Eight figures in hooded robes. Burning torches. A freshly dug grave in a Scottish churchyard.

This is Into the Fog Embers, my companion series, where I share case updates and shorter paranormal accounts sent in by viewers. Not every story becomes a full documentary investigation, but some are too intriguing not to tell.

Tonight's Embers case comes from a viewer and centres on two strange incidents connected to St Lolan's Church and burial ground, also known as Kincardine Graveyard, at Blair Drummond, near Stirling, in Scotland.

The first took place in the early 1980s. Darren's mother was cycling home past the old cemetery in the early hours of the morning when she saw something she has never forgotten.

She told a neighbour, who went down to the graveyard to confront them himself, and came away with a perfectly ordinary explanation. It was only afterwards that he realised how strange that explanation really was.

The second comes from the late 1990s, when Darren's uncle was working in the same cemetery. Two men, years apart, both affected by the same grave enclosed in iron railings — and by what its 1813 inscription actually says.

Do you know this churchyard, or have you heard the local stories connected to it? I would love to hear from you in the comments below.

Editor

Kristian Lander

Artwork

Steph Lay/Kristian Lander

With thanks to Darren Ferrier for sharing his family’s strange memories of St Lolan’s burial ground, and for giving us the opportunity to explore the intriguing history surrounding them.

Research and Image Credits

Special thanks to Roger Griffith for allowing us to use his footage of St Lolan’s Kirk and Burial Ground, and for the helpful correspondence about the Downie gravestone featured in Darren’s story. You can find more of Roger’s local-history videos on YouTube at @rogergriffith286.

Footage of St Lolan’s Kirk and Burial Ground, Kincardine-in-Menteith: @rogergriffith286; used with permission

Photographs of the burial vaults and burial sites at St Lolan’s Kirk, Stirlingshire: Rosser1954; CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia Commons

Photograph of the Downie gravestone at St Lolan’s Kirk, Stirlingshire: Rosser1954; CC BY-SA, via Wikimedia CommonsHave a genuine experience to share? Submit it here:

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They drove into a glowing green mist in 1974 and lost 3 hours. What followed them home turned a UFO encounter into a terrifying poltergeist haunting.

On 27th October 1974, John and Sue Day drove home to Aveley, Essex with their three young children when a pale blue light paced their car, the radio crackled and died, and a dense, glowing green mist swallowed the road. A 20-minute drive became nearly 3 hours missing. Then came nightmares of medical procedures, shadow figures, a clown-like visitor, moving objects, opening doors, humming and clicking, and phantom phone calls, much of it witnessed by investigators themselves.

In this episode, I investigate the Aveley case. One of Britain's most disturbing combined abduction and haunting cases. As UFO disclosure and talk of non-human intelligence grows, are abductions and hauntings part of the same phenomenon? And could this be linked to the infamous Sandown Clown case, which happened a year earlier, only 100 miles away?

I'm Peter Laws and this is Into the Fog. Real paranormal cases. Real witnesses. Told by a real person.

What do you think followed them home? Let me know in the comments.

Editor

Gerard Giorgi-Coll

Artwork

Steph Lay

Research

Marcus Lowth

Research and Image Credits

This episode draws on Andrew Collins’ original two-part investigation of the Aveley case, published in Flying Saucer Review in 1978:

Part One: Vol. 23, No. 6

Part Two: Vol. 24, No. 1

Original theatrical poster for The Fog: AVCO Embassy Pictures, via IMDb

Photograph of Andrew Collins: via IMDb

Artist’s impression of Sam the Sandown Clown: Symbioticwolfkat13, CC-BY-SA, via Newgrounds

Photograph from Strange Days Festival, September 2026: Peter Laws

Footage of Claire and Peter, Paranormal Storytelling on YouTube, Strange Days Festival, September 2026: @DontScareClaire

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What if you always knew when someone was about to die? Faye has seen many shadow people since she was 5, in a mirror, in a boyfriend's bedroom, outside hospital wards, and beside her newborn son's cot.

Welcome to Into the Fog Embers, my companion series for case updates and shorter true paranormal accounts that deserve telling, even when they're not full-length documentaries.

From a grandmother's goodbye in the mirror, to a bricked-up doorway, a dead relative's message that paid for a funeral, and icy hands that may have saved a baby's life, Faye asks if anyone can finally explain it.

Can YOU?

I'm Peter Laws, and this is Into the Fog.

Editor: Kristian Lander

Artwork: Steph Lay/Kristian Lander

Our sincere thanks to Faye for sharing such a personal account of the unexplained experiences that have accompanied moments of illness and loss throughout her life, including those she believes helped save her baby’s life.

Do you have a genuine experience to share? You can tell us about it here:https://bit.ly/ITF-YourStory

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