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“This book opens the door to Scotland’s hidden past, to places scarred by death, betrayal, disaster, and unresolved trauma.”<\/em> — NL Magazine<\/strong><\/p>\n

‘Dark Tourism’ involves traveling to sites associated with death, disaster, or the macabre. Scotland is filled with these ‘dark places’ that embody pain, shame, and ‘difficult heritage.’ 111 Dark Places in Scotland That You Shouldn’t Miss<\/em><\/strong> provides an engaging, accessible, and authoritative guide to these significant sites within Scotland’s castles, ancient cities, towns, and natural landscapes. This book delves into the darker aspects of the nation’s heritage.<\/p>\n

Scotland, while part of the UK, maintains a distinct cultural identity with a history steeped in conflict, especially with its dominant neighbor, England. The country’s legacy of turmoil has shaped its strong sense of national identity, often the core of dark tourism. This guidebook is the first of its kind, designed for both locals and visitors to explore Scotland’s dark tourism sites. It complements 111 Dark Places in England<\/em> and provides a distinctly Scottish perspective on the nation’s challenging past.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Explore Scotland’s dark heritage with this guide as you learn the stories and visit sites of death, disaster, or the macabre across its cities, towns, castles, and landscapes.
Hermitage Castle | Borders
\nGuardhouse of the ‘bloodiest’ valley in Britain | 10
\nRobert the Bruce’s Heart | Borders
\nScottish identity and a ‘prune-like’ heart | 12
\nWidows and Bairns | Borders
\nHeartbroken by Scotland’s worst fishing disaster | 14
\n51st Highlanders | Central
\nLeft behind after the ‘Miracle of Dunkirk’ | 16
\nBattle of Bannockburn | Central
\nScotland’s decisive victory against England | 18
\nBattle of Killiecrankie | Central
\nOne of the goriest clashes in Jacobite history | 20
\nBattle of the Clans | Central
\nMost bizarre fight in Scottish clan history | 22
\nThe Black Watch | Central
\nThe oldest Highland army regiment | 24
\nBon Scott Statue | Central
\nTribute to a tragic rock star | 26
\nCultybraggan PoW Camp | Central
\n‘Black Camp of the North’ | 28
\nCurse of Patrick Hamilton | Central
\nMalediction for University of St Andrews students | 30
\nDavid Stirling Memorial | Central
\nThe ‘Phantom Major’ of the SAS | 32
\nDunblane Memorial | Central
\nMost murderous mass shooting in British history | 34
\nForbes Mausoleum | Central
\nAn abandoned monument to mortality | 36
\nMartyrs’ Memorial | Central
\nSisters of ‘The Killing Time’ | 38
\nNational Wallace Monument | Central
\nFrom outlaw to ‘Braveheart’ | 40
\nScotland’s Secret Bunker | Central
\n‘Protect and survive’ a nuclear Armageddon | 42
\nThe Star Pyramid | Central
\nRemembering religious and civil persecution | 44
\nThe Tay Bridge Disaster | Central
\nPoor engineering leads to ‘touching deaths’ | 46
\nThe ‘Witch’ Monument | Central
\nMurdered by the state for ‘diabolic pacts’ | 48
\nDevil’s Porridge Museum | Dumfries & Galloway
\n‘Canary Girls’ who produced war munitions | 50
\nLockerbie Memorial Garden | Dumfries & Galloway
\nDeadliest ever terrorist attack in the UK | 52
\nSawney Bean’s Cave | Dumfries & Galloway
\nA Scottish cannibal who raised an incestuous family | 54
\nBurn O’ Vat | Grampian
\nA geological quirk with tales of outlaws | 56
\nThe American Monument | Highlands & Islands
\nPilgrimage for a double wartime tragedy | 58
