By Oliver Norton PUBLISHED: 01:15 EST, 7 February 2014 | UPDATED: 07:09 EST, 7 February 2014 Their crimes were so awful that they were executed and their house – thought to be teeming with evil spirits – was abandoned and left to decay for centuries before being knocked down. But in the best traditions of horror movies, it seems the Edinburgh home of occultist Major Thomas Weir and his sister Jean is back from the dead. The Weirs were executed in 1670 after admitting to shocking crimes including bestiality, incest and necromancy. Gloomy: The Quaker Meeting house in Edinburgh's Victoria Terrace. It's designers incorporated the home of 'evil' occultist Major Thomas Weir into the building
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Home of 'evil' 17th Century occultist was thought to have been demolished
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But new research reveals the house was in fact built into a Quaker House
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Major Thomas Weir and family were executed for shocking crimes in 1670
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Among the charges they admitted were bestiality, incest and necromancy - talking to spirits
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