The iconic castle is said to be one of the most haunted locations in Scotland.
It is the site of some of the most dramatic and gruesome events in Scotland's history. Now staff at Edinburgh Castle have revealed new accounts of their creepy encounters for the first time. Among the ghostly figures reported by guides is a blonde-haired boy in a red coat near Scotland's Crown Jewels, while females starting work in the former royal apartments claim to have been greeted by a woman with red hair wearing a gold-coloured dress.
That made us both turn as white as sheets.' He added: 'The most scary story came from one of my long term colleagues. A lady with a visual impairment, led by a guide dog, was in the Prisons of War section. She spent a good while in the first room and eventually made her way into the second room but she just as quickly came back out.
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