Located along River Ness in the old part of the city, Old High Church in Inverness is my most favorite of all the churches, not just in Scotland but likely world wide.

Why?

It enchanted me from the onset. The old masonry work, the chiseled headstones, the history, the smell of the peat wafting from the river below, the lingering scent of history past and present saturating the air–the lush plant life underfoot–it’s intoxicating. While located on the River Ness, Nessie doesn’t swim up river from Loch Ness, so no worries of Nessie snatching you away from the River.

Then, personal happiness occurred here–meeting here for coffee with old friends years ago, making new friends–drinking coffee and writing in my travel journal, meeting other history enthusiast here–showing others the history on a walking tour and so much more. The far retaining wall has hosted many a conversations of sillyness and seriousness for me, all with fond times.
The history isn’t just personal either, it boasts the history of Scotland’s past–resulting deaths, forced by the English, of Jacobite freedom fighters whom were put down forcibly, filling the soil with blood of the extinguishes-internment of loved ones-and surviving centuries of everyday living and community–Old High Church will has stood tall for centuries and will continue on-

Is Old High Church Cemetery haunted, given it’s history? See for yourself and don’t worry, the hauntingly beautiful place stays rested within it’s realm, never leaving it’s safe place along the river Ness.