Drowned world
Sep 03, 2019
4 minutes
Words: Anna Elsey
Fiona Patrick, 36, from Edinburgh
Placing a pumpkin jack o’ lantern outside my workplace, I stood back and admired my handiwork. It was Halloween 2017 – but actually my workplace didn’t need any Halloween decorations to make it look scary.
The Vaults were used to carry out occult rites
You see, my workplace is a series of dark, haunted underground caverns. I’m a guide for ghost tour company Auld Reekie Tours, which operates in Edinburgh’s Niddry Street Vaults, a series of stone chambers under the city’s South Bridge.
The Vaults were originally built in the 1780s as workshops and storage for traders who had
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