Glencoe Massacre: Haunted Highlands

After Dark: Myths, Misdeeds & the Paranormal

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🗓️ 20 February 2025

⏱️ 41 minutes

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(Part 2/2) On the 13 February 1692, Scottish government troops slaughtered between 30-40 members of Clan MacDonald in their home in Glencoe, in the Scottish Highlands. Who was behind the killings? How has this atrocity been remembered? Is Glencoe haunted by its past?

Maddy and Anthony's guests today are Dr Allan Kennedy whose new book 'Serious Crime in Late Seventeenth-Century Scotland' is out now and Lucy Doogan from the Nation Trust for Scotland's Visitor Centre in Glencoe.

Edited and produced by Freddy Chick. Senior Producer is Charlotte Long.

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0:00.0	Hi, we're your host's Anthony Delaney and Maddie Pelling.
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0:35.7	It has the logic of a nightmare to it.
0:43.8	Trapped between those ragged peaks in that glen in the cold dark of winter before dawn. McKeon, clan chief of the McDonald's of Glencoe, is asleep in his bed when he hears a commotion.
0:49.6	He rises and is hit twice by musket balls. Further into the Glen, eight men huddle around a fire for warmth when they are attacked.
1:00.0	We see nine men bound at the feet of Captain Glen Lion, whose only picture shows him with a beautiful white cravat.
1:08.0	Did it get bloody when the prisoners were executed? When he failed to stop a child
1:13.3	screaming for mercy from being put to the sword? Up and down the dark glen, before the sun
1:20.0	rose, the killing time, the dying time raged. Fire and screaming. But how did this happen?
1:28.9	What should we call this?
1:31.2	Who concocted this nightmare?
1:33.6	Who is to blame?
1:35.2	And how can we seek to make sense of this hellish history
1:38.5	of the massacre of Glencoe?
1:43.9	Music of Glencoe. ...of Glencoe. Hello and welcome to After Dark, I'm Maddie.
2:08.5	And I'm Anthony.
2:10.0	And today we are concluding our story of the massacre of Glencoe.
2:14.5	Last week we introduced Glencoe, the place and its inhabitants, the McDonald's,
2:19.6	who lived there. We heard about why the Scottish government sent soldiers to the Glen to live
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