Mercat Tours Ghost Tours, Edinburgh - Hidden and Haunted Tour

Overview

Mercat Tours is the original, largest, and only 5-star walking tour company in Scotland. We have been providing award-winning history and ghost tours of Edinburgh since 1985.

With an extensive portfolio of tours we guarantee departures, daily, all year round. Tours run by day and night; discover Old Town and New Town; explore above ground and underground; glimpse the historical and ghostly. Mercat promise to engage, enthral and entertain our visitors as we share the city’s remarkable stories.’

Book this tour if you’d like…

- a tour designed with an adult audience in mind
- to hear about our sinister and unsavoury past, and people
- to experience the famous haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults of Edinburgh by candle-light

Hidden and Haunted

Edinburgh’s history at its most chilling. We save the darkest, most sinister, most unsettling tales till last for our late night ghost tour. 
You hear of bloody plots that led to treason and torture and secret lives that lead to horrific death and tormented souls.

Our renowned Blair Street Underground Vaults, like our city, hide dark tales of dark deeds which we’ll share as candles flicker…

Dark & unnerving

We recommend this tour for adults due to the darker content and adult themes.
It is recommended that you book this tour in advance as the maximum number is 32.

Visitors should report 15 minutes before the tour departs
Start Mercat Cross, High Street; Finish Blair Street Vaults, Blair Street
Please note children under the age of 5 are not permitted on this tour. Tour content is not appropriate for younger children nor is the route taken suitable terrain for buggies. 

•Please note: If you purchase your ticket/pass online after 4pm Friday until 9am Monday, you will not receive your e-confirmation until Monday. You are unable to use your ticket/pass without this confirmation.

•The voucher is non-refundable.