Greyfriars Bobby!

Greyfriars Bobby the little dog terrier who died in 1872 after sleeping on his master's grave for the past 14 years is buried in this cemetery 🇬🇧

These Grimm travels through the dark & spooky corners of the UK have been making my goth heart glow. 🖤

@tactical66389

6 ай бұрын

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So glad the Grimms have made the journey to Scotland and checked out the Kirkyard and visited Greyfriars Bobby! Scotland is magical and Edinburgh is a lovely city to visit! This video is amazing!

The grave robbers were called resurrectionists. It’s an interesting story to read up on. Love this video!!! Edinburgh is so beautiful. I’m so jealous 😉❤️

Could we give Grimmlife a KZread Award or an Emmy already?!! I mean come on. These folks bring the exclusive footage and stories! I am the first and the one as many will to push for more recognition of the GrimmlifeCollective. They (beyond levels) deserve it! I love you both so much! You are the reason I keep going! Thank you again. ❤

@grimmlifecollective

6 ай бұрын

Thank you Martin for the kind words. Wow. Happy Halloween my friend.

@MartinAlexanderVideos

6 ай бұрын

I AM FRRREAKING OUT. Thank you for making my night! Ow! I am alive! Whoo! I’m going to put this conjoined energy to good use. Thank you I am just smiley as all! 😁🎃✊💥🦇✨

@MartinAlexanderVideos

6 ай бұрын

@@grimmlifecollective Happy Halloween! 👻 🔥✨

Omg you guess are in Edinburgh!!! Never thought I’d be saying one of my favourite KZreadrs are visiting where I stay!!!! 🙌🏼😅 hope you enjoy your stay whilst you are here!!

If your returning south of the border you should visit Durham Cathedral.. it was a huge filming location for Harry Potter.

@marconnialvarado3302

6 ай бұрын

Durham Is beautiful I was there in 2019!! I was in the Cathedral ❤ kzread.info/dash/bejne/m5uE27p7YcjgeZM.htmlfeature=shared

@Dude0000

6 ай бұрын

I’ve been to Durham Cathedral and didn’t know that. It’s an amazing place.

@jamiedalrymple3689

6 ай бұрын

Durham and York would be great for them ✌️❤️🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

@LADYBOY1988

6 ай бұрын

I think they have left England and they are in France or Germany now

@LADYBOY1988

6 ай бұрын

​@@jamiedalrymple3689not York that place is a crap hole

Your passion for bringing us these videos, is just remarkable! What amazing, beautiful cemeteries. Thank you for another awesome video Michael and Jessica. Happy Halloween!

@ryanbarker5217

6 ай бұрын

nice when you can write it off as a business expense, too, lol.

I'm not a Harry Potter fan but Scotland is breathtaking! Thanks for sharing!

I just love this so much! I'm a huge Harry Potter fan. My mom's name was Victoria, and her ancestors are from Edinburgh, Scotland. I cried watching the bag piper. My mom hired one for my 1st wedding back in 1998 and it was beautiful! I learned so much watching this. Thank you!! I need to visit someday. ❤

Bill Nighy's speech in DH1 is one of my favorites!!!

@queenmedesa

6 ай бұрын

I love him

Grimm did it again💜🖤🎥 Loved the scenery, simply beautiful!

I seen the original Harry Potter in the cinema back in '01. My gf at the time was into the stories. After the movie ended, I asked her, "what were they calling the girl? It sounded like 'Manny', or 'Marnie' w/a soft 'r'". I'd never heard the name Hermione before😃. 'Mione' was how the kids said her name. Thanks, Deirdre, R I P, sweet♡🙏🏼

3:07 perfect timing for the crow fly by.

"Always" an adventure with the grimms.. so cute 🪦🥀

You guys should visit Loch Ness and do a documentary on Boleskine House where Aleister Crowley lived. It’s very atmospheric what with the graveyard and secret tunnel.

@samanthab1923

6 ай бұрын

Yes! Very cool

Legend has it that the land the cemetery is on was originally a valley. However due to the almost 1 million unrecorded burials the land was filled in to such an extent that the ground now forms a hill. "Bloody MacKenzie" imprisoned 1200 prisoners on the site too with many starving or being executed upon his orders. Furthermore, in 1998 a homeless person broke into the MacKenzie mausoleum seeking shelter from the rain. Upon discovering the coffins inside it is believed he opened them, however the floor collapsed causing the homeless person to land in a possible plague pit of rotting corpses. Since then, Mackenzie's evil poltergeist has allegedly attacked members of the public leading to bruises, scratches and even people being knocked unconscious.

