There's a wee ferry at Corran (just south of Fort William) takes you over to Moidart direction, absolutely stunning area and really quiet, so don't tell anyone dont want it full of bloody tourists!
About 20yrs ago i used to have courier contracts up that way Argyll ,Oban, Fort William, Malaig and every place in between , used to get that wee ferry at Corran and head to glenhurich stunning scenery and some narrow roads and some amount of wackados live up that way i mean real scary fruitloops .
At that time the new age travellers were encamped on different routes around fort william /south ballacullish
At Ardfern somewhere in the surrounding area there was a cult that got banned from Canada (the way)set up in the area .
i'd asked at the post office for directions to the place and even the postie told me they wouldn't go anywhere near the place ,they stuck the mail in the box and left it at that
an old mansion in the middle of the woods a single track road that was rough as fk i'd no choice i was delivering computers the postie laughed his arse off they'd no leckie up that way so better to turn back
Anyways i goes finds the narrow road in rough as feck hedges either side the more i'm driving in the narrower it gets .in the end i stopped to tuck my mirrors in after about 5 mins i comes out the hedges and into a court yard, big old mansion with x tape on the windows the type you would see when the war was on .every window
Gets out the van goes to the front door chaps the door ,,,nothin ,,nobody , goes to the van sounds the horn ,,,,still nothing goes back to the front door it's lying open ,,,,,strange maybe they'll be out the now
Looks in the hallway there's a coat stand with old military uniforms and the brass military helmets ,still no knt about a shouts still nothing then i clocks the door open along the hallway
floors painted black with a big gold pentagram painted on it could only make out half of it but turned to get the fk out of there .
Got to the back of the van and 3 guys were standing .they never uttered a word asked them to move told em i had a delivery they just stood and said fk all
I jumps in the van and tore out of there at speed wondering what the fk was going on . later on that day broke down 5 miles outside oban in the middle of nowhere . checked all the van couldn't find any fault with it
Broke down at 3.10 and the AA didn't find me till 5.30 in the morning sitting in the darkness in the middle of nowhere ma ears were the size of radar dishes every noise from a small tap on the van to a shake am sitting thinking someone's out there
On the way home me and the AA guy were swapping scary stories of the wackado's we encountered up that way
Scotlands got some great places to visit but also some amount nutters are attracted to these areas