During the tour of Edinburgh, you can go to the most mysterious place in the city, encompassed by riddles and mysticism - this is the dead end of Mary King, where Scottish ghosts live, which you can face right in the middle of the street. The history of the impasse Mary King, since the XVII century, is inextricably linked with many deaths, in this place isolated from the rest of society residents of Edinburgh during the plague epidemics.
Even when planning the ancient streets of Edinburgh, it was planned to create a separate small area, reliably isolated from the rest of the main Scottish city.
All the narrow streets of the most mysterious district of Edinburgh are in the lowlands, so it seems that they are located not on the surface, but under the ancient city. In the XVII century, this area was surrounded on all sides by impregnable walls, so people who lived here could not leave its borders and go to other places in Edinburgh.
This area is called the dead end of Mary King, it was here that all the inhabitants of Edinburgh, who fell ill with the plague, were taken, and none of the townspeople saw them again. Among the sick was a small Scottish girl named Anne, whose ghost is walking around the dead end of Mary King, the doomed toddler was sent to the area for plague patients by her parents, who said goodbye to their daughter for good. About the secrets deadlock Mary King has reminded already in a century after the terrible plague which has destroyed many inhabitants of Edinburgh.
In place of old streets erected a huge building, and the stone labyrinths turned into a mysterious dungeon, but each person, destined for fate in a large building, faced with paranormal phenomena, mystical events, or simply felt the presence of something otherworldly. Ghosts at the dead end of Mary King were seen more than once, and in 2003 the Edinburgh authorities opened a mystical area to visit tourists who want to touch the parallel world and learn the bleak history of the old Edinburgh. During an organized excursion to the dead end of Mary King, the guide will guide tourists into a terrible dungeon. Descending on the ancient narrow stone staircase, the tourists seem to fall into the XVII century, when the plague raged in Edinburgh.
Here, and restored room, in which, according to a terrible legend, lived their last days, the little girl Anne. The room has no windows, the ceiling of the arched form is quite low, and acts depressingly on the visitors, and from the furniture you can see only a modest wooden table, two stools and a wooden chest used as a bed, the exposition is complemented by an old lantern. This room clearly shows the terrible situation in which the plagued Edinburgh residents lived, spending their time in a bleak conclusion before leaving the living world forever. During the excursion to the dead end of Mary King, you can see a corner with a lot of dolls brought here by locals, sparing the phantom of little Ann and wanting to cajole him. They are convinced that the girl likes to look at these toys, and her ghost quite often grabs visitors to the impasse by the hand, some a girl can pinch and a leg.
