The Witches of Pollok House: The Bewitched Baronet and the Servant Who Found Her Voice
Pollok House sits in the south side of Glasgow, surrounded by the rolling parkland of Pollok Country Park, its Georgian […]
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Provan Hall: Glasgow’s Most Haunted Medieval Building and the Ghosts That Never Left
There is something immediately striking about finding a genuine medieval building in Easterhouse. The east end of Glasgow is a
Nora: The Ghost Who Never Left Glasgow’s Theatre Royal
Glasgow’s Theatre Royal on Hope Street is the oldest continuously operating theatre in Scotland, a fact that sits comfortably alongside
The Ghosts of Barlinnie: The Victorian Woman With the Lantern and the Prison That Kept Its Dead
There is a particular quality of darkness that accumulates in places where the state has killed people on a schedule.
St Mungo: The Founding Legend of Glasgow and the Four Miracles on the Coat of Arms
Look at Glasgow’s coat of arms long enough and you start to notice that it is telling a story. A
Jenny wi’ the Iron Teeth: Glasgow’s Original Child-Stealing Monster
Glasgow has a particular talent for producing bogeymen. Not the vague, shapeless kind that could belong to anywhere, but specific,
Jenny Greenteeth: The River Hag Who Hides Beneath the Duckweed
There is a particular kind of stillness that gathers on the surface of a pond in late summer, when duckweed
Wee Jeanie and the Toe: Scotland’s Campfire Tale That Won’t Stay Buried
There are ghost stories that come with a castle attached, a named historical victim, a date carved into a stone
Brollachan: The Shapeless Child That Knows Only Two Words
Of all the creatures that belong to the Fuath family, the broad and consistently dark category of malevolent water spirit
The Fachan: The Most Grotesquely Wrong Creature in Scottish Folklore
There is a particular quality of wrongness that some monsters achieve through sheer scale, and others achieve through what they