You have been evicted-----🍷 The Mary King's close was a subterranean city that had fallen vicitim to the black plague and over time has been fed urban legends and interleaved into the areas culture. It is located in Edinburgh, Scotland. The term close is a scot's term for an alleyway but it is also private property, "closed from the public." The close takes the name from Mary King who was a merchant burgess that also happened to be a widow who made this place her home in 1635. The tenements here made homes for all social classes and these are regarded as the world's first skyscrapers. This area had been enormously unsanitary and as the rats and fleas kept coming in diseases spread quicker inside the doors of the people who resided here.
Dr. George Rae was the place's plague doctor during the time of the bubonic plague in Edinburgh, Scotland. He saved lives by using a scorching hot poker on the buboes. White rags would be left on the doors of plague victims to indicate if they needed food, water, or coal. Dr. George Rae stayed for a decade, when he had collected his wealth life went on in the Mary King's close. The tenement closed its doors in 1735 when overpopulation crept in, the building was decaying, and politics made it difficult to run the business.
Merchants and traders moved from the street and into the close, as well as national records resided in this building. In 1835 a chunk of the building had been torn down to make room for a street to be built. -----🍷 In 2008, a photo taken by accident is now considered solid proof that the Close is haunted. Late one Saturday night, the general manager, Stephen Spencer was checking an infrared camera installed to take pictures of tour groups as souvenirs. As Spencer stood in the street he snapped several photos, he then returned to his office to turn the computer system off. He looked at the photos he had taken and realized that one of them had captured an interesting image. Many reports have been made of seeing the same translucent being standing in the end of the hallway. One of the most famous ghosts supposed to live here is a ten year old girl named Annie who died of the plague. Believers report temperature changes and feeling a strange presence in her room. Many have left toys, dolls, and sweets for her in the close.
