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NOT JUST A TOUR. A PHENOMENON


‘If you want to get into the SPIRIT OF HALLOWEEN… this is the way to do it – The Daily Express

'Get a double dose of FEAR… a ­terrifying tour' – The Sun Newspaper
 
'This one is for the recklessly foolish or SERIOUSLY BRAVE' – MakeMyDay (Virgin Media TV)
 
'CREEPY doesn’t even begin to do justice to the Mackenzie Poltergeist' – Daily Mail
 
'My most FAVOURITE tour. BRILLIANT. I can’t recommend it highly enough'
– Sharon Rooney, star of ‘My Mad Fat Diary’ and ‘Zapped’
 
‘SCARE the willies out of your partner with… City of the Dead Tours – The Sun Newspaper
 
‘Will set your imagination RUNNING WILD…. led by a mixture of historians and thespians whose ability to scare is as refined as their ability to WEAVE a GOOD YARN… laced with enough HORROR to leave you sleeping with the lights on for a week’
– The Entertainment Guide
 
‘I’m so SCARED right now, I’m actually SHAKING’ – Francesca Chiorando, Access All Areas
 
‘People actually leave the tours because they’re TOO SCARED to carry on’ – New Magazine
 
'FASCINATING, FUN and FRIGHTENING… It’s the mastery of storytelling that really brings these tours to life’
– Tripadvisor’s Holidaylettings.com
 
‘Our FAVOURITE ghost tours’ – The UK’s Best Ghost Tours. Yahoo! Travel
 
‘The BEST of Edinburgh’s ghost tours’ – Lonely Planet Guide
 
‘Delivered EXPERTLY with the right balance of humour and horror’ – Scarecon
(who voted City of the Dead Britian’s BEST ghost tour 2011)
 
‘There are a number of ghost walks around Scotland's capital but the SPOOKIEST take you to what has been dubbed the Underground City of the Dead’ – UK’s Best Ghost Tours, Virgin Media
 
‘Combines the WEIRDEST history with the WILDEST stories and WICKEDEST humour’
- Sunday Times
 
‘EXTRAORDINARY and AUDACIOUS… excellent value for money’ – Broadway Baby 2015
 
‘Chilling, Gripping and EXTREMELY INTERESTING’  – 3 Weeks Festival Review 2011
 
‘ABSORBING stories on an INTRIGUING tour’ – Mysterious Journeys, Travel Channel
 
‘Has received RAVE REVIEWS… regarded as something of a Fringe institution’ – 3 weeks 2010
 
‘DISTURBINGLY FASCINATING’ – The Clyde Insider Magazine
 
‘One of the most CONVINCING SUPERNATURAL cases of all time’ - Richard Felix, Most Haunted
 
‘This has EVERYTHING YOU COULD WANT from a ghost tour -3 Weeks Festival Review 2009  

​‘FASCINATING ‘ – ‘Beyond Chance’, US Discovery Channel
 
‘A WONDERFULLY THRILLING dark night out’ - 3 Weeks Festival Review 2008
 
‘Puts the city's other ghost tours IN THE SHADE’- Edinburgh Evening News
 
‘TERRIFYING’ – ‘Scariest Places on Earth’, Fox Family Channel
 
‘SPINE-CHILLING’ – Mysterious Journeys, Travel Channel
 
‘One of the SCARIEST EXPERIENCES in Scotland’ – Daily Record
 
‘Truly TERRIFYING… absolutely FIRST RATE entertainment’  – 3 Weeks 2007
 
‘BRILLIANT storytelling with a good knowledge of the actual history of Edinburgh
rather than half baked myths’ – About Edinburgh
 
‘GREAT entertainment’ – Scottish Connection, BBC Radio Scotland
 
‘A HIDEOUSLY, TWISTEDLY, HAUNTING tour’  – Fest Newspaper 2006
 
‘GREAT… the guides really do know their history’ – 3 Weeks Festival Review 2006
 
‘Delivered with GREAT PANACHE… even the guide gets scared – Reuters News Agency
 
‘I was finding it hard to catch my breath and one of my friends was hanging on to my hand
FOR DEAR LIFE’ - Kylie Rimmer, Daily Record Newspaper
 
