We are here again its Halloween 2006, follow this page as it updates over the three nights, locations include Mary Kings Close, Blair Street Vaults, Kiddry Street Vaultsand Nichol Edwards Vaults.

Prelude Information

The Vaults Taken from The Instistute Of Paranormal Research

Beneath the busy streets of Edinburgh lies the mysterious ‘Vaults’. This maze of rooms, under Edinburgh’s South Bridge, one of the city's main thoroughfares, lay forgotten for centuries until they were ‘discovered’ in the mid 1980’s and reopened as a tourist attraction.
But, almost as soon as the public were granted access, tales of ghostly sightings began to emerge. The rooms themselves had been used as workshops and living quarters for local tradesman, but the conditions were, to say the least, unpleasant. Thus only a few short years after they’d been opened, in 1788, the Vaults were closed, in the early 1800’s. BY 1790’s it was estimated that there were more than one hundred businesses active on the South Bridge, many of which would have used the Vaults as workshops, making the Vaults a crowded, dirty and smelly place to be. But there is also a much darker side to the Vaults, for it is rumoured that the notorious ‘Body snatchers’ Burke and Hare may well have acquired their ‘goods’ from within the Vaults, and sold the bodies to the nearby Infirmary Street teaching hospital. Thus making the South Street Vaults a very interesting place to investigate .

Link To Mary Kings Close

Blair Street Vaults

As the team enter the vaults, David Well picks up on a person sniffing like a dog and a woman singing, also a man who is not pleasant, who is waiting for them! New member Geoff Adams on camera describes himself as nervous and and sensing an atmosphere. While Stuart feels sick. David continues to say there is a man who is nasty and lives on 'rubbish'. He also ssenses prostitutes from the late C18th or early C19th.

David Wells calls out for tappings and the team seems to hear a response. David sense a 'pouncer' who may well jump out', he later says he is debasted and 'the 'low of the low.' A sound of dragging is heard as David says he is hit by something.

We are shown balls on shelves that are trigger objects. David says he senses a child with whooping cough and suggests the team hold their hands at waist level to see if they get a response.

David senses the little boy is weak, but the man he senses is aggressive. he sets a time period for the child as in the late 18th century, with a religous name.

Yvette decides to set up a seance, as Ciaran enters with a member of the audience he advises to carry on and not analyse, commonly given advice from a parapsychologist.

The seance brings David the senses the woman died from cuts to her midrif seeing blood on her belly area , and asks was she experimented on. (Leasley Smith later suggests this may well have been the attempt to remove a baby from it's womb.)

Stuart is still ill at ease and still feeling sick. Does a prescense throw something at David ? The team report rappings in response to their questions.

As the team is rejoined after their seance a candle has been tipped from the table. Karl has found a cavern above a doorway that Yvette investigates, in which she and Stuart hear something moving or jumping. David feels the 'male' is playining mind games and Karl is sure there are noises behind a padlocked door.

The investigation leads to the crew hearing footsteps and rattling doors. David continues his analysis that the woman's body was stolen and used for experimentaion in a medical room, he puts a date down of 1780's. This falls in line with the information above from the Institute of Paranormal Research which is easily accessible on the web. Interestingly Leasley Smith does not pick up on this !

The male prescence he felt he says 'fell from grace' and has the name 'Johnstone.'

He later describes the prescence as a 'creature' who is strong in the room. As Yvettes calls for a response the team report a moan and chink.

Once again the team is rejoined, just missing a bottle that has fallen over on a table 'not' caught on camera.

As Yvette, Ciaran and David move on concerned Stuart is weakening a noise of bottles falling is heard. Stuart has felt over come with rage and thrown Karl towards the table with bottles on it. The viewers see Karl pinning Stuart against the wall and then he is lead out. Ciaran and David agree this is uncanny since moments before they were discussing Stuart was weakening, was the rage in Stuart caused by a spirit showing its energy ?

Back in the 'Boots Room' Jon the soundman collapses and Yvette feels weak in the legs.

Yvette and Ciaran confere giving the possible reasons as oppression, humidity or lack of air, it is Ciaran that even says it may be a 'spirit' influence.

