, but not only did he break in, he actually fell into an assembly of decomposing corpses. While his screams could be heard overground, something far more sinister had been disturbed, and over the next few weeks, stories of blackouts and inexplicable paranormal attacks began to spread. Jan Andrew-Henderson, despite the tomb becoming locked up and declared out of bounds by the council, set out to explore the poltergeist, but during one of his early tours, he witnessed terrifying attacks that were completely mysterious. 'It soon transpired that we didn't have to make up the ghost stories,' he explains, about leading ghost tours through the graveyard. 'After a few weeks, I was doing a tour, talking away, and suddenly… this man, he just went down, onto the concrete floor. 'A whole bunch of things went through my mind, and the first one was nothing to do with the supernatural, the first one was, 'Should I call an ambulance?' 'He went down like somebody had hit him with a baseball bat.' The clip shows the original image of the back of the man's head, with harsh red marks across his head and neck, as if someone had hit him with a bat. Except, there was no one physically around that could have done so. Jan continues: 'The rest of the tour was different, t){kind=link}
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Graveyard visitors got far more than they bargained for during a terrifying ghost tour.
The petrifying story behind the Mackenzie Poltergeist is set to be explored in a horrifying new series, Hauntings, which follows some of the world’s biggest unsolved paranormal activities.
For the uninitiated, The Edinburgh Executioner follows the spooky story of George Mackenzie, who was responsible for upholding Charles II’s laws in the 17th century.
Nearly four centuries later, on the night of 1998, a homeless man entered Mackenzie’s tomb in Greyfriars Kirkyard in Edinburgh (the same place where Mackenzie prosecuted criminals), but not only did he break in, he actually fell into an assembly of decomposing corpses.