1 00:00:06,832 --> 00:00:08,660 -[roars] -[screams] 2 00:00:08,791 --> 00:00:11,185 [laughing] Oh, fuck. 3 00:00:11,315 --> 00:00:12,664 What the fuck? 4 00:00:12,795 --> 00:00:17,104 I'm going to kill him. 5 00:00:17,191 --> 00:00:18,757 He's dead. He's-- 6 00:00:18,888 --> 00:00:21,499 -[laughs] -[muttering] 7 00:00:21,630 --> 00:00:23,371 I'm gonna get you. 8 00:00:23,501 --> 00:00:24,589 -Ah! -Oh! 9 00:00:24,676 --> 00:00:27,549 [upbeat music] 10 00:00:27,636 --> 00:00:31,205 ♪ 11 00:00:32,423 --> 00:00:34,817 [Graha Scotland is a land of many superstitions. 12 00:00:34,904 --> 00:00:36,340 [Sam] That's quite true. 13 00:00:36,471 --> 00:00:38,212 There's a superstition about the direction 14 00:00:38,342 --> 00:00:39,300 -you stir your porridge. -Really? 15 00:00:39,430 --> 00:00:40,692 You wanna stir your porridge... 16 00:00:40,823 --> 00:00:41,954 is it clockwise or anticlockwise? 17 00:00:42,085 --> 00:00:43,173 It's pretty important you know. 18 00:00:43,304 --> 00:00:44,218 Basically to ward off the devil. 19 00:00:44,348 --> 00:00:45,393 -Right. -I feel like I didn't-- 20 00:00:45,523 --> 00:00:46,829 haven't been getting it right. 21 00:00:46,959 --> 00:00:47,830 Have you been turning it in the wrong direction? 22 00:00:47,917 --> 00:00:49,527 -I think I have. -Yeah, you are basically 23 00:00:49,658 --> 00:00:50,963 Satan's little helper. 24 00:00:51,094 --> 00:00:52,704 Whenever I make porridge, yeah. 25 00:00:52,835 --> 00:00:55,490 They say Satan's clever. 26 00:00:55,620 --> 00:00:57,361 He'd hardly catch many unsuspecting souls 27 00:00:57,492 --> 00:01:00,712 if he laid his traps in bogs and tunnels. 28 00:01:00,843 --> 00:01:02,453 Do you have superstitions? I bet you do. 29 00:01:02,584 --> 00:01:04,194 -The only one I really have... -I bet you do. 30 00:01:04,325 --> 00:01:06,283 ...to be honest, is when I run a marathon. 31 00:01:06,414 --> 00:01:08,068 I'll always have a new pair of socks for each marathon. 32 00:01:08,198 --> 00:01:10,200 Well, I mean, that's-that's not superstition. 33 00:01:10,331 --> 00:01:11,419 That's just hygiene. 34 00:01:11,549 --> 00:01:12,942 Do you have any superstitions? 35 00:01:13,073 --> 00:01:14,335 Yeah, I kind of do. I have these sort of weird-- 36 00:01:14,465 --> 00:01:15,249 Black cat! 37 00:01:16,902 --> 00:01:18,861 Wow. Uh... I used-- 38 00:01:18,991 --> 00:01:19,775 Ladder. 39 00:01:21,994 --> 00:01:23,518 -C-can I continue? -Okay. 40 00:01:23,648 --> 00:01:25,476 I don't want this episode to be 41 00:01:25,607 --> 00:01:28,392 just one near heart attack after another for me, 42 00:01:28,523 --> 00:01:29,480 if that's okay. 43 00:01:29,611 --> 00:01:30,655 -Aye, okay. -Yeah. 44 00:01:30,786 --> 00:01:31,830 Oh, my God! What's that? 45 00:01:31,917 --> 00:01:33,702 Oh, shoot, it was just a... 46 00:01:33,832 --> 00:01:36,444 Ho-ho! Oh. Oh. 47 00:01:36,574 --> 00:01:39,099 [laughter] 48 00:01:39,229 --> 00:01:40,448 [Sam] I'm going to have such a good day. 49 00:01:40,578 --> 00:01:43,668 [Graham] Yeah, you're gonna get it so--oh. 50 00:01:43,799 --> 00:01:45,583 [Sam] Scotland's landscape is littered 51 00:01:45,670 --> 00:01:48,064 with castles, cemeteries, and ruins. 52 00:01:48,151 --> 00:01:50,153 The past is ever present, 53 00:01:50,284 --> 00:01:52,329 and the barrier between the world of the living 54 00:01:52,460 --> 00:01:54,679 and the world of the dead is especially thin. 55 00:01:54,810 --> 00:01:56,246 [Graham] In years past, 56 00:01:56,333 --> 00:01:58,553 Highlanders would summon ancestral spirits 57 00:01:58,683 --> 00:02:00,555 to stand alongside them in battle. 58 00:02:00,685 --> 00:02:03,732 Now Scots invoke the memory of the dead 59 00:02:03,862 --> 00:02:07,953 through quaint superstitions and terrifying ghost stories. 60 00:02:08,084 --> 00:02:10,956 [Sam] And it's not just ghosts that haunt the Scottish mind. 61 00:02:11,087 --> 00:02:12,958 The devil himself lurks around every corner 62 00:02:13,089 --> 00:02:14,569 and in every shadow. 63 00:02:14,699 --> 00:02:16,745 [Graham] It was this ever-present specter 64 00:02:16,875 --> 00:02:18,312 of the devil that led to the passage 65 00:02:18,399 --> 00:02:21,706 of 1563's Witchcraft Act. 66 00:02:21,793 --> 00:02:24,056 [Sam] Still, the old ways are neither gone nor forgotten. 67 00:02:24,187 --> 00:02:25,667 [Graham] Many modern Scots keep 68 00:02:25,754 --> 00:02:28,148 the ancient flame of paganism burning brightly 69 00:02:28,235 --> 00:02:30,454 like the bonfires of Beltane. 70 00:02:30,585 --> 00:02:32,369 [Sam] With all this as backdrop, is it any wonder 71 00:02:32,500 --> 00:02:34,241 that Diana Gabaldon said of Scotland... 72 00:02:34,371 --> 00:02:36,243 [Graham] "There's no place on Earth 73 00:02:36,373 --> 00:02:38,549 "with more of the old superstitions and magic 74 00:02:38,636 --> 00:02:40,943 mixed into its daily life." 75 00:02:41,639 --> 00:02:46,078 Here we are in Greyfriars Kirkyard. 76 00:02:46,209 --> 00:02:47,906 [Sam] Part church, part prison, and part graveyard. 77 00:02:47,993 --> 00:02:49,299 [Graham] Yeah. 78 00:02:49,430 --> 00:02:50,344 [Sam] It's the final resting place 79 00:02:50,474 --> 00:02:52,084 of the Covenanters, 80 00:02:52,215 --> 00:02:53,608 Scotland's most famous religious dissidents. 81 00:02:53,695 --> 00:02:54,609 -[Graham] Yes. -[Sam] And this is a woman 82 00:02:54,739 --> 00:02:56,045 that proclaims that as a child, 83 00:02:56,132 --> 00:02:57,960 she would draw skulls. 84 00:02:58,090 --> 00:02:59,962 Charlotte, your job title is... 85 00:03:00,092 --> 00:03:01,224 -Death historian. -[Graham] A death historian. 86 00:03:01,355 --> 00:03:02,312 A death historian. 87 00:03:02,443 --> 00:03:03,531 And this is, as you said, 88 00:03:03,618 --> 00:03:05,489 one of your-your favorite places. 89 00:03:05,620 --> 00:03:07,752 It is a remarkably spooky place 90 00:03:07,883 --> 00:03:09,841 and in fact, actually, I think, 91 00:03:09,972 --> 00:03:12,540 possibly one of the most populated places in Edinburgh 92 00:03:12,627 --> 00:03:13,628 under the ground. 93 00:03:13,758 --> 00:03:14,629 -By far. -[Graham] Really? 94 00:03:14,716 --> 00:03:15,978 -[Sam] Yes. -By far. 95 00:03:16,108 --> 00:03:18,894 We are talking fingers and everything... 96 00:03:19,024 --> 00:03:20,243 -Coming out of the ground. -...coming out of the ground. 97 00:03:20,374 --> 00:03:21,853 -Up here... -[Charlotte] Mm-hmm. 98 00:03:21,984 --> 00:03:24,116 -...there was a prison where... -[Charlotte] Yes. Yes. 99 00:03:24,247 --> 00:03:25,683 [Graham] Oh, yeah, there's-- oh, yeah. 100 00:03:25,770 --> 00:03:27,119 [Sam] ...hundreds of people were-were buried. 