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Stories Edinburgh Podcast

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.

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Episodes
  • Greyfriars Bobby and the Kirkyard That Kept Him

    Greyfriars Bobby and the Kirkyard That Kept Him
    23 Oct 2026
    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)

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    This episode may combine documented history, folklore, reported paranormal claims, and clearly identified creative reconstruction. Supernatural accounts are presented as cultural stories rather than verified fact.

    True-crime subjects are discussed with respect for victims and survivors. Anyone accused of wrongdoing is presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process.

    A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.
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    2 hrs and 7 min
  • The Fiddler of Stockbridge Market

    The Fiddler of Stockbridge Market
    19 Oct 2026
    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.

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    Support Stories Edinburgh Podcast and help us uncover more folklore, mysteries, true crimes, and haunted history from Scotland’s capital:

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    This episode may combine documented history, folklore, reported paranormal claims, and clearly identified creative reconstruction. Supernatural accounts are presented as cultural stories rather than verified fact.

    True-crime subjects are discussed with respect for victims and survivors. Anyone accused of wrongdoing is presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process.

    A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.
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    3 hrs and 32 min
  • The Lake Beneath the Gardens

    The Lake Beneath the Gardens
    18 Oct 2026
    Beneath the lawns of Princes Street Gardens lies a vanished lake — the Nor Loch, the Castle's ancient moat, playground, and secret-keeper. Tonight we drain it with words and walk its vanished shores, from skaters to witches to the last boat.

    Chapters:
    00:00 — Fireside Welcome
    02:05 — The Hollow Beneath the Castle
    05:09 — A Moat Made by Nature
    08:10 — The Skaters of Winter
    11:37 — What the City Poured In
    15:40 — The Draining of the Loch
    19:46 — The Making of the Gardens
    23:13 — The Mound That Crossed It
    27:09 — The Railway Arrives
    30:55 — Ducking the Witches
    34:31 — What the Mud Kept
    38:29 — The Fountain and the Bandstand
    42:21 — Winter in the Gardens
    46:06 — Famous Feet
    50:04 — The Lake in the Archives
    54:05 — What Lies Beneath
    57:38 — Crossing the Hollow
    60:38 — The Great Frosts
    64:30 — The Last Boat
    67:26 — The Herons at Dawn
    71:10 — Sign-Off

    Stories Edinburgh Podcast, every Thursday night. Follow the show so our fire is always lit when you need it.

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    Support Stories Edinburgh Podcast and help us uncover more folklore, mysteries, true crimes, and haunted history from Scotland’s capital:

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    This episode may combine documented history, folklore, reported paranormal claims, and clearly identified creative reconstruction. Supernatural accounts are presented as cultural stories rather than verified fact.

    True-crime subjects are discussed with respect for victims and survivors. Anyone accused of wrongdoing is presumed innocent unless proven guilty through an appropriate legal process.

    A HustleStudios Podcast Network production.
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    1 hr and 12 min
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