For as long as I can remember, I have had a fascination with cemeteries – be it their peaceful, yet morbid exteriors or the fact that I'll probably wind up in one someday. I never overlook an ...

Scotland in the 1600s was riven by religious conflict. In addition to the Catholic-Protestant divide that was tearing its way through Europe, Covenanters, protestants who resisted the King's control ...

Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh has become world-famous as the site of the Mackenzie Poltergeist phenomenon. “I took my jacket off, rolled my jumper up, uncuffed my shirt and that’s when we both saw ...

"I've lived in Edinburgh most of my life," says fantasy novelist Brian Ruckley, author of The Edinburgh Dead. "So I'm very familiar with all the dark corners of the city's history." One of Edinburgh's ...

Greyfriars Kirkyard is one of the continent’s most famous cemeteries, and it’s all because of two small things: a ghost and a dog. Considered by many to be amongst the world’s most haunted locations, ...