The ghost of the Edinburgh Playhouse

[@stephaniemaloney4324]

Im just in love with the updated family sketch at the start ❤👨‍👩‍👦

[@ClanBroonford]

Thank you. We love it too.

[@amygreen4408]

I don't know how I missed this two years ago. Brilliant. A life long theatre geek, I think this may be one of my favorite Clan Broonford tales. I am glad it wasn't any later at night to be watching this tale! 😵‍💫💙🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿😵‍💫💙

[@edinburghfamily]

Wow! What an amazing opportunity to get to film in there without anyone else around. Love the theatre 🎭 and have seen so many shows there over the years!

[@alanco608]

Thanks for 11:30 Tony.............jumped out of my skin..!!

[@jays2035]

happy Halloween .. rip Sean Connery :(

[@clivefelgate9802]

It's a fantastic space . When full it's a fantastic atmosphere. I hope they can keep afloat till better times. One of Edinburgh 's real gems. Happy memories of that building. Thanks for another great vid. Keep safe and well all of you. 👍

[@stevenwilcox7213]

Brilliant video, got me at the end with that jump scare 🤣🤣🤣

[@ClanBroonford]

👻

[@jbeattie1244]

Great tale an my grandfather said that albert was the original night watch man who looked after the building when it was a church hall

[@Stephanie-Gillespie]

I'm so glad I didn't read the comments first, you gave me such a jump scare Tony!! 😄 I love ghost stories and you are such a storyteller! I hope you get to do more of these! Hope you and the family are well and safe.

[@adm3303]

Loved that! I'm always up for a good ghost story. Loved the history as well. Thank you.

[@TheEdinburghPlayhouse]

Thanks for visiting. Great telling of the tale of our resident ghost. Albert would be proud.

[@CannonRanger1]

Truly a magnificent building. Albert has great taste. Thanks for sharing!

[@ClanBroonford]

You bet!

[@karenwhite7023]

That was a good one, especially the ending!😅

[@dreamcaster1969]

Loved the special effects

[@john5966]

used to go there when it was a picture house as a youngster, then as a roadie working for geno washington and the ram jam band, was the last time i was there, Playhouse and the Poole’s Synod Hall amazing picture houses in their day.

[@paulbets2driving]

Great video I am a true believer of ghosts as I have seen one when I used to work in a bingo hall that used to be a theatre.

[@alanafahy8940]

That was great, you are such a good story teller, and loved the history too. Just right for Halloween 🎃👻😊

[@andrewillingworth]

Am so glad you managed to make this video been waiting so long to see it.

[@melodyblomberg6052]

Yes yes yes!!!!! More more more!!!

[@MAINER4779]

Another great tale! Loved seeing the theater again. What a show place! Literally!

[@ingerschmidt290]

Another great tale! Love that . Thank you Tony . Love from Inger and Sweden .

[@ClanBroonford]

My pleasure!

[@gilliandrysdale5306]

Happy Halloween that was fab! I’ve only ever been there when it’s been packed but when things are more normal I’ll be looking out for Albert 👻

[@ingaborlowski1536]

That was so much fun, Happy Halloween to everyone! I’m hopeful to see a show there on my next visit providing the world gets back on it’s axis correctly.... Loved the bit about the sniffer dogs and your goodbye at the end 🎃 👻

[@ClanBroonford]

👻💀☠️

[@MAINER4779]

"Bye Humans" is actually on the back of some of the Broonford t-shirts on Teespring! Tony often signs off that way! 😁

[@ingaborlowski1536]

@@MAINER4779 yes, thank you, I know about the Bye Humans at the end. I was referring to the And Ghosts part.

[@slydermartin6008]

Have not had the opportunity to see the inside of that theater on my visits. It's so much bigger than appears from the outside. Wonderful old theater. BOO!

[@PS3GamingScotland]

This was an excellent video. It was so cool to see behind the scenes of the playhouse. Christ you got me good with that jump scare lol. Great video! :)

[@susanpatton1748]

I didn’t realize it was so large of a theater. Another great video you are a great story teller.

[@ClanBroonford]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@garyjohnstone8183]

Loved it.

[@JanGu1954]

Loved that! If I were a ghost 👻 I would definitely want to be haunting The Edinburgh Playhouse! Thanks Tony!

[@jennyGingerNinjaCrafts]

Love it! Amazing to see it so empty, I've spent many a fun evening here and looking forward to being back when it's safe to. Loved hearing about Albert!

[@richardsonkinnear8031]

Wow just discovered this post. I just wrote a comment on you other post titled; ‘Exclusive look inside the Edinburgh Playhouse part 1’ I had first hand experience of the ghost. It was mainly active in the corridors leading to “The Gods” that was the area where most people experienced this anomaly.

[@Filbeckistan]

Tony! You got me at the end there! 😂 This was a great video. I bet there are a lot of other places you could go to and film ghost story videos for. I’d love to see more!

