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Mercat Tours
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Underground ghost tours | Edinburgh | Mercat Tours
Venture beneath Edinburgh’s streets and discover the city’s most haunted underground vaults in the city — a chilling world of shadows and secrets, the Blair Street Underground Vaults are exclusively accessible with Mercat Tours.
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Auld Reekie Tours
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Best Guided Walking Tours to Edinburgh Vaults: Auld Reekie Tours
February 22, 2022 - A 16th century graveyard and haunted 17th century vaults await you on this guided walking tour. ... Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany.
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Mercat Tours
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Edinburgh ghost and history walking tours | Mercat Tours
Rabbie Burns Edition including an extra special dram available on 23, 24 & 25 January only. ... A ghost tour of Blair Street Underground Vaults, said to be one of the most haunted sites in Scotland.
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VisitScotland
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The Vaults Tour | VisitScotland
This vaults tour takes you beneath the streets of Edinburgh's Old Town into a dimly lit space that many considered to be haunted. Your 1-hour tour visits the vaults of the South Bridge that date back to the 1700s.
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Auld Reekie Tours
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Haunted Vaults Tour - Auld Reekie Tours
November 7, 2025 - Our guide will enlighten you on the dark history of Old Town Edinburgh’s most extensive haunted underground vaults that date back to the 1700s. Former slum dwellings and home to the wretched and destitute, as well as a despicable criminal underworld. With gruesome devices dating back to the late 1500s. Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments similar to those used in Edinburgh’s history and find out how and why they were used. On this walking tour you’ll also hear tales of the paranormal activity and ghostly apparitions that are said to haunt the vaults.
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Cityofthedeadtours
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Julie Meldrum ​⭐​⭐​⭐... ‘ghost walks’ but this was by far the best and most informative. Sarah, our guide,... Cynthia Humpherys ​⭐​⭐​⭐​⭐​ 19/01/2026 Our tour guide, Ben was awesome! Double Dead tour is the tour we chose and it was so cool! Loïc Maeder ​⭐​⭐​⭐​⭐​ 18/01/2026 · Une expérience incroyable ! ... Great tour that gives a great insight into the history of the vaults as well ...
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Cityofedinburghtours
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City of Edinburgh Tours | Edinburgh Walking Tours
Explore the mysterious Greyfriars Kirkyard cemetery and more at night. Book Now with 6% Discount! ... The Old Town & Underground Tour will then take you on a guided tour of Edinburgh’s underground vaults, for close encounters with the paranormal!
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Mercat Tours
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Underground vaults ghost tour | Edinburgh | Mercat Tours
This is easily the goriest, most ... descending into the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults, exclusive access with Mercat Tours....
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VisitScotland
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Haunted Vaults Tour | VisitScotland
This vaults tour takes you beneath the streets of Edinburgh's Old Town into a dimly lit space that many considered to be haunted. Your 1-hour tour visits our torture exhibition and the vaults of the South Bridge that date back to the 1700s.
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Cityofedinburghtours
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World Famous Ghost Tour in Edinburgh | City of Edinburgh Tours
The Old Town & Underground Tour will then take you on a guided tour of Edinburgh’s underground vaults, for close encounters with the paranormal!
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GetYourGuide
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Edinburgh: Underground Vaults Evening Ghost Tour with Whisky | GetYourGuide
2 weeks ago - Listen to grisly tales of witchcraft, torture and restless spirits as you venture down medieval closes and descend into the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults of Edinburgh on this ghost tour.
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Edinburgh Tickets
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Edinburgh Ghost Tours | Haunted Vaults, Graveyards & Ghost Bus Tours
Edinburgh ghost tours take you through some of the city’s most haunted locations. Expect entry to historic sites such as Greyfriars Kirkyard, South Bridge Vaults, and Real Mary King’s Close, otherwise not open to solo visitors.
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The Little House of Horrors
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Edinburgh Vaults, South Bridge - The Little House of Horrors
April 5, 2024 - But, the part under Blair Street remained cleared and was eventually opened to the public. Since 1996, Mercat Tours has organized ghost walks in this creepy underground city. The Edinburgh Vaults has been named Britain’s most haunted place ...
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My Guide Edinburgh
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Edinburgh: Underground Vaults Evening Ghost Tour with Whisky in Edinburgh
Listen to grisly tales of witchcraft, torture and restless spirits as you venture down medieval closes and descend into the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults of Edinburgh on this ghost tour.
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Virgin Experience Days
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Ghostly Edinburgh Underground Vault Tour for Two - Virgin Experience Days
Haunted Edinburgh Underground Vault Tour for Two
Discover a world of unique experiences, and choose an unforgettable gift today with Virgin Experience Days. Free exchanges and flexible booking.
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Price   £43.00
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Reddit
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r/Edinburgh on Reddit: Question about the tours there...
December 12, 2023 -

Is the 'Underground Ghost Tour' and 'The Edinburgh Dungeon' two completely separate things? Are they the same thing? Do they overlap? I ask because someone tried to tell me they take you to the Dungeon on the Underground Tour but I wasn't convinced. I thought that they were separate.

