Stories Edinburgh Podcast

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Edinburgh is a city built in layers. Beneath its crowded streets lie sealed rooms, forgotten passageways, and stories that never entirely remained buried. Stories Edinburgh Podcast explores the Scottish capital’s folklore, unsolved mysteries, true crimes, and haunted history. Each week, a British storyteller leads you through shadowed closes, ancient graveyards, underground vaults, and the weathered streets where history and legend continue to overlap. Journey from the Royal Mile and Edinburgh Castle to Greyfriars Kirkyard, the Old Town, and the chambers hidden beneath the city. Discover notorious crimes, restless spirits, disputed legends, unexplained events, and the real history that inspired generations of dark storytelling. Some tales can be traced through surviving records. Others changed as they passed from one storyteller to another. Episodes distinguish documented history, reported claims, folklore, and creative reconstruction whenever possible. True-crime stories are presented with consideration for victims, survivors, and their families. Reported allegations are identified as such, and anyone accused of wrongdoing is presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Every stone has a story. Some are simply darker than others. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support.

  1. 4d ago

    The Prison at the Heart of Midlothian

    Draw near the fire for the story of the Tolbooth — the great prison that stood in the middle of Edinburgh's High Street for centuries. From turnkeys and debtors to Porteous and Deacon Brodie, from the condemned bell to the Heart in the pavement, this is three quiet hours in the shadow of the stones. Chapters: 0:00:00 — Fireside Welcome 0:01:48 — The Stones of the High Street 0:05:03 — A Prison Above the Shops 0:08:03 — The Heart Marked in Stone 0:11:11 — Debtors and Dreamers 0:14:18 — The Iron Ring of the Door 0:17:10 — Porridge and Silence 0:20:22 — The Turnkey's Rounds 0:23:17 — Letters Never Sent 0:26:20 — The Chapel Bell 0:29:25 — Winter in the Cells 0:32:21 — The Crowd Below 0:35:22 — Sentences of the Lords 0:38:29 — The Last Night Before 0:41:46 — The Condemned Cells 0:45:06 — The Last Supper 0:48:23 — The Minister's Visit 0:52:02 — Chains in the Night 0:55:14 — The Walk to the Grassmarket 0:58:54 — The Gallows Tree 1:02:26 — The Crowd at the Hanging 1:06:00 — The Body After 1:09:39 — Buried at Midnight 1:13:16 — The Widow's Window 1:17:04 — Reprieve by Post 1:20:52 — The Empty Cell 1:24:30 — What Justice Cost 1:28:40 — The Last Turnkey 1:31:55 — Emptying the Cells 1:35:07 — Ropes and Picks 1:38:18 — The Stones Carted Away 1:41:48 — A Gap in the High Street 1:45:05 — Setting the Heart 1:47:51 — Hopping the Heart 1:51:02 — What the Tour Guides Say 1:54:34 — Bells Remembered 1:57:56 — The Law Remade 2:01:16 — Grassmarket Mornings Now 2:04:49 — The Door That Is Gone 2:09:13 — Winter Light on the High Street 2:12:59 — The Captain of the Guard 2:17:29 — The Night the Mob Came 2:21:21 — The Cabinetmaker's Second Life 2:25:08 — The First Man on His Own Gallows 2:29:16 — Jeanie's Walk 2:33:21 — The Bairns at the Door 2:37:31 — The Bell That Called the City 2:41:53 — Stones Beneath the Pavement 2:46:11 — The Witch Pricker's Cell 2:49:50 — From the Gallows to the Table 2:53:16 — The Twin That Survived 2:56:09 — Garnish and Fees 3:00:57 — What Walks the High Street 3:04:37 — Keeping the Memory 3:08:14 — Sign-Off Stories Edinburgh Podcast, every Thursday night. Follow the show so our fire is always lit when you need it. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Prison at the Heart of Midlothian

