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December 28, 2022 31 mins
David is back from a vacation in the U.K. and brings some experience of a gothic Glasgow nature. Vincent, creator of the Gothic Glasgow walking tour, joins the show to discuss his tour and stories from the Scottish city. The largest city in Scotland, Glasgow has seen a copious amount of history. Vincent has researched the dark and creepy parts of the city center and presents his knowledge to groups all year round. He joins to talk about how he put his tour together, stories he included and didn't include, and more. If you're in Glasgow anytime soon, be sure to check out his tour after checking out this episode of Blurry Photos! Don't forget to watch me stream games on Twitch! Book a tour at Gothic Glasgow!  
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(00:14):
Hey, everyone, Welcome to BlurryPhotos. I'm your host, David Flora.
Hey, Hello, happy end ofthe year. It is the end
of twenty twenty two, and I'vegot a pretty fun episode here for you.
Annie and I are fresh off ofa trip to the UK in which
we did a ton of fun stuff. Apologies to UK listeners for not making

(00:39):
a big deal out of this.We wanted to kind of keep it a
little more low key and touristy andjust kind of relax and get away from
stuff for a bit, although itdidn't stop me completely from looking up some
spooky stuff. I actually went upto Loch Ness did a tour on the
lock. Didn't see any thing,but we stayed at this little b and

(01:02):
b that was right on the lakeand was just about i'd say a half
mile maybe a quarter mile from AlistairCrowley's Bullsking House, which was pretty amazing.
Now they do tours of this place, but they weren't doing tours when
I was there. Unfortunately, theyhad it all locked up and gated because

(01:25):
I believe they're doing renovations on it, and it kind of sits up on
the bank away from the road,and we tried to get a picture,
but it was pretty hard to seeand the gate went right down to the
road, so it's I was hopingI would get to drive up there by
it at least, but that wasa no go, but pretty cool.
I was also in Nottingham and wasall psyched because I was going to go

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to this Robin Hood museum, andof course the day that we were staying
in Nottingham, it was one ofthe days that this museum was closed.
That that happened a few times onthe trip. Went to Whitby Abbey,
which was the inspiration for bram Stoker'sDracula when he wants to buy Carfax Abbey,

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and Whitby was also the place wherethe Demeter, the ship that brought
Dracula over to England. That's wherethey put in or that's that's where the
ship washed up with the crew deador gone. So that was fun.
They embraced the Dracula stuff there.They have a lot of souvenirs that are

(02:34):
Dracula based, things like that.It's very cool. Now there was a
Dracula museum slash curiosity shop or somethingthere that said it was open, and
it sure was not. So Igot a picture being very grumpy. Outside
of that, all these all theseplaces I was looking forward to killing.
I wanted to learn more about Draculaand Robin hood thanks a lot, but

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that one they only spoke adjacent thingsthat we did while we were there.
We actually did a walking tour inGlasgow called Gothic Glasgow, which focused on
the spooky history, weird and maccab'sstuff that goes on and has gone on
in the city. And it wasled by fella named Vincent, who was

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very fun to talk to, veryknowledgeable about the stuff. And I asked
him if he would like to comeon the show and tell you guys a
little bit about the weird and wildthings that have gone on in Glasgow over
the years. So that's who we'retalking to today. Here's my interview with
Vincent from Gothic Glasgow Walking Tour.I am here with Vincent, the creator

(03:47):
and guide of the Gothic Glasgow WalkingTour. Vincent, how are you welcome
to the show? Thank you,David, thanks for having me so.
Annie and I took this tour backwhen we were in our whirlwind tour of
the UK. Has Glasgow warmed upany you guys were at the tail end
of a cold snap there. It'snot too bad, David. It's actually

(04:10):
Christmas wasn't too cold. It's cold, but not nothing as bad as the
week when you were here. Itgot down to about minus eight. So
it's it's pretty It's nothing like thatsince. Oh my gosh, yeah it
was. It was a chilly onefor us for sure. Wet, very
wet there in Glasgow. You guysget that dampness a lot. That's the

(04:30):
climate, although we had a verynice summer in fairness, we had a
bit of a heat blade in thesummer. But yeah, yeah, it's
Glasgow is famous for its cold weatherand it's wet weather. You know.
It's a bit like Ireland in thatrespect. They both have kind of similar
climates, you know. Yeah,yeah, that's true. And speaking of
Ireland, why don't you tell ourlisteners a little bit about yourself and how
you came to be in Glasgow.Okay, Well, my name is Vincent.

