Edinburgh
Ghost Stories
City of the dead
There are some amazing things about Edinburgh, but, if you know anything about me, you can imagine that all the ghost stories were something that brought me some interest. One of the things that I had to do was participate in a tour by City of the dead tours, and let me tell you, this was not the best idea when you’re as wuss as I am.
So, how did this go, you ask?
First of all, I was staying at an amazing hostel, in which my room had a view of the Greyfriars Kirkyard — after this, let’s say that it wasn’t as simple to fall asleep.
The tour was scheduled for the early morning — well early for those of us that like to sleep in the morning — and the first destiny was the stone vaults.
As I’ve been talking here and here, Edinburgh ended up creating a kind of underground city — one of the only ways to grow while being confined to such a small space while growing in population — this underground city was mainly a bunch of stone vaults that were either used as warehouses, or as houses for the lower layers of the population.
At this tour, they explained to us the reason why these vaults were created, but more than that, they shared stories — real or not — about the people living down there.
