During a recent trip into Edinburgh, my friend Sandra and I decided to make the most of our day and visit Greyfriars Churchyard.
We had heard all the usual stories about the hauntings that go on there, but to tell the truth, when you skulk about Graveyards collecting Monumental incriptions like we do, you tend not to pay too much attention to the stories, and all we wanted was a photo of Greyfriars Bobbys Grave to add to our websites. So like 2 typical tourists, we trotted off cameras in hand to explore.
This was our Day in Greyfriars..
Helen get out of the way Sandra shouts, I can't get all the Church in if you keep standing there, typical, always seems to be me that blocks the camera., got my photo of Greyfriars bobby, only to discover that the flash is shining right in the middle of the photo, have to do it again, Sandra managed to get the church by this time. There are a lot of realy nice monuments in the graveyard and we decided to take photos for this website, that was until something realy scary happened. To tell the truth, we hadn't been paying too much attention to who was buried in what monument, it was a case of, ohh that's a nice one you take a photo, which we did for about half an hour, until we saw these 2 ladies peering through the grill in a black domed monument. ahhh we will go back for a look when they have gone, we didnt want to miss anything interesting, by this time we had taken all the photos we needed and decided to go back and have a look at the one with the black doors.
We walked up the steps and peered through the grills on the doors, it was pitch black inside, once our eyes adjusted to the dark we managed to make out a grill on the floor and the back wall looked like it had a dome shape cut out at the bottom, anyway we decided to take a photo of the inside, dont ask me why, it just seemed right, Sandra put her camera through one of the grills on the door, and I put mine through the other,Right Sandra you take the first photo and I will go for the second, I had no sooner said this, when Sandra took the photo, there was a loud cracking sound and Sandra was thrown about 3 feet back on to the path, I froze with my hands around my digital camera, which was still sticking through the grill in the door ready to take a photo, click, I took it and Hightailed it back down the steps to where Sandra was trying to stop shaking, and make some sense out of what happened, we couldn't because at that time we didn't know the history behind the tomb we had just taken photos of, Sandras camera was jammed by this time. I decided to try another photo , I 'm not sure if I was being brave,or realy stupid, but anyway, back up the stairs I went, only this time I was going to look through the viewfinder, I crept back up the stairs, set the camera up and looked through the lense, I couldn't see a thing, then out of the corner of my eye I saw something white moving, I just took the photo quickly and the both of us hightailed it out the Graveyard into the local Greyfriars pub, there we discovered after a stiff drink, that it was the tomb of Bloody Mckenzie.
Below are some of the photos we took of the Covenaters prison and above Mckenzie tomb, known locally as The Black Mausoleum.