101 00:03:27,250 --> 00:03:28,469 Do you wanna go in a prison? 102 00:03:28,599 --> 00:03:30,471 -I thi--[laughs] I do. -[laughs] You do? 103 00:03:30,558 --> 00:03:31,298 Can we go and have a look in a prison? 104 00:03:31,428 --> 00:03:32,647 There's so much to see here. 105 00:03:32,777 --> 00:03:33,865 I think we should start wandering along. 106 00:03:33,996 --> 00:03:34,779 Are you gonna get naked in the prison? 107 00:03:34,910 --> 00:03:36,259 -What? -Um... that--well-- 108 00:03:36,390 --> 00:03:37,956 Well, you've done that already, haven't you, Sam? 109 00:03:38,087 --> 00:03:40,394 You-you never know. It did happen in Outlander. 110 00:03:40,524 --> 00:03:42,309 [Graham] Yes, you did. I seem to remember that, yeah. 111 00:03:42,439 --> 00:03:44,224 [Sam] It is a remarkable place. 112 00:03:44,354 --> 00:03:47,357 Is it--dare I ask, is it haunted as the bells... 113 00:03:47,488 --> 00:03:49,403 -Well, does it feel haunted? -...go off? 114 00:03:49,533 --> 00:03:50,665 Well, by tradition, 115 00:03:50,795 --> 00:03:53,363 every single burial ground is haunted 116 00:03:53,494 --> 00:03:55,278 because the last person to be buried 117 00:03:55,409 --> 00:03:57,715 in a graveyard or a burial ground 118 00:03:57,846 --> 00:04:00,109 is meant to look after the rest of the bodies. 119 00:04:00,240 --> 00:04:02,198 [Graham] Tell us a little bit about the Covenanters. 120 00:04:02,285 --> 00:04:04,635 [Sam] Who were Presbyterian religious dissidents. 121 00:04:04,766 --> 00:04:06,246 [Charlotte] Yes, Charles I, who was the last monarch 122 00:04:06,376 --> 00:04:07,986 to be born in Scotland, 123 00:04:08,117 --> 00:04:09,858 he was under the Episcopalian faith 124 00:04:09,988 --> 00:04:11,599 rather than the Presbyterian faith. 125 00:04:11,729 --> 00:04:13,253 He brought in the new prayer book 126 00:04:13,340 --> 00:04:15,385 and the whole of Edinburgh rioted about this. 127 00:04:15,516 --> 00:04:17,213 They did not want this new prayer book. 128 00:04:17,344 --> 00:04:19,346 Here at Greyfriars, there was a riot of women 129 00:04:19,476 --> 00:04:21,826 who chased the minister out of the building 130 00:04:21,957 --> 00:04:23,872 because they were not gonna have this new prayer book. 131 00:04:23,959 --> 00:04:26,962 This man here, we have Alexander Henderson. 132 00:04:27,092 --> 00:04:28,311 He was one of the founding people 133 00:04:28,398 --> 00:04:30,835 who wrote up the-the National Covenant. 134 00:04:30,966 --> 00:04:33,098 [Graham] Oh. Hence Covenanters. 135 00:04:33,229 --> 00:04:35,013 This was signed inside Greyfriars Kirk itself. 136 00:04:35,144 --> 00:04:36,276 Wow. 137 00:04:36,406 --> 00:04:37,538 And basically they were saying, 138 00:04:37,668 --> 00:04:38,539 "We are loyal subjects to the king." 139 00:04:38,669 --> 00:04:40,236 Yep. 140 00:04:40,367 --> 00:04:42,107 "We're quite happy to do whatever the king wishes. 141 00:04:42,238 --> 00:04:44,109 "Just take the Episcopalianism out of Scotland 142 00:04:44,240 --> 00:04:45,633 and we'll all be fine." 143 00:04:45,720 --> 00:04:47,635 [Sam] King Charles clearly didn't agree. 144 00:04:47,722 --> 00:04:49,332 [Charlotte] We're going towards the Covenanters' prison now. 145 00:04:49,463 --> 00:04:51,247 The Covenanters were rounded up. 146 00:04:51,378 --> 00:04:52,988 There was over a thousand of them. 147 00:04:53,118 --> 00:04:54,990 -And they were brought here. -[Graham] A thousand? 148 00:04:55,120 --> 00:04:55,599 -[Charlotte] Over a thousand. -[Graham] In here? 149 00:04:55,730 --> 00:04:57,253 [Sam] Wow. 150 00:04:57,340 --> 00:04:58,515 But basically just an open piece of ground. 151 00:04:58,646 --> 00:05:00,082 [Charlotte] Open to the damp, the cold. 152 00:05:00,212 --> 00:05:02,127 They got one penny loaf a day. 153 00:05:02,258 --> 00:05:03,781 That was their ration each. 154 00:05:03,912 --> 00:05:04,956 So a lot of people died of starvation 155 00:05:05,087 --> 00:05:06,262 while they were here. 156 00:05:06,393 --> 00:05:08,786 What it came down to is 380 people left. 157 00:05:08,917 --> 00:05:10,397 They stuck by their guns. 158 00:05:10,484 --> 00:05:12,660 The Covenanters believed they were God's people. 159 00:05:12,790 --> 00:05:15,227 -They were not gonna back down. -May we go in? 160 00:05:15,315 --> 00:05:16,751 [Charlotte] I'm quite happy to take you into the prison. 161 00:05:16,881 --> 00:05:17,578 -[Graham] Please. -[Sam] Thank you, then. 162 00:05:24,889 --> 00:05:26,369 After you. 163 00:05:26,500 --> 00:05:28,589 No, really, I insist. After you. 164 00:05:28,719 --> 00:05:31,461 [sighs] Oh, God. 165 00:05:31,592 --> 00:05:34,334 [eerie music plays] 166 00:05:34,421 --> 00:05:37,249 ♪ 167 00:05:39,774 --> 00:05:41,079 [Graham] Are-are you locking us in? 168 00:05:41,210 --> 00:05:42,907 [Charlotte] I am locking us in. 169 00:05:42,994 --> 00:05:45,040 -[Graham] Yeah, fine. -[Sam] Is there a reason? 170 00:05:45,170 --> 00:05:49,566 It's best to have people... unable to get in. 171 00:05:49,697 --> 00:05:51,351 A homeless man broke in 172 00:05:51,481 --> 00:05:53,004 on a really dark and stormy night. 173 00:05:53,135 --> 00:05:54,266 [Graham] Uh-huh. 174 00:05:54,397 --> 00:05:55,746 He saw this grate at the bottom. 175 00:05:55,877 --> 00:05:57,487 Yes. 176 00:05:57,618 --> 00:05:58,575 And through the grate, he saw some stairs. 177 00:05:58,706 --> 00:06:00,447 Yes. Now, let me guess. 178 00:06:00,534 --> 00:06:02,144 -He went down the stairs. -He went down the stairs. 179 00:06:02,274 --> 00:06:03,537 -Why? Why? -Don't go down the stairs? 180 00:06:03,624 --> 00:06:04,799 He went down the stairs. 181 00:06:04,886 --> 00:06:06,496 If you're in a graveyard, it's simple. 182 00:06:06,627 --> 00:06:08,324 -Don't go down the stairs. -Rule 101 of horror movies. 183 00:06:08,455 --> 00:06:10,065 He's homeless. He's cold. 184 00:06:10,195 --> 00:06:13,111 Meanwhile, in the graveyard, Graeme the caretaker 185 00:06:13,198 --> 00:06:15,070 and his little pooch were walking around. 186 00:06:15,200 --> 00:06:16,506 Ah, Graeme the caretaker. 187 00:06:16,637 --> 00:06:17,681 Not sure if it's Graham with a H. 188 00:06:17,812 --> 00:06:18,682 It's another Graeme. Don't worry. 189 00:06:18,813 --> 00:06:19,944 [Graham] Mm-hmm, mm-hmm. 190 00:06:20,075 --> 00:06:21,076 [Charlotte] Graeme hears a noise 191 00:06:21,163 --> 00:06:22,512 coming from George Mackenzie's tomb, 192 00:06:22,599 --> 00:06:24,993 which is meant to be haunted because George Mackenzie, 193 00:06:25,123 --> 00:06:26,864 atrocities against the people, it was said 194 00:06:26,995 --> 00:06:29,345 that his spirit would never be allowed to rest. 195 00:06:29,476 --> 00:06:30,781 We have the homeless man downstairs, 196 00:06:30,912 --> 00:06:33,828 and he sees three wooden boxes. 