Edinburgh, Scotland is known for its dark history--gruesome and haunting tales that include torture, hysteria, and murder that will surely scare you out of your wits.
Pick among these haunted tours in Edinburgh, all of which offer equally disturbing and interesting stories of the past that still countinue to haunt.
1. Mercat Tours
Mercat Tours Edinburgh offers the best ghost tour of the Blair Street Underground Vaults which was rediscovered on the 1980s. Mercat Tours exclusively offers the deepest and oldest underground caverns of Edinburgh with a maximum of 30 people per trip.
They also offer private tours and history walks where they retell the stories of the past including the accounts of treason and tortures that happened in Edinburgh's Old Town.
2. City of the Dead Tours
This tour comes with three different hair-raising packages. The first is the Underground City of the Dead Tours where you will witness underground tunnels called Damnation Alley where people met their end because of plague and poverty.
The second tour is the Haunted Graveyard Tour. It will take you to the Prison and the Black Mausoleum where Mackenzie Poultergeist is believed to be haunting the place.
The third is the Double Dead Walk where you will be taken to South Bridge Vaults and Covenanter's Prison in Greyfriars Kirkyard.
3. Auld Reekie Tours
Auld Reekie Tours offers four grisly and haunting packages. The first one is the Original Underground Tour where it will take you to the underground streets of Edinburgh and witness the grim history behind those vaults.
The second is the tour is the Ghost & Torture Tour, where you will see a torture museum filled with macabre details. The third is the Vaults & Graveyard Tour, which takes you to Greyfriars Kirkyard and Underground South Bridge Vaults.
The last tour will take you to Auld Reekie's Stone Circle Vault where you will walk ancient tunnels and hear the stories of the people haunting the place.
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