About this podcast
Ancient Edinburgh: a thousand years of life, death, murder, intrigue, and ghosts!
Edinburgh is a paranormal enthusiast’s paradise, with spirits and spectres seemingly around almost every corner and up every close.
In recent years, its best known hauntings are the fascinating stories of the ghosts in the underground vaults and the MacKenzie poltergeist in the graveyard at Greyfriars Kirk. However, if you look beyond these incredible modern tales, you’ll find hundreds of years worth of history and spooky goings-on.
Edinburgh has it all – ghostly pipers, Egyptian spirits, white ladies, warlocks, and witches, to name just a few.
Episodes
The newest 20 of 100 episodes
- A Night of Victorian Ghost Stories · 44 min · Episode 108Join me this Halloween for a night of Victorian ghost stories, as we travel back to 19th-century Scotland to explore three strange and rather disturbing accounts. Our first story…
- The Ghosts of Center Parcs - Strange Encounters in Sherwood Forest · 31 min · Episode 107In this episode we investigate several strange accounts from the popular Nottinghamshire holiday village. A couple reportedly wake in the middle of the night to find a hooded…
- Ghost Stories, Folklore & the Supernatural - with Icy Sedgwick & Rob Kirkup · 1 h 39 min · Episode 106A little while ago, I was chatting with Rob from How Haunted and Icy Sedgwick, and somewhere along the way we came up with an idea - why don't the three of us get together and…
- The Ghost of the Lammermuir Hills · 32 min · Episode 105In 1859, Scottish writer Catherine Crowe published a remarkable story said to have been told to her by a sheep farmer named Sandy Shiels.Decades earlier, on an isolated farm in…
- The Trinity Poltergiest: Edinburgh's Lost Poltergiest Case · 27 min · Episode 104In 1835, Captain Molesworth and his family moved into a house in Trinity, Edinburgh. Not long afterwards, strange noises began to be heard around the property. Knocks, footsteps…
- The Canongate Hauntings: Edinburgh’s Supernatural Hotspot · 27 min · Episode 103The Canongate is one of the oldest parts of Edinburgh, a street with a history stretching back almost nine centuries. Behind its familiar buildings and closes lies a remarkable…
- The Ghosts of Duntulm Castle: The Haunting That Drove Them Out · 26 min · Episode 102Perched on a cliff at the northern edge of the Isle of Skye, the ruins of Duntulm Castle are home to some of the island's darkest ghost stories. Once a stronghold of the…
- The Ghosts of Culross Palace: Fife’s Most Haunted House? · 23 min · Episode 101Culross Palace is one of Scotland's most remarkable surviving buildings from the 17th century - but behind its distinctive yellow walls are stories that suggest some of its…
- The Ghost of Meggernie Castle: A Highland Haunting · 28 min · Episode 100What if one of Scotland's strangest ghost stories turned out to be more than just a legend? In this episode, we travel to the beautiful Glen Lyon in Highland Perthshire to…
- The Ardachie Lodge Haunting: The Crawling Ghost · 39 min · Episode 99In 1953, a family moved into a remote Highland sporting lodge near Loch Ness, expecting nothing more than a fresh start. Within weeks, they began hearing footsteps crossing the…
- The Lewis Poltergeist Case: The Day a House Came Alive · 26 min · Episode 98In 1954, on the Isle of Lewis in Scotland's Outer Hebrides, an ordinary croft became the centre of one of Britain's strangest alleged poltergeist cases. It began with peat moving…
- The Haunting of Woodhouselee: Scotland's Forgotten White Lady · 29 min · Episode 97Deep within the woods near Edinburgh lie the forgotten ruins of Woodhouselee - a place haunted by one of Scotland's oldest and most tragic ghost stories. In this episode, we…
- The Ghosts of Castle Fraser : The haunted seat of the Fraser Clan · 23 min · Episode 96Castle Fraser is one of Scotland's most beautiful castles - and one of its most haunted. In this episode of Eerie Edinburgh, we explore the ghostly legends of Aberdeenshire's…
- The Ghost of Johnny One-Arm: Edinburgh’s Forgotten Haunting · 34 min · Episode 95For centuries, Edinburgh has been home to murderers, body snatchers, executioners, occultists, and some of Scotland's most famous ghost stories. Today, one figure dominates the…
- The Watseka Mystery: America’s First Possession Case? · 36 min · Episode 94The case of Lurancy Vennum is often described as America’s strangest possession case. In 1877, in the small town of Watseka, Illinois, a young girl began falling into violent…
- Last Orders: Glasgow's Haunted Nightclub · 24 min · Episode 93It was meant to be empty. After closing time, with the doors locked and the building cleared, staff began noticing things that didn’t quite fit. A face appearing briefly above…
- Hidden Haunts: Paranormal Reports from Scotland’s Ruined Castles · 31 min · Episode 92Scotland is home to more than two thousand recorded castles. Some are well known. Others are easy to miss - broken walls in the landscape, visited by only a handful of people at…
- Haunted Perth: Ghost Stories from Crieff · 26 min · Episode 91When people think of Scotland’s major battles, places like Bannockburn or Culloden usually come to mind. But just outside the town of Crieff, there’s another battlefield that…
- The Amherst Haunting: Canada's most notorious poltergeist case · 1 h 2 min · Episode 90In 1878, in the small town of Amherst, Nova Scotia, a series of strange events began inside the home of a young woman named Esther Cox. At first, it was the sound of knocking…
- The Night Shift: True Hauntings from Scotland’s Hospitals and Care Homes · 32 min · Episode 89Hospitals are built around routine, vigilance, and care. By day they are busy, practical places filled with staff, patients, and visitors moving constantly through corridors and…