  2. Oct 24

    The Gardener of Princes Street Gardens

    Good evening from the green valley below the castle. Tonight we walk the Princes Street Gardens from spring planting to winter locking: the valley below the shops, the gardener's year, the statues that keep their own counsel, and the quiet work of growing things. Bring the episode along for evening chores or into bed as company. Chapters: 00:00:00 The Valley Below the Shops 00:02:50 The Floral Clock and Its Keepers 00:05:45 Roses Under the Rock 00:08:38 The Mound and the Galleries 00:11:39 The Ross Fountain Restoration 00:15:27 Autumn Leaves and the Great Clearing 00:19:23 The Nor Loch Beneath the Lawns 00:23:29 Winter Frost on the Lawns 00:27:30 Daffodils by the East Gate 00:31:06 The Scott Monument Shadows 00:35:04 Pigeons and Their Parliament 00:38:55 The Shed Crew at Tea Break 00:42:45 Lawnmowers at Dawn 00:46:28 The Castle Gun at One 00:50:06 The Bandstand Concerts 00:53:58 Squirrels of the West Garden 00:57:33 The Railway Below the Mound 01:01:09 Snowdrops in February 01:05:15 The Herbaceous Borders 01:09:11 Watering in Drought 01:12:47 The Apprentice First Year 01:16:34 Festival Crowds on the Slopes 01:20:14 Fireworks Over the Beds 01:24:26 The Gardener Diary 01:28:40 Robins Follow the Fork 01:32:21 Tulips in April Rows 01:36:24 The Old Sycamore 01:40:21 Benches and Their Sitters 01:44:15 The Dog Walkers at Opening 01:49:28 Litter Picking After Events 01:53:16 The Greenhouse Behind the Sheds 01:57:08 Seed Catalogs in January 02:01:08 The Lawn Stripes 02:05:04 Moles and Their Hills 02:08:59 The Evening Blackbird 02:12:48 Rain on the Rockery 02:16:42 Spring Bulbs Beyond Counting 02:20:48 The Rock Garden Terraces 02:24:31 Wedding Parties at the Fountain 02:28:23 The Sundial Border 02:32:35 Bees Among the Borders 02:36:23 The Night Frost Watch 02:40:13 The Compost Heaps Behind the Sheds 02:43:16 Gates Locked, Garden Sleeping Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Gardener of Princes Street Gardens

  3. Oct 23

    Greyfriars Bobby and the Kirkyard That Kept Him

    Greyfriars Bobby and the Kirkyard That Kept Him Every night for fourteen years, a small Skye Terrier slept on a grave in Greyfriars Kirkyard — through fourteen Edinburgh winters of frost, fog, and rain. The night watchman was long dead. The dog stayed anyway. And when Bobby died in eighteen seventy-two, the city buried him where no dog had ever been buried, and raised a statue, and argued about him for a hundred and fifty years. This night walk — nearly two hours in thirty-nine small chapters — follows the true story of Greyfriars Bobby from the winter of eighteen sixty-one to the bronze nose tourists rub for luck today. John Gray and the missing grave. Sergeant Traill and the daily firing of the Castle gun. The Lord Provost's licence, the red collar, the two-Bobbys dispute. And the kirkyard itself: Covenanters' Prison, the Black Mausoleum, the mortsafes, the symbols on the stones — the most haunted ground in Scotland, and the one ghost story in it that was always, provably, real. Documented history, reported claims, folklore, and honest reconstruction — always marked as such. That is the covenant of this show. The dark deserves the truth, or the closest we can come to it. CHAPTERS: 0:08 — The Small Stone 3:19 — The Gates 5:36 — The Kirk 8:23 — The Covenant 11:45 — The Flodden Wall 14:25 — The Plague Dead 17:45 — The Resurrection Men 21:04 — Why Kirkyards Keep 24:16 — The Mortsafes 27:28 — The Mausoleums 30:57 — The Symbols 33:57 — The Master 37:18 — The Eighteen Sixty One Winter 41:05 — The Traill Question 44:34 — The Two Bobbys 48:23 — The Fourteen Years 51:53 — The Thirty Five Thousand 54:46 — The Locked Gates 57:37 — The Riddle Stone 60:27 — The Dispute 65:20 — The Statue 68:48 — The Covenanters' Prison 71:35 — The Black Mausoleum 74:39 — The Breaking 77:57 — At Arm's Length 80:22 — The Small Stone at Last 84:26 — The Watch Continues 88:03 — The Other Dogs 90:54 — The Loyal Dead 94:22 — The Weather 98:13 — The Gardeners 101:28 — The Films 104:53 — The Night Staff 107:57 — The Missing Master 111:06 — The Reasons 115:14 — The Offering 118:24 — The Vigil 121:18 — The Last Round 124:18 — The Walk Home SOURCES: Greyfriars Kirk official kirkyard records and Bobby memorial / Lord Provost's dog licence 1867, City of Edinburgh archives (licence bought for Bobby by Sir William Chambers) / The Scotsman, Bobby coverage 1867–1873 / Baroness Burdett-Coutts Greyfriars Bobby Fountain, 1873 / Eleanor Atkinson, Greyfriars Bobby (1912 novel — fiction, marked as such wherever used) Bed music "Keeping Warm" by Oliver Massa, licensed via Uppbeat, code 2YZ5AYR2VZKOBLXY, link https://uppbeat.io/c/oliver-massa Love the music in this episode? It is all licensed from Uppbeat — get 20% off and support the show when you join here: https://share.uppbeat.io/b1d396uc1nke Support the show: https://www.spreaker.com/show/stories-edinburgh-podcast/support Want every episode before everyone else? Join us on Patreon for early access to all episodes, exclusive supporter-only stories, and extended editions across every Hustle Studios show. Join here: https://www.patreon.com/cw/hustlestudios Follow Stories Edinburgh Podcast for a new night walk every week. Every stone has a story. Some are simply darker than others. Greyfriars Bobby and the Kirkyard That Kept Him — by HustleStudios #StoriesEdinburgh #HustleStudios #GhostStories #HauntedEdinburgh #GreyfriarsBobby ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Greyfriars Bobby and the Kirkyard That Kept Him

