Episode 329 - Haunted Pubs of Edinburgh’s Grassmarket

Two Girls One Ghost

Sony Music

True Crime, Society & Culture, Religion & Spirituality, Spirituality, Places & Travel

4.7 • 8.8K Ratings

🗓️ 6 July 2025

⏱️ 59 minutes

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We’re off on a haunted pub crawl through Edinburgh’s Grassmarket — a charming old square with a dark and bloody past. Once home to executions, riots, and witch trials, it’s now a paranormal hotspot packed with ghosts, legends, and cursed bar stools. Steeped in history and hauntings, the Grassmarket is where you can find spirits such as "Half-Hangit" Maggie Dickson, a woman who was executed at the gallows and LIVED to tell the tale (seriously), a mischievous ghost child named Maria who haunts the Last Drop bar and steals hot chocolate, and a pair of disembodied legs that wander through the White Hart Inn's cellar. We’re talking phantom touches, haunted beer taps, and an infamous gallows that claimed over 100 hundred lives during ‘The Killing Times’. Join us — and the ghosts — for a round. 🍻 Watch the video version here. Have ghost stories of your own? E-mail them to us at [email protected] New Episodes are released every Sunday at 12am PST/3am EST (the witching hour, of course). Corinne and Sabrina hand select a couple of paranormal encounters from our inbox to read in each episode, from demons, to cryptids, to aliens, to creepy kids... the list goes on and on. If you have a story of your own that you'd like us to share on an upcoming episode, we invite you to email them to us! If you enjoy our show, please consider joining our Patreon, rating and reviewing on iTunes & Spotify and following us on social media! Youtube, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, and Discord. Edited and produced by Jaimi Ryan, original music by Arms Akimbo! Disclaimer: the use of white sage and smudging is a closed practice. If you’re looking to cleanse your space, here are some great alternatives! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:44.9	The wind howls down the cobbled street of Edinburgh's grass market, a place where time
0:51.9	slips between the crooked blood-soaked stones.
0:56.7	Once a bustling medieval marketplace, this square was better known for death than it was for trade.
1:04.3	But death doesn't rest here.
1:07.4	It drinks.
1:08.7	It is a place where ghosts roam from gallows to the bar stools, knocking over
1:13.6	pints, whispering names, tugging at hair, and taking one last sip. And in this episode,
1:21.2	we're not just telling their stories, we're following in their footsteps. Pint by haunted pintint on a haunted pub crawl along the grass market.
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