(04:55):
I've had a lifelong passion and interestingin the maccarb horror movies, ghost
stories, mysteries. I thought,it's been a lifelong interest for me,
so um, like yourself, I'veacted over the years in theater and on
TV and stuff in Ireland. ButI used to work on a number of

(05:15):
spooky tours in Dublin in Ireland beforehe moved to Glasgow. So obviously lockdown
happened, and you know, thetourism industry in the UK and Ireland just
disappeared overnight. Basically. I'm sureit's the same where you are as well,
just light overnight, literally for twoyears. So I wanted to change.
I've been to Glasgow in Scotland manytimes to visit friends. I always

(05:38):
liked the city but never considered livinghere. But I looked into it and
I looked into the history of thecity, thinking okay, well there is
there a spooky tour in Glasgow atthe moment, and when I researched there
wasn't. So okay that that thatpiqued my interest because I thought, okay,
well there's there's an opening, there'sa niche that I can feel.

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So the next thing was then tofind out was the history and the ghostly
history of Glasgow good enough to sustaina two hour tour. So it began
researching online and researching the library aboutGlasgow and its history, and I just
found the most incredible stuff I thinkI told you when you're on my tour,
I could. I could. Icould literally do a four hour tour
every night with the stuff that Idiscovered. But people in watching a four

(06:24):
hour tour, and I'm also interestedin doing a four hour tour, so
you'd have to you'd have to sellit as a calisthenics and ghost tour.
I think, absolutely, just it'sjust too much. But I mean,
but the point is, though,the information that I discovered about Glasgow was
just incredible. Just for those peoplewho were listening and don't know. Glasgow
is Scotland's largest city. It's gota population of over six hundred, six

(06:46):
hundred thousand people. That was intwenty twenty. Yet though Edinburgh is the
capital of Scotland, but Glasgow isactually a larger city and it's a very
prosperous city. Back in the eighteenhundreds it was a It was known as
the second city of the British Empire, with the built on the shipyards.
Basically Glasgow like a bit like Belfast. Glasgow was built on shipyards and during
its peaked would have been sixty twoshipyards and the River Clyde. So it

(07:10):
was a really big industry and avery prosperous city back in eighteen hundreds.
But the shipyards are more or lesslong gone. I think I think there
were two surviving shipyards. But basically, David, yeah, I mean,
Scotland has a grave people. Mostpeople may know about Edinburgh, but Glasgow
is a little hidden treasure. That'swhy I discovered. You know, Edinburgh's

(07:30):
where people go, it's the moreit's the more touristy city of the two
cities. But there's so much todiscover and enjoying Glasgow for sure. So
basically I spent yeah, I spentthe bones of a year researching spooky stories,
dark history. I've a huge passionfor Gothic literature, so try to
again to try to find connections withthe great books like Dracula and Frankenstein and

(07:57):
Jacklin Height. Try to find storiesconnection with those and so I found some
very strong connections associated with Dracula,which which please be very much you may
recall we begin to our show.The show begins outside a place called the
King's Theater, and the great betterthe go see who I'm sure your listens
well know who he is. Ohyeah, the first Hollywood Dracula nineteen thirty

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one Hungarian actor, but he performedDracula on stage in this venue in nineteen
fifty one. Yeah, So whenit discovered that, I was absolutely delighted
because I'm a big Dracula fanatic,so to find the go see actually performed
the play on stage in Glasgow CityCenter. That was very pleasing to discover
that. Yeah, that's that's hittinggold right away, absolutely, especially for

(08:39):
anyone who likes to mccarb or Draculafans. You know, I think you
may remember David So that Dracula isofficially the most filmed fictional character of all
time. You know. Just that'samazing, isn't it? Just no Lean
feat really, you know, Andand that's in a pretty short amount of
time, you know. You you'dthink it could go back to Robin Hood,
who's been around since the eleven hundredsor whatever, you know, or
even further back. But knows it'sour boy's Dracula. But again, of

