Can confirm, Edinburgh is haunted af.

Edinburgh is one of my favourite places on Earth but damn does it have a horrible history, especially in regards to the plague. I heard there were parts of the underground city that plague victims were sent to quarantine them. There are even stories that plague quarters were literally closed off so the infected…

They vary a lot - apparently the ones of Mary King’s Close are pretty tame, but some of the others (including the one I took) can be really scary. Those closes are total nightmares.

Highly recommend it! If you can find a way to do it, go! I’m always trying to find a way back to living there.

When you mentioned where you were staying I had a feeling Greyfriars was going to be involved somehow - it is apparently SUPER haunted (if you believe in that sort of thing), which is saying something because Edinburgh itself is chock full of ghost stories. The ghost tours that take you into the underground closes -…

THIS IS THE SPOOKY SHIT. Yes. Love it.

The Covenanter’s Prison! http://www.covenanter.org.uk/Prison/

Star because I loved in Edinburgh for years and basically knew where this was going!

OMG STOOOOOOOOP

Nurse practitioner. Not sure how many practice outside the U.S., and since you’re the second person to ask, here’s an explanation: an NP is a clinician who has clinical expertise in diagnosing and treating disease with an emphasis on health management. Many started out as nurses and then got advanced degrees. In the…

Whoaaaaaaaa.

The house where I grew up was pretty new - way newer than any of the other houses on the block. A typical one-story ranch house that you might see in any stretch of American suburbia. Likewise, all the furniture in the house was pretty par for the course. My room had a little-kid bed, a nightstand, a table and chairs…

That’s also where hundreds of Covenanters (religious dissenters) were imprisoned, in winter, without shelter, after the battle of Bosworth Brig. Hundreds of them died. And the iron cages that could be installed over your loved one’s grave so that their corpse wouldn’t be looted for dissection by the medical college.…

OH LAWD!

nope nope nope!

I’ve only told this story to my closest friends. I haven’t even confided in my sister (for fear of the obvious shame). Please buckle in because this tale needs to be told in length.

holyfuckingshit

Not my story personally, but from a friend: