Old Town Tour - Stirling

03/09/2024

Well I'll be there!

Otherwise there's a gap in the programme! And we CAN'T have that!!

Join us for an evening of entertainment celebrating 900 years of the Royal Burgh of Stirling. Proceeds support the 'Walking of the Marches'

31/08/2024

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29/08/2024

Boys and Ghouls, we have only three more shows of the summer-season remaining - then it's back to Fridays, Saturdays and Hallowe'en, which can only mean one thing....I get most of my nights back, and I have time to research, write, record and mix my podcast.

Spooks & Bogles #148 - Fear Itself - looking at the Irvine Witch-Trials of 1618....and how the knee-jerk paranoia and disinformation of superstitious Scotland is STILL with us.

Saturday for Patrons on Patreon, Wednesday for the scruff on Spotify!

22/06/2024

18/06/2024

Saturday for Patreon Patrons - next week for Spotify Scruff - in our last show before the busy Summer Season at the Jail and Stirling GhostWalk (don't worry...we're back in September) a look at Migratory Legends, Confirmation Bias, Dumfrieshire Poltergeists, Arran Apparitions our old pal Charlie...and how I'm being haunted by a ghost-story with NO spook attached!

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays until the end of the month - then 8.30pm, Tuesday-to-Saturday, in July and August...book at oldtownjail.co,uk

08/06/2024

What's in a name?

This week we return to the Holy Isle of Staffa (by way of Stirling and Staffa) to look at how reputations - historical, spooky, spiritual or sacred - change their names and the way we percieve them...and how some of those names just refuse to go away.

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays, until the end of June - then 8.30pm, Tuesday-to-Saturday, in July and August - meeting at the gates of the Old Town Jail, St John Street.

Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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25/05/2024

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21/05/2024

This Saturday...a load of old balls (as usual!), as we take a look at an array of twinkly Scottish crystal charms and amulets.

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays, at the gates of the Old Town Jail. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

11/05/2024

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27/04/2024

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26/04/2024

Lots of 'Black' and 'Bloody' rascals in Scottish myth and history, most of whom have one major thing in common...

Tomorrow we visit Newark Castle, in the Borders, and look at some VERY nasty tales.

13/04/2024

GhostWalks coninue 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays, meeting at the gates of the Old Town Jail. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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11/04/2024

This weekend for Patrons (you LOVELY people!) and next week, sometime, for the Spotify Scruff (yeah, okay...you're okay, too, I suppose!) we look at where the Sun doesn't shine.

You dirty minded lot, you...I mean Eclipses. What they are, why they happen, and what power our ancestors thought they had over us.

30/03/2024

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28/03/2024

Saturday for Patreon Princes and Princesses, mid-week for Spotify Scruff...strange tales from oor own hearths and highways...and how Urban Legends have more than a touch of the old-school Fairy Tale to them...

16/03/2024

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13/03/2024

A week late, but this weekend on Spooks & Bogles...what the hell is Mothering Sunday all about? 'Cos its probably not what you think!

28/02/2024

Saturday for Patrons on Patreon, the middle of next week on Spotify...the death of a True Believer - the strange, sad tale of Netta Fornario...and how we have an unfortunate tendency to seek sensation and mystery where there is little to be found.

17/02/2024

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays & Saturdays, at the gates of the Old Town Jail, St John Street - book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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03/02/2024

This week on S&B, a visit to Castle Grant, and a look at how of how our expectation that such strongholds, steeped in the chaoes of Caledonian history, SHOULD be haunted.

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays - WHATEVER the weather - meeting at the gates of the Stirling Old Town Jail. Tickets available from oldtownjail.co.uk

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06/01/2024

This week on Spooks & Bogles....'Taken'
I have a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people who don't like tales of fairies, wraiths, vampires and other spooky stuff...in THIS case stories of Scottish women abducted by the Fairies...GhostWalks continue at 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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22/12/2023

GhostWalks for New Year weekend fully booked, but normal shows resume 8pm, Friday and Saturday, first weekend in January.

Happy Christmas, everyone!

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08/12/2023

GhostWalks continue 8pm Fridays and Saturdays. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk
A little late - but this week we look at the strange origin of the Scots flag, the Saltire, and the oddity that so few of us know why Andrew is our Patron Saint, why he should have been assigned that role...and why HIS tale is a mystery to most of us

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11/11/2023

GhostWalks continue Fridays & Saturdays, through the Winter. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk.

This week on Spooks & Bogles, the strange tales of Scotland's 'Phantom Battlefields', and why it's odd that Stirling's Holy Rude Kirkyard has never been one of them!

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14/10/2023

How did a week from Khazakstan become the 'Flower of Scotland'? Find out on this week's Spooks & Bogles - RIGHT NOW for Patreon patrons, next week on Spotify.

Hallowe'en Week Stirling GhostWalk bookings heating up. Sales on-the-night will be limited - so please book in advance at oldtownjail.co.uk

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16/09/2023

Did James V get down and dirty with his subjects as the Gudeman of Ballengeich, or were there...a FEW Gude-Men.

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays & Saturdays. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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02/09/2023

Spooks & Bogles, back for Season 3 on Pinterest & Spotify! This week...how James VI turned the North Berwick Witch Trials into the first modern conspiracy theory!

Ghostwalks continue 8pm Friday and Saturday. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk & BOOK AHEAD for Hallowe'en!

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10/06/2023

In this Centenary of the first modern Nessie sighting, we drop in on some of the old girl's neglected cousins - the OTHER loch monsters of Scotland.

GhostWalks 8pm Friday & Saturday, until the end of June - 8.30pm Tuesday to Saturday in July & August. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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27/05/2023

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Friday & Saturday until the end of June, then 8.30pm Tuesday to Saturday in July and August. Book at oldtownjail.co.uk

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13/05/2023

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