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course there's there's a question mark whetherRobin Hood actually existed or not, you
know, and there's zero whether Draculaexists. He was definitely you're pretty sure
the Vampire Dractor didn't exist. Butof course Vladdan Paler, whose team true
heavily influenced the legend. He ofcourse it was a real person, but
of course he wasn't a vampire thatwe know. They did like to impale
victims, victims on wooden spikes andthat type of thing. Yeah, I

(09:26):
was going to say, this ish This wasn't an idea out of the
blue for you, because you hadactually run a very popular tour in Dublin
called the Dublin Ghostbust Tour. Isthat right? I worked on that day
and other spooky tours as well.Used to work on a tour called the
Walk Acarb which is around George andDublin. It's long gone. Yeah,
I worked in the Ghostbust for anumber of years. Yeah, so it

(09:50):
was. It was a good fitup until the pandemic when it just as
I say, finished over night.Basically. Yeah, I always in the
back of my mind had had theidea of having my own tour at some
point. You know, that wasn'tmy own tour, I see, I
see. So this, this tourGothic Glasgow is my own creation, and
I'm very pleased. I started atour in May this year, and you
no idea how these things are goingto go. You know yourself working in

(10:13):
theater over the years, you knowsomething something can diet death. Yep.
Absolutely. Podcasts are the same way. Thankfully, the tour is taken off
and people are reacting very well toit. It's getting great reviews on Triple
viys, are getting good word ofthe mouth. That's great. Something very
please know how it's gone this year, you know, yeah, absolutely well
deserved too. So you started researchingthis stuff, you said you went to

(10:35):
some libraries. What else did youdo to get the information for this stuff?
Was? Was it limited to thator did you speak to anybody in
particular or how how did you goabout more of the research mixture? It
make sure of being going to thelibrary and basically online, you know,
looking for stuff online is always isalways very helpful. Then of course having
to verify that these facts are correct, that's you know, Wikipedia is great.

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It just had to back up,back up these articles with facts,
you know, right right, Sothat was that was quite long. But
you know, to me, thewhole thing wasn't work at all. It's
just I find the whole subject fascinatingand interesting. You know, the mccarb
and spooks, speaky stories, andit's not really worked to me, you
know, It's it's a it's it'sa passion, always has been. I
was always brought up in the nineteenseventies watching Hammer horror movies and Amicus movies.

(11:24):
Yeah, speaking of a lifelong loveof people like Peter Cushing and Christopher
Lee and Vincent Price and see theseguys carl Off. You know, these
guys are my heroes. It's becausethey're great. Yeah. Yeah, they
are the masters of their craft.They were the masters of their craft.
And um so yeah, So amixture of online research and a mixture of

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going to the library. As Isaid, I just had to put down
the great info that I had downto two hours rather than four hours,
you know. Yeah, and thenof course when I got to Glasgow had
to work out the the what's feasibleto actually you know what, what locations
were you feasible to pass by andto stop with people? Yeah? How
did you? How did you workthat out? Did you just walk around

(12:07):
the city for a few weeks andye worked again. Google Maps is very
helpful as well, just to workout where how far each location was from.
So basically I wanted a two hourtour revolving around Glasgow City center without
going too far off the beaten track. And as you saw yourself when you
were here, Glasgow is very hilly. There's many hills in Glasgow, sure
is. So I didn't want toexclude any older clients or any people with

(12:33):
mobility issues. So wants to havea flat tour as such? Yeah,
yeah, smart. So it's beena good month walking around the old fashion
able to note pat in the penand looking up. If you look up
in Glasgow, see the most amazingarchitecture, would you saw you? You
saw that yourself. Yeah, somestunning Victorian and George Georgian buildings, which
which for the most part are protectedby by law, which is great.

