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
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
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)
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