\nBadbea Clearance Village | Highlands & Islands
\nHighland Clearances and ‘Scottish diaspora’ | 60
\nBoleskine House | Highlands & Islands
\nHome to a malevolent occultist | 62
\nCommando Memorial | Highlands & Islands
\n‘United we conquer’ | 64
\nCulloden | Highlands & Islands
\nLast pitched battle fought in Britain | 66
\nCuween Chambered Cairn | Highlands & Islands
\nAncient burial chamber under a hill | 68
\nEagle’s Rock Memorial | Highlands & Islands
\nMysterious death of a libertine prince | 70
\nFlannan Isles Lighthouse | Highlands & Islands
\nVanishing of ‘three dead men’ | 72
\nGlencoe Massacre | Highlands & Islands
\nTreacherous clan rivalry leads to slaughter | 74
\nGlenfinnan Monument | Highlands & Islands
\nClansmen killed during the Jacobite Uprising | 76
\nGloup Disaster Memorial | Highlands & Islands
\nA historic sea-faring tragedy | 78
\nFlora MacDonald’s Grave | Highlands & Islands
\nHero of the Highlands | 80
\nThe Ghost Village | Highlands & Islands
\nSplendid isolation abandoned for modernity | 82
\nGruinard Island | Highlands & Islands
\n‘Anthrax Island’ and cakes of death | 84
\nIolaire Memorial | Highlands & Islands
\nCrowning sorrow of World War I | 86
\nMassacre Cave | Highlands & Islands
\nMass murder of MacDonalds | 88
\nOil Rig ‘Graveyard’ | Highlands & Islands
\nIndustrial ruins and economic ghosts | 90
\nRoyal Oak Memorial Garden | Highlands & Islands
\nReflecting the sad loss of naval souls | 92
\nRuthven Barracks | Highlands & Islands
\n‘Let every man seek his own safety’ | 94
\nScapa Flow | Highlands & Islands
\nMurdered sailor is last to die from World War I | 96
\nSt Columba’s Well | Highlands & Islands
\nSaintly miracles and an early ‘Loch Ness Monster’ | 98
\nThe Unfinished Memorial | Highlands & Islands
\nBurial site of the last hereditary piper | 100
\nWell of the Seven Heads | Highlands & Islands
\nBeheaded murderers and Highland clan justice | 102
\nWillie MacRae Memorial | Highlands & Islands
\nA mysterious death and tales of foul play | 104
\nAilie’s Cairn | Lothian
\nCruel misogynistic murder from yesteryear | 106
\nBarnton Nuclear Bunker | Lothian
\nDeclassified but still hidden | 108
\nBattle of Pinkie Cleugh | Lothian
\nFirst modern battle on British soil | 110
\nThe Black Mausoleum | Lothian
\nWhere the ‘bluidy’ ghost of George MacKenzie roams | 112
\nBurke & Hare Murder Dolls | Lothian
\nMysterious miniature coffins and tiny doll corpses | 114
\nCanine Cemetery | Lothian
\nFinal resting place for doggy companions | 116
\nCovenanters’ Prison | Lothian
\nDying for your religion | 118
\nCraigentinny Marbles | Lothian
\nImposing ‘suburban’ tomb of an eccentric landowner | 120
\nCramond Island | Lothian
\n‘Ghost island’ and former wartime coastal defence | 122
\nDeath Cell Door | Lothian
\nAn entrance to execution | 124
\nDechmont UFO Monument | Lothian
\nThe only UK criminal case for an alien encounter | 126
\nDolly the Sheep | Lothian
\nA cloned mammal that pushed ethical envelopes | 128
\nDr Dewar Monument | Lothian
\nRemembering a killer physician | 130
\nThe Edinburgh Maiden | Lothian
\nA beheading machine that executed its inventor | 132
\n‘Great Lafayette’ Grave | Lothian
\nMagical life and curious death | 134
\nGreyfriars Kirkyard | Lothian
\n‘Non Omnis Moriar’ (Not All of Me Will Die) | 136
\nGreyfriars’ Mortsafes | Lothian
\nGuarding graves against ‘resurrectionists’ | 138
\nThe Hanging Stanes | Lothian
\nLast public execution for highway robbery | 140
\nHeave Awa Hoose | Lothian
\n‘Dig away chaps, I’m not dead yet’ | 142
