MARY KING'S GHOST FEST IS OVER FOR 2009......
The award winning Mary King’s Ghost Fest ran from May 8th to May 17th and celebrated its our FIFTH year with a programme of events will kept the most avid of ghost hunters and the most serious of sceptics entertained for hours….Every year the festival offers a wide range of exciting events which allow people the opportunity to explore and examine under supervision the truly ‘haunted’ nature of extraordinary Edinburgh for 10 days in May.
Highlights for Ghost Fest 2009 included a return to the Close for Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe and Steve Parsons from Living TV's Most Haunted, 'The Paradox Experience' at Blair Street Vaults and Mary King's Close with North West Spirit Seekers, a Victorian Seance with City of the Dead Tours and ghostly storytelling at The Peoples Story and Mercat Tours.
Favourite spooky films, clairvoyant gatherings, fascinating talks from leading experts, kids bus tours and unusual tours also featured and we welcomed new partners for 2009 - The Screening Club at The Scotsman Hotel, The Peoples Story, The Museum of Edinburgh, North West Spirit Seekers and Gilmerton Cove.
Who dare join us NEXT YEAR on the other side as we, again, delve deep into Edinburgh’s dark and mysterious past…
The Real Mary King's Close
Mary King's Ghost Fest is funded and organised by one of Edinburgh’s most popular and important tourist attractions, The Real Mary King’s Close, and is supported by a growing number of organisations across the city.
Mary King lived at the top of one of narrow Closes off the Royal Mile until her death in 1644. The Close, later named after her, was preserved when the City Chambers was constructed over the site in 1853. What remains today is a strange underground time – capsule of small houses and spaces, steeped in mystery and shrouded in dark stories.
Thought to be one of the most haunted places in Scotland, The Real Mary King’s Close has appeared on Living TV’s Most Haunted twice and more recently the Sci-Fi Channel’s Ghost Hunters International. It is therefore fitting that a number of special events take place at this venue throughout the festival.
