Private Ghost Tour
Description
When night falls, we take your group to discover the darkest corners of Edinburgh's past: witchcraft, plague, body snatchers and murders.
Come with us to discover the creepy past of this marvellous city, and its history of witchery, plague, bodysnatching and assassinations that will make you see Edinburgh in a different light.
Edinburgh's dark past is nowadays difficult to imagine, but these cobbled streets were once one of the most inhospitable places on the Earth.
In the Ghost Tour we don't go to anywhere underground as we believe that this would not significantly improve the quality of the tour, but would greatly increase our costs and the cost to you.
Our Ghost Tours takes you through different parts of the Old Town, visiting graveyards and dark alleyways, to give the perfect atmosphere for this tour.
Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes
Available every night, at the time you prefer.
Language: English
Prefer Spanish? See the tour in Spanish.
Meeting point: 154 High Street
We can also meet you at your hotel or anywhere in the city centre. Open in Google Maps.
Tailor-made quote
The price depends on the size of your group and the date. No commitment.
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Good to know
Your date, your time
The tour can start at any time. Tell us which day and time suit you best.
Quote within 24 hours
Fill in the booking form and we will send you a detailed quote within 24 hours.
Pick-up in the city centre
Start at our meeting point on the Royal Mile or we can meet you anywhere in central Edinburgh.
Schools and companies
We work with schools, universities, travel agencies and companies, and have guides for large groups.
Tailor-made route
Our guides are very flexible: tell us what you are interested in and we will adapt the route.
Rain or shine
Tours run in all weathers. Please dress for the weather.
What our guests say
City Explorers has a 5.0 rating on Google from 27,127 reviews. Here is a selection of real reviews, updated every week. Tap any review to read it in full.
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We had a great tour with Graham. He gave us all the important/historical information and also shared some entertaining tidbits. The two hours flew by.
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SJ was awesome!! She was lovely and she’s a great storyteller, you can tell she puts a lot of effort into these tours!! :)
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Graham was a great tour guide, there was a good mix of facts and humour. He worked well with the group. I would recommend him to anyone visiting Edinburgh.
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Rory was absolutely fantastic. What a great way of learning about the history of Edinburgh. The time absolutely flew. 12/10 would recommend
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Absolutely incredible tour by Cobin! Enjoyed every part of it, the history of Edinburgh is so interesting and Cobin’s way of storytelling is absolutely gripping and funny at the same time. Highly recommend!
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Graeme was a wonderful guide! Full of interesting facts and history, and even his dad jokes were appreciated and made the tour very fun! Highly recommended.
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What a fun tour!! Graham was absolutely lovely and gave us so many useful insights into Edinburgh and made us laugh so much! Truly recommend
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Glen was a fantastic guide - enthusiastic, knowledgeable, and gracious. Great tour would recommend for your first time in Edinburgh!
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Dan was such a great guide, would definitely recommend for others and future self when visiting Edinburgh again. Lots of good humor and theatrical expressions!
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I learned a lot from this tour. It was interesting and fun but Colan made it more even fun and light. He also was funny which made it more delightful.
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We had an amazing tour with Kenny! He was very friendly, knowledgeable and very funny! Would go on another tour with him any day :)
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SJ was our tour guide last night, she was a great storyteller who was really animated and entertaining! We would highly recommend!
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Great experience with our guide Coben. Funny, interesting and we got a different view on the City of Edinburgh.
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Wonderful insights, stories and navigation. Got us to all the highlights and more but routed to avoid/minimize the interaction with other tours. Some of the side bar stories were the best.
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Cobin is amazingly good with a hint of fun story teller! He made a boring history particularly very very very interesting and easy to remember! Highly and exceptionally recommended!! If you don’t, you’ll miss half the adventure of your life!!
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Cobin was a great tour guide!! Lovely humor and a lot of fun facts. Would definitely recommend to friends and family:)
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I had fun listening to the stories our guide shared. He was totally entertaining, built the atmosphere and hooked us into the experience.
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Rory was a very cool and charming tour Guide. The storys were very nice and for us from germany very good understandble. And it was nice to learn so much about the dark history of scotland and edinburgh
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Dr Rory can tell a story! I couldn't believe how quickly the tour ended. When I looked at my watch and hour and a half had passed! Get a tour, get it with Rory !
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Griem was a fantastic tour guide ! He was very helpful, showed a great amount of knowledge about the city, and I loved his sense of humour:))
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Great tour, got all the major sights and lots of history. Kenny, our guide, was very knowledgeable and eloquent he made the tour very interesting and fun at the same time.
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I highly recommend this tour! Rory’s gory stories were amazing, you can really tell he loves the job and makes the tour feel very special!
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Had a wonderful tour through Edinburgh. Cobin is a very funny guy with great knowledge about the city and entertaining storytelling
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Cobin was an awesome guide. We got a lot of interesting information on our tour. He was clever and very engaging. He paced the tour so we could all follow along and he was very careful that we were all with him and safe. Thanks Cobin for an interesting morning!
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Cobin was very entertaining and informative. The pacing and humor of the tour was well balanced and enjoyable
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Graeme was a fantastic tour guide with many interesting stories and so much knowledge. Highly recommend this tour and guide
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Our guide was Kenny. He was very knowledgeable and informative and had a really good sense of humour! Fantastic tour. Highly recommend
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Kenny was entertaining and knowledgeable. He was happy to answer all of our questions and gave us a brilliant tour
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Absolute riveting. Our tour guide Dan was a gem and a really fantastic storyteller. He has great knowledge and even had some extra facts. Highly recommend.
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Booked a private tour with a group of 20+ people and absolutely loved it! Cobin was very knowledgeable and extremely funny. Had a great time learning about the history and ghost stories of Edinburgh.
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Selected real reviews from Google · Updated November 2026