\nHolodomor Memory | Lothian
\nMillions of people killed by starvation | 144
\nJames Lind’s Memorial | Lothian
\nThe Hippocrates of naval medicine | 146
\nJohn Knox’s Grave | Lothian
\nBuried in car parking space number 23 | 148
\nJohn Livingston’s Tomb | Lothian
\nBlack Death and an apothecary’s grave | 150
\nKorean War Memorial | Lothian
\nA ‘forgotten’ war that never ended | 152
\nLt John Irving Grave | Lothian
\nServing on HMS Terror led to terror | 154
\nMary King’s Close | Lothian
\nTales of hauntings and Black Death | 156
\nMini-Submarine Wrecks | Lothian
\nUnderwater warfare in midget submarines | 158
\nMonte Cassino Manuscript | Lothian
\nDismembered body and horrors of war | 160
\nNational War Museum | Lothian
\nScotland’s warfare and conflicts | 162
\nOld Calton Burial Ground | Lothian
\nMonuments and graves of eminent Scots | 164
\nRobert Burns Shelter | Lothian
\nThe ‘darker’ side of Rabbie Burns | 166
\nRosslyn Chapel | Lothian
\nSuffragette bombs and alt-history | 168
\nThe Soldier Bear Memorial | Lothian
\nThe bear that went to war | 170
\nThe ‘Spitting Stone’ | Lothian
\nSpitting on the Heart of Midlothian | 172
\nSurgeons’ Hall Museum | Lothian
\nDeath mask to human-skin book cover | 174
\nWilliam Burke Museum | Lothian
\nA ‘bit of Burke’ on gruesome display | 176
\nThe Witches’ Well | Lothian
\nSatanic panic of witchcraft | 178
\nWoman and Child Memorial | Lothian
\nStanding against racial discrimination | 180
\nWWI Training Trenches | Lothian
\nPractising for the horrors of trench warfare | 182
\nCameronians Memorial | Strathclyde
\nRespected regiment that refused to play football | 184
\nCheapside Street Fire | Strathclyde
\nBritain’s worst peacetime fire-service disaster | 186
\nThe Coal Mining Monument | Strathclyde
\nTo all those who worked and died in mining | 188
\nCollins’ Fountain | Strathclyde
\nIlls of the ‘demon drink’ | 190
\nGlasgow Necropolis | Strathclyde
\nSightsee in ‘‘mansions of the dead’ | 192
\nGlasgow University | Strathclyde
\nAtonement for its slavery heritage | 194
\nIbrox Disaster Memorial | Strathclyde
\nSixty-six football fans who died in Stairway 13 | 196
\nInveraray Jail | Strathclyde
\nPenal codes from the past | 198
\nJim Murray Memorial | Strathclyde
\nA sport that can kill | 200
\nLa Pasionaria | Strathclyde
\nFight against fascism | 202
\nLoch Long Torpedo Range | Strathclyde
\nMilitary secrets and an executed spy | 204
\nLord Roberts Monument | Strathclyde
\nA statue to brutal suppression | 206
\nA Lost Roman Legion | Strathclyde
\nThe Ninth Legion that mysteriously disappeared | 208
\nThe Miners Memorial | Strathclyde
\nTo those killed in Scottish mining | 210
\nOvertoun Bridge | Strathclyde
\nDogs leap to a ‘canine suicide’ | 212
\nPaisley Witches | Strathclyde
\n‘Pain inflicted, suffering endured, injustice done’ | 214
\nPierre’s Unmarked Grave | Strathclyde
\nA poisoned lover and a Victorian scandal | 216
\nSouthern Necropolis | Strathclyde
\nHome of the ‘Gorbals Vampire’ | 218
\nSt Valentine’s Bones | Strathclyde
\nTrading body parts as holy relics | 220
\nStillborn Baby Memorial | Strathclyde
\nFor our babies briefly known but never forgotten | 222
\nVictoria Cross Memorial | Strathclyde
\nAwarded for ‘valour in the presence of the enemy’ | 224
\nWallace’s Well | Strathclyde
\nWallace’s final drink as a free man | 226
\nThe Witch’s Skull | Strathclyde
\nA female skull in Glasgow’s only pub museum | 228
\nWomen of the Necropolis | Strathclyde
