Episode 4 More Haunted Tales From Edinburgh

If you listened to the last episode, you'll know we've started looking into some of the ghost stories from Ebrah, but that was really just the beginning. The more we got into it, the more we realized how many of these stories there actually are. So in this episode, we're staying in EMA and getting into a few more that stood out for us. I remember this couple from Ireland years and years ago. Took this photograph, oh, it was great. And I and I wish I'd asked for it, but it was like a I mean it wasn't like an apparition, but it was like a white sort of tube, like a serpent. And it was winding round everyone. It was like it had gone in between people's through their legs, under armpits. We were all covered in this thing. It was really interesting. It's like a big bendy snake. Yeah. It was an odd one. It wasn't just like an orb, which is you know could be explained easily. That was odd. Who knows? Who knows? Who knows indeed? TripAdvisor. I do like TripAdvisor. I remember TripAdvisor uh reading about the apex hotels in Edinburgh. I thought that was really good. I mean Apex Tels are great, you know, they're nice, comfortable hotels. But because where they're built on the grass market, which has got a history of all sorts, potentially things have happened there. I don't know. Have you ever experienced anything in the grass market?

I haven't, but interestingly, a the apex was that I do know that there's apparitions of people in rags. Yes. Also I've heard. That is crazy. Um and a friend of mine actually did say to me a few months back that her I think she said her husband's great grandparents lived there. Yeah. Um and that's when they were at the tenements, and that's where people were like really poor and they were well, I mean they lived in rags basically. And I suppose they did over the centuries live in there. So I thought that was quite interesting. I thought, oh well that all ties in as to why perhaps why that hotel is haunted.

Yeah, I mean the the the the the figures within rags is is definitely the description. And I remember um I think some lady posted a a review. I mean it's weird because when you post a review, it's got to be like a you know, you've got you're posting a review on the hotel, but you're also having a bad experience in it because maybe you've seen a ghost, so do you give them a terrible review because you know, because they've seen a ghost? It's not their fault, you know, kind of thing. So it's quite interesting. Some people give a like a poorer review because of a bad night's sleep. And normally it'd be like, you know, the bed was lumpy or whatever, or there's noise outside. But you know, when you see you see a woman in your room clutching an old apron and a ragged, bearded faced man, it looks like they're screaming and you have a bad night's sleep. Does that mean you give the hotel a bad room?

Well, I suppose the hotel knew that that room was haunted.

Well, that's very true. Um if that was the case they'd be charging double, you know, make a fortune from it. But yeah, the this is the common thing, the scene like a woman wringing her hands and a guy screaming. Now, is the guy, you know, what's that about? Did some tragedy unfold there? Is the guy gonna get hung? Is she at the hang? You know, they hung many people there, of course. Uh interesting stuff. Uh, some of the pubs as well have like lots of creepy little vignettes about it. It's interesting. I think for me, one of the pubs I think is quite interesting. And probably more so than some of the others. There's probably Tobo's pub, which is down the bottom of the Royal Mile. Yeah, Cannon Gate. Um that's quite interesting that one. I mean, again, it's got a kind of an old bit of the front and a sort of newer bit of the back. It's an ancient building looks great by the way. It's like an old um it looks like an old townhouse basically, it's got a clock in it. But it was a prison at one point, or part of it at least, and there's some really good stories attached to it. Um And uh I actually spoke to a lady who worked uh well her family lived there for years, and actually she she used the pub, she frequented the pub, and one of her relatives had died, and they actually had their wake in the pub. And what was happening was there was there was books that had been taken out during the you know the wake, and like Porter guys had taken the book out and dropped it. And when they opened it, then there was a name inscribed in it, which was I think the name of the relative who'd passed away, which was odd.

That's really odd.

That was odd, yeah. But I spoke to some people that that had lived next door, and the one thing that's interesting was they always heard sounds of men well assumed to be men, but clumping thumping sounds in the attic, like pump, pum, pump, like heavy boots. Uh and it was really interesting because there was a the when it was a prison, there was actually an escape planned, and they'd broken into the tenement next door, into the attic, so all this kind of clumping was going on, and that was what they were hearing all the time when they were there. And there's some random story about a witch or a wizard or a warlock there as well, but I don't know much about that at all. I don't know if that's probably one of these fantasy kind of things.

The old folklore strikes again.

