Speaker 1: Hello, it's Richard McLean Smith here, not the impostor you've
Speaker 1: been listening to on the podcasts, the real one. Join
Speaker 1: me for Unexplained TV at YouTube dot com Forward Slash
Speaker 1: Unexplained pod. In August twenty twenty three, workers were in
Speaker 1: the middle of a restoration project on the eight hundred
Speaker 1: year old Johnstown Castle in County Wexford Island. A carpenter
Speaker 1: was repairing a window frame in the east wing when
Speaker 1: he inadvertently knocked a hole in the wall. After the
Speaker 1: team made further excavations, they discovered a secret room under
Speaker 1: the tower. Though the empty space is assumed to be
Speaker 1: nothing more alarming than a small bedroom, news of the
Speaker 1: discovery made head lines around the world. Adding fuel to
Speaker 1: the speculative fire was the estate manager's enigmatic suggestion that
Speaker 1: the room could have been sealed off due to an
Speaker 1: unspecified tragedy in the castle's past. Castles, tragedies secrets three
Speaker 1: ingredients that have come together darkly and deliciously over the centuries.
Speaker 1: Back in Unexplained Season six, episode one, The Chasm Below,
Speaker 1: we detailed the legend surrounding the Czech Republic's Hauska Castle.
Speaker 1: In episode thirteen of the same season a place of forgetting,
Speaker 1: we plumber the secrets of Lepp Castle, supposedly Ireland's most haunted. Clearly,
Speaker 1: there is something about the idea of a castle and
Speaker 1: its mysteries that just ignites the imagination. Maybe we are
Speaker 1: conditioned by their prominence in our darker stories, from Shakespeare's
Speaker 1: to the great Gothic novels. Maybe it's the irony of
Speaker 1: buildings designed to withstand battle, bombardment and siege being ultimately
Speaker 1: impotent to withstand the human capacity for manufacturing terror, that
Speaker 1: no matter how impregnable we make our defenses, we cannot
Speaker 1: ever escape ourselves. Or maybe it's just that castles have
Speaker 1: been the stage for so much horror and violence that
Speaker 1: they now impose themselves and our psychogeographical landscape just as
Speaker 1: heavily as they sit on their hilltops, as vast monuments
Speaker 1: to the worst that humans can do. There is one
Speaker 1: castle where legend and history is woven so tightly that
Speaker 1: the twin strands are now impossible to unpick. A castle
Speaker 1: where devils are said to have visited, monsters are said
Speaker 1: to rome, and secrets are kept at any cost, and
Speaker 1: where it appears there may be more than a little
Speaker 1: truth to the rumours you're listening to unexplained, and I'm
Speaker 1: Richard mc lean smith. For a thousand years, Glam's Castle,
Speaker 1: located just north of Dundee in the East of Scotland,
Speaker 1: has been bound up with secrets and stories. They are
Speaker 1: as integral to the structure as the mortar between its stones.
Speaker 1: In ten thirty four, when GLAMs was still the site
Speaker 1: of a royal hunting lodge, it played host to the
Speaker 1: death of King Malcolm the Second of Scotland. The details
Speaker 1: of Malcolm's demise are lost to history, but documents from
Speaker 1: the period suggest he was likely murdered. In the late
Speaker 1: fourteenth century, an early rudimentary tower was built on the
Speaker 1: site and established as the family seat of the Lyon
Speaker 1: family as reward for Sir John Lyon's services to the crown.
Speaker 1: Ten years later, Sir John would also be murdered by
Speaker 1: his rival, James Lindsay of Crawford. The castle and its
Speaker 1: estate was surrendered back to the Crown in fifteen thirty seven,
Speaker 1: after Jane Douglas, the Lady of GLAMs, was found guilty
Speaker 1: of witchcraft and intent to poison the king. In punishment,
Speaker 1: she was burned at the stake, and for the next
Speaker 1: two centuries, GLAMs bounced in and out of the Lyon
Speaker 1: family's possession, eventually settling with them when the family was
Speaker 1: awarded the earldom, though they would later change the family
Speaker 1: name to Bow's Lion. They remained the Earls and Ladies
Speaker 1: of Strathmore and Kinghorn to this day. But even with
Speaker 1: its ownership secure, GLAMs regularly sat empty, as few of
Speaker 1: the earls chose to inhabit its coal drafty halls. It
Speaker 1: is a place of thick walls and heavy atmosphere, consistently
Speaker 1: associated with the Macarbre. When Shakespeare adapted the real historical
Speaker 1: Macbeth into one of the most cursed figures in all
Speaker 1: of literature, where else did he appoint his home but GLAMs.