  4. Oct 19

    The Fiddler of Stockbridge Market

    Edinburgh's Stockbridge Market on a slow Sunday morning: strings tuning in the cold air, tales traded between stalls, and one fiddler whose bow seems to remember every soul that ever stopped to listen. A three-and-a-half-hour story in seventy-two small movements. Best heard with nowhere to be. Chapters: 0:00 Strings in the Morning Air 3:50 Tunes from the North 7:31 The Cheese Monger and the Poet 11:35 An Empty Case Fills Slowly 15:44 Sessions in the Back Room 19:32 The Rainy Sunday Repertoire 22:31 A Student of the Bow 26:34 Rosin and Horsehair 29:58 The Flower Stall Duet 33:25 Waltzes for Old Couples 36:53 The Terrier Parade 40:34 Coffee Queue Harmonies 44:04 The Honey Seller Tears 47:22 Shetland Reels at Noon 51:10 Slow Airs at Closing 54:38 The Cold Flat Practice 58:27 Strings and Their Moods 62:27 The South Bridge Luthier 66:11 Winter Fingers and Gloves 69:48 Festival Fringe Spots 73:35 Street Party Gigs 77:03 The Wedding Ceilidh Call 80:25 Teaching the First Scale 83:56 The Bus Driver Daughter 87:32 Duets with the Whistle 90:48 The Box Player Answers 93:57 Bodhran Heartbeat 97:27 The Retired Joiner March 100:49 The Poet New Pamphlet 104:19 Cheese for Tunes 107:21 The Crab Tale Retold 111:07 Rain Under the Awning 114:49 Sunshine Sets 117:47 The Proposal Napkin 120:48 Foreign Coins Week 123:56 The Drive By Patron 126:56 Schoolgirl Pocket Money 129:44 Dogs Who Sleep Through Airs 132:43 Babies and Ballads 135:42 The Grandmother Air Passed On 138:51 Shetland Pilgrimage 141:47 The Morning Scale Ritual 144:45 Busking Through Showers 147:34 The Bookstall Keeper 150:24 Tunes for the Pigeons 152:51 The Deli Sausage Trade 155:10 Night Walks by the Water 157:47 The Session Oracle 160:27 Guitar Student Progress 162:30 The Lighthouse Keeper Concertina 164:31 Strings in Summer Heat 166:34 The Christmas Carol Pitch 168:21 Farewell Tunes for Departures 170:08 The Morning Coffee Overture 172:13 Umbrella Audiences 173:57 The Flower Man Birthday 175:55 Session Anniversary Night 177:44 The Spare Fiddle Fund 179:24 Lullabies for the Close 181:03 The Rain Gauge Reels 183:04 Applause in Different Tongues 184:54 The Lost Glove Sonata 186:39 Bells and Open Strings 188:20 The Tune Book Bindery 190:06 Encore Etiquette 191:40 The Last Busker Standing 193:05 The Bow Hair Confession 194:40 The Pitch at Rest 196:40 The Tuner App Rebellion 199:09 The Bow Arm Diary 201:54 The Deaf Regular Who Feels the Tunes 208:23 Last Tune at Dusk Stories Edinburgh Podcast — fireside tales from Scotland's most haunted city. Follow for a new story every day. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Fiddler of Stockbridge Market

