In the old days, Coll Hotel was reputedly haunted. The ghost was never seen, but it seemed to be particularly attracted to the front bathroom overlooking the gardens, making its presence felt in a most unusual way.

One evening a guest, armed with soap and towels entered the bathroom. It was late and the owner was climbing the stairs to go to bed, when the guest shot out of the bathroom, pale and shaking with a look of disgust on his face. "What sort of place is this?" he demanded in fury. "Go and have a look in there. There's the most disgusting mess in the toilet - I've never seen anything like it - and the smell!!" "Och aye," said the owner, unperturbed. "The hotel ghost must be back again. Its a habit of his to use the facilities without pulling the chain. We call him the Insanitary Spectre".