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GhostWalksHull Hulls premier ghost walk, guided ghost walks - where you participate www.ghostwalkshull.co.uk

ghostwalkshull.co.uk Tour starts at various locations in Kingston Upon Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire. Check website for details

There are now FOUR very different ghost walks, each with differing subjects and activities. Each involve some murder, mystery, poltergeist activity and a dark entity that will follow you. On the Hull Ghost walk, Exorcist and TV Medium Ralph Keeton will explain the back

ground of haunting's STILL taking place today in many of the buildings and surrounding areas. The haunting's taking place have been talked about and documented using the public's own recorded sightings, backed up by paranormal investigators, and, Ralph's own meetings with the ghostly spirits living with us today. Hull old town is today a picturesque town but but do not be fooled by this once active shipping and trading town. As one of the most important in the UK in the late 12th to 19th Centuries it takes a turn for the worst in many periods. From aspects of the tour it is hard to imagine the days of old and the conditions once lived in. Many vagabonds, scoundrels, murderers and witch's survived in and around this bustling town during these periods. The town now appears to be a sleepy hollow of its former self, but as night draws in the atmosphere changes dramatically. Of course don't expect any brightly light places, for those scarey moments you'll be taken down dark alleys, stand next to ghostly apparitions, hear strange noises, see unusual sights and walk where dead bodies were once left to deteriorate.

Are you like me, are you more wary on Friday 13th. For it has its own superstitions. Friday the 13th The Unlucky day to ...
13/03/2026

Are you like me, are you more wary on Friday 13th. For it has its own superstitions.

Friday the 13th The Unlucky day to yawn, letting in eveil.

Friday the 13th is feared because it combines two long‑standing anxieties:

Traditionally linked with executions, misfortune, and in Christian tradition, the day of the Crucifixion.

And it is considered irregular and disruptive, breaking the “completeness” of 12 (12 months, 12 apostles, 12 zodiac signs).

Together, they form a date many believe invites: Sudden accidents, Financial loss, Broken mirrors (seven years’ bad luck), Black cats crossing one’s path, Walking under ladders, Storms and ill omens.

They say Friday the 13th does not pass unnoticed by the Oldest home in the town.

Local whispers claim that on Friday the 13th: A cold wind moves through your rooms with no open windows. The ravens fall silent at dusk. Footsteps echo in the corridors when no one walks there.
Some say the spirits of warriors slain in conflicts walk the corridors.

On such nights, shadows appear to move against the moonlight.

And if the clock strikes thirteen? You do not look up.

The Rivers nearby can be deceptively calm. Old superstition says rivers are thin places where the living and dead draw close.

If the river runs unusually dark on a Friday the 13th, someone in the neighbourhood will suffer loss before the next full moon.

A reflected moon that appears broken in the water foretells betrayal.

Children were warned: “Never speak your name aloud beside the river on the thirteenth.” Because something might answer.

My mother used to cover up all the mirros in the home for fear of seeing someone behind her, after midday they were taken off.

and finally they are superstitions aren't they?

Are you superstitious?

The Black Dog of Hull’s Old TownLong before Hull’s Old Town became a place of quiet cobbles and heritage façades, people...
25/02/2026

The Black Dog of Hull’s Old Town
Long before Hull’s Old Town became a place of quiet cobbles and heritage façades, people spoke of something that walked its edges after dark. They called it the Black Dog.

Not a stray. Not a pet. Not anything that belonged to the living.

It is said to appear along High Street and the narrow lanes that lean toward the Humber, especially when the air is wet and the lamps throw more shadow than light. Witnesses rarely see it fully at first. They hear it.

A slow, deliberate padding of heavy paws on stone.

Then breathing deep, steady, far too close.

Those who turn too quickly see nothing. Those who turn slowly sometimes glimpse it at the edge of vision: a large hound, blacker than the night around it, fur swallowing light, eyes reflecting a dull ember-red like coal in a dying grate.

Yorkshire folklore has long warned of such creatures as the Barguest, seen as a death‑omen that walks boundary places. And Hull, with its lost walls, its docks, and its history of sudden endings, is nothing if not a boundary.

Old dock workers once believed the Black Dog followed men who would not see another Christmas. It did not attack. It did not snarl. It simply walked behind them, matching pace. If the footsteps stopped, it stopped. If the man ran, it did not chase.

It did not need to.

There are stories of it standing outside public houses on winter nights, watching men argue. Stories of it sitting silently near Hull Minster after funerals. One account from the 1960s described by Stevie from Liverpool, States "As a woman walking home alone along Silver Street, I felt a presence at my side. I assumed it was a neighbour’s dog until I reached my door and Then I realised it had never heard a collar, and I never felt a brush of its fur. When I looked down, the space beside me was empty, but the pavement was wet with pawprints that faded as I watched."

Some claim the Black Dog protects the Old Town, keeping worse things away from its ancient streets. Others insist it marks the condemned.

What almost every account agrees on is this:

If you see the Black Dog in Hull’s Old Town, you will not see it twice.

Because the second time is not for you.

