The Glasgow Herald ran this story on Nov 25th 1989, in the midst of the Gordon Johnston murder trial, where Ryan Monks and Paul Mill stood accused. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19891125&id=2DNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UFkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4317%2C2186038 News report mid-trial during the Gow gun shop murder. http://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=2507&dat=19891125&id=2DNAAAAAIBAJ&sjid=UFkMAAAAIBAJ&pg=4317%2C2186038
You probably know there are other towns called Dundee out there in the world, but do you know how many? The “City of Discovery” lives up to its nick-name with towns called Dundee in Australia (New South Wales), Canada (New Brunswick), South Africa (Natal), and USA (Florida, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, New […]
273 people were publicly hanged in Scotland between 1800 and 1868. Of these 273, 14 were women. Few of them actually took place in Dundee, with only six recorded hangings, five of them public, the final one private. The last man to be hung in Dundee, William Bury, was the infamous murderer who was suspected […]
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 […]
How many of you know the words to “The Beefcan Close”? You dinnae ken the Beefcan Close? Surely not? Well, here you go. This old song from Dundee, ‘The Beefcan Close’ is here brilliantly sung by a completely authentic Dundee voice, that of Annie Watkins on this occasion discretely accompanied by the Foundry Bar Band. […]
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 […]
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?
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 […]
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? *** ***
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: *** ***