  5. Oct 18

    The Long Night of Holyrood Park

    Holyrood Park after dark: Arthur's Seat against the stars, palace shadows on the loch, and one long walk through four hundred years of Edinburgh night. A four-and-a-half-hour story in one hundred forty-four small movements. Best heard with nowhere to be. Chapters: 0:00 Gates of the Royal Park 3:08 The Crags at Moonrise 6:50 Arthur Seat and Its Legends 10:30 The Chapel Ruins 14:26 Owls Over the Lochs 18:03 The Palace and the Park 21:33 Foxes and Ravens 25:17 Gorse in Blossom 29:24 The Radical Road 32:45 Whinchat and Stonechat 36:04 The Basalt Columns 39:00 Ravens at First Light 41:15 Fox Cubs in Spring 43:23 Badgers After Dark 45:31 Bats Over the Water 47:19 The Trig Point 49:18 May Morning Crowds 51:16 Dew on the Summit 52:59 The Miniature Coffins 54:58 The Hill Fort Ramparts 56:32 Bronze Age Burials 58:15 The Norse Arrowhead 59:41 Saint Anthony Well 1:01:22 The Hermit Cell 1:03:07 Ruins at Midnight 1:04:45 Duddingston Loch Circuit 1:06:18 Saint Margaret Loch 1:07:42 Swans and Cygnets 1:09:13 Herons at Daybreak 1:10:36 Wigeon in Winter 1:11:57 Curling on the Ice 1:13:22 The Village Kirk 1:14:48 Sheep on the Slopes 1:16:15 The Palace Gates 1:17:49 Abbey Ruins 1:19:21 The Poacher Verse 1:20:58 Parliament Below the Crags 1:22:27 Runners at Daybreak 1:23:59 Snow on the Crags 1:25:26 Wind on the Summit 1:28:29 Sunset from the Radical Road 1:31:42 Stars Over the City 1:34:35 The Lion Shape 1:37:19 Gorse Fires and Renewal 1:40:32 The Piper Path 1:42:46 Dog Walkers Circuit 1:44:45 The Commuter Cut Through 1:46:21 Photography at Golden Hour 1:47:56 The Ranger Rounds 1:49:22 Volunteers Clearing Paths 1:50:53 The School Visit 1:52:20 Geology Students Mapping 1:53:42 The Pulpit Rock 1:55:05 Hunter Bog Rest 1:56:35 The Meadow Brown Meadow 1:57:59 Orchids on the Slopes 1:59:24 Swifts Over the Crags 2:00:44 Kestrels Hovering 2:02:08 The Peregrine Return 2:03:41 Buzzards Circling 2:05:02 The Full Moon Walk 2:06:29 Midsummer Light 2:08:00 The Equinox Balance 2:09:30 Hogmanay Fireworks View 2:11:05 The Stoat Hunt 2:12:30 Deer in the Morning Mist 2:15:38 The Salisbury Crags Climb 2:18:01 Naismith Pacing Counts 2:19:47 The Seven Hills View 2:21:24 The Firth from the Top 2:22:54 The Pentlands Opposite 2:24:19 The Castle from Below 2:25:42 Calton Hill Across the Valley 2:27:03 The Meadows Link 2:28:28 The Innocent Railway Path 2:29:46 The Burns and Springs 2:31:09 The Toad Patrol 2:32:24 The Frog Chorus 2:33:44 The Newt Ponds 2:35:02 The Lizard Bank 2:36:22 Slow Worms Under Tin 2:37:41 The Harvest Moon Rise 2:39:07 The Winter Solstice Sunrise 2:40:21 Dunsapie Loch Rest 2:43:29 The Crags in the Rain 2:45:34 The Gully Scrambles 2:47:07 The Royal Hunts 2:50:29 The Dry Stone Walls 2:52:35 The Hawthorn Guardians 2:54:35 Elderflower June 2:56:12 The Bramble Harvest 2:57:37 Rosehip Winter 2:58:50 The Yew by the Chapel 3:00:18 The Moth Trap Night 3:01:56 The Lantern Walk 3:03:20 The Story Circle 3:04:38 The Bench Dedications 3:06:03 The Lost Property Rail 3:07:28 The Cloud Reading 3:08:53 The First Snowdrop 3:10:22 The Last Leaf 3:11:32 The Year Ledger 3:12:56 The Final Circuit Home 3:15:07 The Rowan Berries 3:17:59 The Birch Clumps 3:19:51 The Pine Stand 3:21:25 The Sycamore Shade 3:22:50 The Ash Watch 3:24:22 The Ivy Harvest 3:25:40 The Holly Thickets 3:27:10 The Alder Carr 3:28:27 The Willow Carr 3:29:53 The Poplar Avenue 3:31:12 The Lime Walk 3:32:37 The Oak Veterans 3:34:05 The Beech Hedges 3:35:29 The Cherry Glade 3:36:59 The Crab Apple Fall 3:38:28 The Wild Pear 3:39:45 The Hazel Nuts 3:41:07 The Sweet Chestnut 3:42:23 The Walnut Sapling 3:43:48 The Spindle Berries 3:45:06 The Hornbeam Hedges 3:46:25 The Wild Service Tree 3:47:40 The Blackthorn Sloe 3:49:07 The Guelder Rose 3:50:36 The Dog Rose Scramble 3:52:01 The Field Maple 3:53:20 The Whitebeam Avenues 3:54:42 The Buckthorn Breaks 3:56:03 The Wayfaring Tree 3:57:27 The Privet Flower 3:58:57 The Night Ledger Close 4:00:28 The Juniper Clumps 4:03:21 The Final Lantern Douse 4:06:03 The Dogwood Stems 4:07:27 The Tutsan Glade 4:08:47 The Long Watch Ends 4:12:19 The Starling Murmuration 4:14:15 The Wren Chorus 4:16:04 The Firecrest Glimpse 4:18:39 The Aurora Over the Forth 4:27:50 Dawn on the Summit Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Long Night of Holyrood Park

