In 1881, 4 masked men with revolvers stole the body of the Earl of Crawford from a crypt at Dunecht. A poacher who “saw too much” wrote to the papers with clues to the body’s location, but he became the scapegoat. Why the body was stolen has never been solved.
Two years later a mysterious message in a bottle washed up at Trondra, Shetland. Who wrote the note, planned to sell the body, and who would’ve even bought it, is unknown.