197 00:06:33,958 --> 00:06:34,916 [Graham] He doesn't open them. 198 00:06:35,046 --> 00:06:36,047 What's inside the wooden box? 199 00:06:36,178 --> 00:06:37,962 No, he does not. 200 00:06:38,093 --> 00:06:39,399 -He opens... -Oh, for goodness' sake. 201 00:06:39,529 --> 00:06:41,270 ...the wooden box and steps back, 202 00:06:41,401 --> 00:06:43,968 and as he steps back, the wooden flooring gives way 203 00:06:44,099 --> 00:06:46,623 and he falls into another burial pit. 204 00:06:46,754 --> 00:06:49,278 Graeme sees this horrendous face 205 00:06:49,409 --> 00:06:50,801 coming up towards him. 206 00:06:50,932 --> 00:06:53,195 -Covered in gunk. -Covered in gunk. 207 00:06:53,282 --> 00:06:55,371 Graeme and the dog go running one way out of the graveyard, 208 00:06:55,502 --> 00:06:58,635 and this homeless man goes off elsewhere. 209 00:06:58,766 --> 00:07:00,071 We don't know what happened to the homeless man. 210 00:07:00,202 --> 00:07:01,725 He's probably still in shock, I think. 211 00:07:01,812 --> 00:07:03,771 Graeme's not a caretaker anymore. 212 00:07:03,901 --> 00:07:05,555 Should imagine not. 213 00:07:05,686 --> 00:07:07,514 But this is where it goes sinister. 214 00:07:07,644 --> 00:07:09,211 -Oh, there's more. -There's more. 215 00:07:09,341 --> 00:07:10,908 Oh, sorry. Shall we continue walking? 216 00:07:11,039 --> 00:07:13,345 No, we don't need to continue walking. 217 00:07:13,476 --> 00:07:14,695 [Graham] Oh, we're here, are we? 218 00:07:14,825 --> 00:07:15,347 -[Charlotte] We are here. -[Graham] Oh, God! 219 00:07:15,478 --> 00:07:18,046 [Sam] Oh. 220 00:07:18,176 --> 00:07:19,613 [Charlotte] On that fateful night, 221 00:07:19,743 --> 00:07:23,094 something was released from George Mackenzie's tomb. 222 00:07:23,181 --> 00:07:26,097 Whatever was meant to torment George Mackenzie forevermore 223 00:07:26,228 --> 00:07:28,752 was released out of that coffin that night, 224 00:07:28,883 --> 00:07:31,973 and for some reason, it has taken its leave 225 00:07:32,103 --> 00:07:33,931 in the Covenanters' prison. 226 00:07:34,062 --> 00:07:35,063 Après vous. 227 00:07:35,150 --> 00:07:37,152 I just--I'm really scared! 228 00:07:37,282 --> 00:07:38,501 I'm really scared. 229 00:07:38,632 --> 00:07:39,937 Listen, I'm not normally somebody 230 00:07:40,068 --> 00:07:40,938 who is scared about this sort of thing, but-- 231 00:07:41,069 --> 00:07:42,723 No, you're not. 232 00:07:42,853 --> 00:07:44,986 You know--okay, let's just take in the view, okay? 233 00:07:45,116 --> 00:07:47,423 -A black hole... -Mm-hmm. 234 00:07:47,554 --> 00:07:50,470 -...with an iron gate. -Mm. 235 00:07:50,600 --> 00:07:52,689 In you go, gentlemen. After you. 236 00:07:52,820 --> 00:07:55,431 [Graham] Holy shit. 237 00:07:55,562 --> 00:07:57,128 It's horrible. 238 00:07:57,259 --> 00:07:59,348 It is. 239 00:07:59,479 --> 00:08:01,219 All right, you'll just notice some of the area 240 00:08:01,350 --> 00:08:03,004 in the ceiling up here, 241 00:08:03,134 --> 00:08:04,396 -the discoloration. -[Graham] Yes. 242 00:08:04,527 --> 00:08:06,181 Yep. 243 00:08:06,311 --> 00:08:07,312 [Sam] Wait. Oh, don't. 244 00:08:09,663 --> 00:08:11,186 -[sighs] -[Graham] Is that your-- 245 00:08:11,273 --> 00:08:12,100 [Charlotte] I have to tell you what happens in here 246 00:08:12,187 --> 00:08:13,318 and I have to keep you locked in. 247 00:08:13,449 --> 00:08:14,885 -Is that your idea? -Wasn't my idea. 248 00:08:14,972 --> 00:08:17,279 Now we are locked into the Black Mausoleum. 249 00:08:17,409 --> 00:08:18,846 I'm gonna pass you these photographs. 250 00:08:18,976 --> 00:08:20,587 Oh, yes. Photographs. Great. 251 00:08:22,502 --> 00:08:24,460 [Sam] Oh, God, no. 252 00:08:24,591 --> 00:08:27,289 These are photographs that people have sent in 253 00:08:27,419 --> 00:08:28,943 of things that have happened to them 254 00:08:29,073 --> 00:08:31,467 while they've been standing within the Black Mausoleum. 255 00:08:31,598 --> 00:08:35,558 They get burns, bite marks, bruises, 256 00:08:35,645 --> 00:08:37,255 and then there's the knockouts. 257 00:08:37,342 --> 00:08:38,300 -The what? -The what? 258 00:08:38,430 --> 00:08:39,910 The knockouts. 259 00:08:40,041 --> 00:08:41,564 People have been knocked out in here? 260 00:08:41,695 --> 00:08:45,220 If you're standing in there and you feel an intense cold 261 00:08:45,350 --> 00:08:46,787 building up inside you, 262 00:08:46,917 --> 00:08:48,789 you can take a step to the side. 263 00:08:48,876 --> 00:08:51,443 Why-why-why-why-why-why would we take a step to the side? 264 00:08:51,574 --> 00:08:53,533 Because a few seconds later, you will be on the ground. 265 00:08:53,663 --> 00:08:54,751 Oh, I see. Right. Okay. 266 00:08:54,838 --> 00:08:56,927 Now, I've seen big, burly men 267 00:08:57,058 --> 00:08:58,581 end up on that floor. 268 00:08:58,712 --> 00:09:00,148 -[Graham] Have you really? -I have, 269 00:09:00,278 --> 00:09:01,192 and I've had nothing to do with it. 270 00:09:01,323 --> 00:09:03,847 And--right. 271 00:09:03,978 --> 00:09:05,849 Why is the ceiling so discolored? 272 00:09:10,201 --> 00:09:11,986 I don't know. 273 00:09:12,813 --> 00:09:16,077 This is one of the weirdest places 274 00:09:16,207 --> 00:09:17,774 I've ever been to in my life. 275 00:09:17,905 --> 00:09:18,775 I think we should move on. 276 00:09:22,257 --> 00:09:25,521 [upbeat music plays] 277 00:09:25,652 --> 00:09:27,001 [Graham] I'm looking forward to Wormiston House. 278 00:09:27,131 --> 00:09:28,829 [Sam] Mm. 279 00:09:28,959 --> 00:09:31,179 I'm looking forward to hearing some of the stories 280 00:09:31,309 --> 00:09:33,747 of the witch trials, of the persecution, of-- 281 00:09:33,877 --> 00:09:35,575 well, of course, the thing is, 282 00:09:35,705 --> 00:09:37,794 you know, they-they talked about witchcraft, 283 00:09:37,925 --> 00:09:41,624 but really, in-in fact, it was just about persecuting people 284 00:09:41,755 --> 00:09:43,626 who weren't doing anything wrong. 285 00:09:43,757 --> 00:09:44,801 That's the reality of it. They-- 286 00:09:44,888 --> 00:09:45,889 Well, I mean, they were witches, right? 287 00:09:46,020 --> 00:09:47,412 -What? - They were witches, though. 288 00:09:47,543 --> 00:09:48,588 I mean, if you're a witch... 289 00:09:48,718 --> 00:09:50,546 Geillis Duncan, 290 00:09:50,677 --> 00:09:51,634 you're under arrest for witchcraft. 