City of the Dead Tours

30/12/2024

Happy new year and we hope to see you all in 2025. . #2025

14/12/2024

Our very own Jan Henderson’s latest novel – the mystery romance ‘Aftonhouse’ – is out on the 20th of December. Released by US publisher Three Ravens, the Kindle version is now available to pre-order! So that’s your Xmas presents sorted.
WARNING. Contains scenes of murder, kilt-wearing and modern art.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B0DPTZ2PJH
www.janandrewhenderson.com

‘Dark’ Arrowsmith and Spiral Wood are grifters – in love and living on the edge – until Spiral vanishes near the village of Aftonhouse in the Scottish Highlands. Posing as a reporter, Dark discovers a remote community with a criminal underbelly and finds herself falling for an enigmatic, ref...

12/12/2024

Another batch of spookiness!
The scratches and bruises are standard poltergeist stuff - but is that a figure lurking in the vaults?

01/12/2024

Our very own Jamie Corstorphine has popped up talking about Underground Edinburgh in his nice green sweater.
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cly2l119zlpo

The passageway gives a glimpse of how Edinburgh looked centuries ago.

17/11/2024

Halloween may be over but the Mackenzie Poltergeist is on a roll right now!

https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com/
https://www.janandrewhenderson.com

09/11/2024

One in our occasional series of spooky things from across the world. Here’s the old Beechwood Asylum in Victoria, Australia and the nearby cemetery – which has 19th-century Chinese burning towers

https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com
https://www.janandrewhenderson.com

29/10/2024

To celebrate Hallowe'en, here are a couple of recent sightings on the tours showing how different they can be. One is a figure lurking at the bottom of the graveyard who then seemed to vanish. The other is a more usual poltergeist ‘attack’

https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com/
https://www.janandrewhenderson.com

27/10/2024

With Hallowe'en coming up, here's a slightly edited version for those of you who didn’t catch the recent episode of BBC's 'Hauntings' - dedicated to City of the Dead and the Mackenzie Poltergeist. If there are any copyright issues, we will take it down again…

https://www.cityofthedeadtours.com/
https://www.janandrewhenderson.com

19/10/2024

Coming this Sunday on BBC 2 - an episode of Hauntings dedicated entirely to City of the Dead and the Mackenzie Poltergeist! If you’re in UK, you can also watch it on BBC IPlayer or we’ll try to post it after the weekend. Zoinks!
https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episode/m002389f/hauntings-series-1-3-the-edinburgh-executioner?seriesId=unsliced

Christmas 1998. A homeless man falls into an assembly of decomposing corpses after breaking into the tomb of George Mackenzie - Edinburgh’s famous executioner. But something else had been disturbed.

12/10/2024

With Halloween coming up, check out our new-look office and shop in Greyfriars Graveyard. It’s not always open but you can sit in the graveyard and ponder mortality if it’s shut.

The voiceover was done by a possessed eight-year-old girl.

www.cityofthedeadtours.com

07/10/2024

With our favourite time of year approaching, what are your plans this Halloween? ☠️☠️☠️☠️⚰️⚰️⚰️

City of the dead tours have been named ‘One of the UK's Best Ghost Walks’ by Scare.com, Yahoo! Travel and Virgin Media, ‘One of the UK’s Spookiest Tours’ by The Sun Newspaper, ‘One of Edinburgh’s top 10 Attractions' by USA Today and ‘Edinburgh’s Best Ghost Tour’ by Lonely Planet. Short-listed for the prestigious Screamie Awards (3 times), winner of ScareTour’s ‘Best Ghost Tour Award', recommended for the last 13 years by TripAdvisor (including ‘Best Halloween Events’) and awarded the Viator Badge of Excellence.

Tours run daily from "The tree of the dead" by St. Giles Cathedral on the Royal Mile. For more information and for booking please visit www.cityofthedeadtours.com or email [email protected].

**The MacKenzie poltergeist can cause genuine mental and physical distress, you join us at your own risk**

11/09/2024

You know you've made it when 'The Seattle Times' gets on the case....

https://www.seattletimes.com/life/food-drink/spooky-fall-adventures-in-europes-most-haunted-destinations/

Europe is a continent steeped in history, and with that history comes tales of restless spirits, haunted castles and ghostly encounters. For those seeking an otherworldly experience this fall, here are some of the most haunted locations across Europe, complete...

21/08/2024

Our very own Jan-Andrew Henderson, giving his unwanted opinions to The Horror Writers Association.

https://horror.org/nuts-bolts-interview-with-novelist-and-haunted-tour-owner-jan-andrew-henderson/

By Tom Joyce While working as a ghost tour guide in Edinburgh, Jan-Andrew Henderson found a spot with all the makings of a real-life horror story – an eerie graveyard, a long-buried (literally) human tragedy on a grand scale, and a vicious supernatural entity called “the Mackenzie Poltergeist......

16/08/2024

The Edinburgh Festival is on and the place is mobbed.
The Mackenzie Poltergeist hates the Festival...

07/08/2024

A lot of our guides are entertainers as well as history buffs. So, naturally, they're performing at the Edinburgh Fringe! If you enjoy our tours, check these out.

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/maestro-this-is-your-life

https://tickets.edfringe.com/whats-on/burns-night-hootenanny

A hootenanny is Highland Scots for a party or get-together – a Scottish folk music party with poetry, music and song. Tonight, acclaimed storyteller and novelist Alastair Sim recites the poetry of Scotland's greatest bard Robert Burns as award-winning pianist Matthew Shiel performs Scottish folk m...