Mums Mysteries & Murder
We're two Mums living in Edinburgh who are obsessed with true crime and mysterious happenings, so obsessed we decided to start a podcast! Each month we take turns to tell stories from our homelands - Effie Scottish born and bred where haggis is NOT actually an animal and Marti from the land down under where no prawns have ever been thrown on a barbie, it needs to be said! So, if you want polished, professional true crime then this is not for you, maybe try Casefile. But if you love true crime and mystery like us & you can't stop talking about it, give us a listen! Its not big or clever but it is entertaining.
Mums Mysteries & Murder
The Life & Almost Death of Maggie Dickson
In this month's episode, Effie takes us through the extraordinary life and almost death of Maggie Dickson born in 1702, a fishhawker living in Musselburgh, abandoned by her husband Maggie had a difficult life, but that's nothing compared to her ( almost death.)
Sources for this episode are:
Edinburgh Reporter
Beheaded podcast
The Hanging of Maggie Dickson - Book
Clan Broonfield - on YouTube
The Scotsman
The National Library of Scotland
Shows we talked about - Christopher Wilder - The Beauty Queen Killer
Forrest Fenn's Treasure Hunt on Netflix - highly recommend both
Flowers in the attic - The Origins on Channel 5 if you're in the UK
They also have the heaven series, the dollanger children AND My Sweet Audrina
The insane book Marti mentioned halfway through is called -
Careless People A Story Of Where I Used To Work power.greed.madness.
by Sarah Wynn-Williams you can buy it from Rare Bird Books
https://rarebirdsbooks.com/products/careless-people?_pos=1&_psq=sarah-wynn-&_ss=e&_v=1.0
We also talk about Effie's tradition of The Shining & Steven King, Effie's adventures with a Blimp (Yes, thats actually a real thing!) how difficult it was to be a woman in the 1700's & way too much chat about bath bombs and the beginnings of Lush!
Hosted by & Researched & written by Marti Jeremiah-Shelley & Effie McDonald
Edited & Produced by Erin Ferguson https://www.instagram.com/erinfaudio/
Since 2023 ( earlier episodes are badly edited by us!)
Theme Music Vampire Strut by Joybean @AudioJungle
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