It’s no surprise that a castle known as the “guardhouse of the bloodiest valley in Britain” has picked up some stories over the last 800 years. Hermitage Castle was built so close to the border between Scotland and England that just its construction almost caused war. In the 13th Century, this was home to the de Soulis family and one particularly evil character indeed. Soulis had been schooled in the dark arts and enjoyed nothing more than death and destruction. He had gained himself a helper fo