Loch Tay Balls Of Fire

The following account was published in ‘The Peat-fire Flame’ (1937) by Alasdair Alpin MacGregor. ‘There is a story told in Breadalbain of two gealhhain, or balls of fire, which were seen flitting over the face of Loch Tay. A small farm at Morenish, on Loch Tay-side, was tenanted by a family of the name of Cameron; and, while the eldest son was serving abroad with the army, his two brothers died of fever, and were buried in the churchyard at Kenmore. When the surviving brother came home on furlough, he decided to exhume the coffins containing their remains, and to carry them by water to the other end of Loch Tay, for re-interment at Killin. On the night preceding the day of re-interment, two bright balls of fire were witnessed rolling along the surface of the loch in the very course afterwards followed by the boat conveying the coffins. It is not so very long since there lived in Glen Lochay one of the many natives of this district, who witnessed this weird spectacle.’