinks thrown out of there hands. One one instance a knife was hurtled at a member of staff who only managed to dodge it within a second. Perhaps one of the more intriguing events in the main bar was witnessed by two staff members after closing time, when they where cleaning.
They heard a loud rumbling coming from underneath the benches then a empty mop bucket shot out, took a right turn then stooped took another, rolled down the bar steps froze in the center of the room and stood itself up. Both men stood with mouths wide gawping at the bucket that seemed to be rolled to a specific part of the bar by unseen hands.
There is a wonder in Ma Cameron’s. What lies inside Ma Cameron’s ? Is it dark or is it angry ? Whatever it is, we can be certain that this is an intelligent spirit or spirits. But there is also strong evidence of demonic activity. One night should be enough to help you make up your mind.
Ghosts of Cameron’s Inn
Ghosts of Ma Cameron’s
. Amelia Cameron
. John Ross
Cameron’s Inn Is home to a number of entities tho nobody is certain of who they are and why the are causing so much disturbance.
Amelia Cameron and John Ross where a happily married couple, and the first landlady and lord of Cameron’ Inn. It was Amelia that was given the nickname Ma Cameron due to her love and mother like care of all her customers. Upon John’s Death Amelia gave up the running of a pub and lived out the rest of her days alone. Amelia and John are the only two notable characters in Cameron’s Inn’s History. So what is going on here
The activity recorded here and the sheer amount of it, is that of an intelligent haunting. Amelia’s love for the bar or grief at the site where she lost her husband could be a explanation as to why she would haunt this location. But then why the aggressive nature of the spirit ? Or is it simply that either John or Amelia or both are perhaps just mischievous and enjoy scaring the customers and staff ? But Again this doesn’t fit with there personalities in life and it is understood that in later days Amelia came to terms with her husbands death and lived on with peace of mind.
So this leaves us with a looming mystery. Intelligent hauntings and Poltergeist activity all can still be in nature harmless. But then comes in the knife being thrown at a member of staff, people being thrown of there bar stools, and that general sense of internal terror that can come from Cameron’s Inn. The events described could just as easily be the caused by the presence of a demonic entity. Demon’s can come and go as they please and sometimes it is random. But the majority of the time it is not. Witchcraft, Murder and general evil deeds draw the attention of that lowest of things. So that leaves us with the most important questions of all, what has been hidden in the past of Ma Cameroon’s and how evil was it to summon our dark friend ?
Ma Cameron’s Location
Additional History of Ma Cameron’s
The most recent Council meeting of the Clan Cameron Association Scotland was held most appropriately in Ma Cameron’s Tavern, Belmont Street, Aberdeen. This is an old established inn and is in fact Aberdeen’s oldest pub having witnessed and taken part in the city’s history for almost 300 years. The hostelry which had sympathised with the Jacobite cause began to flourish as a coaching inn in the 1800s Since then it has been recognised as a mecca for both locals and visitors to the city. Many of the Aberdeen hostelries were kept by women and none is more remembered than Amelia Cameron who continued to run the pub following the death of her husband, John. Amelia was affectionately known by her clientelle as “ma”. In 1933 the pub was taken on by Alex Mitchell thus ending a period of 60 years association of the Camerons with the pub.