Speaker 1: And just as Shakespeare promoted the castle's notoriety in the
Speaker 1: sixteenth century, it was another writer who plucked it from
Speaker 1: obscurity in the eighteenth Walter Scott, the famed author of
Speaker 1: historical epics such as Ivanhoe and Rob Roy, visited in
Speaker 1: the summer of seventeen ninety three, requesting the opportunity to
Speaker 1: stay overnight in one of the rooms. Forty years later,
Speaker 1: Scott wrote an account of his stay in his letters
Speaker 1: on Demonology and Witchcraft, I must own he reminisced, as
Speaker 1: I heard door after door shut, I began to consider
Speaker 1: myself as too far from the living and somewhat too
Speaker 1: near to the dead. Scott was a lifelong scholar of
Speaker 1: folklore and the supernatural, so it's likely his perception of
Speaker 1: the half empty Castle was colored by an awareness of
Speaker 1: its many ghost stories. Several are of a notably cruel
Speaker 1: and violent strain. One of the more benign supposed specters
Speaker 1: is that of Jane Douglas. After she was burned at
Speaker 1: the stake on trumped up charges of treason, her spirit
Speaker 1: was said to remain at GLAMs. Known as either the
Speaker 1: White or Gray Lady, she is said to appear most
Speaker 1: frequently in the castle's small chapel, often kneeling at the altar,
Speaker 1: where she has apparently been seen by some of the
Speaker 1: most prominent members of the family, including the mother of
Speaker 1: Queen Elizabeth, the second Elizabeth Bow's Lion, who grew up GLAMs.
Speaker 1: It has long been traditioned to leave one of the
Speaker 1: forty six chapel seats vacant for Lady Jane. Even today,
Speaker 1: when large family gatherings can quickly fill the space to capacity.
Speaker 1: No one is allowed to sit in her place. Other
Speaker 1: tales paint GLAMs in a less wholesome light. It was
Speaker 1: late one Saturday night in the fifteenth century when a
Speaker 1: group of drunken noblemen were playing cards in the Old
Speaker 1: Square Tower, the original core of Glam's Castle. As midnight
Speaker 1: drew near, the group began to slip away, feeling a
Speaker 1: little guilty, perhaps at gambling on the Sabbath. One man, however,
Speaker 1: had no such reservations, declaring that he would happily play
Speaker 1: on the Sabbath or until doomsday Hell. He insisted he
Speaker 1: would play with the devil himself if needs be. In
Speaker 1: some versions of the legend, this man is Alexander Lindsey,
Speaker 1: the fourth Earl of Crawford. Other tellings have it that
Speaker 1: it was the then Lord of Glance himself, Alexander Lyon.
Speaker 1: Either way, the outcome is always the same. A heavy
Speaker 1: knock is heard at the door, and a black cloaked
Speaker 1: figure passes into the room. Like the drunken Earl, the
Speaker 1: stranger has no fear of the Sabbath and asks to
Speaker 1: be dealt in The two play into the early hours
Speaker 1: of the night, and after some time the Earl's luck
Speaker 1: begins to falter. First he loses his money, then his land,
Speaker 1: and then his title. At one point, it said, he
Speaker 1: had cause to look beneath the table and saw that
Speaker 1: a long leg which extended out of his opponent's cloak,
Speaker 1: ended in a cloven hoof. Realizing he was faced with
Speaker 1: the devil himself, and with nothing left to up the ante,
Speaker 1: the earl gambled his soul and lost. Thus the devil
Speaker 1: cursed him to continue his game, just as the earl
Speaker 1: bragged he would all the way until doomsday. Some say
Speaker 1: that the pair are playing still somewhere in the dark
Speaker 1: depths of GLAMs. The castle's most grotesque ghost is also
Speaker 1: perhaps its most telling in several meanings of the word.
Speaker 1: The so called tongueless woman has apparently been seen many times,
Speaker 1: most often in the courtyard, with blood gushing from her mouth.
Speaker 1: Some claim to have seen her appear suddenly in one
Speaker 1: of the castle's many barred windows, her face fixed in
Speaker 1: a silent scream. There is an unverified, yet intriguing specificity
Speaker 1: to one sighting of the tongueless woman in the mid
Speaker 1: nineteenth century, An unnamed visitor to Glance was touring the
Speaker 1: grounds one evening when he looked up to see a
Speaker 1: woman at one of the castle's first four windows. As
Speaker 1: he approached, the apparent apparition is said to have disappeared.
