Haunted Edinburgh

Dalhousies Castle Hotel & Spa

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Guests experienced furniture moving on its own with a large wooden chair relocating approximately one metre while they were at dinner (with visible carpet indentations from its original position), a young child seeing strange cloud shapes in the corner of the room at 4am, and feeling the pressure of invisible footsteps walking across the bed at 5:30am with accompanying sleep paralysis.

The ghost story: The castle's most sinister feature is the bottle-shaped dungeon, now the wine cellar. Prisoners were lowered by rope through a narrow opening into this underground chamber with no escape through the 11-foot thick walls.

The Scotsman Hotel

The former home of The Scotsman newspaper on North Bridge, where a printer in a blue apron is said to haunt the basement and old typewriters are heard clattering in the night.

The ghost story: The best-known ghost at the Scotsman is a printer. He is described wearing a blue apron and carrying a tray of metal type, the way newspapers were set by hand before computers, and he is seen in the basement where the presses once ran.

The Witchery

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Parliament House Hotel

Three Georgian townhouses at the foot of Calton Hill, beside the Old Calton Burial Ground. Former council workers spoke of a White Lady, and a guest woke to sudden cold and the scent of fresh flowers.

The ghost story: Before it became a hotel, the building was used as council offices. When the hotel opened, some guests reported unusual feelings in one particular area.