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Mercat Tours of Edinburgh
A gruesome and bloody past exhumed... authentic history vividly brought to life...
Mercat Tours of Edinburgh provides the best ghost and history tours in Scotland. We specialise in walking tours around Edinburgh’s Old Town featuring the most haunted locations, the scariest stories and most spectacular candlelit underground vaults.
Tickets from £7.50
Available Tours
Sin In The City ** NEW TOUR**
This unique tour is an opportunity to see a different side of the history of Edinburgh. The content may surprise you, it may even shock, but it will definitely entertain.
Hidden and Haunted - *NEW TOUR*
As darkness falls on the Royal Mile, join our late night ghost tour and learn about Edinburgh's hidden secrets and haunted places.
Gallows to Graveyard
Edinburgh is a Jekyll & Hyde city renowned for its split personality. Its respectable mask conceals a dangerous side. Around every corner, a dark secret awaits. Traitors, thieves & murderers have come to a bloody end on the Royal Mile when their ghastly secrets were exposed! Who were they, what were their evil deeds & why do they still haunt the living?
Paranormal Underground
Descend into the 18th century Underground Vaults beneath the South Bridge. Explore the nature of ghosts & the different ways they manifest themselves. Hear of over 20 years of paranormal experiences of visitors. Reflect on the findings of psychics, mediums, the Most Haunted team & other paranormal groups & possibly discover psychic gifts of your own!
Ghostly Underground
Where are the rooms that are reputed to be haunted? What have our visitors seen and heard in the vaults? Who is the terrifying spirit who does not want YOU down there? Why would the electric lights fail?
Ghosts & Ghouls
Mercat Tour's original and most popular tour. A light-hearted journey into Edinburgh's dark past. A heady mix of dramatic story-telling, gruesome history and haunted Underground Vaults.
Historic Vaults
Visit the 18th century vaults beneath the South Bridge to find out why they were created. See the unaltered conditions in which real people worked. Discover the links between these chambers and the city's notorious body snatchers.
Secrets of the Royal Mile
Explore the narrow closes and wynds of the Old Town. Discover Scotland’s first Parliament building. Meet the celebrated author of ‘The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde’. Learn how Half-Hangit Maggie got her name.
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