The Black Dinner: Inspiration for Game of Throne’s Red Wedding
The Black Dinner and the Massacre at Glencoe are dark shadows in Scottish History. It was infamy...
Read MoreNov 24, 2021 | Betrayals and Treachery, Dark History, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Edward I King of England, Robert the Bruce, Stirling Castle
The Black Dinner and the Massacre at Glencoe are dark shadows in Scottish History. It was infamy...
Read MoreOct 30, 2021 | Betrayals and Treachery, Covenanters, Edinburgh, Edinburgh Castle, Edward I King of England, Ghost and Spirits, Haunted Castle, Iron Age, Nine Maidens, Robert the Bruce, Scottish Wars of Independence, Witch Hunts and Trials, Witches
Edinburgh Castle looms over Scotland’s capital city, its outer walls seeming to merge with the...
Read MoreFeb 7, 2021 | Betrayals and Treachery, Dark History, Edinburgh, Execution, Ghost and Spirits, Haunted, Haunted Castle, Mary Queen of Scots, Stirling, Uncategorized
Mary Queen of Scots took her first tentative steps down the stairway as the sun rose over...
Read MoreJan 12, 2021 | Dark History, Edinburgh, James VI King of Scots, John Knox, Mary Queen of Scots, Protestant Reformation, Witch Hunts and Trials, Witches
The events which led to the North Berwick Witch Trials began, not in Scotland, but at the other...
Read MoreMar 11, 2019 | Betrayals and Treachery, Dark History, Edinburgh, Haunted, Haunted Castle, Mary Queen of Scots
As evening descended on Holyrood Palace, 9th Match 1566, a band of assassins burst into the...
Read MoreNov 9, 2018 | Bannockburn, Dark History, Declaration of Arbroath, Edinburgh, Edward I King of England, Knights Templar, Myths and Legends, Robert the Bruce, Scottish Wars of Independence, Stirling, William Wallace
Robert I, King of Scots is better known by his title Robert the Bruce. This was the man who was to...
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