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Not many people know that in the bowels of today’s Edinburgh there is an old underground quarter – the so-called “locked city ”Mary King. In the 17th century, when in these places raged black plague, there were hundreds of forcibly isolated residents of the Scottish capital.
It should be said that this area was entirely in the lowland and was cut off from the rest of Edinburgh by a closing train impregnable high walls. Those who happened to walk the streets today of this “city”, empty and dark, tell what they saw ghosts and heard someone moaning, despite the fact that after a terrible more than three and a half hundred years have passed since the epidemic …
… And then the corpses of the victims of the plague were taken out of town and burned in the field to stop the infection. Hearing the creak of a wagon, loaded with dead bodies, people shutted shutters in dismay … All infected Edinburgh people were isolated in a special place, reminiscent of the infirmary. When in 1645 the epidemic threatened spread to the whole city, the magistrate ordered completely to seal this quarter in order to stop the procession deadly illnesses …
Who are Mary King and Ann
Mary King once owned most of the fenced buildings, and therefore, her whole terrible quarter was named after her. And since it is the fateful place was sealed with all its inhabitants, no wonder that there are many stories about ghosts here and just as many witnesses assuring that they saw ghosts of emaciated, tattered people wandering between houses …
A hundred years after the epidemic of the home of the infamous quarter were dismantled by the inhabitants of Edinburgh into bricks, and instead new buildings have risen. To get into the locked today city, “you need to go down deep into the Royal Mile (the heart of Edinburgh and its main street) through a special communications system …
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Now the ancient streets are dark quiet tunnels. Rows of light bulbs stretch across the ceiling and walls. the remains of nowhere leading stairs. Wooden windows and doors boarded up …
There is also a dead end, also named Mary King, where he lives most ghosts, since it was here that everyone was brought plagued Edinburgh residents. Among these unfortunates was a small the girl Anne, who was given to her “locked city” by her parents, forever goodbye to the baby. Phantom ann and today Mary King walks in a dead end, eyewitnesses say …
Buildings at the site of the dead end Mary King
A huge building was erected at the site of Mary King’s impasse, while he turned into a mysterious dungeon. However anyone who turned out to be the will of fate in this large building, became witness of paranormal phenomena or just felt the presence of something terrible, otherworldly, almost unbearable …
Since ghosts at a standstill have been seen more than one hundred times, in 2003. city authorities have opened this place for tourists craving touch the otherworldly reality and learn the tragic the history of ancient Edinburgh. Conducting an organized tour of to the famous dead end, the guide will go down with his charges in gloomy dungeon through narrow and ancient stone stairs. Shocked tourists as if transferred to the 17th century, while a terrible time when the Scottish capital raged plague…
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By the way, a room has been restored here, where, according to legend, spent the last days of her life, little poor Ann. Of course, the room has no windows, and the arched ceiling is very low and depressing pressure on visitors. The furniture is modest a wooden table, two stools and a wooden chest, acting as a bed. An old lantern is burning in the room …
When you look at this wretched setting, your heart contracts with the thought of in what torment – physical and mental – spent time doomed people. Through the efforts of the locals at Mary’s impasse King appeared corner with many dolls designed for the ghost of little Ann to appease him.
People are convinced that a girl loves these toys, so often grabs hands of visitors to the impasse – as if thanks them. The same whoever did not bring her a gift, she can even pinch her leg …
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