Yeah, it's it's it's a nice pub. It's it's got definitely got I you know I've never been I've never felt anything weird in it, put it that way, but it's definitely got a strange vibe. I I mean some of the museums, like for example, the People's Story, that's again got similar kind of phenomena. And you've also got what's the other one across the room? Oh, Huntley House. Had a couple of friends who worked there. Um uh Kerry, no, Kerry told me a couple of stories when she worked there for these places, and and there were quite heavy vibe in it in certain places, quite creepy. Staff were scared to go to certain parts, like toilet and staff room or something, it was meant to be haunted. And they just had weird, weird weird things go on. I think one of the buildings, if I remember correctly, they're just schooling one day, and the kids were really upset because when they were actually um showing a kind of film they had a screen, there was a pair of legs sort of seen to be hanging on the screen, and of course Kerry, I believe it was Kerry and her friend, got got roasted by the teacher thinking they'd pulled a prank on the kids, but they didn't, which was odd. So was somebody hanging there and being hungry. I don't know, it was a strange one. I know. Uh so it's got it's got it's a lot of stuff, but you know, it's difficult when you're approaching the council, the council, like any other body, kind of keep a bit of a kind of impartiality when it comes to these things. So if you ask them too many, you know, they're not gonna go oh yeah, you have to find the the source. I mean, I'm sure there's some fabulous stories out there waiting to be uncovered. I think.

I'm sure that they probably are.

My favourite uh of all the Wii museums was probably the uh one that was the uh childhood museum.

Oh, on the yeah.

On the mile.

On the mile, yeah.

Which has kind of been done up a bit. So they got rid of some of the older style stuff at the bottom. It's a bit of a shame. It was a really cool museum back in the day. So there's a lot of computer stuff now at the bottom, which is a wee bit eh, I don't know, yeah, but you know. But I liked it when it was crowded with old toys and then a creepy little spooky, ghosty house thing. You could put a penny and it would it would work a little ghost would pop out the chimney and that, which is fantastic. But I spoke to someone whose whose mother and father worked there. I think they were cleaners, or at least the mother was a cleaner. Potentially the guy'd worked there as like uh an attendant, I think. But he he quit his job from the from the museum because when he went in one morning, he said there was an overpowering smell of shit on the stairs, which was quite awful. Okay, yeah. And as they went up, they're like, what's going on? And the guy apparently came running downstairs and quit his job because he heard a woman singing described as not in a nice voice, and it just totally freaked him out. That was on the staircase of the museum. And interestingly, uh, not long after, a lady got in touch and said, Oh, well, I had an experience, but not there, but on the flat opposite, because I don't know if you know, but part of it that Louis complex is like a retirement home now. So she'd gone and stayed with her mum because she'd missed her bus or taxi, so it was late in the morning, you know, and should she went to get a drink of water anyway, from the sink. And of course, her window from the kitchen faced the window of the stairwell of museum. Right. And there was a woman standing at the stairwell of the Children Museum looking back at her, who obviously was not human, like a peely wally looking bedraggled figure, and she was like, ah, totally freaked out. So it's an interesting place. But there you go.

I don't think I've been in there actually. I have to give out it goes. You should have gone.

Oh, you should have to go.

She likes. Not really. Uh I wouldn't go. Okay. They're full of dolls. Full of dolls, yeah. There's a there's a room full of dolls, and they're quite and they're waxed, and they kinda apparently when they get too hot, they kind of start droop a little bit. So they start moving, and that's why maybe that's why everything's haunted. Yeah. But I mean if you don't like dolls, god it's uh god, yeah, I don't like it. No. Well, I do like it, but I don't like that particular room. It's creepy. They've got wee mannequins of kids as well, so you kind of see them at the corner of your eye, they go, you know.

No, it sounds like actually no, I think you've missed.

Do you know what I'd like to stay overnight and do an investigation? I'm sure it'd be fantastic. I don't think council really I don't think they're into that, are they?

I don't know. Well, unless you offer ask, I suppose. We can all but ask.

Might involve a a large a large bribe, who knows? But uh it would be certainly interesting. But anyway. Have you got any other buildings then that you like particularly?

Edinburgh. Would you say, Oh, now what is the place that's by the Parliament?

