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City of the Dead Tours

26B Candlemaker Row, Edinburgh EH1 2QE, Scotland (Cowgate)
0131 225 9044
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Owner description: These walks are designed by best selling historical author and award winning novelist J A Henderson. "The best of Edinburgh’s ghost tours" – Lonely... more » Owner description: These walks are designed by best selling historical author and award winning novelist J A Henderson. "The best of Edinburgh’s ghost tours" – Lonely Planet Guide. Combining history, humour and horror, the walk ends inside the Covenanter’s Prison in a locked section of a 16th century cemetery. This is the lair of the "McKenzie Poltergeist," the best-documented paranormal case in history. "Puts the city's other ghost tours in the shade"- Edinburgh Evening News « less
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Belfast, United Kingdom
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed June 17, 2013 NEW

Our tour guide Gerry with a G was amazin. The tour was interestin, fun and scary lol. Well worth it!!!!!!! I have been to Edinburgh over 100 times and this is first time I had ever done tours etc and learned a lot I never knew. Fair play :)

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5 of 5 stars Reviewed June 15, 2013 NEW via mobile

Took the City of the Dead tour early last week. Dave our guide was amazing, full of knowledge and very funny (loved his Taggart gag)!! Would highly recommend this tour to anyone visiting Edinburgh. Good value for a great hour or so of entertainment. If you can take the tour with Dave!!

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hartlepool
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed June 11, 2013

we took the 10pm double dead tour with Sam. even though we were real sceptics we enjoyed the tour immensely, mainly for the historical aspect. Sam did a great job and tried her best to spook us and to be honest i believe she succeeded with a few of our quite large group. i was expecting gery friar's graveyard to... More

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scunthorpe england
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed June 10, 2013

Have been on the individual tours a few years back so decided to try the 'Double Dead' tour. Liked the fact that the scary bits were condensed into one, without so many witch burning stories etc. The trip into the vaults is the most scary bit as it is pitch dark and the guide Dave was standing on the top... More

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St. Albans, United Kingdom
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed June 10, 2013

There are a lot of tour company's to choose from Edinburgh. We chose this one as the reviews looked good and the time slot worked for our schedule. They offered several different tours: as we had limited time available we went for the City of the Dead Ghost tour which takes you underground. The tour guide was great: very entertaining... More

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Sacramento, California
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed June 8, 2013

Tours, tours, and tours, there are good ones and then not so good. City of the Dead ghost tours is definitely a good one. We took the double dead tour at 10:30 at night with Dave our guide. Dave is a great guide full of historical stories about the city and ghost tales to shore up the overall experience. You... More

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Tel Aviv, Israel
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed June 8, 2013

A bad actress is taking you to a church grave yard, which is always open to the public, telling you stupid stories and charging 10 pounds. The brochure promises you a terrifying experince but gives you nothing,

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Aberdeen, United Kingdom
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1 of 5 stars Reviewed June 3, 2013

Went for the Double Dead Tour. Huge group, the guide was making silly jokes instead of keeping up to the theme of 'double dead tour', the vaults were impossible to enjoy due to loud music from club next door, didn't have any spooky/eerie/dark feeling even at the graveyard and covenants' prison. A total waste of money!

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Edinburgh, Scotland, United Kingdom
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4 of 5 stars Reviewed June 2, 2013

This was a tour of the vaults and Greyfriars graveyard. Our tour guide was very enthusiastic and informative and she made it interesting but walked awfully fast and we did all feel as if it was rushed. This is the 2nd ghost tour I have done, the last one was with a different company so for me a fair bit... More

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Milton Keynes, United Kingdom
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5 of 5 stars Reviewed June 2, 2013

We went on this tour with Dave, a very interesting Scottish guide who was very knowledgable and a fantastic storyteller. We didn't experience any wee ghosties but were duly scared anyway!

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