The Edinburgh Ghost Fest Is Back!

Posted by Mike Gerrard Jan 11, 2007

The unique and hugely popular award-winning Mary King's Ghost Fest returns to Edinburgh in May 2007. The city-wide event lasts ten days, from Friday 11th May to Sunday 21st May. It has become a regular favourite on the Edinburgh festival circuit with its strange and quirky events attracting visitors throughout Scotland, the UK and overseas. This unusual, off-peak festival sets out to explore and uncover more about the dark tales and strange paranormal activity for which Edinburgh is internationally renowned.

New events this year will enable visitors to take part in a series of unusual and unique experiments as well as learning about the haunted nature of many of Edinburgh's famous sites. Highlights of Ghost Fest 2007 will include scientific studies to try to explain paranormal occurrences, overnight vigils at previously unexplored underground sites, screenings of cult horror films as well as new workshops, tours, talks and demonstrations at some of Edinburgh's most haunted locations.

In 2006 Mary King's Ghost Fest became an award-winning festival when it was short listed for a prestigious national Scottish Thistle Award for its outstanding achievements. This award helps to re-enforce the high standards and quality of the festival set by the organisers at Mary King's Close visitor attraction, Edinburgh.

The festival takes its name from one of Edinburgh's most famous residents, Mary King, who lived, at the top of one of the Closes off the Royal Mile until her death in 1644. The Close, later named after her, was preserved when the City Chambers was built over the site in 1853, and what remains today is a strange underground time-capsule of small houses and spaces, steeped in mystery and shrouded in dark stories. Mary King's Close is thought to be one of the city's most haunted locations, as well as an award-winning visitor attraction, so it is therefore fitting that a number of key events are to take place at this venue throughout the festival.

For further information on the Mary King Ghost Fest 2007 visit the website by clicking here.

And read about Britain's Haunted Hotels by clicking here.