291 00:09:53,331 --> 00:09:55,072 -[glass shatters] -Under whose orders? 292 00:09:55,159 --> 00:09:58,206 Well, lookee here. The other sorceress. 293 00:09:58,336 --> 00:10:00,034 Would you have burnt me as a witch? 294 00:10:00,164 --> 00:10:01,557 Absolutely. 295 00:10:01,688 --> 00:10:02,950 -Really? No hesitation. -Absolutely. 296 00:10:03,080 --> 00:10:04,691 You would have gone and reported 297 00:10:04,778 --> 00:10:06,431 -to the witchfinder general and said... -Yes. I'd say- 298 00:10:06,562 --> 00:10:08,608 [with high-pitched voice] "There's a man down the road. 299 00:10:08,738 --> 00:10:10,479 He looks a bit witchy to me." 300 00:10:10,566 --> 00:10:12,220 "There's definitely a stench of witch coming off him." 301 00:10:12,350 --> 00:10:13,613 "Yes, I saw him--I saw him 302 00:10:13,743 --> 00:10:15,615 dancing with Satan in his garden." 303 00:10:15,745 --> 00:10:18,922 "He does funny voices too. He speaks like the devil." 304 00:10:19,053 --> 00:10:20,707 [normally] Right. Well, that's good to know. 305 00:10:20,794 --> 00:10:23,753 Weren't actors burnt, um, or at least mistrusted? 306 00:10:23,884 --> 00:10:26,060 -Oh, actors? Oh, my goodness. -Yeah. 307 00:10:26,190 --> 00:10:28,366 They used to bury actors at crossroads, 308 00:10:28,497 --> 00:10:30,673 I think sometimes with a stake through their heart, 309 00:10:30,804 --> 00:10:33,023 because they-they were so terrified 310 00:10:33,110 --> 00:10:36,331 of them, um, coming back, because they didn't trust them 311 00:10:36,461 --> 00:10:38,028 because they could pretend to be other people. 312 00:10:38,159 --> 00:10:40,509 It was a very terrifying time to live. 313 00:10:40,640 --> 00:10:42,772 Pretty much like right now with you. 314 00:10:42,903 --> 00:10:45,688 [dramatic music plays] 315 00:10:45,775 --> 00:10:47,124 ♪ 316 00:10:47,255 --> 00:10:49,518 "Light thickens 317 00:10:49,649 --> 00:10:52,652 "and the crow makes wing to the rooky wood. 318 00:10:52,782 --> 00:10:56,307 "Good things of day begin to droop and drowse, 319 00:10:56,438 --> 00:10:59,833 "and night's black agents to their preys do rouse. 320 00:10:59,963 --> 00:11:03,314 "Ere the bat hath flown his cloistered flight 321 00:11:03,445 --> 00:11:06,317 "and the shard-borne beetle with his drowsy hums 322 00:11:06,448 --> 00:11:10,060 "has rung night's yawning peal, there shall be done 323 00:11:10,147 --> 00:11:12,628 a deed of dreadful note." 324 00:11:12,802 --> 00:11:14,891 ♪ 325 00:11:15,022 --> 00:11:15,936 -Leonard. -[Leonard] Hello, sir. 326 00:11:16,023 --> 00:11:17,677 Leonard Low. Pleasure to meet you. 327 00:11:17,807 --> 00:11:20,157 I'm not sure I'm gonna shake your hand, Mr. Low. 328 00:11:20,244 --> 00:11:22,029 I see your T-shirt with a cauldron 329 00:11:22,159 --> 00:11:25,119 with skeletons being burnt by the devil 330 00:11:25,249 --> 00:11:28,383 as the crow makes its way towards the... wicked wood. 331 00:11:28,513 --> 00:11:30,298 -Rooky wood. Rooky wood. -Rooky wood. 332 00:11:30,428 --> 00:11:32,343 I love it when you quote Shakespeare; it's great. 333 00:11:32,474 --> 00:11:34,606 Can't mention witches without mentioning Shakespeare. 334 00:11:34,737 --> 00:11:37,914 He learnt the story of the three witches of Forres 335 00:11:38,045 --> 00:11:40,003 and incorporated it into Macbeth,you see? 336 00:11:40,134 --> 00:11:41,831 That's a true story. 337 00:11:41,918 --> 00:11:44,878 And the Spence family that built Wormiston Castle, 338 00:11:45,008 --> 00:11:46,314 they're related to the MacDuffs of-of Macbeth. 339 00:11:46,444 --> 00:11:47,924 -Ah. -Really? 340 00:11:48,055 --> 00:11:51,711 I dare-daren't ask, but this magnificent house, 341 00:11:51,841 --> 00:11:54,757 castle, Wormiston, what happened here? 342 00:11:54,888 --> 00:11:58,456 The Lindsay family took this house over in 1621. 343 00:11:58,587 --> 00:12:00,807 They were the sheriffs of Crail. 344 00:12:00,937 --> 00:12:02,852 Crail's a little village just around the coast. 345 00:12:02,983 --> 00:12:06,682 Recently, I was speaking to Sir James Lindsay. 346 00:12:06,813 --> 00:12:08,858 "James, your ancestors were the sheriff. 347 00:12:08,989 --> 00:12:11,861 "And they would've stood in jurisdiction 348 00:12:11,948 --> 00:12:15,560 over my ancestor, Bessie Mason, who was burnt for a witch." 349 00:12:15,691 --> 00:12:17,084 -Your ancestor was burnt as a witch? -Yes, aye. 350 00:12:17,214 --> 00:12:18,563 Aye, burnt as a witch, 351 00:12:18,650 --> 00:12:19,956 and it was the owner of this castle, 352 00:12:20,043 --> 00:12:21,392 his ancestors that did it. 353 00:12:21,479 --> 00:12:24,700 [Graham] And Scotland was particularly zealous 354 00:12:24,831 --> 00:12:26,180 in its persecution of witches, wasn't it... 355 00:12:26,310 --> 00:12:27,355 -Yes. -...compared to anywhere else. 356 00:12:27,485 --> 00:12:30,184 Well, in England, it was treated as a crime, 357 00:12:30,314 --> 00:12:31,881 a crime that you could- you could be hanged for. 358 00:12:32,012 --> 00:12:33,230 Right, right. 359 00:12:33,361 --> 00:12:35,145 But in Scotland, it was treated as heresy, 360 00:12:35,276 --> 00:12:37,365 and heresy, you have to be burned. Every bit of you. 361 00:12:37,495 --> 00:12:38,932 Oh, of course. You have to be burnt. 362 00:12:39,062 --> 00:12:41,108 Burn the witch! Burn them both! 363 00:12:41,238 --> 00:12:44,198 [crowd shouting] 364 00:12:44,285 --> 00:12:46,591 Conduct the prisoners to the pyre, if you please. 365 00:12:49,159 --> 00:12:51,292 I think it's about time we went and saw 366 00:12:51,422 --> 00:12:53,903 where all the action took place in the dungeon. 367 00:12:54,034 --> 00:12:55,600 Oh, great. Yes, let's go to the dungeon. 368 00:12:55,687 --> 00:12:57,254 -Fantastic. I can't wait. -[laughs] 369 00:12:58,734 --> 00:13:00,431 Let's go to the scary place. 370 00:13:00,518 --> 00:13:02,607 Let's go to the big scary place where there's no exit. 371 00:13:04,566 --> 00:13:06,263 [Leonard] Jail cells in Scotland 372 00:13:06,394 --> 00:13:07,569 weren't that secure, 373 00:13:07,699 --> 00:13:09,310 but this one is a beauty. 374 00:13:09,440 --> 00:13:11,181 If you come here--I've got- I've got a bowl of food. 375 00:13:11,312 --> 00:13:12,487 [Sam] I don't really know 376 00:13:12,574 --> 00:13:13,488 if I want to follow you anywhere. 377 00:13:13,618 --> 00:13:14,794 This is a bowl of lovely stones 378 00:13:14,881 --> 00:13:17,187 and a bit of, uh, fresh, uh, whatever that is, 379 00:13:17,274 --> 00:13:19,668 and-and what-what you'd do as, um, the jailer, 380 00:13:19,799 --> 00:13:21,235 you'd feed your witches 381 00:13:21,365 --> 00:13:22,802 by pushing that through there to feed 'em. 382 00:13:22,932 --> 00:13:24,238 So if you could push that through there... 