Hear more on this story and more, Try our ghost walks, book your tour

13/02/2026

What an fantastic night. A wonderful corporate group of ladies braved the weather and we walked the old town, passing on stories, participating in sensing, listening for the walking ghost and feeling the special ghost who visits to help you. Thank you so much our 3 hour walk was worth it. I could have chatted and swapped stories all night. Thank you to the Solicitors who arranged the night.

Across the UK, Valentine’s Day has long carried a darker reputation in local lore, shaped by a scatter of real crimes an...
11/02/2026

Across the UK, Valentine’s Day has long carried a darker reputation in local lore, shaped by a scatter of real crimes and a far greater number of whispered tales. Lovers’ lanes, train platforms, and candlelit pubs became the settings for stories of betrayal turned fatal, repeated each February until romance and violence seemed entwined. Newspapers once sensationalised these “Valentine’s murders,” portraying them as proof that passion, when denied, curdles into something dangerous. Over time, the cases blurred into a single cautionary myth: love, if mocked or abandoned, demands a reckoning.

From this climate of fear and fascination emerged the legend of the Jilted Valentine Bride. She was said to have waited in white on a frosted morning, bouquet wilting in her hands, until the message came that her groom would never arrive. Driven by the examples she had read and heard of lovers who struck back at fate, she sought out the man who abandoned her and answered humiliation with murder. Whether she truly lived or was shaped from headlines and hearsay no longer matters; the story took on a life of its own.

Today, witnesses claim her blood-soaked figure drifts along the high street after dusk, veil trailing like mist. Shop windows flicker in her passing, and the scent of wilted roses lingers in the cold air. She pauses beside the living, leans close, and whispers of promises broken and hearts turned to weapons, reminding all who hear her that love’s shadow can be just as enduring as love itself.

Two witnesses have seen at different times in the year of 2016 and 2020, one is quoted as saying "This lady drift by whispering to herself, cursing anyone who listened". Bad luck befell both with hours. This valentine you need to hold your nerve.

A reportedly true story in 1903 about a Santa Claus figure seen on the Hull’s High Street.No one remembers when Santa fi...
20/12/2025

A reportedly true story in 1903 about a Santa Claus figure seen on the Hull’s High Street.

No one remembers when Santa first appeared on High Street.
Only that he was already there.

He stood beneath the broken glow of the streetlamps, red suit dulled to the colour of old blood, beard stiff with frost. Not ringing a bell.

Not smiling. Just watching the empty buildings where Christmas candles once flickered before the abandonment of them, before the docks fell silent, before the city learned to survive darkness.
People said he was a charity Santa at first.

Someone collecting coins. Someone harmless.

Then came the rules.

If you saw him, you did not acknowledge him.

If he spoke, you did not answer.
And if he called you by name, you ran.

The first to vanish was a dock worker, late home on Christmas Eve.

Witnesses said he laughed when he saw Santa standing alone outside an abandoned doorway.

“Bit late for presents,” he joked.
Santa lifted his head.
The man’s laughter stopped.

They found his boots two days later near the Coffee House. Still warm. Nothing else.

After that, people noticed things.

Santa’s sack never sagged.
His boots left no prints, even in the frost or snow. And his eyes, those who dared glance at them swore they were not eyes at all, but dark hollows, like windows into a house where no fire burned.

Children were warned not to look at him. Parents pulled them close. But High Street remembers everything, and Christmas remembers more.

On Christmas night, just before midnight, Santa began to move.
Not walking. Gliding.

Door to door. Window to window.

Stopping outside buildings where arguments had happened. Where drink had turned to violence. Where someone had gone hungry while others feasted.

People heard scratching at their doors. A soft, patient sound. Like fingernails on wood.

Those who opened never screamed.
They were simply… gone.

One woman swore she heard Santa whisper as he passed her window:
“Still awake. Still guilty.”
By dawn, the suit was darker. Heavier.
And the sack, finally full.

Now, every Christmas on High Street, when the lights dim and the fog creeps in from the Humber, people swear they see him again. Standing exactly where the street narrows.

Just seemingly waiting.
Not for children.
For adults.

For those who believe they deserve nothing.
And if you hear bells behind you on High Street at Christmas, remember:
Santa only brings gifts
to those who have already been judged.

22/12/2024

AMAZING response to Xmas Ghost walks
23 and 24 Private Corporate booking made. Sold out.

Our Special for 31 December is also booked out, thanks to our Motorsport sponsors for the night, in a very special Location in HULL.

27 partly booked
28, 29 and 30 all available

Thank you

We are back. Xmas walks now available. December 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27 all available
10/12/2024

We are back. Xmas walks now available. December 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 26, 27 all available

Halloween ghost walks now available
03/10/2024

Halloween ghost walks now available

Just to let you know to everyone asking. I am not the Keaton appearing in this film. Though I wish I was.
04/09/2024

Just to let you know to everyone asking. I am not the Keaton appearing in this film. Though I wish I was.

29/06/2024

Fantastic to chat with some Jack the Ripper experts in London. We confirmed some special items we have linked to an unusual suspect on an unusual boat travelling from Hull.

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Scale Lane (Next To Lion And Key)
Kingston Upon Hull
HU11QE

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