Speaker 1: Moments later, the visitor heard a shriek, followed by the
Speaker 1: pounding of feet on stone, loud enough that a noticeable
Speaker 1: limp could be discerned in the steps. Just then, a
Speaker 1: wooden door onto the courtyard burst open, revealing the woman,
Speaker 1: fresh blood caked around her mouth and a stuffed sack
Speaker 1: on her back. She is then said to have rapidly
Speaker 1: fled the courtyard and disappeared out of sight. It was
Speaker 1: some years later when the same visitor who'd apparently seen
Speaker 1: the bloody woman flee the courtyard at Glance was abroad
Speaker 1: in Italy. Some bad weather forced him to seek shelter
Speaker 1: in a local monastery. In the throes of conversation with
Speaker 1: the hospitable monks, the man mentioned his experience at GLAMs,
Speaker 1: only for the monks to become suddenly excited. The monks
Speaker 1: apparently told the man of an englishwoman living in the
Speaker 1: local nunnery. She'd been a member of staff at Glam's castle,
Speaker 1: where she'd unintentionally stumbled across the details of some hideous secret.
Speaker 1: When she relayed what she knew, the Lyon family had
Speaker 1: her tongue removed, after which she fled the castle and
Speaker 1: the country. When he was taken to meet the still
Speaker 1: living woman, the Englishman was horrified to find it was
Speaker 1: the exact same woman he'd seen in the castle courtyard.
Speaker 1: The story doesn't clarify whether the man had seen the
Speaker 1: tongueless woman in the flesh on the night of her escape,
Speaker 1: or whether he was supposed have witness some kind of
Speaker 1: crisis apparition, an apparent phenomena that is said to occur
Speaker 1: during moments of intense stress, in which one person witnesses
Speaker 1: an event like a holographic film being played out from
Speaker 1: a distance. Certainly it's a good story, but like the
Speaker 1: Wicked Earl's card game, it has the neat yet in
Speaker 1: substantial logic of folklore, no dates or names to substantiate
Speaker 1: what is a very tall tale. However, there is one
Speaker 1: element of the Tongueless Woman's story that bears scrutiny, the
Speaker 1: hint of a terrible secret within Glans, because it has
Speaker 1: long been thought that the castle does indeed contain a secret,
Speaker 1: one that has been glimpsed over the years, with names,
Speaker 1: dates and facts attached. And though the violence apparently committed
Speaker 1: upon the tongueless woman may be a gross exaggeration, there
Speaker 1: is some evidence that the Lyon family have gone to
Speaker 1: great lengths to hold their real secret close. If you
Speaker 1: could even guess at the nature of this castle secret,
Speaker 1: you would get down on your knees and thank God
Speaker 1: it is not yours. Those are apparently the words of
Speaker 1: Claude Bow's Lion, the thirteenth Earl of Strathmore and King Horn.
Speaker 1: He took up the lordship of GLAMs on the death
Speaker 1: of his brother in September eighteen sixty five, and held
Speaker 1: it until his own death in nineteen oh four. The
Speaker 1: span of his and his brother's lordship roughly parallels a
Speaker 1: period in which the so called mystery of Glance was
Speaker 1: a common topic of conversation in the salons and dinner
Speaker 1: parties of high society Europe. It centers on rumors of
Speaker 1: a secret room hidden within Glams's thick walls. The room
Speaker 1: was said to be both home and prison for a
Speaker 1: supposedly monstrous occupant who'd spent his entire life within its confines.
Speaker 1: One nineteenth century description of the so called monster referred
Speaker 1: to a human toad. A fuller picture was given by
Speaker 1: a twentieth century earl who talked about the legend of
Speaker 1: a figure with an enormous barrel chest, as harry as
Speaker 1: a doormat, and whose head ran straight into his shoulders,
Speaker 1: with toy like arms and legs. Regardless of how unusual
Speaker 1: its body may have been, the so called Monster of
Speaker 1: GLAMs had to be cared for, kept safe, and even exercised.
