One thing that’ll have you shaking in your boots this Halloween is a silent disco known as The Silence of the Baths at one of the most historical buildings in Manchester, Victoria Baths. For the first time ever, Victoria Baths will bring you all the thrills of Halloween with a spooktacular silent disco, ‘The Silence of the Baths’, setting your heart racing and sending tingles running down your spine with a takeover by legendary Girls on Film plus special guests THT GRL (Not Bad For A Girl) and DJ MX WORLD. 10. Stop a ghostly menace on the Haunted Manchester tour Manchester’s largest virtual reality arcade, DNA VR, is giving guests the chance to live out their horror movie dreams (and nightmares!) with an array of horrifying and gruesome immersive virtual reality experiences. Visitors will find a wide-range of hair-raising virtual horror simulations to complete, such as navigating their way out of the Hospital Of Horror escape room, evading the supernatural in Manor Of Escape, or fighting off hordes of the undead in Arizona Sunshine, there is something for every horror-lover at DNA VR. 14. Watch an entertaining performance of 2.22 A Ghost Story at The Lowry Credit: The Lowry The library also houses another phantom clergyman, who has been seen searching the shelves for a book. This anxious spirit is thought to be one of the Carmelites who died unexpectedly and his soul is forever tied to his quest for knowledge. In Ancient Egypt they believed that if the mummy is destroyed then the statuette can act as an alternative vessel for the spirit. Maybe that is what is causing the movement.” It was around this time that the hauntings first began. It has a grim history and is well-known in paranormal circles for apparitions that wander the grounds and its the scene of numerous ghost stories.

I kept seeing people stood at the door. I fell asleep facing my wall because I was terrified of turning over.

The acts of one dastardly twosome have made it almost impossible for residents of Wardle Brooke Avenue to speak to somebody without the other party desperately reminding themselves, “don’t mention the murders”. In a move that the rail operator has assured customers is only a pre-emptive “temporary measure”, and one that has been owed to preparation for potential staff shortages, Avanti has confirmed that its timetable will be reduced in the run-up to Christmas– with changes set to impact Greater Manchester. Are you brave enough to board the “spooky” steam train? Once every ten years at Summerseat tunnel a portal opens to the dark past… but what evil beasties and nasty things await on the other side? Join the East Lancashire Railway in your best fancy dress this Halloween to find out. There will be ghoulish goodies galore, and you’ll meet monstrous new friends including a fang-tastically friendly vampire, a chatty Zombie, mad Dr Frankenburger, a snappy plant creature and more oddballs and curios. Also, don’t miss the all singing, all dancing “Skeletonettes” on the platform! 9. Dance the night away at a spooktacular silent disco at Victoria Baths Credit: Victoria Baths There have also been reports of the apparition of a crazed woman walking through the banquet hall and the battlements wielding an axe as she moves. Her ghost has also been seen outside the castle walls wandering the grounds. The analysis, conducted by BonusFinder, looked at a range of factors for the research, including the number of cemeteries, reported ghost sightings, haunted locations and the number of paranormal investigators. It also looked at the number of abandoned properties and houses over 100 years old, all in relation per 10,000 people.

Hear tales from guide Jonathan Schofield of world-famous opera singers returning from the dead, the devil seizing souls and the Manchester Ophelia who when drowned wouldn’t stay dead, in addition to the tragic tale of the lover who died of a broken heart following the gruesome execution of her sweetheart and how her anguished cries returned to haunt the city. The victim's mouth was stuffed with paper, and a red handkerchief was tied around the head to keep the paper in place. The teenager was later identified as 15-year-old Thomas Smith of Wood Street. A Grade-II listed manor house on the edge of Bolton, Smithills Hall has its fair share of spooky tales. There have been sightings of ghostly figures and reports of strange goings on with objects being moved and unexplained noises. We didn’t agree with their decision around high-speed rail, and east-west rail across the North, but as a result of that, they’ve increased some of our local capital so we’ve got some extra ability to do more. Read more: Wanting to comfort Webb, they followed her down the hall and into a room she had entered. The mother and daughter found that the weeping woman had disappeared entirely upon entering the room themselves.

Webb, along with her fiancé, died in the struggle for Wythenshawe Hall following the invasion of Cromwell’s men, and she is often heard sobbing throughout the home. This decision will see a significant reduction in levels of service between Manchester and London in the crucial period running up to Christmas, impacting on visitor numbers to the city and making it harder for people to get home to see their family. One is the ghostly figure of a man wearing a bowler hat, who appears to be impatiently waiting for someone at the bar, before he slowly disappears.

The hall was the home of the Barton family for 200 years from 1485. A reputed psychic once reported seeing a strange-looking man and woman in the great hall dressed in the 15th century clothing and the man is believed to have been the ghost of John Barton who died in the Battle of St Albans in the War of the Roses. Another ghost thought to reside in the hotel is that of a grey lady who wanders around the halls as if searching for something. This is thought to be the spirit of a woman frantically hunting for her missing baby - a spirit that occupied the building after some of the panelling used to build it was recycled from the nearby Haslington Hall. The luxurious Ruthin Castle Hotel is found in the historical grounds of the 13th century castellated fort - and reputed to be one of the most haunted in Wales. It changed hands several times over the years before eventually falling into disrepair.

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When her brother still hadn’t come upstairs 20 minutes later, she thought he may have been making food. By morning the child had died and the woman bore the teethmarks of the dog for the rest of her life. Haunted Manchester carry out some of the best and most intense ghost hunting events in the UK. We visit Manchester's most haunted locations, including town halls, castles, pubs and museums.

One of the city’s best boozers, that’s also haunted by a pretty active spirit that “customers have seen pint glasses levitate off the bar and fall into the glass-wash.” There’s even the odd story of the tax return paperwork getting filled in with BLOOD every year before April 1st. While Londoners were starting to adjust to life after the Ripper, the residents of Manchester were about to get their own serial killer. Just how many victims there were remains a mystery. And there’s no shortage of spine-chilling stories from across Greater Manchester. Among them are reports of Victorian ghosts, mysterious cloaked-horsemen and even glasses which float by themselves inside pubs.

Ghost tours at Ordsall Hall, just down the road from Manchester in Salford, can be a terrifying experience, known for the many sightings of the ‘ White Lady‘– most say she is the spirit of Lady Margaret Radclyffe who died, broken hearted, in 1599 after the death of her beloved brother Alexander. Sir John Radclyffe is said to inhabit the star chamber – the former Lord of the Manor is said to very keen on the ladies…