This montage put a huge smile on our faces as we sang along. We dare you not to! A collection of Dundee Children’s Street Songs recorded by The Lowland Folk Four, a well-known Dundee folk song group from the sixties, with appearances on Hootnanny, White Heather Club and My Kinda Folk with the legendary Alex […]
DD Tours
DD Tours is run by Stewart and Louise, 2 local tour guides who love sharing the stories of Dundee's history on our walking tours.
Halloween Hauntings Videos, part 7
Well today is Halloween! The day when we celebrate everything spooky. One of our favourite Halloween activities used to be watching the live investigations on Most Haunted, joining in watching out for ‘orbs’ on the web cams. Does anyone remember the time the Most Haunted crew came to Dundee to investage the Unicorn and the […]
Halloween Hauntings Videos, part 6
Here are some stories of ghosts and hauntings of Glamis Castle, some of the most famous local castle ghost stories. Do you have any scary stories from any of Dundee’s castles?
Real-life tales of the unexpected
 Welcome to our section on real-life tales of the unexpected, where things go bump in the night, and all sorts of creepy and weird things come crawling out from the darkness.  Here, we have taken a selection of stories as given to us by our fans, based on their own personal experiences of the […]
Dundee Poorhouses
In the mid-19th Century, help and support for the poor people of Scotland was, by today’s standards, pretty horrendous. The people demanded a change in the current law (the Poor Law of Scotland), and it was amended in August 1845 in an attempt to abolish the suffering caused by such a lack of care. Prior […]
On this day, 1977 – Chief Constable of Tayside held at gunpoint
Today in 1977 was a far more dramatic crime day, when the Chief Constable of Tayside was held at gunpoint! Read this story from The Glasgow Herald: *** ***
Halloween Hauntings Videos, part 5
The same group of explorers as yesterday’s video also performed an investigation in the Kloset pub in Dundee. Check out their experiences below – what do you think, were there any spirits present? *** ***
Halloween Hauntings Videos, part 4
Today’s Halloween Hauntings Video is another group of intrepid explorers investigating paranomal phenomena in the abandoned Strathmartine Hospital, which for many years was a children’s asylum. *** ***
Unusual deaths
An unusual story in Dundee’s papers about a woman who died on 27th October 1912, warning readers not to fall foul of the same fate – and to watch out for false teeth! Full story below: Warning from a Tragedy A Lochee woman met her death under tragic circumstance on Tuesday, expiring after swallowing her […]
Halloween Hauntings Videos, part 3
Today’s Halloween Hauntings video is of some EVP (electronic voice phenomenon) recordings at Balgay Cemetary. What do you think, can you hear any voices? *** ***