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| Mary Kings Close,Edinburgh | |
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| Topic Started: Jan 18 2009, 08:50:23 AM (140 Views) | |
| IPI Mary | Jan 18 2009, 08:50:23 AM Post #1 |
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The Real Mary Kings Close Edinburgh In the Year 1645, the most virulent strain of the Bubonic Plague had brought Edinburgh the capital of Scotland to a halt. It had claimed the lives of half the city's population. The area hardest hit by this was Mary King's Close on the royal mile, in its day a busy thoroughfare lively with 17th century shops and residences. A close is a very narrow lane that joins two larger roads. It usually houses taverns, shops and residences. These lively closes are also shortcuts used frequently by the general public. Mary Kings Close can no longer be used by the public as it now sits underground, a locked time capsule accessible via the main office above ground with only one way down and up. Mary King's Close was re-opened to the public in April 2003. Now a commercial tourist attraction, it is being displayed as a historically accurate example of life in Edinburgh between the sixteenth and nineteenth centuries. Mary King's Close is also the organisation which funds and manages the annual Mary King's Ghost Fest in Edinburgh. This unique and hugely popular award winning, 10 day city wide festival has become a regular favourite on the Edinburgh festival circuit with its strange and quirky events attracting visitors throughout Scotland, the UK and overseas in the month of May. This unusual, off-peak festival sets out to explore and uncover more about the dark tales and strange paranormal activity for which Edinburgh is internationally renowned. Specifications of Mary King's Close · Length: 65 yards · Width: 7 feet · Drop of 60 feet from top to bottom · Includes a maze of rooms & houses, Lache House, Mary Kings House, Chesney house and workshop, Annie’s Room, Plague Room, Cow shed and many more. · Pearsons close joins Annies room to the plague room and area 6 of the location · At one time went right down to the North Loch · Cut short by railway and building of Cockburn Street in 1853 · Close was 11 storeys high · This Close took its name from one Mary King who owned some of the houses therein Key Events in the History of Mary King's Close · Plague in 1645 · Fire in 1750 · Royal Exchange built between 1753 and 1761 at a cost of £31,000 It became the City Chambers in 1811 I have now looked at Mary Kings Close in depth for well over three years, I know about the history, the reported activity and I have experienced events that at this point I have no logical explanation for. I am well aware that some experiences can be attributed to the various levels of infra sound caused by natural sources and I prefer to give no reference to mediumistic impressions as we look for hard evidence and re-creation of phenomena. Here we have various material from investigations:- Room alarm activated when nobody was in the area...what caused this?On hearing the alarm some team members made their way to investigate, you can hear team members outside the room which has 2 doors,an inner door and an outer door right on the close itself.When the alarm goes off a second time, Mary dosen`t wait for our team member who set up the alarm to arrive, she decides to go in. Original version. A couple of Out-Takes. |
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