Also, the 'Ghost Bus Tour', is it any good?

Thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

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The Edinburgh Dungeon is like a haunted house ride at a theme park. There are actors, some ride elements (a boat and a drop ride used to feature). The staff guide a group of you through different sections that all focus on various nasty bits of history. Pretty fun, especially for older kids. I used to go every year or two when I was wee. Ghost Tours could mean a variety of things, but the most popular is probably Mary King's Close. This was a series of real underground vaults that people used to live in. It's a set tour where a guide will take you underground into these vaults and tour you around. There are no actors. It's an underground history walk.
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Former ghost tour guide here. The Edinburgh Dungeon is a former car park turned into something resembling a haunted house attraction. It has never been an actual dungeon. There are several underground ghost tours. Several people have mentioned Mary King's Close which is not actually a ghost tour - they sometimes run ghost tours, usually around Hallowe'en, but their standard tour is mostly socio-historical stuff with a couple of ghost stories thrown in. You get maybe 10-15 minutes of ghost-related content in an hour-long tour. The Close is a street that was gradually built over, with its existing buildings being used as foundations for the City Chambers. Then there are the various tours that go into the "Underground City", which is not so much underground as built into a bridge. Edinburgh is built on hills and in the Old Town we bridged/built over a valley so it's possible to enter a building at ground level on George IV Bridge, walk down so many flights of stairs you feel like you must be at the centre of the Earth, then emerge at ground level on the Cowgate. The "underground city" within South Bridge is also referred to as "the Vaults", because it's a series of vaulted chambers that have been used for several purposes over the years, many of them nefarious, and they have a lot of ghost stories connected to them. The tours that go into the Vaults and will give you wall to wall ghost stories are City of the Dead, Mercat, Auld Reekie, and a couple of other ones that have popped up in the years since I stopped paying attention. Mercat has the most interesting section of the Vaults and claims all its guides are trained historians (they most certainly aren't). City of the Dead, in my experience, has the best guides and their Double Dead tour (which goes into the Vaults and Greyfriars Kirkyard) is the one I usually take guests on. I haven't been on the Ghost Bus Tour in Edinburgh, only on the one in London which I thought was pretty terrible. I'm unimpressed that their Edinburgh buses have puns based on London locations on them, and I think the whole thing lacks the kind of atmosphere you get from hanging around dark, dank spaces with shadows in every corner.
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Tripadvisor
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2026 Haunted Vaults and Graveyard Walking Tour in Edinburgh - with Trusted Reviews
Haunted Vaults and Graveyard Walking Tour in Edinburgh
Your knowledgeable guide takes you to Greyfriar's Kirkyard, home of the famous Greyfriar's Bobby – nice dog – who had cocked his leg where rotting corpses lay below and whose names were made famous in many novels and history books, sending chills down many a reader's spine. Then on to the infamous and haunted Niddry Street underground vaults, most haunted place in Edinburgh and probably one of the scariest in the world! Once home to the destitute, prostitutes, criminals, witches and a hell-fire club, and is possessed by something evil that awaits you
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Price   $35.00
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Go Scotland Tours
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Evening Ghost Tour of Edinburgh Vaults
Evening Ghost Tour of Edinburgh Vaults
Begin your evening with a stroll through the dark closes and wynds of Old Town Edinburgh before descending into the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults, where the scents and sounds of the past come alive. · The tour concludes in a candlelit cellar, where you can enjoy a dram of Scotch whisky or a glass of locally made beer or soft drink, accompanied by intimate storytelling. · Lose yourself in the cries and taunts of a once-roaring crowd, and take your place as a member of the “Edinburgh mob” that once surged past the Mercat Cross. · Listen to grisly tales of witchcraft, torture and restle
Price   £22.00
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Go Scotland Tours
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Misterios de Ultratumba
Light-hearted tour into Edinburgh dark past. A heady mix of dramatic story-telling, gruesome history and haunted Underground Vaults. Our premium ghost tour...