383 00:13:24,325 --> 00:13:25,195 -Yep. -...you'll get an idea-- 384 00:13:25,326 --> 00:13:26,457 -Oh! No! No! -Oh, God! Oh, God! 385 00:13:26,588 --> 00:13:27,981 -Not again! -Oh, damn you! 386 00:13:28,111 --> 00:13:30,766 -I knew it! -[laughter] 387 00:13:30,897 --> 00:13:32,333 -I'm gonna get you for that. -I knew it. 388 00:13:32,463 --> 00:13:33,464 -Was it you? -I knew you couldn't trust him. 389 00:13:33,595 --> 00:13:34,726 It's a hungry witch. 390 00:13:34,857 --> 00:13:35,815 So we're going in, are we? 391 00:13:35,945 --> 00:13:37,294 -[both] Yeah. -Right. 392 00:13:37,425 --> 00:13:38,948 Oh, God, I don't know if I wanna go in there. 393 00:13:39,079 --> 00:13:40,907 Well, yeah, after you. Definitely after you. 394 00:13:40,994 --> 00:13:42,430 -[Sam] Go on! -[thumps door] 395 00:13:42,560 --> 00:13:43,779 [Leonard] Are you gonna come out, though? 396 00:13:43,910 --> 00:13:46,303 There's no one there. 397 00:13:46,390 --> 00:13:48,175 -Oh, my God. -[Leonard laughs] 398 00:13:48,262 --> 00:13:50,525 [Graham] Oh, God. Oh. 399 00:13:50,655 --> 00:13:52,135 It's very cramped. 400 00:13:52,266 --> 00:13:54,572 -Anyway... -[Sam] Yeah, no. 401 00:13:54,703 --> 00:13:56,270 -You're going next. -[Graham] Wow. 402 00:13:56,357 --> 00:13:58,707 [Leonard] We need-we need a light. 403 00:13:58,838 --> 00:14:00,883 -Come on in, Sam. Don't be shy. -[Sam] Oh, God. 404 00:14:00,970 --> 00:14:03,320 ♪ 405 00:14:06,280 --> 00:14:08,891 This is a truly terrifying collection 406 00:14:09,022 --> 00:14:10,632 of ironmongery that you have here. 407 00:14:10,762 --> 00:14:13,548 [Leonard] A witch is to confess to her sins. 408 00:14:13,678 --> 00:14:16,246 Normally, they would deny all accusations of witchcraft... 409 00:14:16,377 --> 00:14:17,595 Yeah. 410 00:14:17,682 --> 00:14:18,858 ...because the-the-the end result 411 00:14:18,988 --> 00:14:20,468 doesn't look too good for them. 412 00:14:20,555 --> 00:14:22,035 [Graham] Mm. 413 00:14:22,122 --> 00:14:22,992 [Leonard] But they had these methods 414 00:14:23,123 --> 00:14:25,952 to get a confession through torture. 415 00:14:26,082 --> 00:14:30,217 What we have here is, uh, 16th-century, uh, thumb screws. 416 00:14:30,347 --> 00:14:32,610 -Ah, the thumb screw. Okay. -The dreaded thumb screw. 417 00:14:32,741 --> 00:14:35,178 Now, if I lift, uh, this up here 418 00:14:35,309 --> 00:14:36,963 and you stick a couple of thumbs in there... 419 00:14:37,093 --> 00:14:38,225 -[Sam] "I'm not a witch." -Oh. 420 00:14:38,355 --> 00:14:40,618 -[Sam] "I'm not a witch." -Oh, immediately... 421 00:14:40,749 --> 00:14:42,359 But see, we-we've got this device here 422 00:14:42,446 --> 00:14:44,057 to twist it down to nothing. 423 00:14:44,187 --> 00:14:45,319 [Graham] Okay, you can stop now, Sam. 424 00:14:45,406 --> 00:14:46,363 -Thanks. -[laughter] 425 00:14:46,494 --> 00:14:47,887 And-and it got-- 426 00:14:47,974 --> 00:14:48,670 That's actually getting quite sore. 427 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:49,758 This would crush your bones. 428 00:14:49,889 --> 00:14:51,412 I can't take my thumbs out now. 429 00:14:51,499 --> 00:14:53,283 [Leonard] I'd have a confession in front of you now. 430 00:14:53,414 --> 00:14:54,850 -"Sign it." -So they'd be standing-- 431 00:14:54,937 --> 00:14:56,460 -"Sign it." -Right. 432 00:14:56,591 --> 00:14:57,418 [Leonard] And of course, you go "No." 433 00:14:57,548 --> 00:14:58,723 I would just tighten it more. 434 00:14:58,854 --> 00:15:00,290 -And then keep going and-- -Yeah. Yeah. 435 00:15:00,421 --> 00:15:02,771 When it came to making their mark, 436 00:15:02,902 --> 00:15:04,468 many couldn't make their mark 437 00:15:04,599 --> 00:15:06,601 because they'd had their fingers destroyed 438 00:15:06,731 --> 00:15:08,516 in the torture process. 439 00:15:08,646 --> 00:15:10,170 [Sam] If he was deemed a witch, 440 00:15:10,300 --> 00:15:11,780 then maybe I might use one of these. 441 00:15:11,867 --> 00:15:13,042 [Leonard] You wouldn't believe it, 442 00:15:13,173 --> 00:15:14,522 but this is one of the lighter punishments. 443 00:15:14,652 --> 00:15:17,090 Before the Witchcraft Act came into being, 444 00:15:17,220 --> 00:15:18,569 many witches were found 445 00:15:18,700 --> 00:15:20,571 and they-they were simply tried in the courts 446 00:15:20,702 --> 00:15:22,225 and banished, 447 00:15:22,356 --> 00:15:24,401 and to be banished, you had to be branded. 448 00:15:24,532 --> 00:15:26,534 -You'd be branded a witch. -Where would you be branded? 449 00:15:26,664 --> 00:15:28,101 You'd be branded in the face, on the cheek. 450 00:15:28,231 --> 00:15:29,624 -On the forehead, or... -Around the cheek. 451 00:15:29,754 --> 00:15:31,539 Is this your own personal item? 452 00:15:31,669 --> 00:15:33,323 Uh, no. Uh, y-yes, I collect these-- 453 00:15:33,454 --> 00:15:34,846 You can loosen them now. 454 00:15:34,977 --> 00:15:37,414 [laughs] I-I collect these-these items. 455 00:15:37,545 --> 00:15:38,763 Oh, let me help you with that. 456 00:15:38,850 --> 00:15:41,549 These-these are-these are actually real. 457 00:15:41,679 --> 00:15:43,029 -Now-- -Yes, I'll take one of these. 458 00:15:43,159 --> 00:15:44,030 -Thank you. -This is a pricker. 459 00:15:44,160 --> 00:15:46,597 Oh, look. It's just a little... 460 00:15:46,728 --> 00:15:48,208 It's like a needle-- needle or something. 461 00:15:48,338 --> 00:15:50,514 [Leonard] It-it's a brass bodkin needle. 462 00:15:50,645 --> 00:15:52,690 Um, now, this would be thrust into his body... 463 00:15:52,821 --> 00:15:54,127 Oh. 464 00:15:54,257 --> 00:15:56,781 ...um, inch by inch, arm, back, face. 465 00:15:56,912 --> 00:15:58,740 -Anywhere I want? -Yep. 466 00:15:58,870 --> 00:16:00,437 [Leonard] If you're one of the devil's creatures 467 00:16:00,568 --> 00:16:03,049 and he's given you his baptism rites of his own 468 00:16:03,179 --> 00:16:05,703 and he's taken away your Christian baptism rites, 469 00:16:05,834 --> 00:16:09,403 he's left a mark on your body that is insensible to pain. 470 00:16:09,533 --> 00:16:11,535 So I need to prick you with this thing 471 00:16:11,666 --> 00:16:14,190 until I get a spot on your body which you're not gonna go-- 472 00:16:14,321 --> 00:16:15,365 -Which it doesn't hurt. -Ah. 473 00:16:15,496 --> 00:16:16,888 When you don't--where it-- 474 00:16:16,976 --> 00:16:20,980 that's so diabolically awful. 475 00:16:21,110 --> 00:16:22,372 [Sam] What's this, Leonard? 