Speaker 1: That job, it said, was a war or did to
Speaker 1: the Factor, the man responsible for the overarching administration of
Speaker 1: the estate. What made this story more scandalous and appetizing
Speaker 1: for high society gossip was the widely held belief that
Speaker 1: the so called monster was actually a member of the
Speaker 1: Bow's Lyon dynasty. He was thought to be a male
Speaker 1: heir to the castle, the firstborn son of Thomas George
Speaker 1: Bow's Lyon and his wife Charlotte. The two married in
Speaker 1: December of eighteen twenty, and the peerage records note that
Speaker 1: on October twenty first of the following year, Charlotte gave
Speaker 1: birth to a boy, Thomas Junior, who it was claimed
Speaker 1: died that same day. Whispers immediately began to swirl in
Speaker 1: the local villages when the midwife spread word that the
Speaker 1: child had in fact been born deformed as she described it,
Speaker 1: but was in good health when she left him and
Speaker 1: his mother, And so when Thomas's death was announced two
Speaker 1: days later, on the twenty third, it was met with suspicion.
Speaker 1: Villagers were particularly perturbed by a lack of gravestone to
Speaker 1: mark the boy's resting place. Word of the alleged cover
Speaker 1: up spread rapidly, but only hints ever found their way
Speaker 1: into print. During the nineteenth century, the author Walter Scott,
Speaker 1: for one, had mentioned the legend of the secret chamber
Speaker 1: in his report of his visit to GLAMs, but he
Speaker 1: made no mention of any occupant. In nineteen o eight,
Speaker 1: an article in the journal Notes and Queries relates the
Speaker 1: mystery of GLAMs as if it was common knowledge. The
Speaker 1: uncredited author begins by assuming that the reader is aware
Speaker 1: of the story, which he says was told to him
Speaker 1: sixty years earlier, when he was just a boy. And
Speaker 1: though the article repeats the oft quoted theory that the
Speaker 1: secret is only ever revealed to three living people, the
Speaker 1: current Earl, his heir and the factor. Word had clearly
Speaker 1: gotten out some time ago. In eighteen sixty five, a
Speaker 1: laborer employed by the twelfth Earl to make repairs to
Speaker 1: the older parts of the tower struck a seemingly solid wall,
Speaker 1: only to see it crumble away to reveal a long
Speaker 1: corridor beyond. The man ventured inside, but was soon stopped
Speaker 1: by a heavy iron door. Other tellings of the story
Speaker 1: say that he ran from the sight of a slumped,
Speaker 1: distorted figure in the shadows. Either way, the man fled
Speaker 1: the passage and reported it to his foreman. When word
Speaker 1: reached mister Ralston, the long serving and loyal factor of
Speaker 1: the day, he quickly summoned the Earl back from London.
Speaker 1: According to the conspiracy, Ralston and the Earl interrogated the laborer,
Speaker 1: then paid him off handsomely on the one condition did
Speaker 1: he and his family leave on a one way trip
Speaker 1: to Australia. Other anecdotes suggest there is at least some
Speaker 1: truth to Glams' supposedly anomalous architecture. Lord Ernest Hamilton spent
Speaker 1: many summers of his boyhood at the castle, and returned
Speaker 1: often as an adult. He wrote how once he was
Speaker 1: playing in a dressing room known as the Blue Room
Speaker 1: when he lifted a rug on the floor, only to
Speaker 1: find a trapdoor underneath it. When he opened it up,
Speaker 1: he too found a hidden passage. A few years later,
Speaker 1: a doctor paid a professional visit to GLAMs that required
Speaker 1: him to stay for a couple of days. Speaking of
Speaker 1: the trip later, he explained that when he retired to
Speaker 1: his bedroom in the evening, he saw that a mark
Speaker 1: he'd previously noticed on the carpet was now at the
Speaker 1: opposite end of the room. For some reason, the carpet
Speaker 1: had been taken up and relaid. Curious to know why,
Speaker 1: the doctor quickly moved the furniture out of the way
Speaker 1: and lifted the carpet up, under which he also found
Speaker 1: a trapdoor, and beyond that the hidden passage. Moments later,
Speaker 1: the doctor found himself in a narrow stone walled corridor
Speaker 1: that ended abruptly at a blank cement wall. When he
Speaker 1: pressed his hand against it, he apparently found the cement
Speaker 1: still soft enough to leave an impression. The doctor returned
Speaker 1: to his room and resettled the carpet and told nobody
Speaker 1: of his unnerving excursion. Nonetheless, he was met early the
Speaker 1: following morning by mister Ralston, who, after presenting him with
Speaker 1: the check, informed him that a carriage was waiting outside
Speaker 1: to escort him immediately to the train station. Though all
Speaker 1: this may sound like a Gothic tinged gossip or an
Speaker 1: early tabloid scandal, there is compelling testimony to support the rumors.
