Sixth Sense Ghost Hunting & Medium with Ian and Maria Wood

Come and enjoy a talk with Ian and Maria Wood on 40 plus years of Ghosthunting, the paranormal and being a medium.

Ian has appeared on several TV shows including Channel 4's Sixth Sense Ghosthunters. Are you a sceptic on Ghosts, Spirits and the Paranormal ? Let Ian convince you otherwise and there'll be a spot of Ghost hunting in the Toolbooth.  

Built between 1627 and 1629 to serve the town as a centre of commercial administration, a meeting place for the council, and a prison, it was used for all these roles until the late eighteenth century when the council moved much of its business to new, larger premises they had constructed across the street; the tolbooth remained in use as a prison until the early nineteenth century, after which it remained in council ownership and was put to a variety of uses.

Amongst the people incarcerated in the tolbooth during its use as a prison were people accused of witchcraft, and as late as 1805 it was used to imprison a woman convicted of pretending to be a witch. It was also used to imprison Covenanters during the Killing Time of 1679–1688; in 1684 a crowd stormed the building, killing a guard and freeing the Covenanters held within. American naval hero John Paul Jones was held in the tolbooth in 1770, following his arrest on suspicion of homicide after a sailor under his command died following a flogging Jones had ordered.