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Scotland’s biggest city holds some of the country’s darkest secrets. On this walking tour of Glasgow, you’ll discover some of the most shocking and frightening tales from the ‘Dear Green Place’ and its history, with a local guide and comedian in your ear. The tour starts in George Square, home of the Glasgow City Chambers, and ends at Scotia Bar. Along the way, you’ll hear about gruesome grave-robberies, horrifying haunted hotels, and what awaits murderers AFTER the gallows... Along the way you’ll also: • Listen in on the details of a shocking University of Strathclyde experiment that may have inspired one of the most famous horror stories in literature, Frankenstein • Gaze at beautiful murals on High Street that have a much darker origin than the gentle images portray • Marvel at the beautiful Victorian architecture of buildings like the Royal Infirmary Hospital, where many of the patients didn’t leave even after their time was up • Pass through the veil separating the living world from the next as you discover the city’s own City of the Dead at Glasgow Necropolis and Glasgow Cathedral burial ground • See the stunning Cathedral House Hotel, the most haunted hotel in Scotland, where some guests check in, but they don’t check out • Discover how the children of Glasgow deal with rumours of a killer vampire, and what exactly they plan to do to stop him • See famous Glasgow sights, like Provand’s Lordship (a medieval house and museum considered to be the oldest house in Glasgow), the spectacularly haunted Tron Theatre, and the Tolbooth Steeple, where some of Glasgow’s worst criminals met their fate at the end of a short rope By the end of this hour-long tour, you’ll know what dark and mysterious secrets lie beneath the face of the UK’s Friendliest City.
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