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Stories Edinburgh Podcast

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  • The Fiddler of Stockbridge Market

    October 19, 2026 · 3 hr 32 min

    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…

  • The Long Night of Holyrood Park

    October 18, 2026 · 4 hr 32 min

    Holyrood Park after dark: Arthur's Seat against the stars, palace shadows on the loch, and one long walk through four hundred years of Edinburgh night. A four-and-a-half-hour story in one hundred forty-four small movements. Best heard…

  • The Bookseller of Victoria Street

    October 17, 2026 · 2 hr 35 min

    Step in out of the night air. Tonight we browse where Victoria Street bends like a bow, among shelves that have outlived their makers — four floors of books in a building meant for two, a bargain cart chained outside in all weathers, and a…

  • Winter Light on Calton Hill

    October 14, 2026 · 2 hr 3 min

    Above Edinburgh's east end rises a hill of monuments, unfinished temples, buried radicals, and the best winter light in Scotland. Climb Calton Hill with us from the three o'clock gloom to the blue hour — past the time ball, the observatory…

  • The Baker of the Grassmarket

    October 14, 2026 · 1 hr 41 min

    Before dawn, while Edinburgh sleeps, the Grassmarket baker fires his ovens and the old square wakes trade by trade. From gallows shadow to festival August, from drovers' roads to the one o'clock gun, this is a fireside walk through the…

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  • The Lanterns of Mary Kings Close

    October 13, 2026 · 1 hr 10 min

    Beneath Edinburgh's Royal Mile lies a frozen street — Mary Kings Close, sealed under the City Chambers, where plague-year doors still stand locked and a small shoe waits in the dust. Descend the steps with lantern light: the merchant…

  • The Resurrection Men of Surgeons Square

    October 11, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    In the winter of 1828, Edinburgh learned what its hunger for knowledge had purchased. Two Irish lodgers, an ambitious anatomist who asked no questions, sixteen victims, and a scandal that changed the law of the land. The full fireside tale…

  • The Street Beneath the Street

    October 8, 2026 · 2 hr 0 min

    The Street Beneath the Street — Mary King's Close. Sealed for centuries beneath Edinburgh's Royal Mile, Mary King's Close kept its plague dead, its myths, and its stones. This week we descend: the close, the plague year of sixteen…

  • Beneath the South Bridge

    October 7, 2026 · 3 hr 10 min

    Every day thousands of feet cross Edinburgh's South Bridge. Almost none of them know what lies underneath. In seventeen eighty-eight the city raised a bridge over the Cowgate ravine — and sealed a warren of vaults beneath its arches. This…

  • The Lake Beneath the Gardens

    October 4, 2026 · 1 hr 12 min

    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…

  • A Quiet Morning at Dean Village

    October 3, 2026 · 1 hr 21 min

    Good morning from the Water of Leith. Today we leave the ridge and the crowds behind and walk down into Dean Village, the old milling hamlet hidden inside the city: the stair down to the water, the wheel that ground for centuries, the…

  • The Vaults Beneath South Bridge

    October 2, 2026 · 1 hr 6 min

    Beneath one of the grandest streets in Edinburgh lies a second city that was never meant to exist. When the South Bridge rose across the Cowgate in the late seventeen hundreds, its great arches created hollow chambers of stone — and a…

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About the show

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. Become a supporter of this podcast: https://www.spreaker.com/podcast/stories-edinburgh-podcast--7254529/support.