(12:54):
You know, they can't actually bedemolished. Now that's that's smart, that's
forward thinking because I mean that's partof going to any city, you know,
being a tourist and seeing something different. Is that old architecture and it's
just so gorgeous and you know there'ssuch a mix there too, Yeah,
the different buildings and things. It'sit's something you don't get much here in
the States, you know, ifyou do, it's it's just a very

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small mix, or maybe you'll getsomething from the Old West and then some
something sixties and something modern. Yeah, it's not as not as cool over
here. Yeah, sure. Whatthe history of your country is much is
much shorter of course, you know, yeah, yeah, yeah. I
mean there's buildings in Ireland and Scotlandwhich is you know, date back to
like in the sixth century. It'sthis type of thing, you know,

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so we're talking a long long wayback in time, right. Well,
as I walked around, they're justamazing. I say, I would recommend
anyone who's coming to Glasgow to lookup. Look up with the buildings,
you'll see the most amazing architecture.I mean. When I was doing my
research with a no pad, itjust I stumbled across. You may remember
I found the house of a writercalled Thomas the Quincy that was basically basically

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there was a plaque on a wallover a fast food restaurant. And great,
when you see a plaque, stopand have a look. I mean,
somebody interesting lived there at some point. Yeah, yeah, very rusty
old plaque, quite hard to readnow, but this anyway, I knew
the name and then I researched himbecause he wrote a very things book called
Confessions of an English Opium Eater,and he was saying he was kind of
one of the first Hunter S.Thompson type. Right. That book,

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as you probably know, it wasactually recognized as the first official drug memoir.
Yeah, that's interesting. So,I mean, these are things if
you just look up, these arethe things I discovered as a water around
the city center, things that youcan't see online. You know, you
have to be physically in a placeto to discover these things, you know.
Right, So with all the researchthat you did and comparing it to
the walking plan that you came upwith, there obviously was some stuff that

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you probably had to cut out then, right, sure that you had found?
Yes, I did did a few. Yeah, that's that's fair.
It's fair to say, yeah,did you consider going up to the Necropolis
at any point? I did,But again, David's way out of the
way, right. But there's alsothere's also there's already a tour, A
couple of tours actually go there already, so oh yeah, yeah, area

(15:07):
is pretty much covered by other tours. Also, there's a street called High
Street which brings you up to theNecropolis. So it's called High Street.
For reason, it's a very steephill. Again, I want to keep
this tour flat, and um Iwanted to keep I want to bring in
things people hadn't seen before, youknow, like talking about the old sils
in Glasgow and pointing out buildings whichwhich even locals. I get locals at

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lots of locals on my tour whowho are astounded to hear all the things
I'm showing them. You don't thinkthey walk past these things a million times
and never knows them. You know, that is true, That's very true.
I think that's true of any city. Probably. There's so much history
that you know, has happened inplaces people are just not aware of aware
of. And why would they be, you know, it's not like they're
being taught this or it's an everydaything. But yeah, just real quick,

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I'll tell the listeners I mentioned thisNecropolis. It's a very beautiful cemetery
that's up on a hill, wayup on a hill overlooking Glasgow and you
know it. If you want yourweeping angel statues and vaults and all kinds
of amazing stuff, you know,you go there. Go there during the
day and then do Vincent's tour atnight, thank you. So anyways,

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so back to some of this otherstuff. So what was a story or
a figure that you had to leaveout of your tour just because of logistics.
Well, the Glasgow a subway,which when you may have used that
when you were here, did youuse the Glasgow subway? I didn't.
We use buses or walked like fools? Well the subway. Funny enough,

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in Scotland, Glasgow is the onlycity that actually has a subway system.
That's amazing. Yeah, despite despiteEdinburgh being the capital, there isn't a
subway system in Edinburgh. There isone in Glasgow and it takes back to
eighteen ninety six. Wow. Soit's actually the third oldest subway system in
the world, up the London andBudapest. Huh yeah, So just put
that in contact eighteen ninety six,so it opened the year before Dracula was

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published. So that's how that's howall that subway system is amazing. And
yeah, there's some I think there'ssome five of the ghost stories about the
Glasgow subway, but just it justthere isn't time, just wasn't time to
do them, you know. Um. Yeah, there's a number of apparitions
have appeared on the Glassow subway.Going back over the decades. The most
famous one there's actually what was it, havn't I haven't said the story for

(17:25):
a while to remember the facts.Now, there was a four or five
really good subway ghost stories. Therewas a demon child, that's right,
a demon child which has been appearing. That sounds redundant, vincent, yea
a demon child. Well, littlestory. He's been appearing. He's been
appearing on a certain subway I thinkwas George George George Street Subway system stop,
and he's been appearing for decades,devouring raw flesh in the shadows.

