London Ghost Tours
This is the most haunted city on earth.
There are things going bump in the night all over this town. You don’t need to wait for Halloween to get that amusing scare. Pack your courage and experience the best ghost tours in London. Challenge your friends to come and join. Only the brave will dare.
Halloween Tours 2024
We Interrupt this programme with a Special Announcement: when Halloween Season rolls around we always lay on extra London ghost tours. The historic city of London comes to life with phantoms and spectres during Halloween, so let us take you through dark alleyways and hidden courtyards where haunted happenings will chill you to the core.
Ghosts of the Old City Halloween Special
The very street names – Aldersgate, Cloth Fair, Charterhouse, Threadneedle – take us far back. We’re alone… Or are we? For this is the hour when the She-Wolf of France glides through the churchyard, the hour when the dark figure on Newgate wall rattles his chains. We’re on their trail… Or are they shadowing us? This haunted London tour is sure to raise the hairs at the back of your neck.
You can join our top-rated tour guides in London in person for a Sunday (27 October 2024) afternoon (4 pm) and evening (7 pm); or Thursday, 31 October 2024 (7.30 pm) of paranormal activity and haunted places.
London Myths, Legends & Halloween Virtual Walk – Archaeology Rules OK!
“Tis the night—the night…Of the grave’s delight.”
“But we also do some serious archaeology – attend to the legend-archaeology ‘fit.'”
The Halloween Virtual Walk is guided by the distinguished former London Museum archaeologist Kevin Flude. It goes at 8 pm on Thursday, October 31. Click the link above to find out more and book. Anything else? Yes, it’s weather-proof. It’s a “London Halloween Walk” you do from the comfort of your sitting room. It’s a “transparent envelope” – you’re home on Halloween but you’re also in London; it’s October 31, 2024 but it’s also October 31st in the distant past.
Jack The Ripper Tour
We couldn’t have a Ghosts page without telling you about Jack The Ripper. The most famous serial killer in the world, he came out of the midnight shadows into London. Did what he had to do. And after “the autumn of terror” walked back into the night and into history. We take you there. What you’ll see and hear will “haunt” you for the rest of your life.
The Jack The Ripper Walking tour happens on the 31st of October. Indeed, it goes every single evening at 7.30 pm. (December 24th and December 25th excepted.) And there’s a Saturday matinee at 3 pm. The meeting point is at Tower Hill Underground station. And you’re spoiled for choice because there’s also Richard Walker’s VIP guaranteed Small Group Ripper Walk. And Ulrike’s Feminist Ripper Walk: Women of the Abyss – the Victims of Jack the Ripper.
London Walks Year-Round Ghost Tour
Ghosts of the Old City
The very street names – Aldersgate, Cloth Fair, Charterhouse, Threadneedle – take us far back. We’re alone… Or are we? For this is the spooky hour when the She-Wolf of France glides through the churchyard, the hour when the dark figure on Newgate wall rattles his chains. We’re on their trail… Or are they shadowing us? This haunted London, England walking tour is sure to raise the hairs at the back of your neck.
You can join our top-rated tour guides in London, year-round, in person for a Saturday evening (7.30 pm) of paranormal activity, ghost stories and haunted places.
Disastrous London
This guided tour isn’t about ghosts but it is as chilling as the others! The spot-on rubric for this tour would be the Dark Side of London, the Sinister London. London’s gruesome history. We will take you through central London’s historical alleyways, centuries-old architecture, the Tower of London and, yes, ahem, filthy street names.
This London history tour goes every Saturday at 2 pm from Barbican Tube Station. It’s also available as a virtual tour, accessible from anywhere in the world.
Pirates, Press-Gangs and Execution Dock
Find your sea legs and sail into the past! Beneath the eerie cry of the gulls and the immortal sails of ghost ships including the infamous Cutty Sark, we walk along the river from Dead Man’s Hole to Execution Dock, via ancient smugglers’ taverns where press-gangs dragged men off to sea.
Running on the third Saturday of each month beginning in April, this walk has stairs and cobbles, and starts at 2.30 pm with its meeting place at the Tower Hill Tram coffee stand with Dan.
Apparitions, Alleyways & Ale
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A sightseeing tour through the historic London’s West End parallel universe of ghouls and haunted houses. This London ghost walk will take you to the world’s most haunted theatre, to a plague pit with lit corpse candles above it and to a gloomy old palace. Maybe you will be one to see the evidence, a poltergeist, but so you know… “They” can touch you but you can’t touch them. No wonder this is considered one of the best ghost tours in Britain.
Chilling Tales from Beyond the Grave
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Come with us and we will take you to the haunted London, to the creepiest parts of London, in alleyways so narrow you can’t open an umbrella in them. If you hear footsteps up a deserted alleyway – or voices of persuasion that whisper in the darkness – or catch a glimpse of a hooded, staring transparent figure… Congratulations – you’ve just fed a haunting.
Gruesome London, Ghostly London
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Talking full-on medieval. Talking alleyways like hideaways. Talking places where things went south big time. Talking peeling back layers to reveal something else. Something – several somethings – seriously nasty. Talking torture and ‘bring out your dead” and the faint, sickly smell of rotting flesh. Talking murder and remnants and revenants and creepy churchyards and slurry in the night “filth” cart.
Ghosts, Gaslight & Guinness
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Buckingham Palace? The London Eye? Bah, humbug – let’s get real. This is the most haunted city on earth. There must be a thousand resident ghastly ghosts and/or weird, supernatural goings-on between London Bridge and the Houses of Parliament. This walk is necromancy in the dead centre – dead being the mot juste – of the city whose very mist is like a sigh from a graveyard. From a lunatic asylum to a haunted London pub to the First World War officer spattered with mud (near Trafalgar Square, he’s in the wrong place and at the wrong time). So if wayfaring to the rebecks of eternity is your thing, step this way…
Reviews
“The Ghost Walk Tour (with Adam) was great fun! It’s an informative and entertaining peek into some of London’s macabre history and folklore. Adam is a captivating storyteller and a personable walking host (he was very good with the tiny children of our group, too, who otherwise might have been a bit too scared by the gruesome tales); the time flew by! I also loved the Jack the Ripper tour (with Shaughan), which I took last year. A London Walks tour is now a staple in my semi-annual holiday to London.” – Barbara (Tripadvisor)
We did the ghost tour for my birthday and it was fantastic. The perfect mix of history, facts and great storytelling. They have covid secure measures in place which made us feel safer. Adam was an excellent tour guide! Couldn’t have asked for a better way to spend my birthday evening.” – Caitlin
Private tours
We run a ton of private walks. If you want a private Ghost Walk – or any other London Walk for that matter – it’s also eazy peazy. Just give Fiona or Noel a ring on 020 7624 3978 – or email us at [email protected] – and we’ll set it up for you and make it happen.
You go private you can have whichever walk you want whenever you want it – you don’t have to cleave to the public walks schedule. We’ll suit your convenience, tailor it to your requirements, make your own itinerary. You want it with pub stops, no problem. You want it longer – or shorter – no problem. You want it with special effects – no problem. You want it with a guide in costume – no problem. Well, you get the idea. And what’s perhaps most of all to the point, we’ll make certain the guide-group “fit” is well-nigh perfect.
Goes without saying that a private London Walk – with a world-class guide – makes a brilliant – and unusual – Christmas present or birthday gift for a partner, family member, friend or colleague.