There’s nothing quite like taking a ghost tour of Edinburgh’s most haunted vaults on the most haunted night of the year, Halloween.

The famous Blair Street Underground Vaults are spine-chilling at the best of times – a candlelit labyrinth of gloomy tunnels in which every sound, every movement in the shadows, stops you in your tracks and makes the blood run cold. At Halloween, the experience is unforgettable.

Prepare to be spooked

Your Halloween Underground tour starts at Edinburgh’s Mercat Cross – a spot where criminals were once tortured and executed. Your Mercat storyteller will meet you there and lead you through the atmospheric Old Town towards the haunted vaults, stopping to tell a macabre tale or two on route.

You’ll then descend into the Blair Street Underground Vaults where you will hear more sinister stories of body snatchers, murderers, ghosts and ghouls. Tread softly down there. In the vaults no one can hear you scream...