(17:51):
When he's seen, easy, hejust disappears back into the shadows. But
the last confirmed siding that creature Ithink was a NINETI the mid nineteen sixties.
Wow, that's interesting. So that'sjust one of many subway just you
know, every city, of coursehas sway ghost stories. You know.
Yeah, there's um a kind ofwell known one over here where the city
of Cincinnati apparently spend a ton ofmoney building the subway and never opened it,

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never used it, and it's justsitting there under the city and and
you know, it's rife with creepystories or things like that. So yeah,
pretty cool. It was never itwas never used, never used,
not not even once. To myknowledge, I can can the public to
the public of access to this.I think it's you know, it's probably
gated up, barred and stuff.But people find their way in. You

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know, people do well. Wherewhere there's a wheel, there's a way
exactly. Yeah. Wow. Soso the subway subway stories there, team
and child Wow, And I meanthat sounds just that sounds like a normal
Tuesday, to be honest, childeating eating flesh and disappearing into the shadows.

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Uh. I don't know why I'mdunking on kids so harded what else
did you find there? Well?What else have I believe it? I
said the things that covered the tourbasically the main things I covered the tours.
You probably know it, you mayremember. So we discovered tracts of
Scottish connections. That's the first thingthat I bring up. Then then I
bring it up, bring up severalghost stories. One of my favorite parts

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of the tour is when I whenI asked the audience you may recall,
to share their ghostly experiences. Andthat's one of my favorite parts of the
tour because I just hear turning stufffrom from all around the world, all
kinds of spooky encounters. And um, I've said it to that for a
long time. I must at somepoint write down a book of all these

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stories that are collected from people overthe years, both here and in Ireland.
Yeah, because some of the thingsyou hear are better than my stories,
you know, So it's so amazing. It's pretty amazing. For instance,
if they remember a woman on mytour recently, he was a Russian
witch. Do you remember that story? Yeah, if you, if you
want to share it, that's that'sfine. I just don't want you to
spoil anything for well I did.I just briefly say what happened on the

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Particual life. She's lady from theRussia. She was a white witch.
She made that very clear that sheand she does tarot card readings and crystals
that type of thing. And Iwas about to tell a story about a
party in Glasgow, a place calledOld Wind spelled Wynd and it was a
very notoriously poor area in the lateeighteen hundreds, full of crime and disease

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and slum tenements, and there wasactually very grizzly murder happened there in eighteen
seventy two, which remains unsolved.We arrived in the particular tour. This
lady was on my tour, sheexplained. As we were walking around the
block, she explained that she wasa very psychic person. And I hadn't
even we got to this point.I hadn't even mentioned the story about this
chap and this woman literally burst intotears. It got really emotional. I

(20:48):
thought maybe I upset her, andI said he did I say something and
she said no, No, SoI'm just feeling a strong presence of a
young male who died very violently,she said, in this vicinity. So
I gotta say myself. People totour were kind of a gusts. Well,
okay, so then I told thestory. So I'm not surprised she's
felt his presence was very close tous on this particular evening. So yeah,

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that kind of blew me away,really, because I mean, you
know, it's quite specific. Shecan say a young child, or an
old man or old ladyship, ayoung male she had very early twenties.
This guy had a very very unpleasantdeath in this vicimity. You said,
it's an amazing story. Yeah,you know, it's very fun. I
think it's a very wise idea totry and collect these write them down when

(21:33):
you hear them, and yeah,yeah, the tour is great. And
again I you know, I encouragepeople to go on this tour. If
you're ever in Glasgow, look upGothic Glasgow tours. I appreciated not only
the spooky part of the tour,but you also give a lot of history
with it and you learn a lotabout the city itself in addition to you

(21:57):
know, some of the seedier stuffthat has gone on. For For the
listeners of Blurry Photos, I wouldsay you are going to recognize some of
the stuff that Vincent talks about.Because you brought up Burken Hair, which
I did an episode on just ayear or two ago. You know that