You you've read my mind. I must be psyched. So it must be psychic. Are they gonna talk about Queensbury House? So well, Queensbury House. Oh my god, yeah. I think it's a hideous story and it's creepy as hell, and it's like, but it's one of these things, if you believe in it, it is creepy as hell. But if you don't believe in it, you're gonna yeah. But I I do believe um it's got the potential for being a very haunted building. The problem is, there's not a problem, but the but the thing is the building interior was done up when they built the parliament building, because it's now part of that parliament building. However, it was a large townhouse owned by the uh Duke of Queensbury and his family, and they'd lived there for many generations. And when 1707, uh at the time of the signing of the Act of Union, where we were going to be uh one parliament. The story goes that he and his fellow signars were much hated in Edinburgh and had to sign the document in secret, which is true. I don't think they ever found out really where it was signed, but it's meant to be the Royal Mile, and allegedly left the house nearly empty because they took their entourage with them, and the two people in the house were his son, James Douglas, who, depending on the report you read, maybe ten or twelve, but young, who was locked in a cell or his bedroom because he was described as a violent lunatic. He was like an aggressive, huge, man-sized child with a you know, voracious appetite, you know, all this kind of scary stuff piled upon him. And he'd apparently been kept like that for years because his father was probably embarrassed by him. If he had anything wrong with him, you know, any kind of difficulties or health difficulties. His father certainly wasn't going to be the guy who's going to try and nurture it out of him or try and help him in any way, so kind of kept him locked away. And the other person who was in the house on the fateful night was a young lad, roughly the same age, but he was cooking the meal. And I don't know the interior of that building at all back in the day, but allegedly the kitchen was downstairs and it was a big halfman fireplace, as they had. And sometime during the whole debacle of the signing, the sun had broken out and gone in search of food, and obviously, I'm assuming being tempted by the smell of what was cooking, and had found the sculling boy and eaten him. So he took a spit and roasted him and scoffed him basically. And it was that's a horrendous story. And then the family came back and saw the remains, and of course, were so mortified that they decamped down to Leeds pretty soon after and left the house empty, and this reputation grew, as those horrible houses in Edinburgh and scary stuff indeed. And uh it was written about and I think a book called The Annals of Edinburgh, which was about 1740, I think. So it happened much, much later, and that was what happened to him. And so basically the family put the son, James Douglas, stripped of his title, in a lunatic asylum where he died around about the age of 18. So the ghost is meant to haunt the the building of the boy who was eating. And the this the eater was known as the Cannon Gate Cannibal. It's interesting because the actual room where he was eating today is now kind of like a socializing meeting place for MPs. And I dare say they might have a lunch or two there. I don't know. Isn't that weird?

Irony there.

I know, but the but the actual bit is that people think it was made up because they didn't believe something so grotesque could happen, and they believed they said God had punished the family, and you've got all these stories. But what was really interesting was like literally three months ago, there's a Facebook post about it because it'd become a hospital in 1945 and then a care home, and it was tons and tons of people commenting on it. And I read about 15 different reports from different nurses who all said the same thing that the patients at the point of death saw a boy standing in the corner of the room crying, and sometimes describes wearing a red jacket, or something described as a black boy. Now, does that mean was he a black boy or was he burnt? Yeah, it's horrific. And the smell of burning in the air. That's horrible if it's true. Yeah, uh, it gives me the creeps that story. It's not a nice story if it is true. If it's true, if it is true, but these nurses were obviously rational people, and they're probably probably the least likely people to go into that kind of whole ghosty stuff, I suspect.

But I do feel that uh doctors and nurses have quite a few stories to tell.

Yeah.

So perhaps um we should do something on that one. We should.

There's plenty of hospitals. We should we should definitely do it. And we we I do know a few nurses we could probably talk uh possibly a doctor or two, we could possibly get a few stories out of them somewhere along the line.

I do believe the Edward, the old infirmary that's which are now nice flats, are they nice? I know. That was rumoured to be haunted.

I'll bet they look great flats though. But what went on there? No, no, no, no, not for me. No, no, no. If it's free, maybe. Well, like considering what can you do?

Oh dear, right. So um the only thing I've got about Edinburgh haunted is one of my own encounters.

Do tell.

Well, Usher Hall Theatre.

Oh, very good. Oh, very nice.

So this is quite a few years back because it's all been done up. Um so it's all quite nice and nice seats and everything. So this is when it was before it was all so it's quite a few years ago now. So I would say about 20 odd years, yeah. I was at an erasure concert.

Very good.

Halfway through, I thought I need the little girlies. So off I went and trotted away. And the whole place was empty, so I went to the loo as you do. Well, obviously, the ghosties like to think, get me in the loo, don't they? Well, I was washing my hands and it had a big old, you know, those old brass knobs, yeah, kind of handles. It started to move by itself, and I thought it's like someone couldn't get in.

