The dark side of Edinburgh.
Apart from the usual medieval tricks of beheadings, body-snatching, nailing ears to church doors and impaling bodies and heads on sticks, there were lots of even nastier tricksters about. We went on this ghost tour of the Grey Friars Cemetry and a tomb called the Black Mausoleum. This tour is in a disued cemetry which was closed to the public a few years ago due to some very strange goings on particularly in the part of the cemetry that contained the Black Mausoleum. The tour operqtor managed to get the council to hand him the keys in exchange for some money- those Scots! This was a tomb that once contained the body of a Scottish guy who went by the name Bloody Mackenzie so called because he liked to slice peoples guts open and impale their heads on stakes-that kind of thing. The strange goings-on started about 3 years ago when a homeless person found his way into the tomb and, although no one knows exactly what happened to him, he went certifiable after spending the night with MacKenzie. Ever since then, there have been several hundred genuine events of wierdness occur including many of actual, unexplained incidents of harm to people who visit the tomb- such things as scratches bruises over the whole body and more than 30 losses of consciousness. The tour guide we had said he had personally carried 13 people out of the tomb- unconscious! Its enough to say that I am a sceptic and I just about shat myself.