Story 1, The Gurning Man of Glasgow

During the late 1970s, the inhabitants of Scotland's largest city was subjected to a series of terrifying

encounters with a hideous nocturnal entity whose incessant twitching and animalistic

grunting put the fear of God into those who encountered him.

This week we take a look at the Gurning man of Glasgow. You're going to be. And then. The city of Glasgow possesses a truly colourful history, steeped in tradition and heritage.

It is Scotland's most populated municipality and was historically the country's largest port, acting as the gateway to a new life for

countless foreign workers and travellers.

Many of these migrants and their families elected to settle in the city, creating a vast and culturally diverse population.

For this reason, Glasgow is rich in folklore, possessing a wide variety of stories, myths and legends, some of which are well known and others as obscure as they come.

From the murderous Calpeas that are said to haunt the waters and tributaries across the region,

to the ghostly armies of dead soldiers, which are said to rise from their graves and do battle with the English for all eternity, there is also no shortage of supernatural

tales.

In 1954, the local police were called to a disturbance in the city's southern necropolis, a sprawling

graveyard located in the Gorbals District, which dates back to the 17th century.

Upon their arrival, they found approximately 200 school children motivated by a combination of fear and anger,

stalking amongst the tombstones, armed with kitchen knives and other homemade weapons.

When asked what they were doing, the children replied that they were hunting for a metal-toothed

vampire, which had already taken

and killed two of their number.

Every so often, one of the boys would see a dark figure framed amidst the smoke and sulphur from the nearby

steelworks, at which point the horde of vengeful children would rampage towards it.

After several hours of corralling the angry mob, the police were able to

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