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to North West Ghost Tours
Counties of Cheshire, Cumbria, Greater Manchester, Lancashire and Merseyside. It is the third-most-populated region in the United Kingdom, after the South East and Greater London. The largest settlements are Manchester and Liverpool.
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CHESHIRE
Chester Tours Company
An Eclectic group of 36 individuals, all professionally trained as Blue or Green Badge guides. The guild has been delighting Visitors and locals with tours for over 40 years and have over 700 years experience between them and have various other tours available
Steeped in 2000 years of history, and with hundreds of Ghost sightings, Chester can claim to be one of the most haunted cities in Britain. Our ghost tour guides will take you on a night-time journey around the eerie haunts of Chester’s mysterious and murky past, where you will hear spine-chilling tales of ghosts, ghouls and things that go bump in the night.
Overleigh Cemetery Tour (June to October)
Opened in 1850, It hosts some fascinating people and you can here to stories of up to 25 laid to rest there, inc a mother of 15 sets of twins, Edward VII mistress husband who went mad, A Japanese acrobat, who broke his neck and a man who made his own coffin out of matchsticks
CUMBRIA
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GREATER MANCHESTER
Manchester Ghost Walk Company
Flecky is described as the Ghost Walker Extraordinaire by Visit Manchester and with a completely unique style, he will entrance you with his dark humour and passion for his subject.
The Original Manchester Ghost Tour
Flecky Bennett and his award winning* Manchester Ghost Walk, a firm favourite with Mancunians, tourist and weirdos, since 2009. The gory story of “The Mummy Of Manchester” is the beginning , then with a ghost around every corner, then ending with the truly terrifying account about the summoning of the Devil himself, at Chethams Library.
The Saturday night Manchester Ghost Walk
Allow Flecky to welcome you onto his award winning Saturday Night Manchester Ghost Walk, a firm favourite with Mancunians, tourist and weirdos, since 2016. Join your ghost host Flecky Bennett for a stroll around the City Centre areas of Campfield, Castlefield and along the canal, with its horrible histories and haunted past and present.
Join Flecky Bennett for a performance in the “dirty old town” of Salford The first half will start inside the outdoor Amphitheater just over the water from Manchester. In the second half you will discover the Ghosts that haunt the River Irwell.
Join Flecky Bennett for a performance in the Manchester City Centre area of Ancoats, which has been voted one of the Worlds Coolest Neighbourhoods by Time Out Magazine!
Join Flecky Bennett for a performance in the oldest part of Didsbury Village.
You will listen to stories about ''The Gates of Hell"
"The Black Death" and "The Woman in Black who haunts The Old Parsonage" Bonnie Prince Charlie and the Jacobites and the amazing story of Monkey.
Join Flecky Bennett for a performance in the oldest parts of Altrincham.
You will listen to stories about:
Crime & Punishment & The Ghosts who haunt three different public houses.
The Deadly Penny Pie Man & Other horrible edibles.
Then it’s time to experience the award winning food and drink inside the market hall.
After your 30 minute interval, wander down the bravest street in the world.
Ending at the mortuary of sudden death! Mort Subite Bar
Join Flecky Bennett for a performance in the oldest part of Chorlton. The performance begins in the centre of Chorlton green with its strange rituals and blood sports. Then have a 30 minute pub/interval in the wonderful Horse & Jockey (drinks not included)
The second half is all about a Serial Killer and the ghosts of Chorlton as you walk through the Corpse Gate and along the Corpse Road.
Join Flecky Bennett for a performance in the oldest part of Stockport. Allow Flecky to welcome you onto his award winning Ghost Walk,a firm favourite with Locals, tourist and weirdos, since 2018, and the “Winner” of 2022 Made in Stockport Award
The performance starts outside the wonderful Plaza Theatre, Follow Flecky up the red sandstone cliff, he will guide you. Up the steps and down to the depths of Stockport Old Town.
Jonathon Scofield Tours
Jonathan Schofield has been a registered Blue Badge Guide since 1996 and is the Editor-at-Large of Manchester Confidential, the city’s largest independent magazine. He is also the Editor of Manchester Books Limited and has written several books on the North West. He is a regular broadcaster on local and national radio. He has over 90 different tours available, historical, mystical and paranormal, so if the one below, doesn't suit, check out the others he has. there's bound to be one of interest.
Lost Graveyards and the Dead
Central Manchester is riddled with hidden graveyards and not so hidden graveyards. This tour takes an entertaining, thought-provoking and memorable trawl through the sites, plots and memorials dedicated to those that lie beneath. The tour will go inside and outside buildings. it will be very revealing, uncovering - so to speak - unexpected areas of the city centre and the rich characters who have populated them
LANCASHIRE
Supernatural Events
Blackpool-based Supernatural Events was originally set up on Halloween 2006 for a one-off Ghost Tour at Blackpool's Grand Theatre to help raise funds for the theatre’s restoration.
