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Edinburgh is a Scottish city with a very long history and like all old sites it has its share of ghost stories. Well, more than its share of ghosts by some reports. The best way to find out is to take a city ghost tour, and of course the late night ones are the scariest and the best.

The friendly guides for these tours make it all seem so real that you will be feeling quite frightened of what, or who, might come out of an alleyway, or cellar.  Edinburgh Castle is a favourite place for ghost hunting and there have been many reports of the ‘tunnel piper’ who was originally sent to explore the tunnels beneath the castle and sadly disappeared. He is often heard playing his phantom pipes.

Then there is the headless drummer who only plays his drums in times of trouble, and the ghost dog that wanders aimlessly around the castle dog cemetery, apparently unaware that it is dead.

The dungeons in the castle are haunted by some of the tortured souls who were imprisoned there over hundreds of years. The presence of something very strange has been proved to exist in the castle. An experiment was set up when a group of people who knew nothing of the castle’s history sensed ‘something’ in areas known to be haunted, much more frequently than they did in other areas of the building.  Whatever those people sensed, it was certainly something very strange.

There are ghost hunter tours available in other areas of the city and it is a very enjoyable way to learn something of its interesting and often turbulent history, but certainly not for those who are of a nervous disposition.

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