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Published: December 9th 2006
I didn't have to be anywhere today until 10:30, when we walked to the
National Gallery of Scotland.
There wasn't anything particularly interesting there. I saw a few paintings I recognized. It was smaller than the National Gallery in London; It didn't take very long to go through.
After that we went to
Edinburgh Castle.
Then we had some free time to walk around the town and check out some of the shops.
That night some of us went on the "
Auld Reekie Ultimate Ghost and Torture Tour."
...sign describing the tour.
The picture didn't come out very well. This is what the sign says:
"A DARK HISTORICAL JOURNEY INTO FEAR AND THE PARANORMAL UNDERGROUND.
Let our costumed guide take you back into Edinburgh's grisly past. They'll tell you about the characters that once walked the very streets you walk on. Hear the terrifying true stories unfold as they send shivers down your spine.
Then let us take you to Scotland's most haunted underground to see a working witches temple. Finally you will enter our legendary haunted vault, home of
Edinburgh Castle
outside the castlethe violent and misogynistic SOUTH BRIDGE POLTERGEIST."
It wasn't nearly as exciting as that description makes it sound, but it was interesting. They described some of the ways they used to
torture criminals and people suspected to be practicing witchcraft, and one of the rooms we went in had a bunch of the torture devices on display for us to look at. Then they took us
underground where apparently the really really poor people used to live, and it was very dark and crowded and there was alot of crime and murders that happened down there. That whole underground area was blocked off after a big fire killed everyone down there, and it wasn't re-discovered until centuries later. So they took us down into the underground vaults and told us stories of how it was haunted. And they weren't kidding about the
misogynistic poltergeist; they wouldn't let the girls cross over to the left side of that vault, where supposedly most of the "attacks" on female tourists occur. Overall I thought the tour was good. I had thought it would be more like a haunted house type thing where people would be jumping out from behind things wearing
Edinburgh Castle
outside the castle scary costumes and trying to surprise you. But there weren't any surprises, just stories.
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