Haunted Edinberg

 Haunted Edinburgh

Haunted History, Travel

Nathaniel Rego

 EDINBURGH, SCOTLAND 

Connected to the UK, Scotland, specifically, Edinburgh, is a very blissful city but it has a dark and satanic history. It is also one of the most haunted but iconic locations on Earth, even in Europe. Even its structures and castles have their share of dark and foreboding true tales of terror per the city's rich yet dark legacy ongoing to this day, and it has expanded in popularity since the 11th century, having first emerged from the aftermath of the Bronze Age. 

For starters, Holyrood Palace is the former ole home of Queen Elizabeth, and it is currently home to the Holy Cross of today. As of 1128 AD, David the First (I), a royal Scot monarch, was knocked off his steed by an unexpected stag that then charged right at him but he was then saved at the last minute by a mysterious cross that appeared out of thin air. It was none other than the Holy Cross, which instantly saved the king's life, and he was immediately spared death. His successor, James IV, and others who also succeeded him, including Queen Mary of Scots, bare-witnessed to the miraculous symbolic cross of holiness. Yet, it did not stop her from segregating Catholicism and Protestsnace in Scotland whatsoever. As of 1565, Brit/Roman catholicism reigned supreme, and at the time, Mary wedded a man named Henry Lord Barley but soon grew boresome of him somehow. It was then she spent more time with her new love life, an Italian servant named David Remy, whom Henry suspected she was affairing with him through. So, he plotted to enact revenge on the innocent loyal servant to the queen, also her new-coming love life, amid the resulting act of liaison. Thus, Barley was so envious of their affair that he recruited a group of assailants on the evening of March 9th, 1666, to raid the castle and murder Remy in cold blood in the queen's bed chamber. He was impaled to death 56 times in that dark and direly morbid moment. A resulting dark and morbid legacy left its mark on the castle to this day. In the 1980s, centuries later, a security guard at the castle witnessed strange events like the ghostly sound of footsteps obviously from the dead Remy. The ghost of Mary haunts its halls these days as well.

The day after the murder of Remy, his corpse was found in her bed chamber, and the queen was implicated in the crime she claimed that she did not ever commit under any condition. Escaping jail and fleeing to England, Mary seeked Elizabeth I for protection but she saw Mary as a threat to her monarchy, especially with numerous royal uprisings ensuing at the time. So, in 1668, she had Mary imprisoned on the charges of high treason and Mary was sentenced to death by beheading, as of February 8th, 1687. Dubbed the Green Lady, her ghost alongside Remy's roams freely and ominously the halls and grounds of Holyrood Palace today. 

Since 1603, haunted underground tunnels were reported to be haunted when some witnesses confirmed that they had seen a ghost bagpiper as well as a deceased farmer charged with treason and executed by hanging. But there is another dark tourist location in town that stands out among the other two. Conventors Prison, where numerous members of a religiously conspiring (uprising) cult against the religious wishes of Braveheart and Robert the Brute, two famed Scottish monarchs at the time, and during the conflict between England and Scotland that has been ensuing for hundreds of years. In 1603, with England and Scotland unifying in an act of major reformation, Protestants and Catholics still were religiously at one another's throats. King Charles II of Scotland sent out his forces to suppress and indict the various cult members, condemning them to Conventors Prison for treason. The prison had also a church inside. Most of the cult members were hanged to death as penance for their act of religious rebellion against the Scottish crown. Some were buried alive in the prison graveyard. During night tours since 1996, tourists were both frightened and fascinated by the ominous presence of the deceased cult haunting the grounds even to this day. One particular tourist, Jayne Reece, experienced herself literally firsthand, as of May 2000. But the guide seems to be literally untouchable and undeterred by haunting specters. 

In the 17th century, at West Bow Street, European (Euro) Pagan-Satanism was being practiced by numerous locals including a man named John Wyrr who was thought to be holy but he was a sinful fraud, embracing the dark side of the occult. He never even kneeled in church or for this matter, showed any loyal signs to God. As a priest and a vet soldier, Wyrr was soon found out in 1670, along with his co-conspirator, Gretel, and both were charged with religious treason by satanic practices. While Gretel was hanged for her crimes, the day before this, Wyrr was executed by burning at the stake. His ghost surrounded by the fires of Hades/Purgatory, Hell's real-life version, can be seen these days by eyewitnesses, even tourists, and his stick can be heard by stilt-like supernatural audio no one else can hear. Seven miles outside the North End of Edinburgh, in Rosland Chapel, located in its Edinborrow area. That chapel was modeled after Jerusalem's Temple of King Solomon from centuries before. 

But per its biblical correlation, the chapel has been investigated by various paranormal investigators for its hidden gateway to the afterlife, serving as mystical transport between the living and the deceased. For instance, a Templar knight marched to Scotland during the Crusader Age, and a monk was residing there as well. Their ghosts can seen on the property, even in the courtyard. It is literal astral travel between life and death into spiritual dimensions (realms; universes). Toward the beginning of the 17th century, on the other hand, one bad omen (event) ravaged Scotland with untimely penalizing putridness by nature.

At Mary King's Close, death and misery surely occurred, not because the buildings were literally topped on one another, but because of a deadly plague that savaged the city. In 1645, the monstrous pestilence decimated most of Edinburgh and its ailing residents rancidly. Those isolated at Mary King's Close were left for dead to further contain the spread of the wildfire-spreading ailment of atrocity. Despite that the buildings have since been demolished, it opened in the 1990s, and global tourists encountered numerous ghosts of the dead including those isolated and left for dead. One of them is a deceased female child, 8, named Anne, who can be seen in ole and raged attire. The poor adolescent girl was one of the various victims ravaged by the plague of 1645. Even two college students encountered her in June 2000 during an overnight experience at the centuries-ole property. From a Scot queen's ole castle to a plague-torn property, Edinberg overall is the number one dark tourist destination in Scotland, as it is today.