David Wells stills believes it is a spirit picking off the weak. The crew exit to leave 'Wiggan' on his own.

Kiddry Street Vaults

From the start the team hear a constant knocking, but not inline with control questioning. The questioning starts but the response does not seem a pure response.

The team enter a temple, David Well suggests it may be 'circus' set, consisting of pillars, wikkan, pagan and witchcraft symbols, but carries out a a protection ritual.

The team hear a deep growl, and David senses a female entity, and a male he describes as lurching and a biggot. In the studio Ciaran enforces they need positive response to control questions.

The team are all ill at ease, with Jon picking up noises on the microphone, the crew seem to think they are from the other side of the wall.

David picks up on the woman who he thinks was convicted of being a witch and burnt in her 40's, but was in the wrong place at the wrong time. He suggests she haunts down from the castle to the vaults. The crew seem convinced the noises they are hearing are responsive from her to their actions and questions. He gives us the name Balfour

The tempearture is reported as having dropped, and David reports on five cloaked figures being present, and a sound of chanting. The male figure is still present although holding back, David reports him to be an official figure, a religious figure and gives us the name 'Clarke.' (Later to be identified as Alexander Clarke.)

The energy around them David reports to be residual with lots of children.

Two loud bangs lead David to report an image of the cloven hooved beast, who is waiting. With Yvettes appeals for more response the crew hear noise in response and more thrown stones.

Back in the Studio Leasley Smith gives us ALISON BALFOUR reported as being burnt at the stake 16 Dec 1594 and her husband beheaded later in France for witchcraft. again this information seems easily accessible on the web.

David has contact with a presecence he later describes as a sad old man, being something he is not, who dresses up, and places him in the mid 1600's. Stuart returns to his role of being depressed and affected, feeling sick and another headache. (A good sponsor would be ANADIN).

A return after the break gives us Stuart who has been against the wall 'spitting' and hysterically asks for his top to be removed to reveal scratches all over his back.David talks of demonic forces which he mocks as he steps into the ritual circle earlier entered by Karl & Stuart. during this Jon screams and reveals a fine scalpel like cut on his leg.

I must bring forward. Facts revealed Stuart left the room during the break and returned prior to his injuries. Also we beg to ask how can a man who condemned Derek Acorah for lack of protection can mock what he states are demonic forces and treat the circle they all believe is the source of the actions that have taken place, with such disrespect, if what has happened is true. Is this not putting the crew at worse risk than lack of protection? For the first time in covering Most Haunted I bring forward room for thought and debate. Purely to give a positive view that we must question what we see, if there is questionable doubt. David later himself says he has not been attacked YET, if safety of the crew is his first thought this is strange line to take.

The continuation takes us to the newly uncovered Nichol Edward Vaults. Yvette, Jon, Wiggan, Geoff, Karl and David are the crew. David Wells begins with talk of layers of bodies and contact still with ' Balfour'. He reports a weight of a door on top of him and torture. The events are draining Yvette and she breaks down leading to another break.

Returning back to the original vaults and the stone ritual circle, Karl and Jon walk defiantly through while Yvette still seems very ill at ease. The decision is to hold a seance around the circle and Karl is defiant he wants norprotection and wants to 'sink the sucker!' It's 11.35pm and the witching hour beckons.

The return is short lived and the seance never starts. David call on protection, Yvette takes on her attack to force the spirits into action by taunting Clarke. However yells from Jon and the camera showing a deep cut on his legs ends the investigation.

Was this a return to Pendle Hill ? The jury is out til tmw.

Mary Kings Close

Night three and the team investigate Mary Close Vaults

From the start the team tell us of tappings from below them on the floorboard. Yvette is convinced they are positive response to control questions. When asked how many crew there are they recieved 14 positive knocks. It is the rapid taps not in answer to questions David Wells is most concerned about.

David picks up on a female he calls Bessy, later to be confirmed by him as Elizabeth Boyde, from the 17th century who cleaned clothes and died of a disease. Unsurprising as the Close is connected with one of the many plagues in Edinburgh. David reports he is convinced Bessy is giving him an astral warning to get out. David also reports on a roof being put above them. Leasley Smithreports this did happen later on 1753 so cannot be directly connected to Bessy.