Top Scotland Ghost Tours

Uncover Glasgow's darkest secrets on this eerie walking tour led by your guide. Whilst many sightseeing tours cover only what is found in the guidebooks, this macabre adventure digs deep into the city’s gruesome history with tales of grave robbers and witch trials. Explore haunted locations from Strathclyde University to the Necropolis cemetery before ending at a legendary pub with a spooky past.

Explore Edinburgh’s spookiest closes and strangest places and learn about the Old Town’s history while hearing tales of accused witches and warlocks. This walking tour takes you to some of Edinburgh's lesser-known haunted locations, letting you avoid crowds and discover a darker, mysterious side of the city.

Uncover a different side of Edinburgh and learn about its dark past with this guided walking ghost tour. Uncover the mysteries, legends, murders, and dark stories over the centuries, including stories about corpses, serial killers, witches, fairies, as you walk along the Royal Mile, with stops at the Old Calton Cemetery and Canongate Kirkyard.

Not for the faint of heart, this ghost tour of Edinburgh promises to deliver plenty of paranormal frights. Edinburgh’s bloody past has resulted in a heavily haunted present, and this tour takes you to some of the city’s most haunted locations. Under the cloak of darkness, visit a graveyard and descend to underground vaults that snake beneath the city. As you explore, your guide shares vivid tales of murder, body-snatching, and unexplained happenings.

Discover Glasgow's eerie history with a guided walking tour that delves into tales of ghosts, Dracula, and notorious murderers. The tour is enhanced by a guide with 30 years of performance experience, offering a captivating approach to storytelling that stands out from conventional sightseeing tours. This experience promises an engaging and insightful look into the city's darker past.

Delve into Edinburgh’s horrific history on this evening ghost bus tour. With your spooky local guide, visit the city’s most terrifying locations, haunted by infamy and restless spirits! From your seat in a double-decker vintage bus, gaze at eerie sites such as Greyfriars Kirk, Edinburgh Castle, Grassmarket, and the Royal Mile. Throughout the trip, hear anecdotes and facts about Edinburgh’s chilling past, replete with bloody executions, unspeakable tortures, and murder.

While most walking tours help you explore Edinburgh’s storied cobblestone streets, they often skip over the darker and more mysterious aspects of the city’s history. On this ghost tour, hear the story of some of Edinburgh’s most infamous ghosts and learn about the ghoulish torture methods that the city used to use to punish wrongdoers.

Hear secrets from beyond the grave on this haunted vaults and graveyard walking tour in Edinburgh. As night falls across Scotland’s ancient capital, follow a guide through the streets and learn the mysteries of the city’s dark past. Visit venues believed to be haunted, including Greyfriar's Kirkyard and the Niddry Street Vaults—and keep your wits about you for sightings of the un-dead.

Listen to Edinburgh’s grisliest tales on a haunted evening or night-time walking tour. Experience the ghastly histories of monsters, madness, and murder that cast a dark shadow on Scotland’s capital. See where witch trials, pagan rituals, and executions took place, then visit the chilling Old Calton Burial Ground or Canongate Kirkyard cemetery to learn about body-snatching and some of the infamous individuals interred here.

Step off the tourist trail and explore the Scottish capital’s hidden secrets on this underground walking tour in Edinburgh. Follow a guide from the South Bridge in Edinburgh Old Town down below street level, where a series of ancient vaults lie. As you explore the dark passageways, learn why the vaults were built, hear of the poor souls who sought refuge in the depths and discover a hidden witchcraft temple. Gain insight into city life during the 18th century, and learn of the deadly diseases which threatened Edinburgh’s inhabitants.

See a different side to Edinburgh and combine the best of the underground and haunted graveyard tours on this double dead walking tour, during which you visit two of the city’s spookiest attractions: South Bridge Vaults and the Covenanter’s Prison. The latter is only accessible on City of the Dead tours and our guide provides plenty of exclusive insight you wouldn’t get on your own.

