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Thu 07 Jun 2007 11:56:PM
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Here, I will be outlining different ghost tours and walks and relaying the history of the places, plus photographs etc.
To start this topic off, I will be going to Edinburgh next week and plan to go on a ghost walk/tour ( and there are plenty of them in Edinburgh’s fair city).So much history, so much slaughter – how can I not go on a walk? 
One of the famous tours is one that takes you into the dark past of the 17th century, to the time of the covenanters...and the dark deeds of George Mackenzie.
The Covenanters were a powerful political force in Scotland in the 17th century. On 28, 1638, a large gathering signed the "National Covenant" in Greyfriars Kirkyard(churchyard), pledging to keep Scotland a Presbyterian country. This document formed the basis of a treaty whereby the Scottish government would support the parliamentarians in the English Civil War.
However, 50 years later Charles II was on the throne, the Covenanters had been outlawed and they were heavily defeated by the king's forces at the battle of Bothwell Brig. In all, 18,000 Covenanters died for their beliefs, 1,200 were imprisoned in the Covenanters Prison in Greyfriars Kirkyard by Judge and Lord Advocate Sir George Mackenzie, otherwise known as "Bluidy Mackenzie"
Some were executed and their heads displayed around the prison walls. The rest were corralled in the yard and left without food or water. Hundreds died, and for some the last face they would have seen was the mocking, jubilant and hateful face of "bluidy" Mackenzie.    
Ironically George Mackenzie was himself buried in Greyfriars, in the Black muasoleum. 
The story goes that in 1999 a homeless man needing shelter for the night entered the mausoleum and the coffin was disturbed. Since then strange,frightening things have been happening there, attributed to the Mackenzie poltergeist. Enough strange things to make the council lock the gates and not allow anyone in. 
Along came Jan-Andrew Henderson who lived in a flat over-looking the graveyard, who managed to get the rights to re-open the graveyard and take ghost tours there. 
He did just that and:
Since 1999 there have been more than 350 documented attacks. Over 170 people have collapsed. Tourists have reported hot spots, cold spots, somewhere in the middle spots. They have been bloodied and bruised, pushed and pulled, by an unseen and altogether unwanted visitor to the Black Mausoleum.  All the different kinds of strange photos have been taken, orbs abound in that place.
Mr Henderson’s flat was even burnt out, that is when he decided to stop with the tours and moved away. 
But...someone else took over and the tours continue and---Most leave entertained, some leave a little frightened and others walk away from the Black Mausoleum convinced that they have had a close brush with something very nasty indeed. 
The question is - Do I dare to go on this  tour 
Watch this space 
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Who needs an encyclopedia of ghostly history when we can read your posts?  Yes, go on the tour!  And I can't wait to hear all about it...if you make it back! ![[Linked Image]](http://www.metawake.info/images/graemlins/reaper.gif)
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 ~faints dead away~ Oh my gosh! I don't think I'd care to go on that particular ghost walk... I am a pansy when it comes to direct chance of going into a known attack zone... Love the thread Chriss... Can hardly wait to read more... 
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Haha! I have every intention of coming back Alisa!
I have to-I booked my ticket!!
Dawn - this is just ONE of the weird, ghostly places they have in Edinburgh. They also have tours of underground vaults which were inhabited in the 16th and 17th centuries.
Edinburgh was so overcrowded and not enough dwelling places for people to live, that many of the poor and the 'weird' went underground. Some people lived all or most of their lives in darkness with the only lighting coming from oil lamps or candles.
Stories of plague, child abuse, squalor, misery, murder,abound.
Even the infamous 'body snatchers' Burke and Hare walked and 'worked' down there collecting the 'bodies', which they delivered to doctors(so they could disect and understand the human anatomy). These two men went from grave robbing the corpses of freshly dead people to the murdering of people - for material gain - as the story goes.
So all in all not a very nice place to have lived...or even visit on a tour!
Then there is Infamous Edinburgh Castle..and Mary King's close..
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The truth is that I do have a morbid curiosity about historical places that survived such sadnesses. Learning the history of a past era really makes me appreciate the opportunities that our modern life offers. Very interesting facts that your sharing, keep them coming! 
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I am back from my trip to Edinburgh.
Unfortunately, I did not get to go on the night ghost walk I wanted. 
The weather was inclement to say the least. Cold,very windy and pouring rain, not good condition to go on a ghost walk. On my last day there I decided to go on a day ghost tour to the vaults.
When I arrived at the meeting place, I was informed the tours for that afternoon were cancelled!
It appears I was not meant to meet the ghosties on that trip, for whatever reason.
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 Rats!  Hope you had a good time in Edinburgh anyway!  Glad to you're back! 
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