Edinburgh Underground Vaults Ghost Tour

Edinburgh has been named the most haunted city in Europe, and once you descend into the underground vaults beneath the Royal Mile, you will understand why. This atmospheric evening tour takes you below the streets into a network of chambers sealed since the 18th century, where the darkest chapters of Edinburgh's history unfolded. Your guide, a master storyteller in traditional costume, leads you by candlelight through vaults that once served as workshops, taverns, and homes for the city's poorest residents before being bricked up and forgotten for over 200 years. You will hear true stories of the body snatchers Burke and Hare, who murdered 16 people to sell their corpses to the medical school, the plague victims sealed in Mary King's Close, and the paranormal activity reported by visitors and investigators in these very chambers. The tour is genuinely unsettling in the best possible way, with atmospheric lighting and long pauses in pitch darkness that let the silence of the vaults speak for itself. Not recommended for the easily frightened.