(22:17):
there's a whole section and there that'svery fun. Doesn't focus on Burken Hair
because of course they operated in Edinburgh, but there's connections and you know,
particularly some of the resurrection Men typeof stuff that goes on, which is
a lot of fun. What isit? Do you do you have a
favorite either part of the tour orstory that came out of your research for

(22:38):
it well. The two the twocrowd pleasing parts, David, you just
as you just mentioned. The twoparts of the crowds I think enjoyed the
most are the there's two crowd participationmoments where I do a crash course in
body snatching as you saw, soI have to oh yeah for scoopy did
the corpses from from the coffins,and I usually get an audience member to

(23:00):
take part of that and scrape forphotographs. People always enjoy that part of
the tour. And he helped youout with that one. Absolutely your your
partner. She was great. Yeah, she wasn't using actress. Isn't Jesus,
So it wasn't. It wasn't abig leader. She she got into
the park. And then you mayrecall I also speak briefly about medieval torture
devices and again people love that partas well. Oh my gosh. There's

(23:22):
a place in Glasgow called the tollBooth steeple, the toll booth, the
tron stuff, Yeah exactly told booth. So the total booth takes back to
sixteen thirty two and it was atone time the location for public executions and
public punishments in Glasgow. Until eighteenfourteen. So that brings me nicely into
my my selection of torture implements.Oh yeah, yeah, and so people

(23:45):
loved at again of photographs and justyou know, I like, I like,
you know, I tried to geta nice balance at the tour between
gore and and evocative stuff. Youknow. Yeah, yeah, you do
strike a nice balance there, becausethe evocative stuff that you got is very
evocative. It's visceral. Which whichconnect do you sort of tour David,

(24:08):
did any particular stories stay with youor did anything, you know, any
part of the tour that that part, the part about the torture devices and
um, the things like that,um and well and what I just uh
mentioned mistakenly there for the tron gate, which is that area right that's still
down in there the scales, Yeah, that you see tron all over the

(24:32):
city of Glasgow. And you know, Annie and I are trying to figure
out why do why do people likethe user so much? Or why are
they in the system or whatever youare? They are they on these motorbikes
that glow. We were trying tofigure all this out. Um and Vincent
explained that tron was an old wordfor scales, Is that right, yes,
yes, and so yeah, theyhad this place called tron Gate down

(24:55):
there in that area where they wouldweigh goods coming into the city. That's
correct, that's where you paid yourtold you for your goods, Yeah,
you paid your jib. Yeah,and so yeah, they called it tron
Gage and then and so all thisstuff about tron has cropped up in the
city since then, like tron ison a bunch of churches and things like
that, and especially down around thatarea. Anyways, Yeah, so that

(25:18):
was that was very fun. Um, there's the I'm trying to do this
without spoiling. There's a story aboutthe woman who murdered a child and yeah,
I was put in the prison.Um, you said she was the
last person to be publicly executed.No, the last woman to be hanged
in Scotland. Yeah, the lastwoman to be an earlier role. You

(25:40):
made a little guy earlier on thetour called doctor Pritchard. Oh yeah,
he was a fifty The last manto be the last person to be hanged
in public in Glasgow. Wow,So you you know, you get all
this stuff. It's it is verymemorable these stories. I don't have any
notes in front of me. Thisis all from what I'm just cure.
I love to hear people when peoplehave seen the tour, just which it's

(26:03):
been a few weeks since you sawthe tour, so yeah, did anything
actually stay with you, you know, anything to stay on your mind after
the tour, you know? Soyeah, no, it's it's very interesting,
very fun. Is there anything elsethat that you'd like listeners to know
or any other stories about doesn't evenhave to be Glasgow or your tour related?
M Is there any other stories oranything from anywhere that you'd like to

(26:26):
share with us? No, notthe top of my head to David,
you know, basically, the websiteof my tour is www dot Gothic Glasgow
dot com. I'd love to havepeople from your negative woods and if they're
passing through Glasgows to come and seemy tour. And I really enjoy meeting
people all around the world. Ifind that one against one of the perks
of the job. It's really interesting. I mean those interesting people, you