476 00:16:22,503 --> 00:16:22,851 [Leonard] Oh, this is-this is another device. 477 00:16:22,938 --> 00:16:24,853 Ah. 478 00:16:24,940 --> 00:16:26,376 [Leonard] See, you-you've- you've entered the jail. 479 00:16:26,507 --> 00:16:27,421 You need to be restrained, you see? 480 00:16:27,551 --> 00:16:28,422 -Hmm. -Well, we'd-- 481 00:16:28,552 --> 00:16:30,076 Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on. 482 00:16:30,206 --> 00:16:31,033 -What's going on here? -We'd unscrew this, you see. 483 00:16:31,164 --> 00:16:32,687 Well, you're-you're clearly a witch, 484 00:16:32,817 --> 00:16:33,775 so we need to lock you up. 485 00:16:33,905 --> 00:16:35,603 How did I become the witch? 486 00:16:35,733 --> 00:16:38,562 Just shh--see, witches-- you're talking too much. 487 00:16:38,649 --> 00:16:40,260 -You would've totally-- -Keep talking, you. 488 00:16:40,347 --> 00:16:42,958 -If there was anybody-anybody-- -Yes, come on. 489 00:16:43,045 --> 00:16:44,742 Let me just-let me just help you with this 490 00:16:44,873 --> 00:16:46,135 so that I don't actually cut my own-- 491 00:16:46,266 --> 00:16:47,571 And then his hands through here, is it? 492 00:16:47,702 --> 00:16:48,877 Yeah, yeah, yeah. Just put his hands in there. 493 00:16:49,008 --> 00:16:50,922 One of his little witchy wrists 494 00:16:51,053 --> 00:16:52,228 and your other witchy one there. 495 00:16:52,315 --> 00:16:54,013 Hold on. Hold on. All right, mate. Calm down. 496 00:16:54,100 --> 00:16:56,972 -There we go. -We're all having fun now. 497 00:16:57,103 --> 00:16:59,018 -You just tighten that up now. -Yeah, we tighten it up there. 498 00:16:59,105 --> 00:17:00,976 Yes, not so clever now, are you, witch? 499 00:17:01,107 --> 00:17:02,978 That's actually really quite solid. 500 00:17:03,065 --> 00:17:04,501 -Did you--listen. -[Sam] Ah. 501 00:17:04,632 --> 00:17:05,676 Can I--hold on one second. Hold on one second. 502 00:17:05,763 --> 00:17:08,462 -Shh. -What the--holy shit. 503 00:17:08,592 --> 00:17:10,203 -Let's just get that on there. -Wait. Wait. Wait. Wait. 504 00:17:10,290 --> 00:17:11,856 -What-what are you doing? -Yep. 505 00:17:11,987 --> 00:17:13,597 -Come on, witch. -He's making an awful noise. 506 00:17:13,728 --> 00:17:16,165 [groans] Oh. 507 00:17:16,296 --> 00:17:18,298 -Now, this is a witch's branks. -Okay. 508 00:17:18,428 --> 00:17:21,475 This'd be your first initial walk through the village. 509 00:17:21,605 --> 00:17:23,564 You'd go for a walk with this, and, uh, 510 00:17:23,694 --> 00:17:26,219 everyone would be like, "Oh, look, there's a witch." 511 00:17:26,349 --> 00:17:27,481 'Cause why else would you be wearing it? 512 00:17:27,611 --> 00:17:29,135 [Sam] Then we could throw things at him. 513 00:17:29,265 --> 00:17:30,049 [Graham] They'd throw things at me as well? 514 00:17:30,179 --> 00:17:31,485 [Leonard] They'd be thinking, um, 515 00:17:31,615 --> 00:17:33,704 "That ship that sunk last week, 516 00:17:33,835 --> 00:17:36,446 the crops that failed, the-the child that died"... 517 00:17:36,577 --> 00:17:38,057 [Graham] Basically anything that had gone wrong 518 00:17:38,144 --> 00:17:39,449 in the village or in the community 519 00:17:39,536 --> 00:17:41,408 they would blame on the poor soul 520 00:17:41,538 --> 00:17:43,366 that was walking along with all this clobber on. 521 00:17:43,453 --> 00:17:44,454 [Leonard] You would get it. 522 00:17:44,541 --> 00:17:45,847 Are you gonna confess? 523 00:17:45,977 --> 00:17:47,283 -Could you-- -Are you gonna confess? 524 00:17:47,414 --> 00:17:48,415 I-I'm gonna confess something in a minute, yeah. 525 00:17:48,545 --> 00:17:49,807 Are you gonna confess? 526 00:17:49,938 --> 00:17:51,157 C-could you do me a favor, Leonard, 527 00:17:51,287 --> 00:17:53,202 and, uh, actually remove this from my arms? 528 00:17:53,333 --> 00:17:54,725 -Ah. -What do you reckon? 529 00:17:54,812 --> 00:17:56,988 The problem is, we don't have the key. 530 00:17:57,076 --> 00:17:58,164 We don't know if he's a witch yet. 531 00:17:58,294 --> 00:17:59,643 Yeah. I'll tell you what, Leonard. 532 00:17:59,774 --> 00:18:01,993 Why don't we go have a cup of tea 533 00:18:02,124 --> 00:18:04,300 and-and we'll come back and see if he'll confess later on? 534 00:18:04,431 --> 00:18:05,997 You just stay there. 535 00:18:06,085 --> 00:18:06,911 I think it's probably gonna fall off eventually. 536 00:18:07,042 --> 00:18:07,738 Pints time, is it? 537 00:18:07,869 --> 00:18:09,784 Oh. Okay. 538 00:18:13,048 --> 00:18:14,354 [light buzzing] 539 00:18:14,484 --> 00:18:15,572 Sam? 540 00:18:15,703 --> 00:18:16,921 [upbeat music plays] 541 00:18:17,052 --> 00:18:18,097 Sam. 542 00:18:20,316 --> 00:18:21,361 Sam. 543 00:18:21,535 --> 00:18:24,451 ♪ 544 00:18:30,196 --> 00:18:32,676 We're in the Outer Hebrides, the Isle of Lewis, 545 00:18:32,807 --> 00:18:35,549 a beautiful, beautiful island. 546 00:18:35,679 --> 00:18:37,899 [Sam] This is one of the most iconic locations 547 00:18:38,029 --> 00:18:39,727 inOutlander. 548 00:18:39,814 --> 00:18:42,033 [mysterious rumbling] 549 00:18:49,302 --> 00:18:50,216 -After me? -After you. 550 00:18:50,346 --> 00:18:51,173 Thank you. 551 00:18:53,262 --> 00:18:54,742 -There you go. -Oh! Ooh. 552 00:18:54,872 --> 00:18:57,310 -Sorry. -[speaking indistinctly] 553 00:18:57,440 --> 00:18:58,876 So here we are. 554 00:19:00,139 --> 00:19:02,053 We're in Callanish Stones. 555 00:19:02,184 --> 00:19:03,533 [Sam] Feels like I'm coming home a little bit. 556 00:19:03,664 --> 00:19:06,797 [soft music plays] 557 00:19:07,363 --> 00:19:08,799 [Graham] Just look at them. 558 00:19:10,714 --> 00:19:11,889 I mean, they're like works of art. 559 00:19:12,020 --> 00:19:14,892 They're truly beautiful. 560 00:19:15,023 --> 00:19:18,635 [Sam] SoOutlander took casts of some of these stones. 561 00:19:18,766 --> 00:19:19,984 [Graham] Did they? They came up here-- 562 00:19:20,115 --> 00:19:21,725 [Sam] T hey came up here and took a cast of it. 563 00:19:21,856 --> 00:19:23,466 But they're in the studio, and these get moved around 564 00:19:23,597 --> 00:19:25,120 and we put them in different locations. 565 00:19:25,251 --> 00:19:26,687 But it's amazing to actually be here and see them. 566 00:19:26,817 --> 00:19:28,863 When you come over the-the brow of the hill here 567 00:19:28,993 --> 00:19:30,647 you see them standing 568 00:19:30,734 --> 00:19:31,996 silhouetted on-on the landscape, 569 00:19:32,127 --> 00:19:33,346 they are-they're really quite something. 