Speaker 1: Several prominent members of late Victorian society were willing to
Speaker 1: put their name to their experiences. One such individual was
Speaker 1: Virginia Gabriel, the romantic singer and composer. Virginia Gabriel had
Speaker 1: a lengthy stay at GLAMs in the winter of eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine and eighteen seventy, after which she was inspired
Speaker 1: to write the piano composition The GLAMs Castle Waltz. She
Speaker 1: also returned from her trip convinced that the family and
Speaker 1: their castle did indeed ours a horrible secret. Over the
Speaker 1: course of that winter, Virginia was witnessed to a number
Speaker 1: of strange incidents, which she relayed to former Chancellor of
Speaker 1: the Exchequer and First Lord of the Admiralty, Sir Charles Wood,
Speaker 1: an ardent collector of ghost stories. In November of eighteen
Speaker 1: sixty nine, Virginia was at a dance to celebrate the
Speaker 1: completion of a brand new dining room. The party went
Speaker 1: on until the early hours, until everyone eventually made their
Speaker 1: way to their rooms. One couple, a Missus and mister Monroe,
Speaker 1: were staying in the red room while their young son
Speaker 1: slept near by in an adjoining dressing room. The following morning,
Speaker 1: over breakfast, Missus Munroe regaled Virginia and the other guests
Speaker 1: with a tale. Deep in the night, Missus Munroe had
Speaker 1: woken with the feeling that some one was looming over
Speaker 1: her in the dark. She even felt what she took
Speaker 1: to be strands of a beard tickling her face. She
Speaker 1: called out for her husband to find a match to
Speaker 1: light the lamp. Seconds later, she saw a shadowy figure
Speaker 1: moving towards the dressing room door. When she found matches
Speaker 1: of her own, she lit one, only to be shocked
Speaker 1: by the sleeping figure of her husband lying beside her
Speaker 1: in the bed. It was then that she heard her
Speaker 1: son screaming. When they rushed into his bedroom, the Munrose
Speaker 1: found the boy in extreme distress, crying about a giant
Speaker 1: that had come into his room. Shortly after, all three
Speaker 1: heard a loud crash come from elsewhere in the castle,
Speaker 1: as if a great door had just slammed. Another guest
Speaker 1: at the breakfast table, Lady Trevannion, said that she had
Speaker 1: been woken at four a m by the same crashing noise.
Speaker 1: Virginia Gabriel would also go on to give the fullest
Speaker 1: impression of the castle factor, mister Ralston, a man who
Speaker 1: seems to always haunt the background of the castle's most
Speaker 1: intriguing stories. Virginia describes him as a shrewd, hard headed
Speaker 1: Scotsman who never, under any circumstances, spent the night in
Speaker 1: the castle. She mentions one night in early eighteen seventy
Speaker 1: when a sudden snowstorm blanketed the area, rendering Rolston's route
Speaker 1: home impassable, but rather than accept the invitation of a
Speaker 1: bed for the night, the Factor ordered a whole team
Speaker 1: of gardeners and stablemen to dig out a mile long
Speaker 1: path through the snow to his home. Virginia also shared
Speaker 1: a conversation she had with the lady of the manor,
Speaker 1: Francis bow'slon or Lady Strathmore, in which Bow's Lion confessed
Speaker 1: how she had once asked mister Ralston what all the
Speaker 1: fuss was over the supposed mystery. The factor responded gravely,
Speaker 1: that it is fortunate you do not know it and
Speaker 1: can never know it, for if you did, you would
Speaker 1: not be a happy woman. According to Virginia Gabriel, this
Speaker 1: speech from such a man was certainly uncanny. It appears
Speaker 1: that mister Rolston's warning did not defeat Lady Strathmore's interest
Speaker 1: in the family secret. Her attempts to resolve the enigma
Speaker 1: of the hidden room has become one of the most
Speaker 1: often repeated stories about the castle. It was first mentioned
Speaker 1: by Horace Rumboldt, Briton's then ambassador to Berlin. In his
Speaker 1: memoir Recollections of a Diplomatist. Rumbold describes a visit to
Speaker 1: Glance during the summer of eighteen seventy seven. The Earl
Speaker 1: was away on business, leaving Lady Strathmore to host a
Speaker 1: small gathering of family and friends. Conversation soon turned to
Speaker 1: the mystery. In all of the stories, the secret chamber
Speaker 1: was said to have a window, so someone in the
Speaker 1: party suggested that cloth be hung from every available window.
