Welcome
to Scotlands Ghost tours
Scotland is administratively divided into 32 council areas. PTWUK is using the Joint board area groupings to condense the 32 councils down to 14
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1 Ayrshire - East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire
2 Borders - Scottish Borders
3 Central Scotland - Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling
4 Dumfries and Galloway
5 Dunbartonshire and Argyll & Bute - Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire
6 Fife
7 Grampian - Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray
8 Glasgow
9 Highlands & Islands - Highland and Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)
10 Lanarkshire - North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire
11 Lothian - City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian
12 Orkney and Shetland Islands
13 Renfrewshire - East Renfrewshire, Inverclyde, Renfrewshire
14 Tayside - Angus, Dundee City, Perth and Kinross
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1 Ayrshire - East Ayrshire, North Ayrshire, South Ayrshire
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2 Borders - Scottish Borders
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3 Central Scotland
Clackmannanshire, Falkirk, Stirling
The UK’s Fastest Growing Ghost Adventure Company. Specialising in Ghost Hunts & Interactive Ghost Walks at the Most Haunted Paranormal Hotspots across the UK.
Interactive Ghost Walk includes different methods of ghost hunting and history talk
Stirling Old Town Interactive Ghost Walk
During your time with the team we will take you to the paranormal hotspots in what is reputed to be Scotland’s most haunted city. Take part in various ghost hunting experiments as we attempt to make contact with those who refuse to leave. Your Interactive Ghost Walk will be centered around Stirling Old Town Jail a place of isolation, incarceration and execution In close proximity to the Jail there have been many chilling accounts of ghostly apparitions, strange mists appearing disembodied voices heard and people being touched by unseen hands.
Stirling GhostWalk
The Stirling Ghost Walk began, in 1989, then a 1991 Ghost Walk Cast community project organised and managed by Top of the Town Enterprises and has been a popular tourist attraction in the Royal Burgh’s Old Town area, offering a distinctive mix of comedy, drama and storytelling to thousands of visitors to Stirling
''Tales from the Stirling'' Ghost Walk
They say that every stone to be found amid the huddled tenements, palaces and prisons of Stirling’s Old Town has a tale to tell… thankfully for us at the Stirling GhostWalk, most of these seem to be tales of the supernatural, the paranormal and… well… the just plain weird!
4 Dumfries and Galloway
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5 Dunbartonshire and Argyll & Bute - Argyll and Bute, East Dunbartonshire, West Dunbartonshire
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6 COUNTY OF FIFE
St Andrews Ghost Tours Company
Educational – factual – exploratory,
Award-winning guided walking tour, showcasing the paranormal and history with Richard Falconer.
These tours are definitely not suitable for sceptics – no stories, just facts 184 haunted locations – 260 ghosts
Haunting Nights
The UK’s Fastest Growing Ghost Adventure Company. Specialising in Ghost Hunts & Interactive Ghost Walks at the Most Haunted Paranormal Hotspots across the UK.
Interactive Ghost Walk includes different methods of ghost hunting and history talk.
Dunfermline Interactive Ghost Walk
Once Scotland’s ancient capital Dunfermline, close to the north shore of the Firth of Forth, occupies an especially important place in the nation’s history. Join the team as we go in search of the ghosts of Dunfermline. During the walk you will have the opportunity to use various methods of ghost hunting to include Victorian seances, table tipping and glass moving as well as the more up to date methods .
7 Grampian - Aberdeen City, Aberdeenshire, Moray
Whytewitch Tours.
Costumed Guide available for any and all tours around Elgin. Run by Psychic Whytewitch
Elgin Ghost Tours
Whytewitch runs various tour events, via her Facebook page, from the High Street Graveyard Tour, the Royal West End Tour and the Witches Tour have been the latest ghost tours available.
8 GLASGOW
Join your sinister host, Vincent 'The Man in the Hat' for a must do walking tour 'Gothic Glasgow' revealing the ghostly, strange and creepy history of Glasgow.
Gothic Glasgow Walking Tour
DISCOVER DRACULA'S SCOTTISH CONNECTIONS... MEET THE GHOSTS OF GLASGOW...ENTER THE MACABRE WORLD OF BODY SNATCHING...Join your sinister host, Vincent 'The Man in the Hat' for a must do walking tour 'Gothic Glasgow' revealing the ghostly, strange and creepy history of Glasgow
History and Horror Tours bring a passion for history, a talent for storytelling and an interest in the darker side of Scotland's past, lore and, of course, ghost stories! along with the walks they provide 'The Haunted...' tours where they explore spooky locations with dark tales. Since 2006, 'Haunted Tours' have thrilled and intrigued many a believer and sceptic alike with our unique combination of storytelling in a spooky, historic location and the use of handheld ghosthunting equipment. and also bring you the 'History and Horror Pop-Up Tour of...' occasional walking tours exploring the darker side of history in other towns and cities around Scotland
The Haunted Provan Hall Tour
At Provan Hall House in Easterhouse Glasgow, It is said spirits still roam the narrow corridors and eerily quiet rooms, oblivious to the passing of time. Join History and Horror Tours for this night time tour of a house so active it is known as one of the most haunted locations in Glasgow.