(26:48):
know. Yeah, yeah, AGarlon recently from Australia and she was a
national Australian on the twenty ones ChessChampion of all things. Yeah, I
mean every nights an adventure. Youknow, you never know who you're gonna
meet, you know, of course, how many nights a week do you
run this at the moment During theyear, I run the tour from Wednesday
to Sunday. Wow, there's moretours, more tours obviously during Halloween season

(27:12):
and then I'll do it'll get abit quiet. It's a bit quiet January
for every March, so I'll dothree nights a week for those books and
then back to five nights a weekfrom April. Very nice. It's very
affordable too, by the way,for everybody. There's twelve twelve persons.
Yeah, that's reasonable for what youget especially and and like you said,
it's a two hour tour, itdoesn't feel like two hours. It goes

(27:36):
by very quickly. And yeah,there's you you get a lot of variety
in there, you know, fromstart to finish, and you get to
see a lot of the city thatyou may not you know, either you're
taking a bus or cab or somethingand you might miss these places just in
general. But yeah, we recommendVincent's done a great job. And yeah,

(27:57):
if if anybody is in Glasgow lookingfor something to do, you got
a night. Checkout Gothic Glasgow dotcom and what all Vincent has on offer
there. You can book your ticketsthere online. Um, it's very very
easy, easy peasy, So Vincent, I appreciate you taking the time to
come and talk to us today.Pleasure, pleasure, and yeah, everybody

(28:21):
check out Gothic Glasgow Walking Tours.I'm looking forward, looking forward to hearing
your your next podcast about him.Can I say what it is? You
know, Well, let's just sayit's it's revolving around the Old Father of
Lies, the Mini handed One,the Dark Prince himself, the Devil Lord,
the Lord, the Lord of theFlies, Beelzebub. Looking forward to

(28:45):
hearing that. That sounds very interesting. Yeah, it's gonna be it's gonna
be good. It's it's a meatyone that I'm really you know, having
to write a lot and research for. So when it comes out, I
think people will really enjoy it.But it has been coming out since October,
so I need to really get onthat. It is a big topic,
you know, it's huge. Ohyeah, and it's a delicate topic,

(29:07):
you know when you talk about religiousstudies and things. But yeah,
I'll let you know, and I'lllet all our listeners know, but Vincent,
thanks again for coming and talking withus. I really appreciate it.
Thank you very much in a pleasure. Thanks once again to Vincent for coming
and talking with me today. Again. I think you guys would get a

(29:30):
real kick out of his tour.If you're ever in Glasgow, look up
his side Gothic Glasgow dot com andplan one of his tours for one of
your nights. I think you guysare gonna enjoy it because there's a ton
of history in addition to the spookystuff. I know you guys enjoyed that
and learning new things, some veryinteresting connections, stuff from movies and literature,

(29:52):
history and folklore. So it's agood time. And he was mentioning
the next episode. I told himabout what I was working on for Blurry
Photos, what I've been working onfor a while, and that that episode.
I'm making it a point to getit out in January, so it
shouldn't be too much longer to wait. Speaking of waiting, we're still waiting
on distribution for the film, butit is all done. We're pleased with

(30:17):
how it turned out. We're justvery excited to share it with you guys
and Derek has someone working on sellingit for us, so that that can
happen as soon as we can getit done. Don't forget to check out
my Audible page, where I haveseveral stories from Tom Lyons that I've narrated.
The newest ones are the It StalkedMe series. Volume one is out

(30:38):
and volume two should be available anyday now, and volume three is on
the way. So I've got theLiving among Bigfoot series and the It Stalked
Me series very fun. And don'tforget I'm streaming on Twitch, twitch dot
tv slash blurry Photos doing that Thursdaysand Saturdays at seven pm Mountain time.

(31:00):
And don't forget to check out Hysteriafifty one and Quiz Quiz Bang Bang for
more paranormal stuff and some trivia.I appreciate you guys listening. I hope
you had a good crumpus knocked anda good Saturnilia. Happy New Year to
you, and for this episode ofBlurry Photos, I have been David Dummy

(31:22):
Gothic Flora. Don't stop blur even
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