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UK tabloid in woo shock!

There was no one there. The previous owner had died but a keyholder let us in.
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Wow, how convenient :)

Researchers also managed to track down one of the Robertson family who had owned the house.
Norma said: “We visited them at their new address in Stirling, but couldn’t find anything about a Shane Robertson.
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Nothing to see here, move along. Nothing suspicious here...
 
No sign of the white tower then,or of the family ever having lost a small boy.
 
But..but.. the family photos showed that they had indeed had a black and white dog and a big black car, just as the kid remembered! A black and white dog and a big black car on a Scottish island? A million to one chance!
A5 - the story didn't say anything about the hosue having a tower. However, the kid's desription of it - long, white, single-story - fits about 75% of housing in the Scottish islands. And there are lots of Scottish islands where planes use the beach as a runway; I dare say some of them have featured on Scottish news programmes.
"Shane"isn't a Scottish name, though.
 
Long white single story.sounds like a tower to me!! I don't read these articles that closely!!:p
 
As a non-skeptic I have a somewhat different take on these kind of stories as most of the rest of you guys, but in The Sun!?:confused: :mad: :rolleyes:

I wouldn't wipe my bottom with The Sun! You wipe more on than you wipe off! I think it's safe to speculate that this story is a load of bollocks.
 
sophia8 said:
But..but.. the family photos showed that they had indeed had a black and white dog and a big black car, just as the kid remembered! A black and white dog and a big black car on a Scottish island? A million to one chance!
A5 - the story didn't say anything about the hosue having a tower. However, the kid's desription of it - long, white, single-story - fits about 75% of housing in the Scottish islands. And there are lots of Scottish islands where planes use the beach as a runway; I dare say some of them have featured on Scottish news programmes.
"Shane"isn't a Scottish name, though.
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Some of what you say is true (just about every single house on Barra has at least one black and white dog - or did when I visited some years ago) but some is wrong - there are not "lots" of Scottish islands with beach runways. The beach runway at Barra is claimed to be the only beach airport in the world used for scheduled services.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/barra/airport/index.html

It has however featured in a number of news programs. Especially around 2003/2004 when a proposal was being considered as to whether a "proper" runway should be built to replace the beach strip.

It would be completely unsurprising for a child to know this. It is a pretty iconic image.
 
Jaggy Bunnet said:
Some of what you say is true (just about every single house on Barra has at least one black and white dog - or did when I visited some years ago) but some is wrong - there are not "lots" of Scottish islands with beach runways. The beach runway at Barra is claimed to be the only beach airport in the world used for scheduled services.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/barra/airport/index.html

It has however featured in a number of news programs. Especially around 2003/2004 when a proposal was being considered as to whether a "proper" runway should be built to replace the beach strip.

It would be completely unsurprising for a child to know this. It is a pretty iconic image.
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And that's the most vital question:

Could the child have gotten the information any other way? Unless he was denied access to television, newspapers, internet or books for his whole life, it seems highly unlikely that he hasn't been exposed to similar images like the ones he describes.

Anyone seen the movie 'Birth'?
 
It is interesting that many details appear to be confirmed, but they are ones that are all very common (the dog, the car, the house). The specific evidence that could really support his claim - finding any trace of people from the area that could have been his previous family - is conspicuously absent.

In a small community on a remote, rural island, a family in which the father was killed crossing the road, and a son died very young would be known by every single person around. If such a family existed on the island within the last 100 years, all one would need do is pop round the local pub and ask. Someone there would know, and if they didn't outright volunteer to tell the story, the price of admission would be little more than a fresh pint.

No, this myth is busted.

By the way, did anyone look at the picture of the kid with his mother that acoompanied the article? What was wrong with the kid's feet?
 
sophia8 said:
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"Shane"isn't a Scottish name, though.
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Not defending the story but Shane can certainly be a Scottish/Gaelic name, hence [Ian] McShane. Probably derived from the same root as Sean, Shawn etc. Shane tends to be an Anglicisation of these.


...not to mention Shane McGowan lol.
 
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Jaggy Bunnet said:
Some of what you say is true (just about every single house on Barra has at least one black and white dog - or did when I visited some years ago) but some is wrong - there are not "lots" of Scottish islands with beach runways. The beach runway at Barra is claimed to be the only beach airport in the world used for scheduled services.

http://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/barra/airport/index.html

It has however featured in a number of news programs. Especially around 2003/2004 when a proposal was being considered as to whether a "proper" runway should be built to replace the beach strip.

It would be completely unsurprising for a child to know this. It is a pretty iconic image.
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Thanks for the correction. I had seen that image so many times that I assumed that several (at least) islands had beach runways.
 
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