Children’s Island of Loch Garry: The Kelpie, the Seven Red Hearts, and Scotland’s Haunted Floating Island

In 1968 and 1969, Scottish newspapers reported that a haunted floating island on Loch Garry had broken loose and become wedged against a Bailey bridge near Greenfield. Known locally as Children’s Island, it was tied to an old kelpie legend in which seven children were carried into the loch by a water horse, and their red hearts were later said to have appeared on the winter water.

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Research Links:

The Press and Journal, 20 January 1969, "End of Menace in Loch Garry – 'Haunted' Island to Be Cut Up."

https://www.britishnewspaperarchive.co.uk/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loch_Garry

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kelpie

https://en.wikisource.org/wiki/The_Folk-Lore_Journal/Volume_1/Kelpie_Stories

https://scotlands-stories.com/scottish-kelpie-legends/

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