Ghost walks and tours - Thu 07 Jun 2007 11:56:PM
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
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
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)
Rats! 
