The well-known Danish physician, Sir William Hart, was, together with an Englishman and a servant, walking round the Castle of Inveraray.

These men saw the same phenomena, and confirmed the statements made by the two ladies.

Weeks after the gazette corroborated their statements in its account of the attempt made on Ticonderoga.

Every detail was correct in the vision, down to the actual number of the killed and wounded.
But there was sorrow throughout Argyll long before the gazette appeared.
* * * * * We now give the best attainable version of a yet more famous legend, "The Tyrone Ghost".
The literary history of "The Tyrone Ghost" is curious.

In 1802 Scott used the tale as the foundation of his ballad, The Eve of St.John, and referred to the tradition of a noble Irish family in a note.