Marc and I went on a haunted tour in city centre. It took us through vaults hidden under one of the main bridges in Scotland, through grey friar's graveyard, and into the covenanters prison and black mausoleum. Interestingly, where we started out was just a parking lot that turned out to be a plague pit. They are all over city centre.
The vaults provided refuge for large populations of the poor during a time when being homeless was outlawed in Edinburgh. They lived in cold, damp, crowded conditions with lots of violent crime. The police at the time refused to pursue anyone in the vaults because of its reputation for disease and violence. The life expectancy within the vaults at that time was 18 months. They say that the ghost of children, a women in a yellow dress, and a dark being referred to as the entity have been spotted there.
We then went to Grey friar's graveyard. It is a large open space, with about 500 tombstones scattered around. But there are over a half million people buried there. It was the main graveyard of Edinburgh for years, and many plague victims reside there. Anywhere you step you are standing on dozens of bodies, and with all the rain erosion is starting to reveal the bodies. In the far corner is the covenanters prison, where religous rebels where inhumanely kept during the revolt. The most infamous poltergeist there is Bloody Mackenzie, one of the scots who tortured the covenanters, haunts the area as he is in a mausolem nearby.
The tour says it is common for people to get unexplainable scratches and bruises during the tour, attributed to the entity and bloody mackenzie. We did not experience anything supernatural...though many people have odd body sensations, and Marc did have a violently itchy elbow when we were in the mausoleum.
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