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Fred Fogarty - \u2018Colorful freak,\u2019 tour guide, storyteller, general dogsbody, and in charge of guide training, he\u2019s been working with City of the Dead tours for over a decade.

City of the Dead Tours has been named \u2018Britain\u2019s Best Ghost Walk\u2019 by scare.com, Yahoo! Travel, and Virgin Media, \u2018Best Ghost Tour\u2019 by Scare Tours and recommended by Lonely Planet as \u2018Edinburgh\u2019s Best Ghost Tour.\u2019 But Fred didn\u2019t know any of this until he looked it up on the interwebs.

Fred has been taking people into the Covenanters\u2019 Prison and the \u2018Black Mausoleum\u2019 in Greyfriars Graveyard, home of the infamous Mackenzie Poltergeist, and in to the South Bridge Vaults (Edinburgh\u2019s \u2018underground city\u2019), the most concentrated areas of sightings in a city already fabled for its hauntings.

It\u2019s his job to stay calm when people finish tours with scratches, bite marks, bruises, welts, vomit or end up passing out. It\u2019s also his job to make up reassuring answers when asked, \u201cSo how long does this last for?\u201d

If someone told Fred 30 years ago that there was a job where he could make adults and children cry in fear and with laughter simultaneously, present with numerous inexplicable minor injuries, and get paid for it, he\u2019d have laughed you out of town.


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