Polphail "Ghost Village" to be Demolished
28/06/09 11:06
After 35 years of sitting eerily empty on the Cowal
Peninsula, the "ghost village" of
Polphail (or Pollphail) is to be
demolished.
Don't worry, there won't be any spirits and spooks made homeless. Polphail isn't haunted as far as I know. But it looks and feels as if it should be. Since it was built in the 1970s nobody has lived there. At least nobody human - sheep and bats apparently use it for shelter.
Polphail was originally intended to house 500 North Sea oil workers who were to build concrete oil rigs. However the economic climate changed and concrete rigs fell out of fashion before the workers arrived. The village has been empty ever since. Now it's to be demolished to make way for a new development of 270 properties.
Not everyone accepts the North Sea oil workers story. Over the years Polphail has been the basis of a number of conspiracy theories involving housing for a secret military base.
Don't worry, there won't be any spirits and spooks made homeless. Polphail isn't haunted as far as I know. But it looks and feels as if it should be. Since it was built in the 1970s nobody has lived there. At least nobody human - sheep and bats apparently use it for shelter.
Polphail was originally intended to house 500 North Sea oil workers who were to build concrete oil rigs. However the economic climate changed and concrete rigs fell out of fashion before the workers arrived. The village has been empty ever since. Now it's to be demolished to make way for a new development of 270 properties.
Not everyone accepts the North Sea oil workers story. Over the years Polphail has been the basis of a number of conspiracy theories involving housing for a secret military base.
