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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic podcast on the Celtic culture channel. Great Celtic music, rich history, and important culture all wrapped up in a 30-45 minute podcast. - St. Patrick's day podcast

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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Dark Celtic history - The Moddey Dhoo by Jeff McDonald In the days when Charles II was King in England, and Charles, Earl of Derby, was King in Mann. Peel Castle stands tall on the Isle of Man, it was originally constructed by Vikings and The castle stands on St Patrick's Isle which is connected to the town by a causeway, it was always garrisoned by soldiers during this time. The guardroom was just inside the great entrance of the castle and a passage used to lead from it, through one of the old churches, to the Captain of the Guard's Room. At the end of the day, one of the soldiers would lock the castle gates and carry the key through the dark passage to the Captain. The soldiers used to take turns to do this. About this time a big black dog with rough curly hair was seen, sometimes in one room, next time in a different room. He did not belong to anyone there and apparently, no one knew anything about him. But every night, when the candles were lighted in the guard room and the fire was burning bright, he would come down the dark passage and lay himself down by the hearth. He made no sound but lay there until the break of day when he would then get up and disappear into the passage. The soldiers were at first terrified of him but after some time they were used to the sight of him and lost some of their fear, though they still looked upon him as something more than mortal. Whilst he was in the room the men were quiet and sober, and no bad words were spoken. When the hour came to carry the key to the Captain, two of them would always go together - no man would face the dark passage alone.

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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Dark Celtic history - House of the Binns Was once home to ‘Bluidy Tam’ and, given his track record, it’s no surprise that there have been strange happenings reported since his death in 1685. Sir Tam Dalyell was personally responsible for the death, torture and deportation of thousands of Covenanters and was said to have played cards with the devil. His boots have been heard marching through the corridors at night and he’s also been seen galloping across the grounds on a white stallion.

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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Dark Celtic history - The White Hart Inn If you’re feeling playful, you might say that there’s no better place for a Scottish spirit than a pub. Maybe that’s why so many Scottish pubs have ghosts of their own. One of the most famous haunted public houses is the White Hart Inn. With its cellars that date back to 1516, it is one of the oldest pubs in Edinburgh. It’s also said to be one of the most haunted. According to legend, the White Hart Inn has seen many different murders and tragedies. Over the centuries, the place has accumulated so much spectral energy that many visitors have reported invisible hands pulling their hair or throwing things at them. The ghosts aren’t fans of modern technology, either, as they occasionally pull cables out of the wall, once just as a favorite football team was about to score. You don't want to mess with a Scot and his football... In 2013, a tourist couple supposedly managed to photograph one of the White Hart Inn’s ghosts. Although the bar manager doesn’t believe in the hauntings himself, even he admitted that the picture was very hard to explain. He also admits that many members of the staff have had odd encounters, and their cleaner has actually threatened to quit if he encounters any more unexplained phenomena. In 2014, Scottish Ghost Adventures set up some equipment in the oldest part of White Hart Inn. They managed to capture mysterious voices saying “Help me” and “Connor.”

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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Dark Celtic history - The Plague Phantoms Of Mary King’s Close Wherever people die in large numbers, you’re bound to find a ghost story or two. Mary King’s Close in Edinburgh is no exception. The partially walled-up, claustrophobic alley area below the City Chambers used to be a place where the city’s poor lived and, when the bubonic plague arrived in the 17th century, died. As the city grew, the upper levels of the Close were eventually demolished, leaving only the creepy, narrow basement levels that you can still visit today. As a frightening, claustrophobic place where people died en masse, the Close has long enjoyed a reputation as a site haunted by the plague victims. The most famous ghost here is a young girl known as “Annie.” In 1992, Annie thoroughly scared a Japanese psychic taking a guided tour: The Japanese psychic had been unimpressed by Edinburgh's Mary King’s Close until she stepped in a particularly dank eerie room. She was immediately overwhelmed by feelings of cold, hunger, and sickness, and then when she tried to stumble away from the room, a small, ghostly hand tried to grab her leg, causinig her to stumble and fall to the ground. Then an invisible hand held her there, unable to move for a few moments until she was helped up and got as far away from that place as possible. Edinburgh history of the Mary King’s Close is as ruthless as you would believe. There are many stories that the plague-stricken poor tenants were walled up in their buildings and left to die, but for the most part plague carriers were actually moved to a quarantine zone outside the city walls, and the dead were properly disposed of by gravediggers. It’s still a fairly tragic fate, though.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic Badass - In September of 1780, a super hardcore Scottish officer named Patrick Ferguson put together an angry mob of pissed-off American loyalists, rampaged across the countryside in a swatch of flaming destruction, and then very publicly informed the colonists of the Southern colonies that if they dared to resist the might of the British Crown, he would "march his army over the mountains, hang their leaders, and lay their country waste with fire and sword." The colonists responded with one of the most bizarre, mysterious, and badass military actions ever taken in the history of warfare – by organizing into the world's most heavily-armed Neighborhood Watch out of pissed-off bear-hunting frontiersmen, marching across the Appalachians, destroying Ferguson and his entire force in a single battle, and then marching back across the mountains and vanishing, never to be heard from again. Though the details are a little better now than they were at the time, to this day we still don’t really know who most of these guys were, how many of them were present at the battle, or what happened to them after the fighting ended. And because none of the soldiers involved in this conflict belonged to any organized army, combat regiment, or militia, we know them today only as The Overmountain Men. And their story is just as weird as you might imagine.

