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Nine Standards mystery figure.

Nine Standards mystery figure.


Postby Border Reiver » Fri Apr 29, 2022 1:16 pm

We walked to Nine Standards yesterday and about a quarter of a mile away to the North we could see a human-like figure, dressed in white, just standing, without moving, all the half hour or so we were there. I tried to take a zoomed photo. but it was too hazy to get a sharp pic. Zoomed in on my computer, the figure looked to be wearing a silver - grey face mask. It seems way too remote for it to be a scarecrow. Anyone know what it is and it's purpose?
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Border Reiver » Fri Apr 29, 2022 7:03 pm

Border Reiver wrote:We walked to Nine Standards yesterday and about a quarter of a mile away to the North we could see a human-like figure, dressed in white, just standing, without moving, all the half hour or so we were there. I tried to take a zoomed photo. but it was too hazy to get a sharp pic. Zoomed in on my computer, the figure looked to be wearing a silver - grey face mask. It seems way too remote for it to be a scarecrow. Anyone know what it is and it's purpose?
Got bearings wrong, it was on moorland to the east
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Caberfeidh » Sat Apr 30, 2022 7:41 am

Are you sure it wasn't a silvery grey beard? Only I may have been performing a human sacrifice up there recently... :shock:
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby dav2930 » Mon May 02, 2022 12:07 pm

Sounds like an alien visitation to me 👽 :lol:
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Sgurr » Sun May 08, 2022 4:12 pm

According to Wainwright, the nine standard are very ancient and marked on eighteenth century maps, so maybe it was the builder come to check that they are still OK.
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Border Reiver » Sun May 08, 2022 10:51 pm

Sgurr wrote:According to Wainwright, the nine standard are very ancient and marked on eighteenth century maps, so maybe it was the builder come to check that they are still OK.


I've found the photos. Taken from around 1/4 mile away.
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby denfinella » Sun May 08, 2022 11:10 pm

Well done on winning the prize for the most terrifying walk report of the year :shock:
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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Caberfeidh » Mon May 09, 2022 7:35 am

The way the arms are out in an awkward pose, I reckon it's a shop window dummy, probs with a scary mask to scare people for a laugh. I'd like to get my hands on a shop window dummy, and put it somewhere people would notice, such as hanging off a cliff at the pass of Glen Coe, where all the cars slow down to look at the waterfall. I could dress it like a climber, tangle it on old rope and encase it in ice. I'm sure the mountain rescue team wouldn't mind, after all, Hamish MacInnes spent a day throwing dummies into the air to fall into the river, during the filming of Monty Python and The Holy Grail, when the unfortunate knights who failed to answer the questions three were cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril (aka the River Coe). :shock:

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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Border Reiver » Mon May 09, 2022 9:02 am

Caberfeidh wrote:The way the arms are out in an awkward pose, I reckon it's a shop window dummy, probs with a scary mask to scare people for a laugh. I'd like to get my hands on a shop window dummy, and put it somewhere people would notice, such as hanging off a cliff at the pass of Glen Coe, where all the cars slow down to look at the waterfall. I could dress it like a climber, tangle it on old rope and encase it in ice. I'm sure the mountain rescue team wouldn't mind, after all, Hamish MacInnes spent a day throwing dummies into the air to fall into the river, during the filming of Monty Python and The Holy Grail, when the unfortunate knights who failed to answer the questions three were cast into the Gorge of Eternal Peril (aka the River Coe). :shock:


You could be right, but who would be mad enough to carry it up a boggy hilll and leave it 1/4 mile from nowhere at all .


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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Sgurr » Mon May 09, 2022 10:19 am

Peple carry all sorts of stuff up hills. Half way up Burach we found a cafe where a very substantial table must have been heavier than a shop dummy

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Re: Nine Standards mystery figure.

Postby Border Reiver » Mon May 09, 2022 10:47 am

Thanks for the info folks, might go back sometime and pay it a visit
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