Edinburgh: Hidden and Haunted Night Walking Tour

Join Edinburgh’s most graphic and spine-chilling ghost tour, led by a master storyteller through shadowy streets and into the haunted Blair Street Underground Vaults.

Getting started

Your night begins at the Mercat Cross, where your guide will check tickets and hand out audio devices. This experience is for adults only, ages 18 and up.

What to expect

You’ll weave through Old Town’s narrow, cobbled closes—once sites of murder, mischief, and dark secrets—before descending into the Blair Street Underground Vaults for a chilling dose of real history.

Features

• Graphic adult ghost tour: The goriest and most intense night tour in Edinburgh, strictly for those aged 18+.

• Old Town walking route: Hear twisted tales of treason, torture, and tormented souls as you explore eerie wynds and closes.

• Blair Street Vaults access: Step into candlelit vaults steeped in sinister stories and the unsettling scent and silence of the past.

• Master storyteller: Follow your cloaked guide as they reveal true accounts of murder, hangings, and hauntings from Edinburgh’s darkest days.

• Small group with audio: Stay fully immersed in every whispered horror with included audio devices and an 18-guest cap.

This late-night walking tour blends historical gore with unnerving atmosphere. It is ideal for those seeking Edinburgh’s darker side, told straight and without sugarcoating.