Manchester Mystery: Uncover Dark Secrets

35 Ratings

Greater Manchester

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Embark on a thrilling outdoor escape game in haunted Manchester. Solve clues on your smartphone to uncover the city’s most terrifying locations and their chilling stories.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes

Cancellation: 24 hours

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Highlights

Albert Hall - Hello, traveller! Here comes your journey in Manchester, paved with many secrets and mysteries! Get ready for your first destination: the Albert Hall. Initially built with religious purposes, Albert Hall decided that it likes to have fun, so the grand and ornate chapel has been restored into a stunning music hall.
While you are on the…

What's Included

Audio stories
Self-guided, open air, avoid crowds
Play anytime after booking, no rescheduling
Groups larger than 15 people, make multiple bookings
Start, take a break, continue at your own pace

What's Not Included

A physical tour guide

Additional Information

Delve into Manchester’s most mysterious secrets with this thrilling self-guided walking adventure that reveals the tale of the Manchester Pusher.
Utilize your smartphone to follow spine-tingling clues that guide you through haunted streets, dimly lit canals, and historic sites where the echoes of unsolved mysteries still resonate.
Unlock chilling true…

Location

36-38 Young St

Young Street

• Go opposite the Old Granada Studios and Bauhaus (game starting point). • Bring a charged phone. • Open the Questo app and follow the instructions. • You must have downloaded the app and created an account first, using the same email you made the purchase with.

Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings

3.8

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Anne_k

Jun 24, 2022

Self directed ghost route - Fun experience, easy to use on phone clues were not too difficult but needed thinking in a good way , can do it at your own pace ,got to walk around the city enjoying the scenery around the way

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936angelae

Mar 15, 2026

Enjoyable quest but take a torch! - An enjoyable quest which we completed in less than 90 minutes. A few minor points for others to note: Peaky Blinders is no longer in place and has been replaced by another venue. The canal gate was closed on the day we went as they were cleaning up the canal but we were able to make our way to the bridge and count the number of lamps on the side of the canal. If you go in the evening take a torch as you cannot see some of the items you need to count such as the number of shields on the cathedral.

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T0l0ny

May 6, 2023

Good and interesting - I enjoyed the background story, the facts and finding out more about Manchester. Very educating experience

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Tizele3

Apr 21, 2023

City tour in escape game style - If you don’t have much time for a city tour like we do, an outdoor escape game like this is just the thing! We were guided to various places of the city for about 2h and learned a lot about the scary history of the city. It was fun!

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Bence

Mar 19, 2023

Spooky Manchester - This game shows you around the inner city of Manchester via a spooky investigation. I recommend to do it in the evening, the experience is quite authentic.

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Robertjn6266mr

Feb 13, 2023

Worth a Go - Pretty good. The part by the NCP cark park the instructions need updating or the answer changing. Overall I'd recommend if you have 90 minutes to kill and want a walk with a bit of difference.

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Kevin

Oct 25, 2022

Ok - Poor (and incorrect around the Portico Library) directions, made worse with the roadworks and building works in Manchester. Would work better at night when dark and could have made the script more scary.

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Pre_g

Feb 7, 2025

Unable to access any download - Was unable to download and as this wasn't a refundable I can't explain any more than this sorry dot dot dot just to write the minum number which is a bit ridiculous really but otherwise I think it was a technical issue which could be my phone so I'll accept that can't review though something I haven't tried but I wish you all well. Also can you take off the minus words as it's a little bit aggressive that if we don't write enough words when some like myself struggle to write. I know that's not the intention

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Btog

Feb 10, 2023

Very disappointed and could not recommend - Biggest problem was the failure of the map and directions to each stop. Consistently failed to tell you when your stop had been reached.Had to stop using the map and simply found our own way. Lucky I know the city well. The building at the end of Marron St no longer exists. Two quizzes had wrong answers eg at Portico library. A back story about the Manchester Pusher was used to link many ghostly locations. But The Pusher had no link with most of those, only the canal ones. It needed a better narrative. This one didn’t work. The challenges need more variety and more thought. I honestly cannot recommend this app game.

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Charity_m

Aug 7, 2022

No go area! - No clues in designated areas, First was a building site. Wasted almost an hour trying to find the 1st clue, this was my daughter's birthday surprised, ruined!!

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