Immerse yourself in Edinburgh's rich history—and hear tales of its ghosts, witches, and murderers—on this spooky walking tour. Explore the narrow streets of the Old Town Edinburgh after dark; learn about (and maybe meet) Edinburgh Castle's ghost; then head to the Old Calton Burial Ground, resting place of several notable Scots and known for its high levels of paranormal activity. The tour starts at the Loch Ness Discovery Centre or 190 High St, offering flexible meeting points.

Edinburgh’s dark and desultory past means its streets are haunted by restless souls and wandering specters. This ghost tour—perfect for those fascinated by the supernatural—takes you to two of Edinburgh’s most haunted locations. Under the cloak of darkness, descend to the Blair Street vaults to explore a shadow-shrouded underground world. Visit Canongate Kirkyard, the final resting place of famous characters, and listen to gruesome tales of torture, cannibalism, and murder.

Edinburgh's underground network of vaults, which dates from the 1700s, is one of the most fascinating parts of the city to explore. To truly understand these former slum dwellings, and their dark histories, you need to explore them in the company of a guide who can provide all of the necessary context, background information and spooky stories.

Edinburgh is notoriously one of the most haunted places in the UK, making it a prime destination for ghost-hunters. Dare to discover the city’s dark side on this evening tour and visit the eerie Blair Street Underground Vaults, follow in the footsteps of the infamous Edinburgh Mob, then settle your nerves with a dram of Scotch whisky in Megget's Cellar.

The Blair Street Vaults shouldn’t be missed when visiting Edinburgh—especially for fans of the spooky and macabre. But independent visits aren’t allowed, so you’ll need to a guide to gain access to this restricted underground area. On this ghoulish walking tour, descend into the darkened depths of the vaults and hear vivid retellings of torture, murder, and body snatching from your guide.

With a history spanning almost a millennium, Edinburgh’s streets and buildings have seen more than a few dark and spooky goings-on over the years. On this walking ghost tour, join a paranormal investigator for a visit to some of the city’s most haunted spots, all the while being regaled with tales of murder, mystery, intrigue, and spooky spirits.

Experience supernatural chills on this adults-only terror walking tour in Edinburgh. Take a journey along the cobbled streets of Edinburgh’s historic Old Town with a guide and delve deep into the city’s dark past. When darkness has descended on the city, explore hidden underground vaults, and hear stories you’d miss out on otherwise about paranormal experiences.

Ah, Edinburgh! They don't call it "The Jekyll & Hyde City" for nothing. During the day, a respectable figure, with its astonishing architecture and wondrous history. But when the sun sets, it tells an entirely different story... Hear all about the darker history of Edinburgh: murderers, thieves, cannibals, hangings and decapitations, witches, the Plague and streams of human waste. Learn about the most notorious citizens of Edinburgh and how ghost stories are born. This is not a ghost tour: we don't need costumes or people jumping from behind the corners, Edinburgh's Dark History itself is enough to make your skin crawl. And oh, how we love to share it with our visitors...

Discover Edinburgh's Underground City, known as the city's most haunted location, on a tour that takes you below the streets. With a guide, you'll explore tunnels known as 'Damnation Alley' and learn about their history and ghosts.

Once upon a time, Edinburgh was so crowded and filled with death and disease that it was sealed up, and a whole new city was built on top of the ruins of the old one. Explore the vaults—this hidden underground city—on a tour of this most haunted area of Edinburgh, and learn about how people would have lived and died here.

Scotland’s biggest city holds some of the country’s darkest secrets. On this self-guided walking tour of Glasgow, you’ll uncover shocking tales from the ‘Dear Green Place’ with a local guide and comedian in your ear. Starting in George Square and ending at Scotia Bar, you’ll hear about gruesome grave robberies, haunted hotels, and the fates of murderers after the gallows. You’ll also admire beautiful murals on the High Street with darker origins and marvel at Victorian architecture like the Royal Infirmary Hospital. By the end of this hour-long tour, you’ll know the dark secrets beneath the face of the UK’s Friendliest City.

Discover a side to Aberdeen that you won't get on a typical sightseeing tour. This self-guided audio tour takes you through the ancient streets of the Granite City and deep into the depths of its murky past. Hear tales of bodysnatching, witchcrafts trials, and more as you stroll between such historic landmarks as Marischal College and the Mercat Cross.