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Ye Olde Scot the Celtic culture channel - Glencoe remembrance Glencoe was the scene of one of the most infamous massacres in Scottish history, almost 328 years ago. On 13 February 1692, the Clan MacDonald of Glencoe were slaughtered while they slept by Captain Robert Campbell and his men. The day is imprinted in Scottish history, not only because of the number of people who lost their lives but because the men had enjoyed their victim’s hospitality in the days leading up to the massacre. Glencoe had been home to the MacDonald clan (or MacIains as they were more specifically known) since the early 14th century when they had supported King Robert the Bruce. the Massacre can only be understood within the mind of the Highlander and their deep-seated resistance to an alien southern government. The Highland people were once the majority of Scotland’s population, a warrior society that had largely helped to establish and maintain their own clan monarchies. This society, tribal and feudal, could not change itself to meet a changing world, nor did it wish to, and that would eventually lead to its demise. Highlanders were regarded by Lowlanders as an obstacle in the way of the complete political union between England and Scotland. Many believed that their independence of spirit had to be broken, in order for a union, and therefore prosperity to come to fruition Most importantly, Clan MacDonald was not in agreement with Clan Campbell and clashed frequently over their growing support of the government. The MacDonalds of Glencoe were victims of what Highlanders called Mi-run mor nan Gall, the Lowlander's great hatred. The two clans previously had troubling encounters as the MacDonalds were routinely involved in trouble with the law and neighboring clans - mostly the Campbells who sided and sought the favor of the English government. At the time, many Highland clans were large and powerful enough to pose a possible threat to the new regime in London under King William of Orange.

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Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Dark Celtic history - On the Scottish borders are two evil types of fairies who are linked by a curse and doomed to haunt battlefields and ruined castles. One is born from the other to become something greater, and therefore command the lesser of the two. The first is a Red Cap, and it looks like a malevolent murderous dwarf or goblin but is really a fairy found in the Folklore of the Scottish borders. They are said to inhabit ruined castles found along the border between England and Scotland. In the past with wars and battles ever-looming, they had plenty of unattached people they could kill, These days unattached people are hard to come by, Redcaps were forced, in order to survive, to murder travelers who stray into their ruined castles. Their curse causes them to dye their hats with their victims' blood, Redcaps must kill regularly, for if the blood staining their hats dries out, they die. With killings rare, Redcaps will keep their victims hidden on the brink of death, as a source of blood for their hats. Redcaps are very fast in spite of the heavy iron pikes they wield, and outrunning a redcap is supposedly impossible.

Ye Olde Scot - the Celtic culture channel. Celtic badass - Big Mary of the songs What a badass name, The Skye Gaelic bard and Highland Land League hero, Mairi Mhor Nan Oran. Mairi Mhor Nan Oran was many things; a nurse and midwife, a prisoner, and most notably a Gaelic poet and songstress, but in all of them she was a badass. It was through her work as a Gaelic poet and songstress that she earned her hero status, endearing her to the people of the Highlands and Islands. Due to her being a thick chick, she garnered the name Mairi Mhor Nan Oran, meaning Big Mary of the Songs. Mairi Mhor was born in Skeabost, on the Isle of Skye in 1821. She was born Mary MacDonald, into a crofting family. Her early life was characterized by the rural and domestic arts typical of her gender and social class, crofting work, waulking wool, making clothes, etc, you know women's work. In her 27th year, she moved to Inverness and married a shoemaker by the name of Isaac MacPherson. They lived happily until around the age of 50 in 1872, Mairi Mhor, whilst engaged in domestic work, was imprisoned for stealing clothes from her mistress. The charge was widely considered to have been trumped up and unjust because even in her domestic capacities she was a vocal critic of the politics of the day.

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