FRIGHT NIGHT TOUR

Your evening walking tour begins at our ticket office on the Royal Mile, with an introduction from your costumed guide as they reveal their true, unnerving identity; they may be an unscrupulous surgeon, a cannibal’s wife or a satanic town guardsman.

Whatever their identity they have stories aplenty to tell! Walk up the Royal Mile via the site of Scotland’s former parliament and the city’s old, barbaric prison; you’ll be amazed at the bloody events which took place there. All the while your guide will tell you enthralling tales related to these sights involving bodysnatchers, witchfinders, murderers, cannibals and even lawyers and politicians!

Next leave the comforting streetlights behind and enter Edinburgh’s haunted graveyard. Find out about the ghosts trapped within the cemetery walls and see the evidence of its connections with the bodysnatchers as well as two of Edinburgh’s more notorious former citizens William Burke and William Hare.

For the final part of the ghost tour the guide will show our section of underground. You will see walls from former houses, eighteenth-century bridgework and even the modern street above through our skylight. When you’re underground though beware the long-dead former inhabitants still seen from time to time on our tours inside the dark chambers. The tour ends with your guide leading you out of the underground and back to our ticket office.