Secrets about Britain's royal family are contained in their yacht Britannia where visitors can see the Queen's bedroom and the banqueting deck where the world's leaders were entertained. The village of Bonnybridge is the epicenter of the world's UFO hotspot where thousands of people claim to have seen strange lights in the sky and many have captured them on video. The Sheep's Heid pub has a hidden alleyway where players hurl themselves along the ground in the old Scottish game of skittles, a forerunner of ten-pin bowling. We reveal the secrets of Burke and Hare who sold dead bodies to medical schools and in a bid to keep up with demand branched out into delivering rather too fresh corpses. Burke's own skeleton is still used by medical students and a wallet made of his skin is secretly displayed in a police black museum. Also, secrets of what a Scottish haggis contains, the brewery which holds a secret ceilidh every week and where to hire Marilyn Monroe's jewellery

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