Spooky Experiences & Visitor Listings
Find ghost walks, dark-history tours, haunted attractions, museums, cemeteries, historic houses and other spooky things to do across the UK and Ireland. This is the central database used by the Spooky Isles regional sites.
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Arnos Vale Cemetery: Morbid Curiosity Tour
A guided walk through Bristol’s Victorian cemetery focusing on murder, disease, hangings, unusual deaths and burial history.
Aston Hall
Visit Birmingham’s great Jacobean mansion, a building with a violent Civil War past and a long reputation for ghost stories.
Barbican After Dark Ghost Tours
An after-dark Barbican tour exploring Roman remains, plague pits and ghost stories reported around the complex.
Birmingham Back to Backs
Tour Birmingham’s last surviving court of back-to-back houses and step into the cramped homes and workshops of past residents.
Birmingham’s Dark Side Walking Tour
A 1 hour 45 minute walking tour exploring murders, executions, riots and other grim episodes from Birmingham’s past.
Bodmin Jail
Explore Cornwall’s historic prison through immersive exhibitions, original cells and guided dark-history experiences.
Bram Stoker’s Dracula Experience
A Whitby attraction using sets, effects and live elements to tell the Dracula story and the novel’s connections with the town.
Britannia Panopticon Music Hall
Visit the world’s oldest surviving music hall, an extraordinary Glasgow venue with show-business history and ghostly folklore.
Brompton Cemetery Guided Tours
Regular guided walks through one of London’s great Victorian garden cemeteries, with occasional special-interest and catacomb tours.
Cardiff Castle
Explore Cardiff’s medieval and Victorian castle, from Roman walls and the Norman keep to richly decorated Gothic interiors.
Charlton House Ghost Hunt
A late-night paranormal investigation at historic Charlton House in Greenwich.
Chetham’s Library Guided Tours
Explore Manchester’s medieval library on a guided tour covering Dr Dee, historic collections and the alcove used by Marx and Engels.
Chislehurst Caves
Descend into miles of hand-cut chalk tunnels beneath Kent on a lamp-lit guided tour.
City of Caves, Nottingham
Explore Nottingham’s remarkable sandstone cave network, including medieval workings, a tannery and wartime shelter spaces.
Colchester Castle
Explore Roman Colchester and the Norman castle, including museum galleries and tours into the castle’s historic vaults.
Conwy Castle
Walk the towers and walls of one of Wales’s great medieval fortresses, overlooking the walled town and Conwy estuary.
Cork City Gaol
Explore Cork’s imposing former city prison, with restored cells, exhibitions and guided tours covering crime and punishment.
Crumlin Road Gaol Visitor Experience
Walk through Belfast’s former prison, including cells, the underground tunnel, execution history and C-Wing.
Dark History and Haunted Tours of the Queen’s House
An after-hours guided tour of the Queen’s House revealing dark history, tragedy, mystery and stories of unexplained encounters.
DoDublin Ghostbus
Dublin’s theatrical Ghostbus mixes dark history, folklore and horror on an evening journey through the capital.
Flecky Bennett’s Chorlton Ghost Walk
A darkly comic ghost walk through old Chorlton, with tales of strange rituals, a serial killer and the Corpse Gate.
Flecky Bennett’s Manchester Ghost Walk
A 75-minute evening ghost walk through Castlefield and the canals, mixing local history with Manchester ghost stories.
Flecky Bennett’s Ordsall Hall Experience
An after-hours theatrical ghost experience inside historic Ordsall Hall, featuring the White Lady, haunted rooms and local legends.
Fright on the Thames 2026
An evening Thames ghost-story cruise with actors and tales of murder, ghosts and haunted bridges.
Ghost Walk of The Lanes
A long-running evening ghost walk through Brighton’s historic Lanes, using narrow streets, old buildings and local supernatural tales.
Ghosts of Temple Newsam Tour
A seasonal ghost tour through Temple Newsam House, including tales of the Blue Lady and other reported hauntings.
Glasgow Necropolis Guided Tours
Explore Glasgow’s vast Victorian cemetery on a guided walk through monuments, mausoleums and the stories of those buried there.
Halloween at Kew 2026
An illuminated Halloween trail through Kew Gardens with performers, creatures and evening scares.
Halloween at the Tower of London 2026
A family Halloween programme at the Tower of London drawing on its prisoners, executions and ghost stories.
Haunted and Hidden Bristol Tour
An evening walking tour through Bristol’s old streets, haunted buildings and darker local stories.
Hidden London Tours
Go behind the scenes of London’s transport network to explore disused stations, lost tunnels, wartime shelters and secret spaces.
Highgate Cemetery
Explore one of Britain’s most famous cemeteries, known for its Gothic landscape, Victorian monuments, famous burials and supernatural folklore.
Jack the Ripper Museum
A Whitechapel museum devoted to the 1888 murders, with recreated scenes, artefacts, documents and a daily walking tour.
Jamaica Inn Smuggling & Du Maurier Museums
Visit the famous Bodmin Moor inn and its museums devoted to Cornish smuggling and Daphne du Maurier.
Kensal Green Cemetery Guided Tours
Sunday tours of one of London’s Magnificent Seven cemeteries, covering its architecture, history and famous — and infamous — residents.
Key Hill & Warstone Lane Cemetery Guided Tours
Guided history walks through Birmingham’s historic Jewellery Quarter cemeteries, covering notable burials, monuments and hidden stories.
