👻 Haunted Places in Edinburgh
The haunted places in Edinburgh you can visit, with the ghosts said to walk them, the history the legends grew from, what visitors have reported, and where to stay nearby if you fancy making a night of it.
18 places · guides with full ghost stories first.
🏚️ House · Edinburgh
Mary King's Close
A 17th-century street buried beneath the Royal Mile, a room of dolls for a girl called Annie, and a plague myt...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
⛪ Abbey, church or graveyard · Edinburgh
Greyfriars Kirkyard
The graveyard of Greyfriars Bobby, the Covenanters' Prison and a poltergeist accused of hundreds of physical a...
4 ghosts Ghost tours
🏰 Castle · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Castle
A fortress on a volcanic rock with a phantom piper beneath it, a headless drummer on the ramparts and a scienc...
5 ghosts
🛏️ Hotel · Midlothian
Dalhousie Castle
A 13th-century Ramsay stronghold turned castle hotel, where a Grey Lady taps on bedroom doors and dinner is se...
4 ghosts Ghost tours Stay overnight
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Vaults
Beneath Edinburgh's South Bridge lie some 120 forgotten chambers — once workshops, taverns and slum homes, and...
3 ghosts
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Craigcrook Castle
Craigcrook Castle is a 6,701 square feet (622.5 m2) castle giving its name to the Craigcrook district of Edinb...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Festival Theatre
The Edinburgh Festival Theatre is a performing arts venue located on Nicolson Street in Edinburgh, Scotland. I...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Edinburgh Playhouse
Edinburgh Playhouse is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland. With 3,059 seats it is the largest theatre in Scotlan...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Holyrood Palace
The Palace of Holyroodhouse, also known as Holyrood Palace, is the official residence of the monarch of the Un...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Lauriston Castle
Lauriston Castle is a 16th-century tower house with 19th-century extensions overlooking the Firth of Forth, in...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Lennox Tower
Lennox Tower is a ruinous fifteenth-century tower house at Lymphoy, near the Water of Leith, between Balerno a...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Neidpath Castle
Neidpath Castle is an L-plan rubble-built tower house, overlooking the River Tweed about 1 mile (1.6 km) west...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Pinkie House
Pinkie House is a historic house, built around a three-storey tower house located in Musselburgh, East Lothian...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Queensberry House
Queensberry House is a building of 17th-century origin which is now Category A listed by Historic Environment...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Royal Lyceum Theatre
The Royal Lyceum Theatre is a theatre in Edinburgh, Scotland, named after the Theatre Royal Lyceum and English...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
Saltoun Hall
Saltoun Hall is an historic house standing in extensive lands off the B6355, Pencaitland to East Saltoun road,...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
The Scotsman Hotel
The Scotsman Hotel located in Edinburgh, Scotland, opened in 2001 in the Edwardian (1905) building which had h...
👻 Haunted place · Edinburgh
The Witchery
The Witchery is a restaurant on the Royal Mile, Edinburgh, adjacent to the esplanade of Edinburgh Castle. The...