With Halloween just around the corner, we’ve picked our favourite frightfully fun adult Halloween events but you’ll need to be quick to snap up a ticket to one of this horrifying nights out…
Scaresville, Long Melford, Suffolk
This terrifying trail through the woods, gardens and parkland of Kentwell Hall has firmly established itself as one of the most popular Halloween events in the country. In small groups you’ll move through the grounds in virtual darkness where live actors aim to scare. Last year the event completely sold out so be quick to book your ticket. Not for the faint hearted!
Price: £14 – £32.45
Kentwell Hall, Long Melford, Suffolk, CO10 9BA. Tel: 01787 310207
Hill of Horrors Night Time Zombie Tours, Essex
The zombie tour at Stansted Mountfitchet Castle is guaranteed to have you screaming and running for your life. The guide will lead you around a zombie infested danger zone, where live actors don’t hold back. Navigate the dark tunnels in which zombies lurk – it’s only for brave souls! This year a special adult only ‘Gore Night’ takes place on 31 October. Last year, we screamed and laughed our way through the terror, read our review at
www.eastlife.co.uk/article/eastlife-takes-on-zombie-apocalypse-at-mountfitchet-castle/
Price: Adult £19.95, very brave children (ages 13 +) £14.95. Gore night price £25
Mountfitchet Castle, Stansted Mountfitchet, Essex, CM24 8SP. Tel: 01279 813237
Voodoo Victoriana, Cambridge
Black Shuck Cambridge Tours are inviting guests to experience a Victorian séance on 30 and 31 October. A decadent 19th century parlour awaits your arrival, where you’ll be greeted by the servant of the house before sitting down to a séance in an attempt to contact the dead. The fully interactive, immersive theatrical experience will have you at the edge of your seat! Victorian dress is encouraged!
Price: £22
Landguard Fort Ghost Hunt, Felixstowe
What could be more thrilling than a real life ghost hunt? Experience paranormal investigation firsthand at the incredibly haunted Landguard Fort on 6 November. The overnight experience will include séances, Ouija boards, table rapping and more. It’s definitely one for the serious ghost hunters among you.
Price: £40
Halloween Ball, Aldeburgh
Dress in your most frightening outfit and join fellow monsters, witches and wizards at a Halloween Ball in the White Lion Hotel on Aldeburgh’s seafront on Saturday, 31 October.
Watch out for ghouls and ghosts as you sit down to a delicious four-course dinner in the Halloween themed James Cable room decorated with pumpkins galore; the hotel’s team will be unrecognisable in their scary costumes. Later dance into the night to the sounds of a live band. Price: £32. Market Cross Place, Aldeburgh, Suffolk IP15 5BJ. Tel: 01728 452720
Norfolk’s scariest attraction returns to Dinosaur Adventure for another year of scares and screams. Come face to face with your fears in five equally terrifying zones including Circus of Terrors and Mayhem Manor Hotel. It’s a great option for a Halloween family treat if you have teenagers that need entertaining.
Dinosaur Adventure, Lenwade, Norfolk, NR9 5JW. Tel: 01603 876310
Haunted pubs
If the tricks and treats of Halloween are not for you, and you fancy something a little subtler, try dining at one of the region’s many haunted pubs. The supposedly haunted 600-year-old Bell Inn, an Adnam’s pub, located in the Suffolk village of Walberswick, is thought to be haunted due to eerie shipwrecks of smuggling ships on this stretch of coastline. Locals in Walberswick have recorded sightings of a phantom dog and a ghostly fisherman sitting at a table in the bar.
The Bell in Thetford, is a 15th century coaching inn popular with paranormal investigators given the substantial amount of supernatural activity reported. Catch sight of Elizabeth Radcliffe, a landlady who was murdered in the 19th Century when she was pushed out of the window of Room 10, children playing in empty rooms, rattling keys in the night or even a hooded monk haunting this popular and charming historic hotel. Tasty pub food and comfortable rooms complete a memorable stay.
