What The History Podcast

What The Halloween 3

In this spooky episode Suzie recounts the spooky tale of Half Hangit Maggie and Trevor examines the spooky show “Ghostwatch”.  What the history?

Trigger warnings:

Pregnancy and child loss – 7:21 to 8:06

Mental health and suicide – 20:16 to 20:53

WHAT THE HISTORY?

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Sources:

HALF HANGIT MAGGIE

Blanco J n.d ‘Margaret Dickson’, Murderpedia http://murderpedia.org/female.D/d/dickson-margaret.htm
Burnett J, Craigie R 1811, ‘A treatise on various branches of the criminal law of Scotland’ p. 570
Colville I 2010, ‘Hauf-hangit Maggie’ Dickson’ http://iainthepict.blogspot.com/2010/09/hauf-hangit-maggie-dickson.html
The Grassmarket n.d. ‘Half Hangit Maggie’ http://www.the-grassmarket.com/history/maggie-dickson.html
Undiscovered Scotland 2018, ‘Maggie Dickson’ https://www.undiscoveredscotland.co.uk/usbiography/d/maggiedickson.html

GHOSTWATCH

Ghostwatch (1992) – IMDB

What was Ghostwatch? – The Sun (UK)

The BBC Halloween Hoax That Traumatized Viewers – Mental Floss

Ghostwatch: BBC Halloween spoof that ‘gave children PTSD’ turns 25 – The Independent

Ghostwatch: the Halloween hoax that changed the language of television – New Statesman

Ghostwatch: The BBC spoof that duped a nation – BBC News

BBC TV Schedule October 31 1992 – BBC Genome Project

Ghostwatch – Internet Archive

The Blair Witch Project (1999) – IMDB

Other stuff:

The word history in the opening theme has been extracted from…

History Never Repeats – Split Enz (1981)

History Repeating – Propellerheads feat: Miss Shirley Bassey (1998)

Flame Trees – Cold Chisel (1984)

You’re History – Shakespeare’s Sister (1989)

Centuries – Fall Out Boy (2015)

Fade out – Everyday is Halloween – Ministry (2015)

All music used under fair use provisions.