Edinburgh Vaults

A school trip to the Edinburgh Vaults leaves on school child with an experience that will haunt her for the rest of her life. What happened in these vaults, and what do these spirts want with the living?
One listener writes in:
“I went on a school trip to Edinburgh with some friends during summer, and while we were there, we decided to do a tour of the Edinburgh Vaults. These are serious of rooms connected by tunnels that lie under the streets of the city and were used in the past by very poor people as it was illegal to be homeless (in the late 18th to early 19th century, I think). If you imagine the typical description of a dungeon – stone small rooms, pitch black, dripping water – you’re along the right lines of what this place looks like (you can Google them to see). These rooms would be home to hundreds of poor people living in confined spaces, as well as some of the most dangerous criminals of the time who came down there to escape the law. It was the darkest, grungiest place I’ve ever been to, and we only had our phone torches to light a small area in front of us. Anyway, so as soon as we went down there, my friend turned around to me and looked very strange. She told me she felt violently sick and like someone weighed down on her whole body. I still didn’t buy it. Our guide then took us into one of the vaults where a coven of witches had practiced their art and at one point, accidentally released a dark spirit which they kept held in by placing a circle of stones on the floor – which is still there today! It is said that people who enter the circle receive various inexplicable scratches and bruises and in 2014, a man even had a heart attack and died whilst in the stone circle. Then towards the end of the tour, we entered a room where we had to hold hands and turn off all lights as this was where the activity had always been strongest and was most dangerous.”
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