City of the Dead Haunted Graveyard Tour

...history and discovered that York City Council boobooed on Margaret Clitheroe's house (it's not the one that it's supposed to be - it's actually a few doors up the street!). Anyway, this time round I was able to combine business and pleasure, have a few quid in my pocket, leanr a bit of gory history and get some exercise too! A few years ago a friend of mine told me about the under-city tours that take place beneath Edinburgh. Because myself and ...
...I booked us on the City of the Dead Haunted Graveyard Tour (plus, the last under-city tour of the day left at 4pm and we were still in the office at that time). I had to grin to myself when I called their booking number and a cheerful voice answered the phone with "City of the Dead Tours"! On the night we went along, we were booked on the 7.30pm tour, but had to change to the later one at 8.30pm (dinner at the hotel wasn't served until 7pm and ...

JeeanA 01.05.2006 · Read full review
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...wanted to go on the City Of The Dead tour. After a lot of begging on his part for me to go with him, we got into the car one night to go join the tour. The tour is run by Black Hart entertainment who run walking tours all over the UK. They were set up by Jan-Andrew Henderson, a historian who also wrote the book The Ghost That Haunted itself which sparked Mr Wigglylittleworms interest. We walked up to the wonderful St Giles Cathedral on the Royal ...
...tour guide. There were around 15 people on the tour that night, mostly tourists. The tour starts outside the cathedral with the guide telling you stories about Edinburghs murky past. She told us a particularly gruesome account of a witchcraft trial and how a whole family were killed. She also told us some of the history of the cathedral and spooked us out a bit by telling us that the car park we were standing on was a graveyeard until the council ...

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The last tour of the evening was scheduled for 10:45 p.m. "Good" I thought, "so the tour will terminate at midnight, the perfect time to be in a hunted graveyard!" My girlfriend wasn't looking forward to the experience at all but decided to come along for the only reason that she was more scared to spend part of the evening in the hotel room by herself. At the rendezvous outside Saint Giles Cathedral there was a group of approximately twenty people. ...
...crowd about the seriousness and dangers of the tour: people apparently get bruises from the ghosts and suffer panic attacks, start crying and wish they have had spent the night anywhere but there. "You are still in time to change your mind and decide not to come to the graveyard" she said and my girlfriend would have agreed, she was already holding me as tight as she could and the tour had not even started! We walked behind the Cathedral to the ...

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As an avid part-time researcher of all things that go bump in the night, I went into the Covenanters prison looking for answers! Like most ghost tours you pay your modest fee upfront to a cloaked drama student who puts on his/her most sinister of voices and leads you into a dark, bloody world of ancient times. You are told of the murderous past; hangings, witchery, public tourture and body snatchers! A gust of wind breezes past your neck and you ...
...group! Remember what happened to people at the back of Scooby Doo? As you are led along wind and trail, up the cobbled streets and into the shadows of a graveyard you suddenly arrive at a set of cast iron gates. The Covenanters Prison. So what did I find? Well intruth I must declare that the following actually occured. I took a good half reel of film on my SRL camera that evening - yet although my camera flashed and the shot seemed to record... ...

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...have been on loads of city tours but this one has got to be one of the best! I have been on this tour a couple of times and each time is as fascinating as the last. You get a tour around the Old Town of Edinburgh, providing you with a great background knowledge of the city and its murky past, before the cemetry gates are unlocked and you are led in. The cemetry is a World Heritage Site so is amazing just to experience that in itself, but the tour ...

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