It is notable for having been the home of author and occultist Aleister Crowley, and Led Zeppelin guitarist and producer Jimmy Page.

[2] Boleskine House is 21 miles (34 km) south of Inverness, on the opposite side of Loch Ness from the Meall Fuar-mhonaidh, and halfway between the villages of Foyers and Inverfarigaig.

A succession of Ministers ran Boleskine Parish and would travel the area on horseback or on foot in all weather conditions.

Minister Thomas Houston (1648–1705) was said to have had the task of hastily laying animated corpses back in their graves after a devious local wizard had raised the dead in Boleskine graveyard.

[5][6] Boleskine House was built on the site of the kirk, which, according to legend, caught fire during congregation and killed everyone inside.

However, it also includes the summoning of the 12 Kings and Dukes of Hell, to bind them and remove their negative influences from the magician's life.

[14][16] Whilst Crowley was in the process of performing the lengthy ritual, he was called to Paris by the leader of the Golden Dawn.

[16] Crowley became infamous for stories of conducting black magic and various other rituals while residing at the house;[4] one of his pseudonyms was "Lord Boleskine".

[17][18] His lodge keeper, Hugh Gillies, suffered a number of personal tragedies, including the loss of two children.

[22] In 1969 Kenneth Anger, an experimental filmmaker with an interest in the occult, learned that the house was on the market and rented it for a few months.

[24][25][26] At the time Page bought the house it was in a state of decay, but he felt it would be a good atmosphere in which to write songs.

[7] However, after arranging for the house to be restored he spent little time at Boleskine, leaving things in the care of his friend Malcolm Dent (1944-2011).

After a few weeks, he heard strange rumblings from the hallway which stopped when he investigated, but resumed after he closed the bedroom door.

After researching the house he discovered the rumbling in the hall was supposedly the head of Lord Lovat, even though he was executed in London.

[28] Other occurrences, such as chairs switching places, doors slamming open and closed for no reason and carpets and rugs rolling up inexplicably, failed to deter Dent from staying.

Although Jimmy Page never spent a great length of time there, he did everything he could to return the house to how it would have looked during Crowley's ownership.

[4] At approximately 1:40 pm on 23 December 2015, a motorist on the A82 road reported flames and smoke coming from Boleskine House.

[29][32] When fire crews attended, it is estimated up to 60 percent of the building had already been incinerated, with flames rising up to 20 feet (6 m) high.

Part of the roof and the outer walls survive, but the former owner, Mrs. MacGillivray, has said that since the extent of the damage is so bad it "is unlikely it will ever be rebuilt unless there is someone out there with an interest in the occult wanting to spend a lot of money.

The fire destroyed the remainder of what was left inside Boleskine House, and in December 2019, work was done to clear the fire-damaged material and prepare the building for a new roof.

[37] Even before restoration work has been fully completed, in 2024 Boleskine House has already earned Trip Advisor's Travelers’ Choice Award for two consecutive years.

[19] Jimmy Page’s fantasy sequence in the 1976 Led Zeppelin concert film The Song Remains the Same was shot on the Boleskine House property.