Last Candle Tours

Edinburgh has more ghosts per square mile than anywhere in Britain, and most of them have an address. Last Candle Tours is a walking tour you listen to. Stand where it happened, press play, and hear the story told straight: the legend as the city tells it, with the history underneath it. THE OLD TOWN, IN FIVE WALKS Sixty-eight stories and about six and a half hours of narration, from the Castle Esplanade down the Royal Mile to Holyrood. • The Stake on Castlehill. Witches burned beneath the castle guns, the lost piper, the headless drummer. • Half-Hangit. Maggie Dickson, Major Weir, Deacon Brodie and the mob that hanged Captain Porteous. • Spit on the Heart. Prison, plague and the beheading machine, all within a hundred yards of the Heart of Midlothian. • Under the Bridges. The buried streets beneath the Old Town: vaults, chimney sweeps, a banshee, and the poltergeist in the kirkyard. •…