Eerie Edinburgh

The Night Shift: True Hauntings from Scotland’s Hospitals and Care Homes

Hospitals are built around routine, vigilance, and care. By day they are busy, practical places filled with staff, patients, and visitors moving constantly through corridors and wards.
But the atmosphere can change after midnight.
Lights are dimmed. Visiting hours end. Activity narrows to smaller teams carrying out the steady work of monitoring, observation, and care through the night.
It’s during those hours that many of the strangest experiences reported by medical staff seem to occur.
In this episode, I share a series of first-hand accounts from people who have worked night shifts in hospitals and care settings across Scotland. These are not hollywood ghost stories, but brief encounters that happened during otherwise ordinary shifts, incidents that stayed with the people who experienced them long after the night ended.
These accounts come from environments defined by pressure, exhaustion, vigilance, and proximity to death. Whether they are the result of stress, suggestion, shared culture, or something more difficult to explain remains open to interpretation.
But across different hospitals and across generations of staff, similar stories continue to come to light.
Share your experience!
I’m currently researching a book focused on unexplained experiences reported in hospitals, care homes, and other care settings across Scotland and the wider UK.
If you’re a current or former member of staff or if you’ve had an experience as a patient or relative that stayed with you, I’d genuinely like to hear from you.
email me at: contact@eerieedinburgh.com 
All correspondence will be treated with discretion and respect.

The Law & the Supernatural: When Ghost Stories Enter the Record

In this episode, we look at the 1897 Greenbrier Ghost case - the only known instance where a mother’s account of her daughter’s haunting helped reopen a murder investigation - and the 1925 Chaffin Will incident, where a family dispute took an unexpected turn after a son claimed his late father had returned with instructions.
These aren’t the usual stories about figures in corridors or unexplained noises. They’re cases where something people couldn’t easily explain ended up shaping real decisions - the sort that left traces in court papers and official records that still exist today.
We’ll look at what actually happened in both cases, why they were taken seriously at the time, and how belief, memory, and determination shaped the outcomes far more than spectacle or superstition.
If you enjoy episodes that balance folklore with documented history, this one’s for you.

The Last Testament of Ballechin : An Eerie Edinburgh Original story

This episode is an original fictional ghost story written for Icy Sedgwick’s Christmas podcast.
You can find Icy Sedgwick’s podcast, Fabulous Folklore with Icy Sedgwick, here:
https://www.icysedgwick.com
https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/fabulous-folklore-with-icy/id1450546036 
https://open.spotify.com/show/3ayMEjrJuqkkSwk4pQF3aQ?si=2dd0f22c01724b5d 
If you enjoyed this original story, you can find more real ghost stories, folklore, and historical hauntings here on Eerie Edinburgh.

Grange House: A Forgotten Edinburgh Haunting

Hidden in what is now one of Edinburgh’s most genteel neighbourhoods once stood a house that few people today remember - and fewer still ever saw.
Grange House was demolished in 1936, but long before that it had acquired a reputation that set it apart from other old Edinburgh estates. Built on the site of a medieval monastic grange, expanded over centuries, and eventually used as both a private home and a school for young women, the house sat quietly on the edge of the city while stories slowly gathered around it.
In this episode, I look at the history of the Grange, the house itself, and the events that made it one of Edinburgh’s most overlooked hauntings.
Also, I am working on a project about experiences in healthcare in Scotland. If you have a true, first-hand account of a haunting in a hospital or care home anywhere in Scotland, I’d really like to hear from you. You can get in touch at contact@eerieedinburgh.com

The White Lady of Comiston: A Haunting in Edinburgh

On the southern edge of Edinburgh, Comiston looks like any other quiet residential suburb. But beneath its pavements, paths, and housing estates lies a much older story - one filled with prehistoric burial sites, lost landscapes, folklore, and a figure that has been reported for over a century.
The White Lady of Comiston is a woman in pale clothing, seen along the same route, across different generations.
From Robert Louis Stevenson’s 19th-century account, to the school sighting in 1965, and later reports in the 1980s, the White Lady of Comiston has appeared across generations along the same route.
Listen to learn her story.