The Bloody Mckenzie is apparently on eof the most violent poltergeist on record. He haunts the Kirkland and is known to bite, scratch and punch people. He is the inspiration for the Bloody Barron

So glad you recognized gallant Greyfriars Bobby and his loyalty! There are many other dogs like Hachi who were equally devoted! We don’t deserve. Dogs

It's nice to see that people actually pay attention to the street performers there. In the states, people mainly just walk past them and maybe look at them for a split second. Then keep walking

I have visited Greyfriars kirkyard numerous times both during the day & night it’s one of my favourites I hope you managed to go under the streets down to the Vaults too

It was interesting when you talked about the house colours of Harry Potter, it brought back a lot of memories for me as when I was in middle school we had house colours, Red, Blue, Yellow and Green. I was in Red House… I guess Gryffindor, lol… never really thought about it before as it seemed the norm until you mentioned it in this video. Great episode, I have loved watching you visit some of my old haunts.

Thank you for sharing 🏆🙏🤗🤎

I'm from Edinburgh. Greyfriars kirk yard is a cemetery I used to walk around a lot as a child. The city is my favourite city on earth. You did it justice in this video. I'm so glad you guys enjoyed yourselves.

Wow. It's amazing the cemeteries you visit. Amazing research and I learned something new about the Harry Potter lore. Baby ghoul looking as majestic as ever. Thank you for taking us on your journeys across Europe. Happy Halloween 🎃

Also Cecil Court in London claims to be the inspiration for Diagon Alley. With the Leaky Cauldron being on the Charing Cross Road. Who really can say? Great video again guys. 👍🏼

@davidanderson1639

5 ай бұрын

The filming location for the Leaky Cauldron was in fact at Brough Market; where the railway lines cross over Stoney Street. The entrance to Diagon Alley, as seen at the start of Half Blood Prince is opposite Leicester Square tube station in Cranbourn Street. Personally I think the real inspiration for Diagon Alley was The Shambles in York.

Your content just gets more and more epic. Love being part of this collective.

I'm so glad you came to Edinburgh, I really hope you guys come back one day to this beautiful city, so much history! Living just outside, Edinburgh its somewhere that always feels magical when visiting, absolutely stunning scenery! I didnt know inspiration for the names were in Greyfriars Cemetery for Harry Potter, so even I've learned something new there. The story of Greyfriars Bobby is a heartbreak, the loyalty of "man's best friend", thankyou for giving his wee nose a rub ❤

You would LOVE the Necropolis here in Glasgow. It’s humongous but so worth the visit 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿💀

Reading harry potter as a kid. The feeling I think I can say we all got..the flooding of endorphins was really brought alive in this video. It must feel so surreal being there. Glad you two got to have this experience.

Thanks for all the great tour videos over there!

I am so jealous you got to do this. Being a huge Harry Potter fan and part Scottish, this is a huge bucket list item for me.

@willhuey

4 ай бұрын

Im a big fan as well recently I played hogwarts legacy and beat it.

If you are still in the Edinburgh area, Mary Kings Close is worth a visit . Great to see you folks in Scotland.

Thanks for letting us come along. For those who can not travel, it is appreciated.❤

13:58 The symbol of healing used for medicine is called Caduceus. You guys got so lucky with the weather!

Iv been here, it’s such a beautiful graveyard!

I had the pleasure of visiting both Edinburgh and Glasgow, absolutely love them both. The history, the architecture and the people are wonderful. Hope to go back someday!

I am living vicariously through both of you!!! Thank you for making these amazing videos!!! Please enjoy your adventures for those of us who will never get to visit these awesome places!!!! Much love to you both! ❤❤❤❤

@bunchofgrapesorafig

6 ай бұрын

Much love to you Pam...

There’s also memorial to Greyfriars Bobby in the kirkyard and a 1961 Disney movie based on him: “Greyfriars Bobby: The True Story of a Dog”. Christopher Lee and James Cosmo ware in the 2006 film “The Adventures of Greyfriars Bobby”.

I can see how the small street next to the old cafe inspired Diagon Alley. It's rare to see a school next to an old cemetary here in the states. Thank you for another beautiful adventure full of moss covered grave stones & magical history!

I couldn’t click. Fast. Enough. Absolutely gorgeous graveyard and JK definitely did travel that cemetery and get inspiration from the stones, I remember her talking of it in an interview. Thank you for showing all you did! Hope to see it someday!

