Macpherson next day found the bones, and spoke to Growar, the man of the tartan coat (as Growar admitted at the trial).

Growar said if Macpherson did not hold his tongue, he himself would inform Shaw of Daldownie.
Macpherson therefore went straight to Daldownie, who advised him to bury the bones privily, not to give the country a bad name for a rebel district.

While Macpherson was in doubt, and had not yet spoken to Farquharson, the ghost revisited him at night and repeated his command.

He also denounced his murderers, Clerk and Macdonald, which he had declined to do on his first appearance.

He spoke in Gaelic, which, it seems, was a language not known by the sergeant.
Isobel MacHardie, in whose service Macpherson was, deponed that one night in summer, June, 1750, while she lay at one end of the sheiling (a hill hut for shepherds or neatherds) and Macpherson lay at the other, "she saw something naked come in at the door, which frighted her so much that she drew the clothes over her head.