Edinburgh Underground City of the Dead Tour: Exploring Damnation Alley's Haunted Tunnels

Uncover the secrets of Edinburgh’s haunted underground city on this award-winning guided tour. Explore Damnation Alley’s haunted tunnels and hear chilling stories of the city’s dark past.

Duration: 1 hour, 20 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • City of the Dead Tours - This tour ventures into the most haunted section of Edinburgh’s legendary Underground City, where a population once lived in utter misery. Black as Satan’s jammies, with a fascinating history to match, these vaults were forgotten for centuries and only recently unsealed.
    This part of the South Bridge Vaults is known as…
What's Included
  • Local, expert guide
What's Not Included
  • Transportation to/from attractions
Additional Information

Join us on this award-winning guided stroll through the spookiest section of the historical Underground City in Edinburgh, often referred to as ‘Damnation Alley’. For centuries, this place lay forgotten, once acting as a ‘home’ to men, women, and children subjected to unbearable living conditions.
Delve into the grim history of Edinburgh below its city…

Location
St Giles' Cathedral
High Street
All tours leave from the "Tree of the Dead" outside St Giles Cathedral on the pavement facing the Royal Mile. Please arrive at the meeting point 15 minutes prior to departure.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Hitoshic2025
Jul 6, 2025
S+ Tour guide - Our tour guide was fantastic, i personally found it fascinating and just the right amount of spooky. Would highly recommend
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Audreycgl
Jun 21, 2025
Great experience - Very interesting tour. The guide was nice, knowledgeable and funny. The tour was engaging and intertaining. Really recommend.
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681sonyab
Jun 14, 2025
Good fun - Great walking tour, it was informative & great fun. Rebecca was our tour guide & she was brilliant. Really enjoyed it, hard to believe all that is under the city
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Stephen
Jun 14, 2025
Entertaining underground - Very informative tour of the underground of Edinburgh.. Nat was both entertaining and insightful. we would highly recommend this tour.
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Brighidd2025
Jun 7, 2025
Book immediately!!!! - My husband, friend and I went on this tour and had an absolute blast! It was the perfect mix of history and ghost stories. Our tour guide Ben did an amazing job, and kept our interest the entire tour. We were extremely impressed with him. We HIGHLY recommend booking this tour immediately!
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Passport09621517659
Jun 6, 2025
Fabulous - Very interesting and historical. Can't believe what went on underground!! The tour operator was fabulous and full of knowledge
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Jessicavirkkala
Jun 6, 2025
Ben was an amazing guide - Loved hearing about the history of the city, Ben was really good at giving an informative and interesting tour. Underground, he created a spooky yet safe atmosphere. Thank you for the great experience, Ben!
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Dawn
Jun 2, 2025
Loved this Tour. Lou was so knowledgeable - Great Tour Spooky stories of the past. Lou taught us so much and the vaults & morgue definitely gave us the chills. There is so much knowledge to be gained with a tour guide above and beyond what you can see in your own Well worth the money and I certainly recommend going. If we were here for longer we would do another tour too My husband says he would like to sleep in the vault but for me NO WAY !!! Found a few orbs on our videos
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Kimberlysd2040tu
May 26, 2025
Ghost tour with actual ghosts! - This was a great tour, and our guide, Ben, really made it enjoyable! He was so knowledgeable and informative, and I loved his stories. Thanks Ben! I’m even attaching a photo that has an image I can’t explain. The ghosts were definitely out to play!
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496leef
May 13, 2025
Great tour. - Great tour, Nat was amazing, very knowledgeable and fun. Felt eerie in there. Caught a strange image appears to be someone in old clothes?. Thanks.
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