The Guide to Mysterious Glasgow

The Guide to Mysterious Glasgow surveys the city’s legends, reported hauntings, relics and darker historical curiosities in a street-by-street format. Geoff Holder covers gargoyles, hidden archaeological features, Glasgow Cathedral, the Necropolis and museums, while tracing stories associated with St Mungo, Merlin, werewolves and the Glasgow Underground.

Its subjects range from the reported re-animation of a corpse in 1818 to the ‘man monkeys’ and leprechauns displayed at the Britannia Music Hall. Other chapters and entries consider witchcraft, curses, UFO reports, big-cat sightings, vampires, murderers and bodysnatchers. More than 100 photographs accompany this collection of accounts, traditions and locations connected with Glasgow’s stranger past.