Guest writer KATRINA SAUNDERSON dusts off an old copy of Ronald Holmes’s book: The Legend of Sawney Bean and is horrified what she discovered – Sawney Bean may never have existed!
Raise a glass to Tam o’Shanter
TODAY is Robbie Burn’s Birthday and we take a look at the Scottish bard’s spookiest poem, the epic Tam o’Shanter!
Girvan Old Street Burial Ground
ARE the ghosts of your ancestors spookier than those of strangers?
Sawney Bean – fact or fiction?
SAWNEY Bean the infamous Scottish cannibal lived in a cave just outside the South Ayrshire village of Girvan where my Mum was born. His gruesome murder and robbery happened mere miles from the area my family has lived for centuries.