Other paranormal events advertised on their website but some tours are currently unavailable, so check back regular.
Blackpool Ghost Walk (& "Victorian Séance" Experience)
Join The Victorian Ghost Hunter (Haunted Blackpool author Stephen Mercer) on a Blackpool Ghost Walk
as he guides you to some of Blackpool's most famous and most haunted, locations to hear of the spectres, the phantoms, the ghosts.
BACK FOR 2023! Blackpool Heritage Tram Tours and Supernatural Events present the UK's ONLY Ghost Tram tour.
Join The Victorian Ghost Hunter (Haunted Blackpool author Stephen Mercer), onboard The Ghost Tram and hear some NEW tales of the ghosts of the Fylde Coast along with a few old favourites!
Haunting Nights
The UK’s Fastest Growing Ghost Adventure Company. Specialising in Ghost Hunts & Interactive Ghost Walks at the Most Haunted Paranormal Hotspots across the UK.
Interactive Ghost Walk includes different methods of ghost hunting and history talk.
The Pendle Witches Interactive Ghost Walks Pendle Hill Chapter 1
Join Haunting Nights on a Ghost Walk looking for the ghost of the witches of Pendle Hill. Take you closer than ever before to the story of the witches and you will walk in their very footsteps, while using different ghost hunting techniques.
The Trial and Execution Of The Pendle Witches Interactive Ghost Walks, The Final Chapter Lancaster
Join Haunting Nights on this very special event as we bring you The Pendle Witches Ghost Walks The Final Chapter. As we leave Pendle Hill, Haunting Nights head for Lancaster, as we take you on Ghost Walks to where the Pendle Witches were incarcerated, tried and finally executed. The Pendle Witches Final Chapter. The Trial and Execution Ghost Walks will take you to their place of incarceration, to the home of the person responsible for their interrogation and to the very location they were held on the eve of their execution, from here we will take the short drive in convoy to Gallows Hill on the moor above the city of Lancaster. The actual location of the execution of the infamous Pendle Witches
Hoghton Tower is a fortified manor house two-thirds of a mile east of the village of Hoghton, Lancashire, England, and standing on a hilltop site on the highest point in the area. It takes its name from the de Hoghton family, its historical owners since at least the 12th century.
Ghost Tours
Look out for Ghost Tours – a not to be missed opportunity to sneak around one of England’s most haunted locations and hear the numerous ghost stories and legends linked to Hoghton Tower. Our popular Themed Tours have limited availability so be sure to book your spaces in advance. Keep an eye on our events calendar for our next Themed Tour!
MERSEYSIDE
Shiverpool Company
True Spirits of the City with famous street theatre shows for large and small audiences, tailored tour immersive experiences for schools and colleges, universities and corporate audiences, we also run a schedule of shows open to all, from families to tourists from all over the world.
Take your seats for a non-stop theatrical bus tour onboard an original Route-master vintage bus. Passengers can settle in and enjoy a comedy horror road-trip that mixes a dose of history, lashings of laughter, and an intoxicating elixir of the strange and unexplained.
Liverpool’s most famous historic ghost walk! - Theatrical spirited storytelling and immersive entertainment. Embrace the mystery of the history of Liverpool, the strange but true, expect the unexpected. Prepare to unplug, tune-in for a fun, fact-filled, nicely chilled 90 minute show.
Explore the original seven streets of Liverpool and its ghostly past.
Journey beneath the streets, exclusive to Shiverpool– into a former city morgue visited by Herman Melville himself The Dead House.
Listen to the tales of slavery, plague, cholera and the filthy slums that so many poor souls found to be their final resting place.
Haunting Nights
The UK’s Fastest Growing Ghost Adventure Company. Specialising in Ghost Hunts & Interactive Ghost Walks at the Most Haunted Paranormal Hotspots across the UK.
Interactive Ghost Walk includes different methods of ghost hunting and history talk.
Liverpool Interactive Ghost Walk
St Jame’s cemetery was closed in 1936 after nearly 58,000 burials and quickly fell into a state of disrepair it is an urban park behind the Liverpool Cathedral that is below ground level ,and designated a Grade I Historic Park by English Heritage. The cemetery is said to be haunted by dozens of ghosts, including the limping spectre of William Huskisson MP who is seen to leave his grand mausoleum where his remains were laid to rest in 1830 after he was run over by George Stephenson’s Rocket locomotive.
YORKSHIRE
Yorkshire area can be found in Yorkshire & Humber & North East Region