AS HALLOWEEN approaches, Times Past has been rooting around in the archives to discover some of Glasgow’s most ghoulish tales.
Some are well-known, like the terrifying story of the Gorbals Vampire, which dominated national news headlines in the 50s, and others less so.
Rumours flew that it was the Gorbals Vampire, a seven-foot tall monster with iron teeth, which had killed and eaten two young boys.Far from cowering in their homes, however, gangs of youngsters, armed with stakes and knives and accompanied by angry dogs, pitched up at the South Side cemetery in the hope of catching the strange creature, and it made headlines around the country.
Theatres are always good sources for ghost stories and the Arches, a former arts venue under Argyle Street in the old railway arches, has an exceptionally creepy example. Around 2009, many staff reported seeing a little girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes wandering the hallways.
Others claim to have seen a large, grinning man wandering through the auditorium and backstage, bearing great resemblance to comedian Tommy Morgan who had his ashes scattered in the auditorium.
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