Auld Reekie Tours

Auld Reekie Tours is one of Edinburgh’s premiere tourist attractions; offering historical and ghost tours deep in the subterranean chambers of the South Bridge. Initially founded in 1995 by Ian McKain, ART is the only tour company in the city with exclusive, private access to the infamous Niddry Wynd of the South Bridge vaults. First a storage space used by the shopkeepers and merchants of eighteenth and nineteenth century Edinburgh this street quickly degenerated into slums, where they were used as homes, brothels, taverns and worse by the beggars and thieves of the Old Town. Fast forward almost 200 years and nowadays they are said to be one of the most paranormally active locations in the whole of the country. Auld Reekie Tours has, in some circles, become a household name due to it’s participation in international television shows such as Most Haunted, Most Haunted: Live and Ghost Hunters.