The World Famous Edinburgh Underground Ghost Tour

Edinburgh 1 hour 15 minutes

Meet your guide on Edinburgh’s Royal Mile in the early evening. Your guide will be dressed as one of the Scottish capital’s most infamous historical characters, bringing an extra spook factor to your experience. Then, set out on foot to explore the hidden wynds and closes radiating from the Royal Mile. Stroll through shadowy lanes and courtyards, and listen as your guide details their dark history and horrifying secrets, hearing tales of the criminality and murders once rife here. Next, head to what is claimed to be the world’s most haunted cemetery: Greyfriars Kirkyard. Walk around the tombstones, and listen to stories of poltergeists, missing bodies, and the graveyard’s famously loyal dog. Lastly, follow your guide into Edinburgh’s underground vaults. Explore the dark subterranean chambers, and uncover their 400-year history as you hear gruesome snippets about ghosts, torture, murder, witchcraft, and unexplained events. As you walk, watch and listen or any strange events and noises: many visitors to the vaults have reported weird sensations and sightings. When it’s time, re-emerge into the streets of the Old Town, where your tour ends when you say goodbye to your guide.

Evening Edinburgh underground vaults walking tour

Explore the Old Town’s ‘wynds’ and hear about their history and mysteries

Visit Greyfriars Kirkyard, said to be the world’s most haunted graveyard

Descend into Edinburgh’s underground vaults and uncover their 400-year history

Hear tales of ghosts, murders and torture, and watch and listen for unexplained events

Guide dressed as one of Edinburgh’s most infamous characters

Early evening tour suitable for families

Hear terrifying stories of hauntings, murders, executions and cannibalism.

6.45pm Evening tour is suitable for families.

Guide plays a real, distinct and infamous character from Scotland’s history.

Travel back in time and descend into our section of underground street.

Walk through the Old Town’s distinctive closes, wynds and secluded squares.