Edinburgh is a beautiful and magical city. I would love to go back someday.

Thank you for bringing us along on your adventures! Excellent episode.

I've explored this graveyard at night. I don't believe in ghosts but all those tombs had something to say and they spoke a little louder in the darkness 🖤 beautiful ep as always

@iankirkpatrick1875

6 ай бұрын

Ghosts are real 👻👻👻

Greyfriars Bobby was the first movie I ever saw in a movie theater. So it was a real treat to see your video tour of the actual location. Thank you very very much!

I just don't understand people who vandalize and do graffiti in cemeteries and monuments and other historical and sacred sites; it's truly despicable. Anyway, thank you for this awesome video - that's a place I could spend days wandering around in!! Continued safe travels, you two!! Happy...Halloween!!! 🪦☠🪦

We stayed in the N. 1 Apartments, above The Elephant House the week of Halloween 2019. You can see the door to the apartments in your video, you can still book the apartments thru their website, the rooms have amazing views toward the kirkyard, castle and Grassmarket. In 2019 the café was still open and served delicious food. The bathrooms were covered with Harry Potter graffiti and from the table where she sat while writing the first book, you could see the kirkyard, castle and school , obvious inspiration for her books. I would highly recommend that location for a base in Edinburgh.

I’m not a massive fan of Harry Potter, but it’s fascinating to learn of how the characters came About! X

Grimmly walk through the cemetery with Harry Potter influence.awsome video mind blown

Memento Mori. Not so spooky in the sunshine though. ☠️. City of my birth and have lived in it and around it most of my life. Love seeing you guys seeing it for the first time and how in awe you are, we can take it a bit for granted but you could spend years delving into the history and stories of old Edinburgh. Well done on correct pronunciation of Edinburgh too! 😊

Amazing place!!! You could really see the connections and where Harry Potter got it's start. Epic video Micheal and Jessica

Hope you made it to Edinburgh Castle lots of ghosts there lol

Another fantastic video. I visited Edinburgh about 20 years ago, it is an amazing city and I need to go back. You can't help but feel the the layers of history, it's literally dripping with it.

Thanks for mentioning Greyfriars Bobby the dog.

I love Scotland, especially Edinburgh, I'm related to Grace darling ,the light house keepers daughter ,.. she is buried in Bamburgh, but Edinburgh is my most fav place in Scotland, we are intending to pay a long visit ,...the cemetry is oh wow ,.. words can't describe its beauty ,. Thank u ,micheal n Jessica, enjoy ur time in uk

Brilliant, glad you love our capital city! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🧙‍♂️🧙‍♀️

I WISH TO SAY HAPPY HALLOWEN TO GRIMMLIFE.... What a beautiful panoramic view from Edinburgh Castle.

I'm hoping you guys will cover The Real Marys King's Close and the vaults in Edinburgh.

Thank you for this video. A lot looked not wheelchair accessible, so would never be able to see it in real life.

@grimmlifecollective

6 ай бұрын

Thank you so much. And sadly not a lot seemed wheelchair accessible as you stated. I’m glad we can take you there though

I visited Edinburgh last week. What a lovely city it was. I followed your footsteps visiting the sights. The graveyard was brilliant. I also went into the castle, it was spectacular!

The violinist brought a big smile to my face!

Sometimes facts are more magical than fiction. This is such an awesome video!

Can't believe you and Jessica were in my most favourite place in Scotland Greyfriars kirkyard! Its 62 miles from where I live in Dundee Scotland, glad you visited there x

Never grim when the grimms are about happy halloween 🎃 guys

I've always been interested in cemetery art, but this place is wonderfully over the top. The fact the cemetery is associated with the Harry Potter universe makes it all the better. Thanks for taking us along for the trip!

Super! I thought to myself "Please tell me that you visited Grefriars!" ....and you did! Visited there a couple of years ago, at night.... I also watched the fireworks during the Guy Fawkes Night from a graveyard a couple or so weeks ago....a slow walk back home! 😉

Im not a Harry Potter fan. Ive read none of the books, or watched any of the films. Ive never been to Edinburgh. But, this vid was fascinating, and had me gripped from start to finish. Thanks again.

Guys you are nailing it everytime - so glad you have had the best trip to the British Isles

24:30 jk rowling also used inspiration for diagon alley from my city york called the shambles which is a really old popular tiny street with shops lol

Thank you for loving my hometown as much as I do and for pronouncing it right!