‘I FELT THE EVIL. It was as if something was pressing down on my chest and ribs’
- Joan Charles, Sun Newspaper
 
‘Truly CREEPY’ – America’s Most Haunted
 
‘A FASCINATING tour’ – Dundee Courier
 
‘Extremely SPOOKY. Very ATMOSPHERIC’ – Good Morning Television
 
‘INFORMATIVE, INTERESTING and, more than anything GOOD FUN’ - What to do in Scotland Magazine
 
‘EXCELLENT’ - Radio Caroline
 
‘ENJOYABLE and INFORMATIVE… even the best read history buff should learn something’
– Edinburgh Evening News
 
‘The most TERRIFYING ghost we’ve ever investigated’ – Mystery Hunters, Discovery Channel
 
‘The MOST HAUNTED place you'll find in Edinburgh’ - Radio 1
 
‘WONDERFUL’ - ‘Out and About’, BBC Radio Scotland
 
‘STEALS A MARCH on the likes of Mercat, Auld Reekie and the Witchery Tours’ - Sunday Telegraph
 
‘Very, very SCARY’ – Lanarkshire Television
 
‘Has something EXTRA TO OFFER… fun witty and informative, even for cynics’ – Veritas Magazine
 
‘The most HAUNTED spot in the country’s most HAUNTED city’ – The Weekly News
 
‘The Capital’s ‘REAL’ ghost tours’ – Evening News
 
‘GREAT ENTERTAINMENT & quite scary enough for me’ – ‘Heaven & Earth Show’, BBC1
 
‘ENTHRALLING’ – ‘Great Graveyards of the World’, US Discovery Channel
 
‘City of the Dead has the media RAVING’ – SX Magazine
 
‘The tours are a careful mix of HISTORY, HUMOUR AND HORROR’ - Bite Me Magazine
 
‘Scotland's SCARIEST place’ - Daily Record
 
‘The BEST-DOCUMENTED case of poltergeist activity ever studied’ - Lonely Planet Guide
 
‘A GREAT tour’ – Pulse Radio
 
‘The girl next to me JUST FAINTED. No, I'm not making this up’ – Boots’n’All Travel Guide
 
‘The WORLD’S SCARIEST PLACE’ – The Sun Newspaper
 
‘An EXCEPTIONALLY CHILLING tour… will turn your knuckles white’ – Student News
 
‘Of the many (ghost tours) to choose from, I appreciated CITY OF THE DEAD’
– Haunted Castles of Scotland and Ireland.
 
‘These guides are SURE MASTERS IN MANIFESTING BLOOD BOILING FEAR to the very surface and beyond’- Edinburgh Guide.com
 
‘Edinburgh’s MOST HAUNTED… the SPOOKIEST of the lot’ – Edinburgh Recommended
 
‘FUNNY and SCARY in equal measures’  – 3 Weeks Festival Review 2005
 
‘Both the FUNNIEST and SCARIEST’’ – Kwip Magazine
 
‘One of the MOST CONCLUSIVE paranormal cases in history’ - Dundee Courier
 
‘Even deep sceptics have felt an EERIE, sometimes TERRIFYING PRESENCE – Evening News
 
‘Not for the FAINT HEARTED’ – The Morning Show, BBC1
 
‘You can't beat the EXTRAORDINARY EXPERIENCE that is the City of the Dead’ - Selby Times
 
‘If you’re a THRILL SEEKER take a City of the Dead Tour’ – MSN Travel
 
‘Recounted with grisly detail and DEVILISH WIT’ – Joyzine Radio
 
‘If you fancy stretching your legs while getting SCARED STIFF’ – List magazine
 
'Each tale was more fascinating than the last… This tour is the PERFECT COMBINATION of COMEDY, in-depth HISTORY,  strong storytellingand that gore, blood and guts we all secretly crave' – The Sprout.co.uk
 


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  • Easter Weekend
  • Private tours
  • Covid-19
  • Secret City Tour
  • FREQUENTLY ASKED QUESTIONS
  • That is SO Wrong!
  • Guides Wanted