570 00:19:33,433 --> 00:19:34,695 [Graham] They are-they are amazing, 571 00:19:34,825 --> 00:19:36,958 and this is one of the-- 572 00:19:37,045 --> 00:19:39,874 I think, the most impressive stone circles in Britain, 573 00:19:40,004 --> 00:19:41,484 if not Europe. 574 00:19:41,571 --> 00:19:42,659 I mean, there's-- I've been to a few. 575 00:19:42,790 --> 00:19:43,747 Avebury's great. Obviously, Stonehenge. 576 00:19:43,834 --> 00:19:45,096 [Sam] Stonehenge, obviously. 577 00:19:45,227 --> 00:19:46,707 [Graham] This is the Stonehenge of the north. 578 00:19:46,837 --> 00:19:47,925 [Sam laughing] It-it is. 579 00:19:48,012 --> 00:19:49,623 -[Graham] It is. -[Sam] It is. 580 00:19:49,753 --> 00:19:52,321 And is this the stone in the show... 581 00:19:52,408 --> 00:19:53,540 -This is the one. -...that Claire touches? 582 00:19:53,670 --> 00:19:54,671 This is the one, and actually, there was a point 583 00:19:54,802 --> 00:19:57,065 where we did a shoot for one of the seasons 584 00:19:57,196 --> 00:19:59,502 where we had the stone in a studio 585 00:19:59,633 --> 00:20:02,505 surrounded by, I think, a hundred cameras, 586 00:20:02,636 --> 00:20:04,464 -so we did this amazing sequence -Oh wow. 587 00:20:04,594 --> 00:20:06,814 where it spins around and I'm on one side 588 00:20:06,944 --> 00:20:09,208 and Caitriona was on the other. 589 00:20:09,295 --> 00:20:11,297 Um... yeah, so we just need to get a hundred cameras 590 00:20:11,384 --> 00:20:13,081 and we could re-create it here. 591 00:20:13,212 --> 00:20:16,040 Whatev-whatever reason they had for bringing these things here, 592 00:20:16,171 --> 00:20:17,346 -they had a reason, -Yeah. 593 00:20:17,477 --> 00:20:19,522 and it was-it was-it was a reason that was enough 594 00:20:19,653 --> 00:20:21,698 for them to drag these a mile and a half. 595 00:20:21,829 --> 00:20:23,222 Can you imagine? 596 00:20:23,309 --> 00:20:24,179 What was it-- when were these built? 597 00:20:24,266 --> 00:20:26,181 Two thousand nine hundred B.C. 598 00:20:26,312 --> 00:20:28,314 Right, so 4-- nearly 5,000 years ago, 599 00:20:28,401 --> 00:20:29,793 they did that. 600 00:20:29,880 --> 00:20:30,925 I don't know how they would have done it. 601 00:20:31,055 --> 00:20:32,622 I don't know how they did it. 602 00:20:32,709 --> 00:20:33,971 There's loads of myths about these stones. 603 00:20:34,102 --> 00:20:36,583 They may have been giants that were frozen, 604 00:20:36,713 --> 00:20:38,585 the ones that didn't convert to Christianity. 605 00:20:38,672 --> 00:20:39,629 They don't--as they say, don't know 606 00:20:39,760 --> 00:20:40,891 what they were used for, 607 00:20:41,022 --> 00:20:42,241 some sort of pagan ritual, maybe, 608 00:20:42,371 --> 00:20:44,068 maybe a gathering spot. 609 00:20:44,155 --> 00:20:45,200 Some people think they were used 610 00:20:45,331 --> 00:20:47,811 for the cycles of the moon. 611 00:20:47,942 --> 00:20:49,248 [Graham] Yeah. 612 00:20:49,378 --> 00:20:50,161 -Um, different times of the year, -Yeah. 613 00:20:50,249 --> 00:20:51,902 every sort of 18 years, I think, 614 00:20:52,033 --> 00:20:54,122 there's-there's a point where the sun hits a certain point. 615 00:20:54,253 --> 00:20:55,341 [Graham] Yeah. 616 00:20:58,692 --> 00:21:01,434 Do you think that the people who put these here 617 00:21:01,564 --> 00:21:04,219 could ever have imagined that they would've been used 618 00:21:04,350 --> 00:21:06,961 for a television show about time traveling 619 00:21:07,048 --> 00:21:09,398 back to the Highlands of Scotland? 620 00:21:10,486 --> 00:21:11,792 I think they'd be-be pretty happy about it. 621 00:21:11,922 --> 00:21:12,923 -Would they? -Yeah. 622 00:21:13,054 --> 00:21:14,142 Maybe they'd be-- 623 00:21:14,273 --> 00:21:15,622 Maybe that's why they were built. 624 00:21:15,752 --> 00:21:17,754 One thing's for certain, they would've known things 625 00:21:17,885 --> 00:21:19,669 -that have been lost... -Yeah. 626 00:21:19,800 --> 00:21:21,497 ...the people that brought these here. 627 00:21:21,628 --> 00:21:24,718 And, uh--but that's kind of wonderful in a way, 628 00:21:24,848 --> 00:21:26,546 that we'll--we don't know. 629 00:21:26,676 --> 00:21:28,722 Sometimes it's good to-- for-for mystery in life, 630 00:21:28,852 --> 00:21:31,551 don't you think? 631 00:21:31,681 --> 00:21:33,509 I would love to have gone back into that time 632 00:21:33,640 --> 00:21:36,295 and seen-seen what went on here 633 00:21:36,425 --> 00:21:39,298 and felt the excitement of being at this site 634 00:21:39,428 --> 00:21:41,300 and the-the-the-the awe 635 00:21:41,430 --> 00:21:44,694 and seeing the sun set or the-the moon rise and-- 636 00:21:44,825 --> 00:21:48,089 it-it must have been--for them, it must have been so magical. 637 00:21:49,003 --> 00:21:51,222 Forgive me, but I have to do this. 638 00:21:51,353 --> 00:21:52,441 Do what? 639 00:21:52,572 --> 00:21:53,877 No one's here really, 640 00:21:53,964 --> 00:21:56,576 and, um, it's my only chance. 641 00:21:56,663 --> 00:21:58,404 I mean, I see every other tourist do it. 642 00:21:58,491 --> 00:21:59,666 Can we-can we just do it together? 643 00:21:59,753 --> 00:22:01,711 Yes, yes, yes. 644 00:22:01,842 --> 00:22:03,409 -[sighs] -I'm-I'm sorry, mate. 645 00:22:03,539 --> 00:22:04,323 Ready? 646 00:22:07,369 --> 00:22:09,284 I-I'm gonna break it to you gently. 647 00:22:09,415 --> 00:22:10,546 It's not gonna work. 648 00:22:12,156 --> 00:22:14,158 The magic of television? 649 00:22:14,289 --> 00:22:15,943 It's fiction. 650 00:22:16,073 --> 00:22:17,248 Outlander'sfiction. 651 00:22:17,379 --> 00:22:18,772 -What? -It's fiction. 652 00:22:18,902 --> 00:22:20,426 -What, going through the stone? -Fiction. 653 00:22:20,513 --> 00:22:22,689 You seem to have really have gone into this weird place 654 00:22:22,819 --> 00:22:24,473 where you actually think that you're really a Highlander 655 00:22:24,560 --> 00:22:26,475 living in the 18th-centu-- 656 00:22:26,606 --> 00:22:27,781 Just touch the stones. 657 00:22:27,911 --> 00:22:28,912 You're telling me if I touch this, 658 00:22:28,999 --> 00:22:29,696 I won't go through the stone? 659 00:22:29,826 --> 00:22:31,567 Touch the stones. 660 00:22:32,829 --> 00:22:35,136 -You wanna make a bet? -I'm prepared to be surprised. 661 00:22:35,266 --> 00:22:37,965 [mysterious rumbling] 662 00:22:40,228 --> 00:22:42,404 Yep. Go on. 663 00:22:42,491 --> 00:22:44,014 Yep. 664 00:22:44,145 --> 00:22:45,451 Here he goes. 665 00:22:45,581 --> 00:22:47,540 Grah! 666 00:22:51,587 --> 00:22:52,936 Still here. 667 00:22:55,852 --> 00:22:57,463 -Ah. -There you go. 668 00:22:57,593 --> 00:22:59,247 -Feel better now? -Yeah. 669 00:22:59,378 --> 00:23:00,988 Good. Okay, which way is it now? 670 00:23:01,118 --> 00:23:03,251 That way? Which way? 671 00:23:03,382 --> 00:23:06,167 [soft music plays] 672 00:23:06,341 --> 00:23:09,170 ♪ 673 00:23:21,791 --> 00:23:23,402 [Sam] Do you have any pagan tendencies? 