Sadly too many people visit this attraction in the hope of encountering a ghost. The reality is that the story of Mary Kings Close, while inpirational of ghost stories, is one of tragedy. The close was sealed up by the council during an outbreak of the plague and its occupants left to die inside, cut off from the rest of the city. Re-discovered and opened to the public in the 1970s a tour of the close brings historic Edinburgh to life!