23 Aug 2018
This Halloween isango! has curated a Spooktacular list of day-out experiences from across the globe. Ghosts, ghouls and supernatural delights can be found in New Orleans, London, Edinburgh, Paris and Rome.
Vampire Walking Stories, New Orleans
Home to the popular Vampire TV series The Originals, this two-hour night time walking tour through the spine-tingling streets of the most haunted city in the US will unveil the stories and history of the city's past. The tour takes in the old French Quarter, Jackson Square where you may spot a strange light or two, Beauregard-Keyes, as well as Urusline Convent where you may see a window randomly fly open or hear the moans and cries from Lalaurie Mansion. Priced from £17.85 per person.
Edinburgh Ghost Tour – For adults only
Discover the sinister side to Edinburgh with a journey through its subterranean chambers. The late-night tour will take in the infamous Blair Street Vaults, located underneath the city's famous Royal Mile, by candlelight. Formerly home to taverns, cobblers, tradesmen and the poorest citizens of Edinburgh, the infamous serial killing duo Burke and Hare are rumored to have hunted and stored their victims in the vaults. Priced from £13.00 per person.
Jack the Ripper Tour, London
By foot and coach, curious visitors to London will be taken back in time to explore the dark and sinister side of the city. Pass the most haunted house in London, hear the ghostly stories from Theatre Royal Drury Lane and the tale of Fleet Street's notorious barber. Visitors will also become detectives, forming their own theories about who Jack the Ripper might be from walking the streets of Whitechapel and hearing all about the victim's tales. Priced from £37 per person including a traditional British fish and chips supper.
Eerie Dublin, aka. The gravediggers ghost tour, Ireland
Those looking to be scared in Dublin will be transported back in time by professional actors who will tell the tales of the city's unfortunate souls. Travelling by double decker bus, scream-seekers will pass Dublin Castle and Christ Church for the first stop at St. Audeon's Trinity College – the plague house in the 15th century. The tour also takes in Kilmainham Jail, the final stop for prisoners before execution, Bully's Acre which was a graveyard for 1,000 years, as well as Kavanagh's pub – commonly known as The Gravediggers – which was a popular spot for body snatchers. Priced from £22.32 per person.
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