Mission: Hens

I feel like an idiot, but I have never heard of the term "hen" before. I understand now....oh do I understand!

Tonight we decided to go on a Ghost tour while here in Edinburgh.

We thought it was going to be pretty darn awesome, but when we arrived, we saw a dozen or so girls in matching black tank tops and pants. Each one said "Hen tour" on it and on the back each girl had their own slutty nick name.

My personal favorite was "Nympho Nic"

Anyways, these girls were so drunk! and they would not Shut Up. What's worse is that they were all English!

There was one who was constantly swearing at the stupidest of things, as well.

She would always say it twice, too. "Shit.......Shit."

Very entertaining.

Soon, we entered into a torture museum where we saw disturbing instruments of tor

ture for those who committed some kind of crime.

One was a chastity belt for women who would often cut themselves on the metal and die from infection. There were also blunt knives, bamboo splinters, a thumb drill, a jaw breaker, funky shackles, a face peeler (looks as nasty as it sounds), metal links in a whip, etc. There were some that were just for humiliation, so people would throw garbage at them when they saw them walking down the street.

While we traveled through the underground tunnels, the girls would not stop talking even though the tour guide would tell us to be quiet. Not only is it polite, but we are in a haunted tunnel!

Don't mess with the spirits, man.

First, we saw this room that I thought had a little set up as if from back in the day (you know, like in museums and such), but I was wrong! As I looked closer I saw a place of worship, and above the alter was a giant five sided star.

WICCA!

This was a Wicca temple in use today.

The guide told us they used to be in another room with a circle of stones in the center of the room, but they had to move cause it was so full of evil spirits.

The group that made the circle of stones where also witches, but they were witches that would kill people and take their energy from them by places a ring of stones around the body.

People who step into the circle end up having bad things happen to them. Some faint, some end up with large gash wounds, and other times, it doesn't hit them till later.

Of course some of the hens stepped in the circle.

Next we went into a room where most of the paranormal activity occurs.

We were told to be absolutely silent (but of course the hens weren't), and I was actually really scared.

The guide told us a story about the room. It was back when Edinburgh was in disaster and fires were everywhere around the city. The people underground were safe until the only entrance to the tunnels collapsed. The men shut the women and children in a room that contained the most air as they tried to clear the exit.

However, the fires from above heated up the rocks surrounding them, and the women and children slowly cooked to death.

They found bodies with the skin literally melted off the bones!

All of a sudden we hear a girl scream and I look to the only door to the room and see a black piece of cloth (a robe or flag of somesort) flash out of the room. We have no idea what it was! It was just gone!

The guide turned on her flashlight (it was off before), and we saw one of the hens lying on the floor with scratches all up and down her arm.

She said she had no idea how she got there!

The guide made sure she was okay, then told us the tour was over and ushered us out!

We still had about twenty minutes left of the tour, and we even passed rooms that had displays in them as if we were supposed to see them, but we didn't.

I don't know if what happened was paranormal or not, but it was definitely bazaar, and spooky (even if it was just at the time.)