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The Sheffield culture guide written by in-the-know locals

Join Strange Britain and experience the stranger side of Sheffield in a night of ghost stories, local legends, and other strange tales.

Led by local author Adrian Finney, the Strange Sheffield Ghost Walk is back with a bumper Halloween season. Adrian will be adding extra stories to the two regular walks in the city centre and Graves Park, plus family-friendly options.

The city centre walk is a circular route starting and ending on Tudor Square at the side of Sheffield Central Library. It's a little over a mile long, and is wheelchair/mobility scooter accessible. It will take you everywhere from the venue of an old Victorian autopsy theatre to sites of ghostly encounters, and the unlikely origin of a very Sheffield swear word.

The Graves Park walk, meanwhile, starts and ends outside St James Church at Norton. It's also about a mile long, and wheelchair/mobility scooter accessible. Norton and the Graves Park area have more than their fair share of ghosts and legends – from huge devil dogs to ghostly carriages plus Bunting Nook, a road widely considered to be one of the most haunted in England.

There’ll be talk of violent deaths, historical suicides, scary ghosts, so please book at your own discretion.

Strange Sheffield Halloween Specials:
14 October, 8pm – City Centre

21 October, 8pm – Graves Park

28 October, 4pm – City Centre Family Friendly Halloween Special – free tickets for under-14s (accompanied by an adult)

28 October, 8pm – City Centre Extra Gory Halloween Special – a little longer than usual walks, with particularly gruesome stories of Sheffield past

30 October, 4pm – Graves Park Family Friendly Halloween Special – free tickets for under-14s (accompanied by an adult)

30 October, 8pm – Graves Park Extra Spooky Halloween Special – a little longer than usual walks, with particularly gruesome stories of Sheffield past

31 October, 8pm – City Centre Halloween Special – this one will go all out with the most grisly stories from the city's dark history

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