Yeah, yeah.

So it got more and more persistent, and it was like quite violent at this point. Um, I've all forgotten to say, you know, now the door handle was still moving as I reaped for it when I opened it. There was no one there. There would be no chance anyone would have had time to have got away. So I left it.

Of course. Back to the safety of the erasure concerns.

Back to the safety of erasure.

What were they playing when you got back? Do you remember?

But that's the only time when I've actually felt scared. Yeah. And I thought that's that's a little bit no, that's a little bit so is there anything about the Usher Hall that you know about?

Nothing. Nothing. No, seriously. Um I mean, I know the Lyceum, which is next door, isn't it? Which is next door, yeah. The Lyceum is meant to have some spooky stuff. Yeah. There is a few meant to be spooky theatres. Uh the Playhouse has a few stories attached. We've got that old.

I think the playhouse. Yes.

With the guy, the the old attendant. Albert. Albert, that's it. Yeah. I love the name. I love the fact everybody gives the ghost a really sweet name, you know. Albert. So it's so harmless. My favourite ghost name's Horace. Horace, Horace the Ghost. Horace. Horace the Ghost, yeah. Horace hangs out or did hang out uh on St. Child's Street. Oh, which is those apartments now, which was owned by the council back in the 70s. And there was a great article back in the 70s about two cleaners who'd seen Horace in the basement. And he was a grey blobby-looking figure with watery blue eyes. I know. And one of them was down cleaning with our mate, and she'd only just started the job. She'd only been in the job for two days or something. And she was interviewed and they were cleaning in the basement. Horace appeared and they were screaming and bolting away. And the the kind of charge hand was sort of like, Ah, don't worry about Horace, he's okay. So uh funnily enough, uh the current crop of staff there, and I have been I've been I must have asked five times to speak to management. Never got anywhere with it. I know. I hope they're not listening, but anyway, or maybe they are. But the point being was I was convinced that if I went in there I could, you know, be it winkle at a few more stories, but apparently they've locked the bottom bit now and they use it for storage. But they say they hear strange glooping sounds coming from outside the Horace's bit. Isn't that weird? That is weird, I know. So it's another one in the many of the many two yet be discovered. Indeed. Because you know that list goes ever longer, I might add.

Ever longer. Indeed. Going back to the playhouse though, I sing in the choir there.

Very good.

And it is a bit of a spooky feeling about the place.

Is it, yeah?

I mean, they do say that Albert, apparently Albert's story was that he was like a workman there, like a handyman, and he committed suicide. Right. I think we're going back quite a few years now.

Right, yeah, yeah.

And they said usually on the sixth floor, a lot of like the people that are like the celebrities and that don't like it and all that, he needs to be up there. But I think I did see him a few weeks back. Oh because there's uh kind of like a corridor, you go you go up the stairs, and then there's the little bar on the left, a little bar on the right, but there's like a corridor as you go to the bar on the left. Um I think it's Bert's bar, I think that's what they call it. Okay, and I just thought it feels a bit weird. Yes. I kind of like poked my head around the corner, and I actually saw the back of a guy walking down this corridor, he had grey overalls on, his hand was slit back, and it's quite like grey. And the reason why I thought you're not meant to be here, really, yeah, was that there was a woman coming in the opposite direction.

Right.

She did not acknowledge him at all.

That's odd.

So I thought, hmm. And then afterwards I actually said to um one of the people that worked there, I said, you know, is has there been anything down there? She said, Oh, she said no, he's at the sixth floor. And I'm thinking, yeah, he's not there. He goes around.

Yeah.

So do you think it was him?

I mean, do you feel it was him?

I think it was him. Yeah. I think he he doesn't just stay on the sixth floor, he goes all over the place.

Isn't it weird?

It's a it's a bit of a it's a but then were there not guillotine or something there once? Not guillotine, gallows around that area. Uh as well. Um no the playhouse.

Yes. Ooh, uh I'm not sure actually if it's that far down. Maybe. But certainly was there was three or four in town. There was one at the corner of George Fourth Bridge, Grass Market, Crikey. I shouldn't know these things. Uh and there's a c there's a couple of words. One in the edge of that's actually one in morning or was one in Morningside as well. Must have been something in Leaf.

You've got to be something in Leaf. I think that area I think has probably got Yeah.

