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Time to Toast the Summer
For May is Whisky month, the month to raise your glass with a slainte mhath, and...
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What does it take to don a cloak and lead a group into our dark and spooky closes, or to bring our...
Read StoryFrom Darkness to Enlightenment
We tested our witches by throwing them into the filthy waters of the Nor Loch, before burning them...
Read StoryThey seek me here, they seek me there
As the resident friendly ghost at Mercat Tours, my life is a whirl of social activities. A haunting...
Read StoryWhat If Your Future Was Your Past?
The books have become not just a success, but more of a phenomenon. The time travelling tales of...
Read StoryElsie Inglis: Who Would Not Go Home and Sit Still
I then tell a little of her story (I could not possibly tell all of it, as it would take up the...
Read StoryMartyrs Monument and Stirling Castle Graveyard
The Monument was paid for by William Drummond a very prosperous Stirling farmer, landowner and...
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