[@ClanBroonford]

Glad you enjoyed

[@ninettegok5378]

Very nice Tony. Interesting ghost story. Alot of graphics very interesting. Sorry to hear about Sean Connery he will be greatly missed.

[@allysonrollitt210]

I hoped you'd do something spooky for Halloween 🎃🎃. On a sad note I've just heard on the radio that Sean Connery has passed away. A great actor and Scotsman .

[@MAINER4779]

Oh, no! Sean Connery was such a legend. The world's lost a great talent. And so handsome young & old. Seemed he just got better looking as he aged. [Until the past few years when he visibly went downhill & was quite infirm.] Although I really liked Pierce Brosnan & Daniel Craig s Bond, Sean Connery will always be the epitome James Bond to me. 😢😢😢

[@jenniferdavis4917]

What a gorgeous theater! I hope to visit one day when I return. Loved the ghost story, great segment for Halloween!

[@Concetta20]

Agh! You totally got me!!!!!!

[@fire_dragongamer8327]

I actually performed in the Edinburgh playhouse today,and watching this actually makes me feel scared

[@irenearseneault355]

Happy Halloween, Tony. I remember well, being in the Playhouse with my mum when it was still a cinema. Scary.....but not because of Albert...being up there in the balcony was enough to give you a nosebleed. But it certainly looks much posher now and hopefully it won’t be too long before it’s back in business again.

[@1puzzledrobot]

My college theatre ghost liked to hang out in the horseshoe theatre. He liked to sit in the front row during rehearsals and late at night he’d move to the costume shop and make noise in the racks of clothes.

[@aidanwilson6035]

What an amazing story , very spooky , looks like the ghost of Albert has affected the picture quality of the video !.

[@ClanBroonford]

Yeah. The camera is HD but did not film As clearly as normal. It was quite dark in some areas.

[@grandma1112]

I worked in the Edinburgh playhouse 3 times. The first time. I got lots of my Family jobs there. I served meals. I gave UB40 band guy his dinner which was meat and he shouted at me saying he was a vegetarian. I was 13. I started crying saying I did not know. Later that day and ask UB40. They where rehearsing and the fire curtain on stage went on fire. We where all evacuated. It was supposed to stop fires. It was from part of the equipment. Then my Aunt saw a guy with ginger hair in a window. The doors unlocked themselves I read in the book I read everyday I went in, first of all to see what the Security guard had come across. Scary. Anyway last time I left was someone whistled right into my ear really loud. I turned to look and noone was there so I ran down to see who was working. It was just 3 of us. Not in kitchen where I was. So I left my job for the last time. My Family had also left by this time. Due to it being haunted. It was a fab job that I would still have but far too much activity every day and night. Recorded in a book at front desk. I swear on my life.

[@trishbeckenham]

I met a maid in the kitchen area of Loch Leven Castle. She grabbed my arm with both hands and looked in my face. When I realized I was looking at someone she disappeared. She felt extremely sad. 😪

[@wayneblanchard97]

Nothing to do with any ghosts, but in the summer of 1975, the rock band I was in spent some weeks rehearsing in the Playhouse. At the time it was shut down and all the dressing rooms down in the back of the building, which is where we rehearsed, were being stripped out, right back to the brick walls. One day we set up on the stage. On that occasion the owner popped in and we had a chat. He was upset that City Council had denied his application to demolish the Playhouse and replace it with a hi-rise block of offices. We suggested he bring in bands, giving him the names of managers for the band Yes, and for Tom Jones and Englebert Humperdinck. Thankfully he took note, and soon after everyone who was anyone was playing that venue. (I saw Genesis, Nils Lofgrin (now w/Springsteen) with Tom Petty as opener, and Jackson Browne.) By the late 70s there was also a small club upstairs where the likes of a very young Simple Minds played. It is hard to imagine Edinburgh without the Playhouse. But had the owner had his way, that would be the case.

[@sandrabaker9326]

I saw many great bands at the Playhouse during the '70s. The building always had a great atmosphere but unfortunately I never bumped into Albert!

[@beckyschroeder1248]

I'm glad I didn't read any comments first! Great scare Tony!

[@beckybaur7064]

Ooh! So creepy!

[@jeffreyhebert5604]

I was always told I was Irish however my sister found out we were Scottish. Crazy Right

[@williamf4544]

Well it could be you do have Irish blood in you - majority of folk in the central belt especially in the Glasgow area came from Irish folk that moved to Scotland - im Scottish but have Irish blood in me from both my mother and fathers side of the family

[@MAINER4779]

With DNA testing being available to everyone these days, a lot of folks are finding their ancestry is not quite what they thought! I was adopted, but my family had me as a foster child before adopting me, so knew my birth name. I was always told I was Dutch. After finding my birth family in 2017, I did a DNA test & discovered I was in fact 73% British, 9% Scottish, 5% Irish, etc. Turned out I wasn't even related to my "birth father"! Discovering your roots can be quite a life changing adventure!