674 00:23:23,532 --> 00:23:24,925 [Graham] I do, yes. 675 00:23:25,055 --> 00:23:26,317 I was actually a druid in a past life. 676 00:23:26,448 --> 00:23:28,494 [Sam] Oh. 677 00:23:28,624 --> 00:23:30,626 I ask because our next stop is a Beltane celebration. 678 00:23:30,757 --> 00:23:32,846 Beltane falls on my birthday, and it-- 679 00:23:32,976 --> 00:23:34,021 Right. Okay. 680 00:23:34,151 --> 00:23:35,501 For many years growing up, 681 00:23:35,631 --> 00:23:37,590 there used to be this big Beltane festival 682 00:23:37,677 --> 00:23:38,678 -in Edinburgh. -Your mum used to come in 683 00:23:38,808 --> 00:23:41,332 covered in paint, whirling fire? 684 00:23:41,463 --> 00:23:42,769 [with high-pitched voice] "Hello." 685 00:23:42,856 --> 00:23:43,552 [with high-pitched voice] "Happy birthday, Sam." 686 00:23:43,683 --> 00:23:44,814 "Happy birthday, Sam." 687 00:23:44,901 --> 00:23:46,555 "I'm going to swallow fire for you." 688 00:23:46,686 --> 00:23:48,862 "I'm now going to burn you at the stake." 689 00:23:48,992 --> 00:23:50,298 [normally] I never quite know 690 00:23:50,429 --> 00:23:52,996 whether these people really believe 691 00:23:53,127 --> 00:23:54,563 in the pagan festival 692 00:23:54,694 --> 00:23:56,565 or they just like a good old party 693 00:23:56,696 --> 00:23:58,349 where they sort of throw fire around. 694 00:23:58,480 --> 00:24:00,700 Yeah, I think-I think there's definitely a mix of people, 695 00:24:00,830 --> 00:24:02,963 people that take it really seriously 696 00:24:03,050 --> 00:24:04,921 and those that are there just for a really good time. 697 00:24:05,052 --> 00:24:07,707 [ethereal music plays] 698 00:24:07,881 --> 00:24:10,579 ♪ 699 00:24:10,710 --> 00:24:12,581 I'm so excited. 700 00:24:12,668 --> 00:24:14,061 -[Graham laughs] -[Sam] Can you tell? 701 00:24:14,191 --> 00:24:16,672 We decided to-to re-create Beltane here, 702 00:24:16,803 --> 00:24:19,153 which is, uh, a pagan festival which celebrates-- 703 00:24:19,283 --> 00:24:21,024 Justina, you can maybe help us here. 704 00:24:21,155 --> 00:24:23,200 -Beltane is the celebration of fertility -Fertility. 705 00:24:23,331 --> 00:24:26,421 -when everything comes to full-full-blown life. -Fertility stuff. 706 00:24:26,552 --> 00:24:28,771 -It feels very positive, right? -It is. 707 00:24:28,902 --> 00:24:31,208 So what are we, uh-- what are we to expect? 708 00:24:31,339 --> 00:24:33,863 [Sam] Or experience tonight? 709 00:24:33,994 --> 00:24:34,908 [Justina] Well, we are going to light this fire. 710 00:24:35,038 --> 00:24:36,518 Okay. 711 00:24:36,649 --> 00:24:37,519 Fire has always been the element 712 00:24:37,650 --> 00:24:39,652 which drew people together. 713 00:24:39,782 --> 00:24:42,002 And we are going to sing and dance around it 714 00:24:42,089 --> 00:24:44,265 and celebrate being alive, being here, 715 00:24:44,395 --> 00:24:47,747 celebrate our ancestors who were here before us, 716 00:24:47,877 --> 00:24:51,925 and just open up for whatever- whatever may happen. 717 00:24:52,055 --> 00:24:53,230 Let's be open to whatever may happen. 718 00:24:53,317 --> 00:24:54,710 Whatever may happen. Goodness me. 719 00:24:54,841 --> 00:24:56,320 I-I've certainly discovered that 720 00:24:56,407 --> 00:24:58,409 in the last several weeks. 721 00:24:58,540 --> 00:25:00,890 Whatever may happen, yes. 722 00:25:01,021 --> 00:25:02,892 Okay. Let's get the fire started. 723 00:25:03,023 --> 00:25:04,503 Let's get this fire started, huh? 724 00:25:04,633 --> 00:25:07,418 [drum beating] 725 00:25:07,593 --> 00:25:10,421 ♪ 726 00:25:13,686 --> 00:25:16,297 [people whooping and cheering] 727 00:25:42,192 --> 00:25:44,673 [mysterious flute music plays] 728 00:25:44,847 --> 00:25:47,458 ♪ 729 00:26:05,389 --> 00:26:08,523 [screams echo] 730 00:26:08,697 --> 00:26:11,570 ♪ 731 00:26:16,357 --> 00:26:19,229 -Yeah! -Come on! 732 00:26:19,360 --> 00:26:21,710 -Yeah! -Yeah! 733 00:26:21,841 --> 00:26:23,843 [Graham] Oh, yeah! 734 00:26:23,973 --> 00:26:26,628 [bagpipe dance music plays] 735 00:26:26,715 --> 00:26:30,023 ♪ 736 00:26:30,153 --> 00:26:31,590 -[cheers and applause] -[Graham] Yeah! 737 00:26:31,720 --> 00:26:33,374 Yeah! 738 00:26:33,504 --> 00:26:35,071 Yeah! 739 00:26:35,245 --> 00:26:38,031 ♪ 740 00:26:39,510 --> 00:26:42,426 Oh, mate. Wow. 741 00:26:42,557 --> 00:26:44,777 It's been insane, hasn't it? 742 00:26:44,907 --> 00:26:46,692 And--sorry to bring it up, 743 00:26:46,779 --> 00:26:48,215 but, uh, you did seem to attempt 744 00:26:48,345 --> 00:26:50,130 to, uh, scare me to death. 745 00:26:50,260 --> 00:26:51,653 But I-I wanted to take this moment to just say... 746 00:26:51,740 --> 00:26:53,263 -Mate... -...I remember that. 747 00:26:53,394 --> 00:26:54,090 ...there were a couple other things we wanted to try, 748 00:26:54,221 --> 00:26:56,397 but... 749 00:26:56,527 --> 00:26:57,703 You needed me for the rest of the show. 750 00:26:57,790 --> 00:26:58,704 Yeah, unfortunately. 751 00:26:58,834 --> 00:27:00,270 Yeah. 752 00:27:00,357 --> 00:27:01,750 But anyway, here's to paganism, eh? 753 00:27:01,881 --> 00:27:03,317 To paganism. 754 00:27:03,404 --> 00:27:05,972 ♪ 755 00:27:06,059 --> 00:27:07,582 Oh, God. 756 00:27:10,019 --> 00:27:11,934 Oh, God, you're not getting naked again, are you? 757 00:27:12,065 --> 00:27:13,240 Come on, mate! 758 00:27:13,370 --> 00:27:14,633 -Oh, all right. -Let's go. 759 00:27:14,720 --> 00:27:15,721 All right, all right, all right. 760 00:27:15,851 --> 00:27:17,287 -He's like a child. -Yeah! 761 00:27:17,374 --> 00:27:20,203 ♪ 762 00:27:34,653 --> 00:27:36,350 -I don't want to go, Jamie. -Come on, Claire. 763 00:27:36,480 --> 00:27:37,830 -You gotta go back. -I don't--no. 764 00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:38,961 There's no place for you here. 765 00:27:39,092 --> 00:27:40,441 Jamie, no. But you're so wonderful. 766 00:27:40,571 --> 00:27:42,269 Stop it. Stop. Stop. Leave me alone, Claire. 767 00:27:42,399 --> 00:27:44,706 -You're so pretty. -You're leaning--what-- 768 00:27:44,837 --> 00:27:46,055 No, I've not touched it yet. I'm not touching it. 769 00:27:46,186 --> 00:27:46,882 Oh, you're not touching it? Okay. 770 00:27:47,013 --> 00:27:48,623 -No. -Okay. 771 00:27:48,754 --> 00:27:50,059 Sorry, we're-we're completely losing our minds now. 772 00:27:50,233 --> 00:27:53,062 ♪