Kilmainham Gaol
Tour one of Ireland’s most important former prisons and hear the stories of inmates, executions and political history within its cells.
Knebworth House
Tour the Gothic-looking Hertfordshire country house that has been home to the Lytton family for more than 500 years.
Lancaster Castle Guided Tours
Explore Lancaster Castle’s courts, prison spaces and darker history, including the Lancashire Witches and public executions.
Lantern Ghost Tours London
Small-group London ghost and dark-history tours including haunted pubs and paranormal-themed routes.
Leeds Ghost Tour
A theatrical evening walk around central Leeds, mixing grisly history, witches, haunted objects and local ghost stories.
Leicester Castle Great Hall Tours
Step inside Leicester Castle’s Great Hall and former courtroom on selected heritage open days and guided tours.
Leicester Guildhall
Visit one of Leicester’s oldest buildings, including historic rooms, Victorian police cells and stories of crime, punishment and ghosts.
London Walks: Haunted London
A guided evening ghost walk through the City of London, mixing hauntings, plague history and old streets.
Mercat Tours: Haunted Underground
Descend beneath Edinburgh’s Old Town into the Blair Street Underground Vaults for one of the city’s best-known ghost tours.
Moon, Magick & Mystery at Colchester Castle
A two-day supernatural event at Colchester Castle with talks, workshops, readings and after-hours paranormal investigations.
National Justice Museum
Explore Nottingham’s former courthouse, prison and police station through exhibitions on crime, punishment and justice.
Newcastle Castle
Explore the Castle Keep and Black Gate at the heart of Newcastle, with stories of imprisonment, conflict, executions and local legends.
Old Operating Theatre Museum & Herb Garret
Visit Europe’s oldest surviving surgical operating theatre, hidden in the attic of a 320-year-old church near London Bridge.
Preston Manor & Gardens
Visit Brighton’s historic Edwardian manor, famous for its ghost stories and the reportedly haunted Cleves Room.
Ruthin Gaol
Explore a Victorian prison in Denbighshire, from its cells and punishment regime to the condemned cell and execution history.
Samlesbury Hall Guided Tours
Tour the historic black-and-white Lancashire hall with guides who cover centuries of history, legends and ghost stories.
Shiverpool: Hope Street Shivers
A theatrical Liverpool ghost walk through the Georgian Quarter, ending around the atmospheric St James Cemetery and cathedral area.
Sir Christopher’s Halloween Bus Tours 2026
Halloween-themed open-top London sightseeing with ghost stories and theatrical commentary.
Spike Island
Take the ferry into Cork Harbour to explore a former monastery, fortress and prison known as Ireland’s Alcatraz.
St Albans Ghosts and Ghouls Walk
A seasonal guided walk through historic St Albans, telling stories of ghosts, strange deaths and local supernatural legends.
St Fagans Ghost Tours
After-dark ghost tours through St Fagans National Museum of History, led by Dark Wales Tours.
Stockport Air Raid Shelters
Explore the network of sandstone tunnels beneath Stockport and discover how thousands sheltered underground during the Second World War.
The Clink Prison Museum
Explore the site of one of England’s oldest prisons, with stories of punishment, torture and life in medieval Bankside.
The Coffin Works
Step inside a preserved Victorian coffin-furniture factory in Birmingham’s Jewellery Quarter, complete with original machinery and stock.
The Ghost Bus Tours: London
A theatrical comedy-horror sightseeing tour through central London aboard a vintage Routemaster.
The London Dungeon
An immersive walk-through attraction bringing 1,000 years of London’s darkest history to life with actors, sets, effects and a ride.
The Original Ghost Walk of York
York’s original nightly ghost walk, telling supernatural stories among the city’s medieval streets and riverside landmarks.
The Original Jack the Ripper Murders Tour
A long-running East End crime-history walk focused on the Whitechapel murders and Victorian London.
The Original Stockport Ghost Walk
A two-hour ghost walk through Stockport’s historic centre, with haunted taverns, dungeons, devils and darker local stories.
The Real Mary King’s Close
Go beneath Edinburgh’s Royal Mile to explore preserved streets and rooms hidden beneath the modern city.
The Shell Grotto, Margate
Enter a mysterious underground passage decorated with millions of shells arranged in strange symbols and patterns.
The York Dungeon
An immersive dark-history attraction using actors, sets and effects to bring some of York’s grimmest stories to life.
Titanic’s Dock Supernatural Ghost Hunt
A paranormal investigation experience at Titanic’s Dock and Pump-House in Belfast, including equipment and guided investigation.
Victoria Tunnel Tours
Walk beneath Newcastle through a preserved Victorian wagonway that later served as a Second World War air-raid shelter.
Viktor Wynd Museum of Curiosities
A tiny East London cabinet of curiosities packed with unusual natural-history specimens, art, oddities and macabre objects.
Warstone Lane & Key Hill Catacomb Tours
Special guided access to Birmingham’s hidden Victorian catacomb chambers and underground cemetery tunnels.
West Midlands Police Museum: The Lock-Up
Explore Birmingham’s Victorian police lock-up and discover two centuries of crime, punishment and policing history.
Whitby Abbey
Explore the dramatic Gothic ruins above Whitby, a place inseparable from the town’s Dracula associations and darker coastal atmosphere.
Williamson’s Tunnels
Explore the strange network of hand-built tunnels and chambers beneath Liverpool’s Edge Hill district.