Wandering Eye Curios

Whether you're wooing your beloved with chocolates and roses, or if you're looking for something more...unusal...to woo that specials someone (or someone's), Wandering Eye has all sorts of historical Valentines gifts that your lover is sure to swoon over. And better yet, there's a story behind each one...

We're as fascinated by sea monsters today as we were 500 years ago, but just because we've moved out of the realm of myth and into science, doesn't make them any less scary. Come take a dive with us into the murky waters and see if there's any treasure to be found! Or if it'll all end with a trip to Davey Jones' locker...

If you've got something to sell, we've got a tale to tell. If that cursed skull is giving you grief, and your cat hisses every time she sees it, why not bring it in to the Curio? We'll give it a once over and maybe tell you a little about how curses and cursed objects have played a role in some of your favourite horror films. You know you want to...

Welcome! Come in, come in, it's dark outside and strange shapes lurk in the shadows. Perhaps you're not afraid of the dark? That's ok. Everyone's scared of something.

This episode was originally supposed to be about Christmas horror films. Then Jasper and Meg realised that some of the most unsettling ones were sitting right under their noses. Nothing untoward about Christmas with the Cranks...right?

Join Meg and Jasper for more creepy Christmas tales and find out why some of good 'ol Saint Nick's companions might not all be quite as saintly as he...

It's the most wonderful time of the year! With all the best urban legends and creepy stories to listen to while you warm your frozen toes by the fire. If Krampus doesn't get you, the scarecrow of Alsace just might.

Join Meg and Jasper as they go about their days - and tell you about a few interesting Xmas traditions along the way.

Come at once if convenient! If inconvenient come all the same! The game is a foot and the life of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle is yours to unravel...

This week we're covering the betrayal and murder of makeup artist Diane Chenery-Wickens by her spiritualist minister husband. If you can't trust the person you married, who can you trust?

This week the Wandering Eye delves into the life of one of spiritualism's most famous frauds  - is it ectoplasm? Is it just sticky gauze? Where is it coming from? (Do you really want to know?) And discover how working class mediums ended up being catalysts for the first wave of feminism.

Think it's easy being a medium? Think again. If the sceptics don't get you then the believers just might. Make sure you listen to our guide to ensure your seance doesn't get out of hand and maybe learn a trick of the spirit photography trade or two.

This week, grab your hot chocolate and favourite cosy blanket and settle in for the dark and stormy tale of the disappearances at Eilean Mor. Situated on a grassy rock out in the open ocean, keeping this lighthouse is not for the faint hearted and neither is the tragic story of three men who went out into the cold unknown, never to return.

In the last of our Halloween Bonus mini episodes, Meg welcomes you in for a biscuit and a seat by the fire to hear some of the strange and extraordinary halloween customs that we have Ireland to thank for.

You may think you know a thing or two about Edinburgh's most infamous body-snatchers. But did you know they never once actually robbed a grave? Or that they never could have commited their atrocities without the help of their loving wives? Whether you're a grave robbing buff or you don't know one end of a shovel from another, or you've only seen that one film about it with Simon Pegg, we think you'll be shocked as silent as the grave by the bloody tale of Burke and Hare.

In the third installment of the Halloween 2020 mini pods, Jasper has some strange and interesting stories from the beautiful and undulating land of the dragons: Wales. And is also very sorry about any horrible pronounciations of the Welsh language.

This week prepare yourself for the ultimate in Choose Your Own Adventures. Come with us to Edinburgh in the summer of 1645 to learn a little more about the Auld Reekie's last battle with the bubonic plague. Joining us for the ride today is our wonderful first podcast guest, vegan instagrammer, Sarah Welch.

In the second installment of our 2020 halloween mini pods, join Meg to discover the strange and unusual things that the English have historically gotten up to on All Hallows Eve. Who knows, maybe you'll even find some new ways to celebrate the spookiest time of the year.

Over the years, Scotland has played host to all sorts of mysteries and strange occurences. Join us this week as we explore two such odd and interesting - and still unexplainable - parts of Scottish history. From the conundrum of a severed arm discovered on the sea shore in Aberdeen, to a series of cavernous rooms carved beneath the streets of a small and unsuspecting mining community - which may have had ties to witches and satanic cults.

In this first of four mini podcasts specially recorded to celebrate the month of October (the spookiest month of the year), Jasper brings you a selection of Halloween stories and traditions all the way from Scotland.

Prepare yourself for three more twisted stories from the Auld Reekie. Here at Wandering Eye Curios we enjoy a tale or two of the macabre and none are quite so dark and strange as those from Edinburgh. Unravel for yourself the mystery of the Arthur's Seat coffins, the horrors of the Queensberry House Cannibal and the spectral figure of Maj. Thomas Weir.

In this episode we bring you three macabre tales from Edinburgh's history. Do you dare listen to the horrific origins of Morningside's Hanging Stanes? Or the terrible fate that befell two young noble brothers and a particularly unlucky prisoner at the infamous Edinburgh Castle? Lend us your ear for these gruesome stories and more...

There's only one light on and the village is sleeping, there's only one light, do you know where you are...why you're in Wandering Eye Curios of course! The shop that's never there when you look for it, but always appears when you need it. Take a seat by the fire and we'll tell you strange tales. Lend us your ear everything Thursday, if you dare.