Burke and Hare | The ‘Edinburgh Murderers’
Burke and Hare are famous for murdering 16 people and then selling the bodies to Dr Robert Knox for use in his dissection classes.
Burke and Hare are famous for murdering 16 people and then selling the bodies to Dr Robert Knox for use in his dissection classes.
From a fetid dumping ground for human waste & criminals to a place to try witches, discover the dark side to Edinburgh’s Nor Loch
From detatched legs to resident ghosts and links with murderers Burke & Hare, Edinburgh’s White Hart Inn seems to have it all
Rediscover seven ghostly tales from Edinburgh Castle, from a Ghost Dog which haunted the cemetery to a dsigruntled Prisoner of War
Spend any time in Edinburgh and chances are you’ll venture into Deacon Brodie’s Tavern, one of the most iconic…
Found in the ‘Daith Comes In’ gallery at Scotland’s National Museum, the Edinburgh miniature coffins or Burke & Hare murder dolls still have a sense of mystery
Edinburgh’s graveyards are the oldest & spookiest in Scotland. Visit the Old Town for Greyfriars Kirkyard, the most haunted graveyard in the world and walk down the Royal Mile for Canongate, St Giles
The Ultimate Guide to macabre & spooky graves in Greyfriars Kirkyard visit The Black Mausoleum, mortsafes and Covenanters Prison in the world’s most haunted graveyard
In a city where cadavers were once the hottest commodity, anything relating to the dark art of body snatching and providing corpses for the 19th century dissecting table was always going to pique my interest.
The legend of Half Hangit Maggie, is one of the most re-told tales on Edinburgh’s Grassmarket and a story…
Take a trip to Scotland’s capital city, Edinburgh, and even if graveyards and the macabre aren’t your ‘thing’, I can pretty much guarantee you’ll find yourself wandering through the famous gates of Greyfriars Kirkyard.
Ever wondered why anatomists stopped raiding graveyards and the professional body snatcher took over the task of acquiring cadavers for the dissecting table…
Mention the watchtower and most people have probably finished with the graveyard’s darker links to the past, but there’s so much more than that if you care to step inside.
Just how much money did Burke and Hare make on their ten month killing spree in Edinburgh? In this post, I’ve collected the figures together and taken a look.
No one knows what happened to William Hare following his release from custody in 1829. Put onto a mail coach to Dumfries, Hare disappeared after being recognised.
Burke & Hare’s last victim was Margaret Docherty, an old woman from Ireland who was in Edinburgh helplessly looking for her son, Michael when she met William Burke.
Burking is the murder method used by Edinburgh murderers Burke and Hare. It’s a term used to describe suffocation and was widely used by the press in the 19th century to describe all manner of attempted assaults.
Before the demand from anatomy schools for fresh cadavers grew to such an extent that body snatching became a…
If you’re interested in the macabre story of the now infamous murderers Burke and Hare, you’ll know that William Burke…
Long before Burke and Hare had perfected the subtle art of Burking, two women from Edinburgh were doing just…