The Edinburgh Vaults: The City Beneath the City

South Bridge street in Edinburgh, above the vaults that lie beneath the bridge

About 5 min readBeneath Edinburgh’s South Bridge lie about 120 vaulted chambers, built in 1788, abandoned to the poor and the criminal, then bricked up for a century. Rediscovered in the 1980s, they are now Scotland’s most famous haunted place — home to Mr. Boots, the Watcher, and a small cold hand in Vault 6.