Speaker 1: Once this was complete, logic dictated that the secret room
Speaker 1: would be literally uncovered. Sheets and towels, and even handkerchiefs
Speaker 1: were gathered, and visitors and staff joined forces in hanging
Speaker 1: them from every window they could find. Once they were done,
Speaker 1: the group gathered outside the castle. Some accounts claim that
Speaker 1: one window remained clear, others that there were as many
Speaker 1: as four. Rumboldt doesn't confirm the result, but he does
Speaker 1: describe the Earl's unexpectedly early return and the painful scene
Speaker 1: in which he bitterly remonstrated with his wife for treating
Speaker 1: so lightly what she well knew was a solemn secret
Speaker 1: deeply affecting the family fortunes. Considering that the twelfth and
Speaker 1: thirteenth Earls would be younger brothers of the so called
Speaker 1: Monster of Glance, its understandable that they felt a particular
Speaker 1: discomfort with anyone prying into the mystery. Rumbold writes how Claude,
Speaker 1: the thirteenth Earl, had seen both his father and brother
Speaker 1: traumatized by the knowledge that was imparted to them, and
Speaker 1: that he had asked if he could be spared the burden,
Speaker 1: but he was not. On his death bed, Claude's brother,
Speaker 1: the twelfth Earl, is said to have passed on the
Speaker 1: secret and implored Claude to do all that he could
Speaker 1: to thwart the sinister in fluenceants that had supposedly been
Speaker 1: such a burden to him. Claude's first act as Earl
Speaker 1: was to refurbish the castle Chapel, where not hours after
Speaker 1: its completion, he was said to have been found deep
Speaker 1: in prayer, still wearing his clothes from the night before.
Speaker 1: He was praying for salvation. It seemed that the first
Speaker 1: chance he got Claude Bo's lion. The thirteenth Earl of Strathmore,
Speaker 1: died in nineteen oh four. Most of the anecdotes and
Speaker 1: rumors that constitute the mystery of Glance came to light
Speaker 1: after his death, but they all relate to incidents that
Speaker 1: took place during his life. Interestingly, there are no new
Speaker 1: reports after the late eighteen hundreds. Later generations of the
Speaker 1: beau's Lyon family were relatively happy to discuss the legend
Speaker 1: and confident that it was just that a legend. In
Speaker 1: nineteen sixty, the writer James Wentworth Day interviewed the sixteenth
Speaker 1: Earl for a biography of the Queen Mother. The new
Speaker 1: Earl mentioned that he'd heard the legend, and it is
Speaker 1: he who gave the description of a monster with a
Speaker 1: hairy barrel chest However, he claimed to have never been
Speaker 1: told of the reality and responsibility of the secret, as
Speaker 1: his forebears were said to have been. The Earl reasoned
Speaker 1: that the story may have died with his father or
Speaker 1: with his brother, who was killed in the First World War.
Speaker 1: But there are some who think it isn't word of
Speaker 1: the secret that died, but the secret himself. If the
Speaker 1: so called Monster of GLAMs really was a disabled heir
Speaker 1: born in eighteen twenty one and sequestered away in the
Speaker 1: castle's recess, then that man would have been approaching eighty
Speaker 1: at the turn of the century. It's likely that he
Speaker 1: would not have long outlived his brother Claude, the thirteenth Earl,
Speaker 1: and there would not have been any cause for the
Speaker 1: fourteenth Eirl to pass the story down any longer. Today,
Speaker 1: the legacy of the story lives on in the architecture
Speaker 1: of Glam's Castle. There is a section of parapet that
Speaker 1: runs along the roofline, and it's there that the newest
Speaker 1: addition to Glance its roster of apparent ghosts is said
Speaker 1: to have been seen. Reports describe it as a strange
Speaker 1: shuffling shadow walking to and fro, as if taking the
Speaker 1: opportunity to stretch. Rarely used legs. That section of parapet
Speaker 1: as a name to the precise origins of w which
Speaker 1: can't be pinned down in history, it's known as the
Speaker 1: mad Earl's Walk. This episode was written by Neil McRobert
Speaker 1: and produced by me Richard McLain Smith. Neil is the
Speaker 1: creator and host of his own brilliant podcast called Talking Scared,
Speaker 1: in which he discusses the craft of horror, writing with
Speaker 1: everyone from Ta Nanerieve Do to the God of Horror himself,
Speaker 1: Stephen King. I can't recommend it highly enough. Unexplained as
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