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YOU would have thought they would have seen it coming. But participants in this year's Mary King's Ghost Festival, including psychics, have been left stunned after organisers decided to pull the plug on the event just two months before it was due to take place.
The Ghost Fest, which has been run by The Real Mary King's Close since 2004 and was scheduled to be held between March 24 and 27, partners up with outside organisations to run events such as paranormal investigations at various locations throughout the city.
Although Mary King's Close marketing manager Lisa Robshaw said it had not ruled out a 2012 Ghost Fest, the reasons for its unexpected departure appeared shrouded in secrecy.
"Although the festival has been hugely successful to date, we felt that we need to continue to evolve as a visitor attraction and begin to focus our attention on other things," she said.
A spokesman confirmed that last year partner organisations did better out of the festival than the host company, which only manages to attract between 30 and 40 people to its Ghost Fest events each year. Although the number of festival participants has remained stable for the past three years, its total duration was scaled back from ten days to four last year.
Festival regular Dr Ciaran O'Keeffe, from the Most Haunted television series, carries out what he describes as ghost investigations with a scientific twist.
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