Old Town Tour - Stirling

30/05/2026

This week....Sea-Serpents, Stone-Trolls, Scandinavian Giants, Swelkies, and the Secret Origin of Salt.

Two more S&Bs to go, in June, before the summer-break in July and August - so suggest some topics.

GhostWalks continue 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays in June - then 8.30pm Tuesday and Saturday in July & August - BOOK at stirlingghostwalk.com or oldtownjail.co.uk.

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28/05/2026

This week on Spooks and Bogles..., Reverse-Sirens, Stone-Giants, Swelkies, Stoor-Worms and Salt - and the oddities of coastal folklore.

Two more S&Bs to go, after this one, before the summer break....so I have energy for the Tuesday-to-Saturday Stirling GhostWalks in Julky and August.

Tours 8.00 Friday and Saturday until the end of June - 8.30pm, Tuesday-to-Saturday, in July & August - starting at the Old Town Jail, St John Street.

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16/05/2026

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This week...an extended version of my Wolf In The Fold piece fom the Culture Night 'Carnival Of The Wolf' - looking at the ironic iconic linl between the Burgh's predator-turned-protector and the Burgh Baillies.

More beastly, still, bronchiectasis has done a number on my throat - so I'll apologise in advance for my voice

GhostWalks continue 8pm Fridays and Saturdays - BOOK at stirlingghostwalk.com OR oldtownjail.co.uk

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01/05/2026

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This week - childish rites of passion, links to celtic tradsitions for choosing the perfect parner...and their much MUCH OLDER ROOTA.

Ghostwalks continue every 8pm Friday and Saturday (except 8th May, when a brainless music event will drown-out the Old Town - NOTHING to do with us!), tickets available at stirlingghostwalk.com and oldtownjail.co.uk

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18/04/2026

Fairies and Mothers and Tots...Oh My!

This week we look at the superstitions and charms said to protect new-borns (and new mothers) from the menace of...the Fairies!

GhostWalks continue at 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays, meeting at the Old Town Jail. BOOK at stirlingghostwalk.com OR oldtownjail.co.uk

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04/04/2026

This week on Spooks and Bogles...a look at the 1974 visit to Scotland by the Austrian-American 'father of popular parapsychology', Hans Holzer, a passionate multi-media advocate of all things Psi and Spooky...who has never been mentioned in six years of this show. A man who, like Mulder, WANTED to believe...but perhaps lost his objectivity along the way.

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21/03/2026

This week we look at the bat winged Sluagh, the shape-shifting Selkie, and the Wee Fowk, the Fairies - and how Christianised cultural appropriation run-riot re-branded (albeit briefly) these magical Celtic creatures as...Fallen Angels.

Stirling GhostWalks continue at 8pm, Fridays and Saturdays, meeting at the gates of the Stirling Old Town Jail.

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18/03/2026

This week on Spooks and Bogles...

A look at how Fairies, Selkies and Sluaghs - magical creatures of earth, sea and sky - were believed to be Fallen Angels, and how....thanks to paranoid killjoy Jamie the Saxt...they became demonised.

Stirling GhostWalk continues Fridays and Saturdays at 8pm, meeting at the gates of the Stirling Old Town Jail, St John Street. BOOK at stirlingghostwalk.com or oldtownjail.co.uk

21/02/2026

This week we explore the gloomy underworld beneath....Glasgow Central Station! Tales of Shadow Men, Murder, ghostly and weeping urchins are told of the abandoned Ghost Stations far below the terminal...and of the spooky service ducts known to weegies as The Vaults...

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07/02/2026

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This time on Spooks and Bogles...

Another look at The Sight...the ability to foretell future events, with a closer look at the tale of the Brahan Seer, the 17th-century 'Scottish Nostradamus' - whose prophecies still appear to be yielding results in the modern age. But is everything as it seems in the story of Coinneach Odhar...'Dark Kenneth'!

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