Community Voices: Dumfries

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Younger speakers

Ryan: Ghosts are real.
Interviewer: Ghosts?
Ryan: I've seen a ghost. I actual swear I've seen yin like, 100%. Oh.
Interviewer: Where?
Kyle: I think it's funny when he talks about things like this.
Ryan: No, I have seen a ghost like, I swear. Honestly.
Interviewer: Really?
Kyle: Just like I was seeing that laser pen the other night.
Ryan: It was, like, ken the-- where Creswell is, the flats. When I was a wee boy-- well no wee but-- I didnae ken it used to be a hospital, so.
Interviewer: I was born there.
Ryan: Aye, same.
Kyle: So was I.
Ryan: And then I was staying at my Aunty's hoose and I didnae, like-- then I was woke up in the middle of the night and, like, this white nurse, ken it was all white, I swear, came-- walked intae the room with, like, towels
Kyle: Had his first nightmare.
Ryan: and it walked into the cupboard and it didnae come back oot and I was-- I couldnae ging back to sleep and then I was like "ah no, what dae I say?" and that and then I said to my Mum and she was like "ah it used to be a hospital and that" and she never believed me. But I swear I wasnae asleep 'cause I didnae ging back to sleep after it.
Interviewer: How-- How old were you?
Ryan: I don't know, like aboot seven or eight .
Interviewer: It's your first nightmare.
Ryan: And it just-- ah no it just walked right intae the room. I'm getting goosebumps thinking aboot it man, it's weird. Walked-- it just walked right into the room, opened the cupboard door and went intae it and didnae come back oot and I couldnae move I was actual--
Interviewer: Have you seen anything like that since?
Ryan: Eh, no-- I dinnae think so. But I did definitely see yin. 100%.

Older speakers

Helen: No. Well, my niece's daughter arrived in Dallas.
Interviewer: Oh yes.
Helen: Eh, she flew from Edinburgh to Heathrow, Heathrow to Dallas, what a journey.
Interviewer: Oh no.
Helen: The last word I'd heard from [name] was, they trace where she's going and all the rest of it, but um it was 40- still 41 hours to go but I got a message this morning from her mum to say that they had got-- in Cyprus, they had got a message to say-- about three o'clock in the morning I think. But you see, the difference in time.
Mary: Difference in time.
Interviewer: Time-- I think it's about five, six hours.
Helen: Aye, but she's-- it's about 10 hours I think.
Interviewer: Oh wow.
Helen: Oh aye, it's a hell of a long road. Sorry.