Charles Dickens' story of a miserly man who has a pretty rough night has made a legend of the flawed Ebenezer Scrooge ... Who was this Scroggie then? And did he also experience a load of haunting?

Police in the town of Shrewsbury are investigating how a tombstone that marked the fictional grave of Ebenezer Scrooge was destroyed. The movie prop used in the 1984 adaptation of “A Christmas ...

Jeremy Bolwell via Wikimedia Commons under CC BY-SA 2.0 A vandal has destroyed the tombstone that marked Ebenezer Scrooge’s fictional grave in the 1984 film adaptation of A Christmas Carol.

Ebenezer Scroggie’s grave is now lost, probably destroyed during redevelopment of the graveyard in 1932. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to The Scotsman, you can get unlimited access to ...

The grave, which is located at St Chad's Church in Claremont Hill, was used as a prop in 1980s film A Christmas Carol. 'Once filming was completed, the inscribed stone used as Ebenezer Scrooge's ...

It is here, as recorded in Dickens’ own diaries, that he stumbled upon a headstone in memoriam to “Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie - a meal man”, the description alluding to Scroggie’s occupation ...

But where did Charles Dickens get the idea for curmudgeonly old miser Ebenezer ... the grave marker was lost during restoration of the Kirk in 1932. But there are plans to recognise Scroggie ...

There, as revealed by his diaries, he saw a memorial slab which read: "Ebenezer Lennox Scroggie - meal man ... "relatives" eager to visit his grave. Alas, his final resting place is no more.

"The grave, which is located at St Chad’s Church in Claremont Hill, was used as a prop in 1980s film A Christmas Carol. "Once filming was completed the inscribed stone used as Ebenezer Scrooge ...