Ghost Tours and Walks in Edinburgh

The Cadies & Witchery Tours

Witchery Tours are the second-most popular ghost tour company in Edinburgh. Their trademarks are, without a doubt, their 'deceased' guides, Adam Lyal and Alexander Clapperton. Their ghost tours are also well known for the 'jumper-ooters', the costumed characters you get to meet on tour, willingly or not, at the most unexpected times.

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The Witchery Tours are well researched using information from city records, library documents and historical archives. The walks focus more on the gore and gruesome, Edinburgh's ghosts, plagues, hangings and tortures rather than history. While the facts are well researched, the tours are meant to be funny, not serious.

The tour company takes its name from the famous Witchery Restaurant on the Royal Mile's Castlehill, just below Edinburgh Castle.

Available walks from Witchery Tours

The Cadies & Witchery Tours have two walks you can choose from:

Ghosts & Gore Tour

This tour of the Old Town of Edinburgh includes accounts of tortures, punishments and executions that the medieval town witnessed over the centuries. Alexander Clapperton is the guide on this tour and costumed characters will also make short apparitions during the walk.

Murder & Mystery Tour

The second tour available from the Witchery Tours also takes in scenes of tortures and murders but focuses more on the supernatural by sharing stories of famous ghosts allegedly still haunting the Old Town of Edinburgh. Adam Lyal is the guide on this tour.

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See the links below for more information on Witchery Tours and other ghost walking tour operators in Edinburgh.

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Mercat Tours Information on walking tours of this popular tour company in Edinburgh.

The Cadies & Witchery Tours Description of ghost tours enhanced by special appearances of ghoulish characters.

Auld Reekie's Tours Information on the company's ghost and walking tours, some of which go underground.

Blackhart Storytellers Tours Description of the company's three different tours including the famous City of the Dead haunted graveyard tour.

Ghost Tour Comparison Decide which ghost or history walk to take by visiting our comparison page.

Tour Details - Ghost Tours Essential tourist information including tour times, ticket prices and contact details for ghost tour companies.

Haunted Edinburgh on the web Links to other web pages related to ghost tours and haunted sightings in Edinburgh.

Also see:

Mary King's Close One of the most popular attractions in Edinburgh with a strong focus on history and paranormal.

Edinburgh's Underground Vaults Information on the hidden vaults beneath Edinburgh, at South Bridge.

Edinburgh Dungeon Information on the popular family attraction offering a chilling and graphic account of the most gruesome episodes in the history of Edinburgh

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Origin of 'Edinburgh'

Tourists have problems with the name of Edinburgh. There are hundreds of ways people write it and the most common writings include 'edinburg', 'edinborough', 'edimburgh', 'edinbourgh', 'ediburgh', 'edinbugh', 'edinboro', 'edingburgh', 'edinbrugh', 'edimburg', 'edinburugh', 'edingurgh', 'edinbrough', etc.

According to the Scottish Place Names dictionary, the name Edinburgh means 'Fort of the Rock Face'. The 'edin' part comes from Scottish Gaelic and means 'rock face', while 'burgh' comes from Old English meaning stronghold.

Some more obscure (and quite funny) ways of writing Edinburgh include: edinburough, edingburg, edinbourg, edinburh, edinurgh, edenburg, edinbough, edinbourough, edinbrgh, edingborough, edenburgh, edinberg, edinborgh, edinborugh, edinburge, edinburhg, edingbourgh, etc.

Edinburgh is spelt Edimburgo in Spanish and Italian and Édimbourg in French.

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