Halloween Ghost Walks are the perfect opportunity to start your Halloween celebrations. England is very old and has lots of history, some of which is a very gruesome history. So naturally, with this gruesome history are some ghostly secrets and ghost stories about how people met a terrible end under strange circumstances. When could be a better time to go on a ghost walk and visit the places when people have seen ghosts and apparitions thank on Halloween – the night of the dead?

Ghost walks are usually confined to a single area where there is a collection of places to visit with ghostly interest and they tend to take place during the autumn when the light is dim earlier in the evening to add to the dramatic effect. A guide and other people who want to join in the ghost walk meet up at a particular meeting place, which are usually advertised on a board at the meeting point, but you can also find information about ghost walks near you on the internet or in your local tourist information. Everyone congregates at the time of the meet and the guide make themselves know, and collects payment for the walk. You them follow the guide, and they talk about building and ghosts that are often seen at the sites, and the gruesome history and the fate of the person in life. A masterful storyteller will give a dramatic presentation and will breathe life into the history that surrounds you, and whose enthusiasm for his subject will prove bewitching and contagious.

Ghosts are usually trapped due to trauma or unfinished business here on earth. By being attached to people, things or events that occurred in the past they cannot cross over. It is the story of how souls are caught between life and death that are told on ghost walks.

Ghost walks and tours make the perfect activity to further investigate the ins and outs of a city because many of the atmospheric ghost walks take you through the historic streets. For example, with a long history dating back to 1879, the Blackpool Illuminations are considered to be the greatest free light show on earth. However, would you have visited the magnificent Dockyard buildings, to discover their history and ghostly secrets? And the Ghost Walks of Bath will take you too famous and lesser known places noted for their strange events. York claims to be the Spookiest City, so much so that the York tourism bureau, said that the city’s compact centre, within the medieval

walls, now had five different ghost walks, four "ghost entertainments" and a ghost cruise along the river Ouse.

If you are in the mood to be totally terrified this Halloween, go on a ghost walk through some of the spookiest alleys and backstreets historical England. Ghost walks can be incredibly fun, scary and exhilarating all at once. Even the none-believers can be affected by the atmosphere. But remember: keep an open mind and a sharp eye out for real spirits.