EDINBURGH ENCHANTED

An ancient city, legends, parapsychology and chills 

There is a magical Edinburgh breathtaking travelers. To know you have to throw to find the secret stories of the Old Town, tour Real Mary King's Close, Greyfriars Kirkyard visit or choose any of the circuits of fear that the city offers.




Secret Stories of the Old Town 

There is a real Edinburgh, another literary, one film and even one related to the crime novel, but the part of the city's hidden is the labyrinth of underground passageways and basements hiding called the streets of Old Town (between the castle and the palace Holyrood). Following the expansion of the city in the late eighteenth century bridge South Bridge and George IV Bridge were built in the deep valley of Cowgate. Its layout communicated Royal Mile to the south and ran on the underground vaults that were used as workshops and taverns. With the growth of the population, were used as pasture hovels that ended up being poverty, filth and crime. The basement of the South Bridge were evicted in the late nineteenth century and were forgotten until 1994, when the tourists were opened.

Real Mary King's Close (2 Warriston's Close)

It is a medieval Old Town alley that has survived almost intact over the last two hundred and fifty years between the foundation of the City Chambers, an eerie underground labyrinth which gives an idea about life in Edinburgh in the seventeenth century. Guiding circuit gloats too frightening and eschatological details of its history, but there is something in decrepit hovels of the seventeenth century and the scents of aged stone and dust that makes the hair stand on end. Then there's the tiny room of Annie, where a parapsychologist said had approached him the ghost of a girl. In one corner disturbing dolls and teddy bears are stacked deposited by visitors.

Greyfriars Kirkyard

Greyfriars Church is famous because here was signed the National Covenant (National Pact) in 1638, which rejected the attempts of Charles I to impose episcopacy and consolidated the independence of the Scottish church. Many of the signatories were executed later in Grassmarket, and in 1679 more than 1,000 Confederates were imprisoned in inhumane conditions in a cell at the end of the kirkyard (churchyard).

Inside the church there is a small exhibition about the National Covenant and an original portrait of Greyfriars Bobby dating from 1867 at 12.30 Sunday services are held in Gaelic.

The Kirkyard is one of the scariest places in Edinburgh. Many famous people of the city lie here; for example, the poet Allan Ramsay (1686-1758), the architect William Adam (1689-1748), and William Smellie (1740-1795), editor of the first edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica. In the southwest corner is the Covenanters' Prison (Prison Confederate), a series of allegedly haunted tombs.

Fear Circuitry 

Black Hart Storytellers guided program with the name "City of the Dead" (city of the dead) Greyfriars Kirkyard by, which is perhaps the best spooky Edinburgh circuit circuit. It is not recommended for children.

Another option is offered Cadies & Witchery Tours, livid with the deceased and wrapped in his cloak Adam Lydal, guiding the "Murder & Mystery" by the darkest corners of Old Town. These circuits are famous for their "scares".