Glasgow’s Southern Necropolis
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The Glasgow Necropolis
Glasgow city centre is home to The Necropolis & The Southern Necropolis. The Southern Necropolis is reputedly home to White Lady. As the story goes, the White Lady is a stone memorial in the shape of a veiled lady in the resting place of John S. Smith, his wife Magdalene and their housekeeper, Mary McNaughton. Magdalene and Mary were both tragically killed when they were hit by a tram car in 1933. Many witnesses have reported seeing the statue of the White Lady turning her head as they walk past and at night time have seen a white figure float through the cemetery then disappear into thin air.
Castle St,
Glasgow,
United Kingdom
Ghost Hunt at Glasgow Necropolis
Ghost Hunting at The Southern Necropolis
With nearly 40% of the population of Scotland saying they have seen a ghost, its no surprise that Glasgow – a city that has quite literally been built on layer upon layer of history with today’s roads and buildings rising on the foundation of its past and those that have walked, and died, on its streets – is considered one of the most haunted ancient cities in Europe.
Perhaps the most famous of all is Glasgow’s eerily beautiful Necropolis . This ‘city of the dead’ – a Victorian graveyard situated on the hill alongside St Mungo’s Cathedral – is the final resting place to around 50,000 Glasgow souls in its many lairs .
According to urban myth it is the home of the Gorbals Vampire – a 7 foot tall, child-eating vampire with metal teeth. At the height of this legend in the early fifties, hundreds of local children patrolled the cemetery with sticks and knives in search of the creature which they believed had apparently eaten two local boys.
Other paranormal sightings in the Glasgow Necropolis include a ghostly white lady who has been seen floating through the cemetery at night, the whispering of voices and a strange low mist
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Ghosts Of Glasgow Necropolis
Ghosts Of Glasgow’s Southern Necropolis
. The White Ladies
Tho The Southern Necropolis is home to abundance of paranormal activity, and is reputed to be on of the more haunted locations in the most haunted city in the uk. This city of the dead is home to one extremely active pair of spirits who were said to have died in a tragic accident. With strange white mists forming regularly in the graveyard, also the white ladies appear psychically a lot more than your average haunting. They are well known for just standing at staring into thin air or watching you walk through the graveyard from a distance. With countless reports of sightings of the White Ladies it seems logical to call out to most active spirits there to capture activity. But what can be said of the other souls laid to rest here, i think its time to investigate.
Built on the foundations of one of europe’s oldest cities, what can be found about men and women of bygone times. There are reports of men and children sighting in this graveyard. With over 250 000 people lay to rest within this eerily beautiful land, it would then logical that a lot more going on here. A quarter of a million souls in only 200 years and only two of them are at unrest ?
Keep an eye open when you visit the city of the dead, and share with us your experiences. We will do the same.
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Glasgow Necropolis Location
Additional History on The Glasgow Necropolis
The cemetery was established in response to the crowded state of the Old Gorbals Burial Ground, on Rutherglen Road. Proposals for a new cemetery were put forward in 1839, and the following year land was purchased from William Gilmour of Oatlands. The first burial, that of a 16-month-old child, took place on 21 July 1840. There are three sections to the cemetery: Central opened in 1840; Eastern opened in 1846; and the larger Western section opened in 1850. The entrance to the cemetery is at Caledonia Road, via the grand gatehouse which was built in 1848 to designs by the Glasgow architect Charles Wilson.
In 1954 the cemetery played host to a large group of child “vampire hunters” searching for the purported “Gorbals Vampire”. The incident, sparked by an Urban Myth that a vampire had killed two local children, was blamed on American horror comics such as Tales of the Crypt, despite none of the comics referring to the creature in question, and the ensuing moral panic led to an increase in comic censorship.
The Southern Necropolis was taken over by the Glasgow Corporation in 1952, and is now operated by Glasgow city council. The cemetery is protected as a Category B listed building, while the gate lodge is listed at Category A.