Four Scottish Haunts in Call the Midwife 2019 Christmas special

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Call the Midwife and the paranormal may seem like an unlikely pairing, but my heart belongs to both. I especially love the Call the Midwife Christmas specials. The season 10 Christmas special will premiere on December 25, 2020 on PBS. (Along with Bridgerton on Netflix and Wonder Woman: 1984 inContinue Reading

Dr. Neil Gammell collects eDNA samples from the waters of Loch Ness

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Tales of a monster lurking beneath the waves of Loch Ness have terrified people in the Scottish Highlands for centuries. Dr. Neil Gemmell of the University of Otago in New Zealand used a cutting-edge scientific technique called environmental DNA (eDNA) to unravel this centuries-old mystery. Travel Channel has the exclusiveContinue Reading

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One of the ports on our British Isles cruise a couple years back was Greenock, Scotland. We’d done our research and knew that a quick train ride would take us to Glasgow. Before we’d left home, I’d bought City Sightseeing Glasgow Hop-On Hop-Off Tour tickets for us from our affiliate,Continue Reading

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What an absolutely delightful guest Lewis turned out to be. Not that I had any doubts, mind you. It’s just that I really enjoy reading his blog. It was even more fun putting an audible voice to all of that! And the way he could just peel haunted history outContinue Reading

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In case you were checked out of social media this weekend, the Internet was blowing up with shares of news stories about the Loch Ness Monster, such as : The Scotman’s Most convincing picture of the Loch Ness monster ever taken? The Express’s Loch Ness Monster FOUND at last? AstonishingContinue Reading

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For today’s Movie Monday I’m featuring one of our little vids. It includes footage I captured during our shore excursion to Loch Ness. (In search of Nessie of course! I picked this cruise because it afforded us the opportunity to do that.) We didn’t see Nessie. In fact, our tourContinue Reading

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Haunt Jaunts is happy to publish the following guest post by Eve Pearce about five haunted cruise destinations. We’ve been to one. The rest are on our list. What about you? Cruise liner trips are among the best ways to explore the world; visiting historic cities, beautiful beaches, the highContinue Reading

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As I’m writing this, my favorite men’s tennis player, Andy Murray, is battling against Roger Federer in the final at Wimbeldon. It’s the fourth set. Federer is up two to one. There was a rain delay during the third set. That’s when they showed a mini-documentary about Murray and IContinue Reading

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The following is a guest post by Chris Davis, aka the Frog Queen, who some of you may know from her awesome blog, Frog on the Pumpkin. She recently took a trip to Scotland and not only agreed to share one of her ghost tour experiences on Haunt Jaunts, butContinue Reading

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Here we go again, another ghost tour claiming it caught a ghost not once but twice in pictures during its ghost tour. STV broke the story Friday in “Mystery as ‘ghost’ appears in two photos from Edinburgh tours.” Apparently staff at the Real Mary King’s Close feel the blond womanContinue Reading

Dr. Neil Gammell collects eDNA samples from the waters of Loch Ness

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Today Gary at Ghost Theory posted “The end of Nessie: Researchers fear Loch Ness monster may be dead.” Gary started off his article saying how, as a kid, the idea of the Loch Ness Monster fascinated him. Me too. But, also like Gary, the older I’ve gotten the less inclinedContinue Reading