  6. Oct 17

    The Bookseller of Victoria Street

    Step in out of the night air. Tonight we browse where Victoria Street bends like a bow, among shelves that have outlived their makers — four floors of books in a building meant for two, a bargain cart chained outside in all weathers, and a bookseller who claims he can find any title in the dark. We wander the printers' Old Town, meet the cat who shelves nothing, hear rain on the bow windows, and open the antiquarian map drawer. There are lost manuscripts, circulating libraries, ballad sellers, students who browse for hours, and Scott himself proofreading through the night. Settle in for a gentle fireside ramble through the book trade of Edinburgh, ending settled as always. Chapters: 00:00 The Curve of Colored Shops 02:54 Printers of the Old Town 05:41 The Cat Who Shelves Nothing 08:27 Rain on the Bow Windows 11:16 The Lost Manuscript Tale 14:34 The Antiquarian Map Drawer 18:35 Story Hour for Small Browsers 22:35 The Cellar of Forgotten Boxes 27:16 Christmas on the Curve 31:02 The West Bow Before Victoria Street 36:14 The Bookbinders of the Cowgate 42:06 The Circulating Libraries 47:04 Scott and the Book Trade 52:07 The Ballad Sellers and Chapmen 56:30 The Bargain Cart in All Weathers 01:04 Students Who Browse for Hours 01:12 The Festival Book Tent 01:19 The Winter Stocktaking 01:25 Telephone Orders and Postal Trade 01:29 The Rival Across the Mile 01:34 The Ghost Signature Mystery 01:38 The Shop Bell and Its Ringers 01:42 The Cookery Corner and Its Fans 01:48 The Poetry Wall and Open Mic 01:54 The Rainy Day Regulars 02:00 The Morning Before Opening 02:06 The Last Customer Each Night 02:10 Window Displays Through Seasons 02:14 Book Groups That Meet Upstairs 02:19 The Quiet Hour After Closing 02:23 The Birthday Book Club 02:26 The Travel Shelf Wanderers 02:29 The New Year Shelf Wish 02:32 Shutters Down, Story Done Stories Edinburgh — true things told true, old sayings told as sayings, and a gentle landing at the end. Voices in this episode are AI-synthesized performances. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Bookseller of Victoria Street

