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Scotland Outdoors

An Orkney Hurricane, Sightings of the Loch Ness Monster in the 1930's and Terrifying Sounds from the Hamilton Mausoleum

Scotland Outdoors

BBC

Nature, Society & Culture, Science

4.7709 Ratings

🗓️ 11 December 2024

⏱️ 23 minutes

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Summary

Helen Needham presents some audio gems from BBC Scotland's archive

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0:00.0

Hello, you're about to listen to a BBC podcast, so I'd like to tell you where you'll find more just like it.

0:05.5

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0:19.0

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0:24.6

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0:28.6

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0:31.6

So no matter what you like, check out BBC Sounds.

0:33.6

There's probably another podcast on there that you're absolutely love.

0:42.5

This Scotland Outdoors podcast from BBC Radio Scotland.

0:50.8

Hello and thanks very much for choosing to listen to this.

0:52.2

I'm Helen Needham.

0:56.4

Here in the north-east of Scotland, winter is upon us and the urge to hibernate is strong, which seems like a good time to hunker down and let our imaginations

1:02.4

be transported back to another time and another place. I've been digging around our extensive

1:09.0

BBC archive and discovered some real gems which I really want to share with you.

1:14.5

Your ears will be treated to some terrifying sounds recorded at the Hamilton Mausoleum,

1:19.7

an interview with a knitter from Fair Isle and first-hand accounts of seeing the Loch Nest monster recorded in the 1930s.

1:28.2

But let's begin in Orkney, where in January 1952,

1:32.5

farmer James Bailey describes the perils of a hurricane

1:36.0

and how the hen houses of the island were literally gone with the wind.

1:45.2

The haines, where they were? with the wind. The hands were the work.

1:48.4

Most of them were dead or dying from exposure.

1:52.2

We stuck in and caught those that were alive

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