The work on the new dual carriage way will probably result in the disappearance of what to generations of Monifieth `locals` is known as Scobie`s Roundie.

The roundel of trees at the end of Victoria Street at it`s junction with the Dundee Arbroath road, is certainly a place of some historic interest.

Rumour that the place was haunted, resulted in the need for some research being carried out.

On the 24th September 1872 , a reputed local `ne`er do well` named Thomas Scobie, stole items hung out to dry on a washing line at a cottage near Kingennie
The occupant of the cottage, a gamekeeper by the name George Spalding set out with his dog to find the culprit. After sometime Spalding came upon the thief Scobie and attempted to escort him to the nearest police station at Monifieth. During the journey Scobie overcame Spalding and choked him to death in the vicinity of the wooded roundel.

Late at night the dog returned home without his master and the alarm was raised. Scobie was eventually captured and sent for trial. He was sentenced to death for the crime he had committed, the execution to be carried out on 26th April, next to come. The judge had forgotten that at the time of sentencing April 1873 had already started, therefore a period of six years would elapse before the sentence could be carried out.

Scobie`s sentence was commuted to penal servitude for life. Liberated in 1892, he returned to Dundee where he died a few years later.