6:45 LMAO, that immediate pause in the sentence.

I remember the school crest that we had on our blazers, it was a phoenix in green and aquamarine with red trim. The school has gone now however the building is there and looks very spooky with its towers, cobwebs and soot stains from ww2 bombs

The land of castle and many more spooky history. Love and respect from India ❤

Wow! Wow! Wow, a few things, you guys are so amazingly adventurous. You bypass anyone else. Every single time I watch one of your videos, you impress me so much with your respect for all of the places you visit. Your kindness, and consideration of every thing around you, from the people, animals and structures. You guys have crossed a border of quirky looks to honest respectful humans with great hearts and souls. I curtsy to both of you. You guys have to be at the top of your unique content. No one can or will touch what you guys are doing. Thank you for bringing us along. Bravo.

@trishapm8874

6 ай бұрын

You worded this so beautifully! I'm a new subscriber and I absolutely feel the same way!! Two very lovely grim humans.

@siouxjames-love7162

6 ай бұрын

I couldn’t agree more muffin! WELL SAID! 🥰💛🦇👏🏻

This is well documented and professionally done. Glad you came over to the UK.

I always find cemeteries to be so peaceful. I know it's odd. But I love walking through an old cemetery and just soaking in the history. What a gorgeous place that is!

Old Town Edinburgh , wonderful especially at this time of the year. A warm welcome to you both once again and hopefully you got to The Banshee Labyrinth on your visit , what better way to spend the Halloween period than the gothic wonders of Edinburgh

Great video, surprised you didn't come here to Ireland, especially when Jessica is part Irish, maybe someday you'll visit our great Island, plenty of history here 🇮🇪❤️

Hi Michael & Jessica, so glad your in the UK and enjoying the darker side of British history and lore, unfortunately I've not been following you like I use to, I have my own family demons to fight and even though I've not quite got rid of them all this has made life a little more bearable, thanks guys and as always you knock it out of the park....

Aw, man, I'm so happy you visited Greyfriars! It's one of my favourite places to visit in my favourite city. I'm long overdue a wee trip out to Edinburgh, so may have to visit again soon

Glad you and Jessica made it too Edinburgh ❤ enjoy x

Wow. some beautiful tombstones. NOW I need to go visit.

Fantastic City and places!!!

I want to go to that graveyard again. Amazing city!

This part and background I have been there in 2019. the castle is AMAZING

Play the bagpipes, go to jail. That little rant out of the way, I have to say... these videos of your journey to Europe have been really amazing, as I'm sure your time there has been. The history of these places is incredible. Your'e doing a great job editing and getting these vids out while you're trying to rush through your limited time there, Michael, and kudos to you for doing a fine job. This is some priceless stuff. I hope you're able to enjoy as much as you toil while you provide your usual in-depth and special content to your channel. Wonderful stuff!!!❤

A few years ago I was in Edinburgh. I was staying at the Grassmarket hotel on the historic Grassmarket just down for Greyfriars. About 3am I went outside for a smoke on the deserted street. I was standing just in front of the Covenanters monument which marks the site of the public gallows where hundreds of Covenanters were hung in the 1600s. (known as the killing time) plus countless others over the following 300 years. All of a sudden I was given an almighty shove and was sent flying forward. Not a soul was around me. I was completely alone. After I had a wee heart attack I toddled back to my bed to not sleep a wink for the rest of the night. One extra weird thing was I could clearly feel the hand prints on my back for sometime after.

Grimms !!!!! Glad you’re enjoying our beautiful little island. So nice to see you truly appreciating it. Welcome welcome welcome x

used to be lots of good vinyl shops up cockburn street, so many famous one's now gone..

I’ve long wanted to visit Edinburgh and Scotland and hope to while my niece is at St. Andrews. Thanks for sharing.

we went there a few years ago and rubbed bobbys nose 😊 its a lovely old cemetery, wonderful video.

Michael thanks for your accent!! I understand perfectly what you are saying! 😊 I Love you guys!!

13:29 nearly headless nick wow. You found him shhhhhhhhh

Edinburgh is my favourite Capital city in the UK. It's a stunning place

Fantastic historical experience

The Shambles in York is definitely Diagon Alley

beautiful place ! I had the opportunity to visit it twice. Exc Video !! thanks for sharing! I really like the channel, it reminds me a lot of the trips I make with my wife ... A hug from Costa Rica!

We had our honeymoon in Edinburgh. Its an incredible place.

Recently become obsessed with your channel. Love your European trip!