edinburgh vaults night tour

April 5, 2024 - When we first arrived in the city, it was raining heavily. Wanting to make the most out of the trip, we decided to take a ghost tour that same night anyway. Thank goodness the weather improved as we approached the night. We did the Doomed, Dead and Buried Tour by Mercat Tours. Let’s focus on the Edinburgh Vaults.

Is it worth doing Mary Kings Close tour AND a Vaults ghost tour?

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Others might disagree but in my experience, Mary King's Close is more of a a real thing, and whilst they have actor/guides who explain it to you and can put a creepy supernatural spin on things for fun (it is an underground hidden street after all), the Close was actually real with some documented evidence of the people living there and what they did. Some of the vaults guides are more supernatural focussed and whilst the vaults are also definitely real places with some history, their tours are usually a bit less factual and far more spooky. You can take your pick about which of them (or both) you want to experience. Answer from MR9009 on reddit.com

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Underground ghost tours | Edinburgh | Mercat Tours

From body snatchers to the city's real-life characters, you’ll be gripped by the true tales lurking beneath Edinburgh’s streets in the underground vaults, where centuries of sorrow echo and restless spirits are said to linger. Perhaps you’ll experience a cold breath on the back of your neck, or a whisper – then silence. It’s all the more chilling for being absolutely real: there are no spooks, tricks or jump scares on our Edinburgh ghost tours.

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June 14, 2021 -

Or would you just stick to one to see the vaults and call it done?

We'd look at Either the Mercat Hidden & Haunted or Auld Reekie Terror Tour - if anyone has any recommendations there either!

Edit: anyone stumbling on this thread. We did the Auld Reekie Graveyard and vault tour which was fun and informative, we're sceptics but it was still good. I would 100% recommend anyone visiting Edinburgh go and do the Mary Kings Close tour though! Unmissable in my opinion.

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Others might disagree but in my experience, Mary King's Close is more of a a real thing, and whilst they have actor/guides who explain it to you and can put a creepy supernatural spin on things for fun (it is an underground hidden street after all), the Close was actually real with some documented evidence of the people living there and what they did. Some of the vaults guides are more supernatural focussed and whilst the vaults are also definitely real places with some history, their tours are usually a bit less factual and far more spooky. You can take your pick about which of them (or both) you want to experience.

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Most of the ghost tours in the Old Town are super tacky but you do get a bit of history with the Covenanters tour that explores Greyfriars. Mary Kings Close is more focused on the actual history of the place rather than anything supernatural. The Vaults tour is awful and really OTT but your experience may differ dependent on who you choose. When we did it a few years ago they did a seance at the end. A lass in the group started freaking out because the tour guide mentioned the name "Douglas" which was apparently her dead husband. It was super awkward.

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Is it worth doing Mary Kings Close tour AND a Vaults ghost tour?

Others might disagree but in my experience, Mary King's Close is more of a a real thing, and whilst they have actor/guides who explain it to you and can put a creepy supernatural spin on things for fun (it is an underground hidden street after all), the Close was actually real with some documented evidence of the people living there and what they did. Some of the vaults guides are more supernatural focussed and whilst the vaults are also definitely real places with some history, their tours are usually a bit less factual and far more spooky. You can take your pick about which of them (or both) you want to experience. More on reddit.com

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June 14, 2021

Last night on an Edinburgh ghost tour in one of the city's underground vaults, I took these photos moments apart. There was no one in frame irl. My friend and I saw the hooded figure in pic 2 only after the tour when reviewing our photos. We both felt someone touch our hair during this segment.

Sorry but where is the hooded figure? More on reddit.com

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April 18, 2022

Anyone else have crazy shit happen to them in the Edinburgh vaults?

Em ok, so 5years ago I went on a paranormal investigation in to the vaults that aren't normally opened. They are opened once or twice a year for certain events like this one which was for Halloween I believe. Anyway it started at midnight and finished at around 4am. There was maybe 35 people in total and we were all split into groups and each group went into a different vault with there paranormal investigator. There was one vault that had a weegie board set up in it, that our group went into first. I refused to take part (call me paranoid) but was happy to watch. The whole thing was pretty creepy but wasn't particularly buying it as real and was convinced the glass was just moving through the power of suggestion or something similar, but soon as they stopped and it was time for our group to move onto the next vault and as we were all leaving (I was the last one to leave the room) the glass actually slides off the table at full force and smashes to dust of the side of the wall. Saw it with my very own eyes. A few people thought I had done it, but I wasn't even close enough to accidentally have pushed it or anything. Anyway the next part will stay with me forever. We're in the next vault and we are surrounded by EMP detectors, two of them are in teddy bear forms as there's apparently a spirit/ghost of a little girl in this vault. So we're standing around the room in a circle and our paranormal investigator is trying to communicate with a ghost/spirits. Eventually a man gives out a small Welp and claims something pinched his arse. Then one by one a few more guys were claiming there butts were getting pinched, so the paranormal investigator by this point is getting all sorts of excited and starts asking if it could maybe try and pinch one of the females bums or better yet if they could try and push sombody. I swear on my grans life but what happened next was that I felt two hands push me from behind very hard to the point I was literally standing the middle of the circle, everyone now staring at me , flashlights on me asking what happened and before I could even get a word out, one of the EMP bears that was right behind me against the stone wall was flashing like crazy that some folk noticed straight away. Obviously nobody was behind me when this happened. We were all standing in a circle, arms width apart and nothing behind us all but concrete stone walls. One of the most memorable unexplained experiences of my life that il never forget. Other things happened aswell, not just to me but other people in different groups. More on reddit.com

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December 12, 2019

Can one visit the vaults without doing one of those ghost tour thingies?

We went on the Mercat tour called Descend and Discover ( http://www.mercattours.com/m/descend-and-discover.asp) a week ago, which is self guided. You get a map of the vaults and a flashlight, and get to walk around in your own tempo, no one dressed up and no one trying to scare you.

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