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The Possession Files: True accounts of possession in Scotland

The Possession Files: True accounts of possession in Scotland

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In this feature length episode, we look at real historical cases
from Scotland where possession was recorded - not the Hollywood
kind, but the kind found in parish records, court transcripts,
and old ministerial accounts.

Some of these cases are deeply unsettling: people who claimed to
see spirits, to be tormented in their sleep, to speak with voices
not their own. Others sit somewhere between faith, fear, and
mental collapse. Through a modern lens, they might be seen as
illness or trauma - but at the time, they were believed to be
evidence of possession.

These are not Hollywood exorcisms or invented horrors. They’re
stranger than that - real moments from Scottish history where
belief in the unseen was part of everyday life, and where the
line between the spiritual and the psychological was far less
clear.

Join me as we revisit these forgotten records, from the Canongate
Tolbooth to Bargarran, and ask what these cases might still tell
us about how people experience fear, faith, and the unknown.