  7. Oct 14

    Winter Light on Calton Hill

    Above Edinburgh's east end rises a hill of monuments, unfinished temples, buried radicals, and the best winter light in Scotland. Climb Calton Hill with us from the three o'clock gloom to the blue hour — past the time ball, the observatory keepers, the burial ground poets, the playback of Hogmanay fires — and come back down with twenty-nine small stories in your pocket. Chapters: 0:00 The Climb at Three 2:45 The Unfinished Parthenon 5:49 Nelson Tower and the Time Ball 8:43 The Observatory and the Stars 11:59 Dugald Stewart Watching South 14:46 The Cannon That Fires at One 18:08 The Bridewell and the Jail 21:47 Festivals on the Summit 25:48 The View Toward the Forth 29:45 The Old Calton Burial Ground 35:30 Burns Monument and the Poet Corner 41:25 The Playfair Observatory and Its Keepers 46:55 The Signal Mast and the Shipping News 52:32 Gorse, Crag, and the Hill Wildlife 58:05 The Panorama Painters of the Hill 63:13 Hogmanay Fires Above the City 68:59 The Tunnels Under the Hill 74:09 The Dawn Walkers Club 79:30 The Stonemasons Who Tend the Monuments 84:52 The Kite Flyers of March 89:47 The Wedding Parties at the Columns 94:16 The Lamplighter Twilight Rounds 98:16 The Snow Days and Sledges 102:41 The Plaques and Their Stories 106:21 The Night Bus Home 110:34 The Carol Singers at Christmas 114:25 The Spring Snowdrops Below the Crags 118:30 The Last Light on the Columns 120:26 Descending in the Blue Hour Stories Edinburgh Podcast — fireside tales from Scotland's most haunted city. Follow for a new story every day. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    Winter Light on Calton Hill

  8. Oct 14

    The Baker of the Grassmarket

    Before dawn, while Edinburgh sleeps, the Grassmarket baker fires his ovens and the old square wakes trade by trade. From gallows shadow to festival August, from drovers' roads to the one o'clock gun, this is a fireside walk through the most storied marketplace in Scotland — its bakers and candlemakers, night watches and winter fairs, pigeons, gulls, and square cats. Chapters: 0:00 Ovens Before Dawn 2:45 The Square of Many Trades 5:42 A Loaf for Every Purse 8:46 Castle Shadow, Hearth Glow 11:59 The Night the Oven Failed 15:03 The Gallows Shadow and Mercy 19:31 Market Day in the Square 23:33 The White Hart and the Stables 27:29 Apprentices and Their Ways 31:41 The Drovers and Their Roads 35:58 Hay, Horses, and the Stables 40:51 The Covenanters Memorial and Quiet Respect 44:59 Candlemas and the Winter Fairs 49:00 The Night Watch of the Square 53:25 Flour From the Mills of the Leith 58:02 The Trams That Rang Past the Door 62:31 Festival August in the Square 66:48 The Candlemakers and the Chandlers 70:24 Secondhand Clothes and the Rag Trade 73:39 The Dance Halls of Living Memory 77:14 Pigeons, Gulls, and the Square Cats 81:22 The One O Clock Gun From Below 85:41 Rain on the Cobbles 89:22 The Memorial Steps at Midday 93:17 The Saturday Cheese Woman 96:52 Sunday Quiet in the Square 98:51 Last Crumb, First Light Stories Edinburgh Podcast — folklore, mysteries, and haunted history, weekly. Follow for the next tale. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support. ❤️ Support Stories Edinburgh! Help us keep true horror stories alive by joining our Supporter Club or supporting us on Patreon. Supporter Club: HEREPatreon: HERE🎙️ Got a scary encounter? Share your true horror encounter in your own voice! Submit in English, Tagalog, or your own language. Anonymous submissions are welcome, and your story may be featured on the podcast. 🎤 Submit your story: https://spoken.systems/f/99ae02d6-39bc-4a16-9154-15c211f9cb96 Follow the show and share it with fellow horror lovers! Produced by ColoredJuice Podcast Studio.

    The Baker of the Grassmarket
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Edinburgh is a city built in layers. Beneath its crowded streets lie sealed rooms, forgotten passageways, and stories that never entirely remained buried. Stories Edinburgh Podcast explores the Scottish capital’s folklore, unsolved mysteries, true crimes, and haunted history. Each week, a British storyteller leads you through shadowed closes, ancient graveyards, underground vaults, and the weathered streets where history and legend continue to overlap. Journey from the Royal Mile and Edinburgh Castle to Greyfriars Kirkyard, the Old Town, and the chambers hidden beneath the city. Discover notorious crimes, restless spirits, disputed legends, unexplained events, and the real history that inspired generations of dark storytelling. Some tales can be traced through surviving records. Others changed as they passed from one storyteller to another. Episodes distinguish documented history, reported claims, folklore, and creative reconstruction whenever possible. True-crime stories are presented with consideration for victims, survivors, and their families. Reported allegations are identified as such, and anyone accused of wrongdoing is presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process. Every stone has a story. Some are simply darker than others. A HustleStudios Podcast Network production. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support.

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  • Creator
    HustleStudios Podcast Network
  • Years Active
    2026
  • Episodes
    16
  • Rating
    Explicit
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    © HustleStudios Podcast Network
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