Oh yeah, well yeah, they would they would have I know it's not exactly bang on the spot, but Carlton Hill would have had stuff going on there. Definitely. And there was a prison there, of course, as well.

Yeah.

So who knows? Yeah, because they would have kung people in the prison, would they not have because the prison I know it's not exactly the same spot, but it's near enough, isn't it?

Near enough, isn't it?

But it is interesting. Yeah. Yeah. It's interesting stuff. I uh I've had a few stories given to me that I've not been able to kind of fully expand upon. So it is difficult when you get some stories. And sometimes you get stories like I got a story from the library, which is so good. Such a good story. And I went to speak to you know, because I did an event at the library a while back and I went to try to speak to everybody, of course. But what about this? Oh no, no, no, no, no, no, I've not heard of this. Or so it's it's odd how some people will tell you a fantastic story and then other people just say, No, I've not heard it. So is it down to the person? Is that person destined to have that experience but attracting that experience?

I don't really know.

I mean uh the one is about the library is fantastic. I mean the central library, of course, is huge, huge in George Force Pridge, huge, deep, deep building, ton, you know, multiple stories. Uh and this story is given to me by a reporter, bizarrely enough, whose brother, it happened to his brother, who was working for a security firm, and he um he didn't work there normally, but he was called in, you know, typically because the guy was ill, and this happens quite often, called in because somebody's ill. You don't know the building from Adam, you're in there. And he decided to, you know, being the first night very diligent, going around everywhere. I think they had to patrol every hour and they had a clocking in system or something, so you had to make sure you were in certain bits at certain times. So you couldn't set a sky off or whatever. And he's down the bottom, and he came to this room, and if I remember correctly, it had a photocopier in it, which was broken. Uh uh, an ancient one of those what were those slide things you used to get as kids in the 1970s? Viewfinder.

Okay, yeah.

Like a viewfinder randomly sitting on this thing.

That is a bit random, yeah.

And it was like a broom, and I think a brush leaning against the wall, and that was probably about it in this big room, but it was he said it was a very old door at the back of the room. So he went along and came out to try and see where it went, and he chuggled the doorknob and the the bloody light went out. And then he got punched in the guts, right, and clonked on the head. And he was freaking out because he was like like winded, and apparently crawling about on the deck trying to find the light, which he did and switched it on, and the broom had been cracked over his noggin basically and broke.

Oh cracking.

I know. So he said he was he vomited, and he was he was actually crawling up the stairs and ended up phoning the uh supervisor who came out and said uh his you know, once he'd recovered, his words of wisdom were, Well, the last guy doesn't go down there because it's haunted. I hope to call that's a true story because it would be absolutely fantastic. I mean, I took it as a true story, yeah, but he never went back to the building. He says, No, no chance. Companies called AMEC, it's almost a company called Amec, who were security guards at the time. And yeah, he never went by, he refused to go back. But the guy who was there before would not certain bits he avoided. So I spoke to the staff and said, Whoa, what about this? And they were like, Oh, interesting. No, I've never heard of that. Well, they've not seen anything, so but then does that mean anything at the end of the day? Who knows? Never mind. So how are we doing? Have we got time for more?

Squeezing her. Squeezing her out.

Got the mummy's curse if you want to hear the colour.

Oh, go on with the mummy's curse. Mummy's curse.

Okay, uh, so yeah, so we've kind of been focusing on the centre of Edinburgh, the Royal Mile, as it's known as. But uh, we're gonna sort of jump over to the old Stockbridge Comway Bank area.

Stockbridge. Oh very nice area.

