We had rented a car in London and had driven as far as Glastonbury where King Arthur is supposed to be buried with Guinevere at Glastonbury Abbey which has a rich history as a Catholic Abbey which ended pretty much when King Henry VIII killed the Abbot of the Abbey.
Then we drove our rented Diesel Mercedes to Bristol, England and returned it to the rental place there and took the train from Bristol to Edinburgh, Scotland. We were held up a lot because someone I think died on the train likely from old age and they needed the body to be taken off the train so we had to wait for all of that a few hours. So, anyway, we get to Edinburgh and there are all these ghosts because a big Train auger that might be 20 or 30 feet across drilled through a black death graveyard underground from likely the 1700s so all these ghosts who had died of the Black Plague came and visited my then about 21 year old older daughter and I then. I had an easier time of it than she did then because at first I was overwhelmed by hundreds of Ghosts talking to me. Finally I was able to tell them I was 1/2 Scottish and my Grandfather had lived in Edinburgh, Scotland as a young man before he married my grandmother and moved back to the U.S. because they both already had American Citizenship because they both were born there from Scottish parents.
After I told the ghosts this they realized I was kin to them and they settled down because I was a relation to them from their point of view which was much more Clannish than people are in the U.S. in many ways. I'm trying to research here to see which plague they died in in Edinburgh, Scotland:
It looks like the group I spoke with were from the 1645 plague and mass graves. I could tell they were either from the 1600s or 1700s because of the way that they thought and spoke to me.
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- First Scientific Evidence (14th Century): DNA analysis of a teenager's remains excavated from St Giles' Cathedral confirmed the presence of Yersinia pestis (the bubonic plague bacterium) between 1300 and 1370.
- The 1585 Outbreak: Starting in April near Fishmarket Close, this wave forced the closure of the University of Edinburgh and led to quarantine measures on Edinburgh Burgh Muir.
- The Devastating 1645 Epidemic: Out of a population of roughly 30,000 people, up to 50% of the city's residents died.
- Epicenters of Infection: Overcrowded, unsanitary tenement lanes—such as Mary King's Close beneath the Royal Mile—served as primary breeding grounds for fleas and rats.
- Containment and Treatments:
- Visitor Experience Today: You can explore underground remnants and history from the 1645 crisis on the Contagion & Carnage Plague Tour at The Real Mary King's Close.