\nFrom a witch to medical pioneer to gypsy queen | 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Battle of Killiecrankie | Central One of the goriest clashes in Jacobite history | 20 Battle of the Clans | Central Most bizarre fight in Scottish clan history | 22 The Black Watch | Central The oldest Highland army regiment | 24 Bon Scott Statue | Central Tribute to a tragic rock star | 26 Cultybraggan PoW Camp | Central ‘Black Camp of the North’ | 28 Curse of Patrick Hamilton | Central Malediction for University of St Andrews students | 30 David Stirling Memorial | Central The ‘Phantom Major’ of the SAS | 32 Dunblane Memorial | Central Most murderous mass shooting in British history | 34 Forbes Mausoleum | Central An abandoned monument to mortality | 36 Martyrs’ Memorial | Central Sisters of ‘The Killing Time’ | 38 National Wallace Monument | Central From outlaw to ‘Braveheart’ | 40 Scotland’s Secret Bunker | Central ‘Protect and survive’ a nuclear Armageddon | 42 The Star Pyramid | Central Remembering religious and civil persecution | 44 The Tay Bridge Disaster | Central Poor engineering leads to ‘touching deaths’ | 46 The ‘Witch’ Monument | Central Murdered by the state for ‘diabolic pacts’ | 48 Devil’s Porridge Museum | Dumfries & Galloway ‘Canary Girls’ who produced war munitions | 50 Lockerbie Memorial Garden | Dumfries & Galloway Deadliest ever terrorist attack in the UK | 52 Sawney Bean’s Cave | Dumfries & Galloway A Scottish cannibal who raised an incestuous family | 54 Burn O’ Vat | Grampian A geological quirk with tales of outlaws | 56 The American Monument | Highlands & Islands Pilgrimage for a double wartime tragedy | 58 Badbea Clearance Village | Highlands & Islands Highland Clearances and ‘Scottish diaspora’ | 60 Boleskine House | Highlands & Islands Home to a malevolent occultist | 62 Commando Memorial | Highlands & Islands ‘United we conquer’ | 64 Culloden | Highlands & Islands Last pitched battle fought in Britain | 66 Cuween Chambered Cairn | Highlands & Islands Ancient burial chamber under a hill | 68 Eagle’s Rock Memorial | Highlands & Islands Mysterious death of a libertine prince | 70 Flannan Isles Lighthouse | Highlands & Islands Vanishing of ‘three dead men’ | 72 Glencoe Massacre | Highlands & Islands Treacherous clan rivalry leads to slaughter | 74 Glenfinnan Monument | Highlands & Islands Clansmen killed during the Jacobite Uprising | 76 Gloup Disaster Memorial | Highlands & Islands A historic sea-faring tragedy | 78 Flora MacDonald’s Grave | Highlands & Islands Hero of the Highlands | 80 The Ghost Village | Highlands & Islands Splendid isolation abandoned for modernity | 82 Gruinard Island | Highlands & Islands ‘Anthrax Island’ and cakes of death | 84 Iolaire Memorial | Highlands & Islands Crowning sorrow of World War I | 86 Massacre Cave | Highlands & Islands Mass murder of MacDonalds | 88 Oil Rig ‘Graveyard’ | Highlands & Islands Industrial ruins and economic ghosts | 90 Royal Oak Memorial Garden | Highlands & Islands Reflecting the sad loss of naval souls | 92 Ruthven Barracks | Highlands & Islands ‘Let every man seek his own safety’ | 94 Scapa Flow | Highlands & Islands Murdered sailor is last to die from World War I | 96 St Columba’s Well | Highlands & Islands Saintly miracles and an early ‘Loch Ness Monster’ | 98 The Unfinished Memorial | Highlands & Islands Burial site of the last hereditary piper | 100 Well of the Seven Heads | Highlands & Islands Beheaded murderers and Highland clan justice | 102 Willie MacRae Memorial | Highlands & Islands A mysterious death and tales of foul play | 104 Ailie’s Cairn | Lothian Cruel misogynistic murder from yesteryear | 106 Barnton Nuclear Bunker | Lothian Declassified but still hidden | 108 Battle of Pinkie Cleugh | Lothian First modern battle on British soil | 110 The Black Mausoleum | Lothian Where the ‘bluidy’ ghost of George MacKenzie roams | 112 Burke & Hare Murder Dolls | Lothian Mysterious miniature coffins and tiny doll corpses | 114 Canine Cemetery | Lothian Final resting place for doggy companions | 116 Covenanters’ Prison | Lothian Dying for your religion | 118 Craigentinny Marbles | Lothian Imposing ‘suburban’ tomb of an eccentric landowner | 120 Cramond Island | Lothian ‘Ghost island’ and former wartime coastal defence | 122 Death Cell Door | Lothian An entrance to execution | 124 Dechmont UFO Monument | Lothian The only UK criminal case for an alien encounter | 126 Dolly the Sheep | Lothian A cloned mammal that pushed ethical envelopes | 128 Dr Dewar Monument | Lothian Remembering a killer physician | 130 The Edinburgh Maiden | Lothian A beheading machine that executed its inventor | 132 ‘Great Lafayette’ Grave | Lothian Magical life and curious death | 134 Greyfriars Kirkyard | Lothian ‘Non Omnis Moriar’ (Not All of Me Will Die) | 136 Greyfriars’ Mortsafes | Lothian Guarding graves against ‘resurrectionists’ | 138 The Hanging Stanes | Lothian Last public execution for highway robbery | 140 Heave Awa Hoose | Lothian ‘Dig away chaps, I’m not dead yet’ | 142 Holodomor Memory | Lothian Millions of people killed by starvation | 144 James Lind’s Memorial | Lothian The Hippocrates of naval medicine | 146 John Knox’s Grave | Lothian Buried in car parking space number 23 | 148 John Livingston’s Tomb | Lothian Black Death and an apothecary’s grave | 150 Korean War Memorial | Lothian A ‘forgotten’ war that never ended | 152 Lt John Irving Grave | Lothian Serving on HMS Terror led to terror | 154 Mary King’s Close | Lothian Tales of hauntings and Black Death | 156 Mini-Submarine Wrecks | Lothian Underwater warfare in midget submarines | 158 Monte Cassino Manuscript | Lothian Dismembered body and horrors of war | 160 National War Museum | Lothian Scotland’s warfare and conflicts | 162 Old Calton Burial Ground | Lothian Monuments and graves of eminent Scots | 164 Robert Burns Shelter | Lothian The ‘darker’ side of Rabbie Burns | 166 Rosslyn Chapel | Lothian Suffragette bombs and alt-history | 168 The Soldier Bear Memorial | Lothian The bear that went to war | 170 The ‘Spitting Stone’ | Lothian Spitting on the Heart of Midlothian | 172 Surgeons’ Hall Museum | Lothian Death mask to human-skin book cover | 174 William Burke Museum | Lothian A ‘bit of Burke’ on gruesome display | 176 The Witches’ Well | Lothian Satanic panic of witchcraft | 178 Woman and Child Memorial | Lothian Standing against racial discrimination | 180 WWI Training Trenches | Lothian Practising for the horrors of trench warfare | 182 Cameronians Memorial | Strathclyde Respected regiment that refused to play football | 184 Cheapside Street Fire | Strathclyde Britain’s worst peacetime fire-service disaster | 186 The Coal Mining Monument | Strathclyde To all those who worked and died in mining | 188 Collins’ Fountain | Strathclyde Ills of the ‘demon drink’ | 190 Glasgow Necropolis | Strathclyde Sightsee in ‘‘mansions of the dead’ | 192 Glasgow University | Strathclyde Atonement for its slavery heritage | 194 Ibrox Disaster Memorial | Strathclyde Sixty-six football fans who died in Stairway 13 | 196 Inveraray Jail | 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