The Laughing Man of Greyfriars Kirkyard

THE LAUGHING MAN OF GREYFRIARS KIRKYARD Greyfriars Kirkyard, Edinburgh, Scotland October

28, 2019 For weeks, tourists reported hearing laughter

in Greyfriars Kirkyard — specifically near the locked tomb of a man who died in 1711.

Police dismissed it as pranks… until an officer captured the laughter echoing from inside

the sealed mausoleum on bodycam. Greyfriars Kirkyard is steeped in grim history — plague

pits, tortured prisoners, and the infamous Mackenzie Poltergeist. But on October 28th,

2019, the Edinburgh police were called to investigate repeated reports of “a man laughing

hysterically” near the Black Mausoleum, a stone tomb sealed for centuries. Two officers arrived