Hello and welcome to a Hogmanay edition of Stories of Scotland.

I'm Annie and I'm feeling festive with my family in the north of Scotland.

And I'm Jenny with the Clouty Dumpling Goblins in the Central Belt, also known as my family in the north of Scotland. And I'm Jenny with the Clutie Dumpling Goblins in the Central Belt,

also known as my family.

I absolutely love that the Clutie Dumpling Goblins heard your cry for Clutie Dumplings

on the podcast and brought you your pudding this year.

That's a really beautiful result right there.

Oh yeah, and hopefully every year forevermore, because my dad managed to source some

clouty dumpling in Paisley, and so I got it in my stocking.

That's a very dense stocking filler, isn't it?

Yeah, there wasn't much room for satsumas in there.

They were really wedged in the top.

Today we've got a strange, short, haunted Hogmane episode.

This ghastly and ghostly episode stemmed from us finding lots of spectral, slightly paranormal stories happening around Hogmane,

or what the rest of the world might be calling New Year's Eve.

The spooky stories that we've got for you are weird little tales, I'll be honest.

I was hoping we'd find a tale that

is akin to Charles Dickens' famous A Christmas Carol, where all the ghosts team up and

encourage the main character to become a better person. But the old Scottish tales don't quite

run on the same moral tracks as the well-crafted Victorian tales.

Unfortunately, the ghosts in these stories aren't forces for festive joy.

Rather, they're more like shadows of the past, echoing a little louder each Hogmane,

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