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Shake Cameron the Pilot

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​Shake Camerson (pictured on the left) was a pilot at Findhorn who used to row out to the schooners in the Moray Firth to guide them into Findhorn Bay. 

He used to tell his grandson all about the houses that are buried in the Culbin Sands.  He remembered that when a storm blew some of the houses were uncovered by the wind and that he had managed to get inside of one which was still full of household items.  When he went back a day later it was gone; covered again by the sand. 

​Shake’s grandson and his friends also went across the bay to the dunes as a child before the trees took over the Sands.  They saw chimneys sticking out of the sand and shouted down them, hearing voices coming back to them.  

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Shake Cameron on the left

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Culbin: the disappeared village is a partnership between the School of Creative and Cultural Business at Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen and Moray Council Libraries and Information Services. 
It has been funded as part of Scotland's Year of Stories 2022.  
© Robert Gordon University 2022.
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  • Home
  • Exhibition
  • Stories
    • Postcards
    • The Girnel of Moray
    • The Sand Storm of 1694
    • Engulfed in common ruin
    • Consequences
    • Legends
    • Mrs Willoughby's Poem
    • The swamps of Darien
    • Re-emergence
    • Fact, Fiction and Tress
    • Accounts of Culbin
    • Secrets from the sands
    • Meanwhile in Denmark
    • Mr Wilson comes to visit
    • The Ballad of Culbin
    • Forestry Memories
    • Shake Cameron the Pilot
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