9 Highlands & Islands - Highland and Na h-Eileanan Siar (Western Isles)
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10 Lanarkshire - North Lanarkshire, South Lanarkshire
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11 Lothian - City of Edinburgh, East Lothian, Midlothian, West Lothian
City of Edinburgh Tours Company
The founder was the first person to offer underground ghost tours in Edinburgh. Born and raised on the Royal Mile he retains a genuine passion for the history of Edinburgh. It’s that passion that remains the main reason he continues to host tours many years later.
As the years progress, our company continues to evolve into one of the cities most prominent locally run tour providers.Entertaining, professional ghost guides will lead you through Edinburgh’s hidden wynds and secret courtyards
Old Town & Underground Ghost Tour
The early afternoon ghost tours are led by a professional guide in full period costume who will take you walk around some of Edinburgh's most historically fascinating old town closes where the guide will regale you with stories of the capital's dark past with the occasional bad joke thrown in. The tour will continue with a visit Edinburgh's famous underground Vaults.
Let one of Edinburgh most infamous sons or daughters lead you round the dark side of Edinburgh’s Old Town. Learn cooking skills from Cassandra Bean or surgical ethics from Dr Knox. Once you’re acquainted they will lead you through the part of the Old Town, showing the sites of the city’s former parliament and infamous jail. Discover the grim living conditions of this city’s Old Town throughout the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. For the last part of the tour follow your guide to the underground, a section of a former seventeenth-century close absorbed into South Bridge when it was constructed
A charismatic guide will welcome you and introduce their historical character. From there your tour will work its way through the Old Town’s squares, wynds and closes, your guide relating the chilling stories connected to these historic sites.As midnight draws near leave modern Edinburgh behind by going below South Bridge to a section of underground vaults.Be on your guard for the long departed souls said to still linger in these murky chambers.
Join your costumed guide as they reveal their true unnerving identity an unscrupulous surgeon, a female cannibal or a misunderstood witch. Whatever their identity stories aplenty will be told as you traverse the High Street, leaving behind the comforting streetlight to enter Greyfriars cemetery with its connection to illegal activities. Discovering Niddry Wynd the underground street as well as viewing the modern South Bridge through the skylight
Mercat Tours Company
Choosing Mercat is 'Good for you, Good for Edinburgh' - our team, community and planet
Mercat exclusive uses audio devices - be immersed and get lost in the stories on one of these tours...
Explore the Blair Street Underground Vaults and the Canongate graveyard, on this in-depth adults-only Edinburgh ghost tour Hear of infamous murderers and cursed souls, hard lives and tragic deaths Experience terror of the city’s gruesome past, with a focus on horrific true tales from Edinburgh’s dark history
Experience an Edinburgh ghost tour in the safety of the daylight hours and early evening Get up close to Edinburgh’s haunted past Explore the famous Blair Street Underground Vaults on this high-spirited tour
Learn about the real history of Edinburgh on this small group family-friendly walking ghost tour See artefacts found in Edinburgh’s secret underground vaults Hear about the grisly things that were once commonplace in Edinburgh life
Uncover the most sinister side of Edinburgh’s Old Town on this dark adults-only ghost tour Follow your guide deep underground into the famous Blair Street Underground Vaults
Delve into Old Town Edinburgh’s grim and ghostly past. Explore the Blair Street Underground Vaults as our expert storyteller shares gory details of dark Edinburgh history and folklore. Indulge in a dram of Ballantine's Finest Scotch Whisky, Skeleton Blues hazy IPA or locally-made organic soft drink of your choice in our candlelit cellar, where you’ll hear more spine-chilling tales on this intimate Edinburgh ghost tour
City of the Dead Tours Company
World Famous, Award Winning, underground city and haunted graveyard tours (featuring the legendary Mackenzie Poltergeist
This tour ventures into the most haunted section of Edinburgh’s legendary Underground City, where a population once lived in utter misery.
City of the Dead Haunted Graveyard Tour
The Graveyard tour combines the weirdest history with the wildest stories and wickedest humour around. This tour even has a unique gift shop – located in a graveyard funeral parlour!
The worst of both possible worlds. This tour goes into two of the most haunted places on the planet – the South Bridge Vaults AND the Covenanter’s Prison in Greyfriars Graveyard.
Auld Reekie's Tours Company
We offer tours through Edinburgh’s most extensive set of vaults & are the only ghost & history tours company with authentic links to witchcraft.Visit our medieval torture exhibition and then be guided through our paranormally active and haunted underground vaults
The Terror Tour
Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments from the Nuremberg and Bamberg Castles in Germany. With grim devices dating back to the late 1500s and early 1600s. Similar to those used in Auld Reekie’s gory history. Your guide will take you through our paranormally active and haunted underground vaults dating back to the 1700s. The most extensive set of vaults in Edinburgh’s Old Town. Renowned as the world’s scariest place. Frightening!