Borgvattnet Vicarage: Sweden’s Most Haunted House

Tucked away in a remote village in Jämtland, Borgvattnet Vicarage has been linked to unexplained activity for nearly a century. From ghostly figures and sudden chills to diary entries from clergy who lived there and couldn’t explain what they saw.
In this episode, I explore the history behind one of Sweden’s most well known hauntings.
From phantom footsteps to attacks on Priests, in this episode you'll find out why this was once described as the "Most Haunted House in Sweden"
Also, apologies in advance for the pronunciation of Swedish names - I tried!

A Christmas Ghost Story: Omens at Midwinter

Not all Christmas ghost stories have frightening apparitions or ghostly chaints rattling.
Sometimes these stories begin with something simpler — a sound beneath a room, figures moving across a field, or a moment that only makes sense later on.
In this Christmas episode, I explore two Scottish Midwinter hauntings recorded in the nineteenth century, both linked to Christmas and both rooted in firsthand experience rather than folklore built up over time.
The first takes place at the historic Cortachy Castle, where guests and travellers reported hearing unexplained drumming during the Christmas period - a sound the Airlie family believed appeared only when a death in the family was approaching.
The second comes from the Highlands, where villagers spoke of figures seen playing games in the snow near a parish church on Christmas Day, returning year after year as part of a story tied to a specific place and a long-remembered transgression.
Thank you for spending part of your Christmas here, and for supporting the channel throughout the year.
Lang may yer lum reek.

Haunted Dolls: The Strange Case of Peggy

Peggy the Doll isn’t an old legend pulled from folklore, or a relic tied to some distant tragedy.
She’s a modern case - one that unfolded in real time, among investigators, witnesses, and viewers who found themselves reacting in ways they couldn’t easily explain.
First brought to wider attention in 2015, Peggy became associated with reports of physical and emotional reactions - headaches, nausea, anxiety, and a deep sense of unease - sometimes experienced simply by seeing her, even through a screen. At the centre of the case was paranormal investigator Jayne Harris, known for her careful, methodical approach to unusual claims.
In this episode, we explore Peggy’s story from the beginning - her unusual origin in a garden shed in Sheffield, the investigation that followed, and why this case continues to sit in that uneasy space between psychology and the unexplained. Rather than chasing easy answers, this is a look at patterns, witness testimony, and the limits of what we can confidently explain.
Peggy’s story is featured in A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls by Fiona Dodwell - a thoughtful, well-researched book that examines haunted doll cases with care and balance. Fiona kindly allowed me to feature Peggy’s account in this episode.
📘 A Cursed Collection of Haunted Dolls – Fiona DodwellAvailable now from all major booksellers, including here:https://amzn.eu/d/8VyEArF

The haunting of Lochmaben: Does a Vampire stalk the Bruce’s Castle?

Lochmaben Castle is one of Scotland’s most historic strongholds. It's a site tied to the Bruces, medieval warfare, rebellion, and some of the strangest stories to come out of Dumfriesshire.
In this episode, we explore the history of the castle before looking at the modern accounts that have made Lochmaben one of the area’s most talked-about haunted locations.
From the 12th-century tale of a medieval revenant, to legends of a phantom drummer boy, a ghostly horseman patrolling the loch’s edge, and the chilling modern encounter reported by investigator Tom Robertson in 1991, the site has gathered stories across centuries.
This episode takes a closer look at where those stories come from – and what might be behind them.

Haunted Ireland: The Kennedy Family's Haunted Irish Hideaway

Tonight’s story comes from my new book Hidden Haunts: Ireland - a collection of lesser-known ghost stories, local legends, and accounts that have rarely, if ever, been written down.
This episode takes us to Woodstown House in County Waterford, a place better known for its famous guests than its ghosts. But behind the grand rooms and local reputation lies something far stranger - a series of experiences shared by several people who lived and worked there.
You’ll hear Chrissie’s account of strange activity in the kitchen, the sense of being watched in the annex apartment, and the night she woke to a cold presence in her room. You’ll hear what the gardener told her on her last day, and the disturbing experiences he had in the very same rooms. And you’ll meet Catherine, whose encounters along the driveway and inside the house suggest that whatever lingers there is far older than any modern history.
These are stories rarely spoken aloud - the kind that drift quietly through a community until they’re finally written down.
If you’d like to read the full chapter, along with many more Irish hauntings that have never appeared in guidebooks or popular folklore,
 
Hidden Haunts: Ireland is available now on Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/cjxWLFz
Thank you, as always, for watching, supporting the channel, and keeping these overlooked stories alive.