Edinburgh's Master Storytellers, Mercat Tours, are redefining the walking tour, promising to enrich and deepen your connection with Edinburgh's people and its past far beyond your visit.
Take the Story Home: evoke the memories:
- Smell the leather and smoke
- Touch original artefacts
Explore the dim closes and wynds of Old Town Edinburgh and learn of the unsavoury characters who once occupied these streets. The distant sound of a rope pulled tight or the scraping of a foot behind you. On this Edinburgh underground vaults and graveyard ghost tour, you'll hear countless tales of dastardly deeds and ghostly sightings in the very places where they occurred.
Experience the eerie and frightening atmosphere of the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults. It might be something to do with the change in temperature. Or the perpetual darkness. Or the ever smaller rooms, stretching beyond the weak beam of a torch or flicker of candlelight. Whatever the reason, there's something unsettling about the Blair Street Underground Vaults — and your local guide will reveal the troubling tales on this ghost tour.
From there, it's on to the Canongate graveyard, where the spirits of the dead await. A walk through shadowy closes to the Canongate graveyard will bring you to the resting place of Edinburgh's most famous figures, many of whom met a tragic and gruesome end. Adam Smith, the father of economics; David Rizzio, confidant of Mary, Queen of Scots; and the infamous cannibal of the Canongate.
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