Dearg Due: Ireland’s Female Vampire and the Story That May Be Older Than It Looks
Somewhere in Waterford, at a location known as Strongbow’s Tree, there is a grave. The tradition says a stone should […]
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Fear Gorta: The Man of Hunger Who Walks Ireland’s Roads
He appears at twilight, on a quiet road between settlements, in the kind of place where you might convince yourself
Abhartach: The Irish Vampire That May Have Inspired Dracula
County Derry, Northern Ireland, sometime in the fifth or sixth century. A chieftain is dead. His subjects, who hated him
The Lady in Black of Grahamston: The Ghost the Children Never Forgot
Before the iron bones of Glasgow Central Station took shape, before the platforms roared and the tunnels filled with the
Grahamston: The Lost Village Buried Beneath Glasgow Central Station
Underneath Glasgow Central Station, if the legend is correct, there is a village. Not a functioning village, not an inhabited
The Underground Argyll Arcade: Glasgow’s Most Persistent Urban Legend
Every city has its underground legend. Rome has its catacombs. Edinburgh has Mary King’s Close. Glasgow has several, because Glasgow
Granny Kempock: The Ancient Stone That Witches Danced Around and Sailors Feared to Offend
Behind the main shopping street in Gourock, up a flight of steps that most people who walk beneath it every
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
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