Very nice area. Uh has a few spooky stories, I have to say. There has a few spooky stories, but people don't tend to know or know of them so much. But there's one I read about years ago in a book, and uh I loved it. It was called The Mummy's Curse. Oh and it was like uh it was I can't remember the name of the ghost book or something, oh god, it was something way back in the 70s. But a mate of mine covered it in a podcast he thing he did or a wee film, he did uh North Edinburgh Nightmares covered it. And I thought, oh yeah, that's the same it's the same story. But it was interesting because what they did was they managed to get somebody who'd actually was it a contemporary report? Because the reports were quite old at the time. In a nutshell, Larmouth Gardens, I'm trying to get this name right. I think it's Larmouth Gardens number 15 was a townhouse owned by Lord Seton in the 1930s, and him and his wife spent some time in Egypt, and at the time it was when you know archaeology and Egyptology was very fashionable, so they would go off on tour and they'd pick up souvenirs, i.e. real valuable pieces, which they appropriated and took back to wherever. And they were in this uh tomb, and they met a local uh and I think his brother was called Abdul, who said, I can show you this little pyramid, this little burial chamber that's a bit out of the ordinary. And they went along and apparently it was what's called a pre-mummy mummy. Now I know I'm not expert in this, but it wasn't one that was wrapped, it was a body on top of a slab, which of course was skeletal, and they were all very fascinated by this. And he went out for a fag, and Vela, who was his wife, decided to stay in and have another look. And then they were gonna go and buy a souvenir. But she said, Oh, I don't want a souvenir, and he thought that was a bit unusual. And they went back to the hotel and subsequently returned to Edinburgh. And to which she presented with him a little gift, and it was a glass case with a bone in it, a backbone, that describes a heart-shaped digestive biscuit.

Oh, okay.

Which he nicked from the body of a high-ranking Egyptian woman. So I think he was a bit cheesed off actually by the sound of things. It all came out in a book called What is it, Confessions of a Baronet. So whether this is true or not, but anyway, the gist of it was the story was in multiple newspaper articles, and he approached the newspapers initially because of the kind of portergeist activity that was now happening in the house because of the bone.

Right.

Or so he thought. But people thought he was just off his head and he was making it up, and he was, you know, they made a fool of him. So he kind of regretted it in a sense. But the activities was really odd. It was the typical mummy's curse kind of stuff. Like apparently a piece of the roof fell off and nearly clocked a guest at a party. I mean, he could have killed him. Somebody was injured in a car crash. So he had his like uh nephew round and his nephew's crying because he got in the loo in the middle of the night, and there's a guy in robes walking up the stairs who describes a man wearing a large dressing gown. Well, you know, that could be So this was the kind of stuff going on, and they'd lent the object to a couple of reporters, and I think one was either killed or injured in a crash. So the the the bit was given back and this was going on and on, and in fact, one of the guys he spoke to was an Egypt Egyptologist, and he said that they should get rid of it and put it back, but he didn't. He got his uh uncle to burn it in the back garden. And uh when his wife found out she wasn't overly happy about this, subsequently divorced. But anyway, the book the story came out in this book in the 1930s, and he passed away himself in 1963, so now the flats subdivided into well, subdivided into flats. And the story is that there's always weird stuff been happening. But the most interesting one was a I think he was a chiropractor. He went around fairly recently and and he used to go around a client's house and uh would do whatever he does. And on this occasion had gone there and the woman had gone out of the room for water or whatever it was and left him in the room and he glanced around and there was a guy, or he didn't know whether a guy or a woman, but something wearing like a veil and he just freaked out. So he's been interviewed on you know on that edition of the programme. And he genuinely looked like he'd been unsettled. So there is something particularly weird about that place, but the spirit or the figure of a either a woman, because it describes a shortish woman, but also an Egyptian priest or seen regularly at the time. So which flat it is, I don't know, but it's a downstairs one, and I know that's the bloody front room. So that's where in the morning the people used to hear crash bang in the middle of the night and come through and find the furniture all appended according to the book. So I often look in the window and think, well, I ask one day if I can come in and have a look, or is there any stories? But what if you what if you don't know the story and some random guy comes up and says, Oh, by the way, your house is you know haunted and this is what happened, it's not gonna make you feel very good.

So it's not that so I've kind of resisted the argument to say I suppose the moral of that story is don't pick anything up that you shouldn't.

Indeed, uh hats included. Hats included. I know and on that note, folks, that's the lesson over for this week.

Yeah, so podcast finished for the day. Yeah, until the next one, which I do believe is castles and palaces.

Castles and palaces.

We've got both.

Got a few of those in Scotland for sure.

So see you next time.

Take care, folks. See you soon. Bye.

So that's where we'll leave it with Edinburgh, a place we're living in now. And that clearly has no shortage of stories. But in the next episode, we're moving beyond the city and getting into some of the haunted castles and palaces across the UK where the history goes back even further, and the stories get a little more intense. And if you've ever visited any of these places or had any experiences, let us know.

I keep the hallway, but the shadows never fade. Every corner whispers secrets of the choices that I made. There's a tapping at the window, though the wind is standing still, and the chill runs down my spine like something moving at its will. I tell myself it's nothing, just the creaking of the floor, but every night the silence feels until we're going to be able to do that.