The Vaults & Graveyard Tour
Your guide will take you to Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the famous Greyfriars Bobby and the final resting place for many of Edinburgh’s most notorious characters. Within this macabre setting hear tales of body snatchers and the horrors of Covenanters Prison. Then on to the infamous Niddry Street underground vaults, accepted to be the most haunted place in Scotland, Once a slum and home to the destitute: prostitutes, criminals and witches. Visit our famous stone circle previously home to a witches coven and discover the strange happenings that have occurred within it.
The Haunted Vaults Tour
Our guide will enlighten you on the dark history of Old Town Edinburgh’s most extensive haunted underground vaults that date back to the 1700s. Former slum dwellings and home to the wretched and destitute, as well as a despicable criminal underworld. With gruesome devices dating back to the late 1500s. Visit our medieval torture exhibition to see instruments similar to those used in Edinburgh’s history and find out how and why they were used. On this walking tour you’ll also hear tales of the paranormal activity and ghostly apparitions that are said to haunt the vaults. View a former wiccan coven preserved as its previous occupants left it.
Cadies & Witchery Tours Company
The award-winning Cadies & Witchery Tours invite you to join our fearless phantoms for a suspenseful and mirth-filled walking tour of Edinburgh's Old Town. Step back a few hundred years as Alexander Clapperton (deceased) and his spooky chums bring the Capital's grisly past vividly to life.
A gentle stroll through the Old Town, with guide Alexander Clapperton (deceased) joined by a number of quirky local phantoms who'll tell you hair-raising tales of plague, punishment and persecution.
A walking tour visiting graves of some lesser-known characters including the lecturer who taught Charles Darwin, an actor buried in full theatrical costume, and a First World War ace pilot. We might, in passing, also point out the graves with links to a certain boy wizard.
The Necrobus has been in public service for over a decade now, running numerous haunted tours daily of the best of Edinburgh, London and York
Edinburgh Tour
Your creepy conductor shows you the sights onboard a classic 1960's Route-master bus as you experience the traveling ghost tour of Edinburgh. A comedy horror show as you travel around the city.
''Best-rated Tours in Edinburgh. Choose the leading Free Walking Tour Company in Scotland''
Free Ghost Tour of Edinburgh
Come with us to discover the creepy past of Edinburgh, and its history of witchery, plague, body-snatching, and assassinations that will make you see this marvellous city in a different light.
Private Ghost Tours also available
12 Orkney and Shetland Islands
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13 Renfrewshire - Inverclyde, Renfrewshire
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14 Tayside - Angus, Dundee City, Perth and Kinross
DD Tours
Join Louise & Stewart for some of the wildest tales from Dundee’s history. See below for our current and upcoming tours. Private tours also available.
The Vaults: Echoes of the past
The Vaults with new rooms, new displays & new stories! This is not your ordinary tour; it’s an invitation to venture beneath the surface and unlock the secrets of a forgotten era.
Death in the West End
This tour ended on 23rd September.
If you want to take the Death in the West End tour, it is still available for private group bookings
– whether its for a birthday, hen party,work night out or just a group of friends, you can book this tour for a minimum of 6 people for a day or evening tour
The Old Steeple
This tour has now ended – the last tour, 19th October, has been cancelled due to weather warnings.
More dates will be announced soon for 2024, but you can also book a private group tour for up to 8 people
History and Horror Tours
History and Horror Tours bring a passion for history, a talent for storytelling and an interest in the darker side of Scotland's past, lore and, of course, ghost stories! along with the walks they provide 'The Haunted...' tours where they explore spooky locations with dark tales. Since 2006, 'Haunted Tours' have thrilled and intrigued many a believer and sceptic alike with our unique combination of storytelling in a spooky, historic location and the use of handheld ghosthunting equipment. and also bring you the 'History and Horror Pop-Up Tour of...' occasional walking tours exploring the darker side of history in other towns and cities around Scotland.
History and Horror Tour of Dunkeld
''Outdoor walking tours exploring the darker side of history
Discover Dunkeld's dark, often gruesome and sometimes spooky past on this walking tour through history!''
History and Horror Tour of Perth
Discover stories of Perth's dark, often gruesome and sometimes spooky past on this walking tour of the 'Fair City'.
The Haunted Castle Tour
Castle Menzies, in Weem, nr Aberfeldy. By day a scene of romantic beauty, yet by night a dark, forbidding place. Join us as we explore Castle Menzies, a location steeped in the history, superstition and lore of the highland Clans and their bloodsoaked lands.
The Haunted House Tour
Bannockburn House, nr Stirling. On the blood-soaked lands where battles raged and a King was foully murdered, stands Bannockburn House...with its own stories to tell...
Horror Pop-Up Tour
Check out their website page for their occasional walking tour pop up events, exploring the darker side of history in other towns and cities around Scotland.