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Deathly Dark Tour: Explore York's Spooky Past
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2,604 Ratings
York
Join the Deathly Dark Ghost Tour of York, an award-winning dark comedy walking tour that explores the city’s dark history with a wicked sense of humor. Family-friendly and entertaining for all ages.
Join the Deathly Dark Ghost Tour of York, an award-winning dark comedy walking tour that explores the city’s dark history with a wicked sense of humor. Family-friendly and entertaining for all ages.
Duration:
1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation:
24 hours
Highlights
- Coffee Yard - Are you prepared to discover the chilling events that have occurred in the Snickleways of York?
- Stonegate - Stonegate boasts several buildings with eerie, historical significance that time has forgotten, yet the structures remain and we have all the details!
- Minster Yard - The York Minster is a stunning edifice that towers…
- Coffee Yard - Are you prepared to discover the chilling events that have occurred in the Snickleways of York?
- Stonegate - Stonegate boasts several buildings with eerie, historical significance that time has forgotten, yet the structures remain and we have all the details!
- Minster Yard - The York Minster is a stunning edifice that towers proudly in the heart of York. Officially, there are no ghosts here, but unofficially, we can share a few tales!
- Bedern Hall - We have some spine-chilling stories to share in the shadowy, narrow streets of Bedern.
- Coppergate - Coppergate is rich with ghostly tales, but which one will you hear? Perhaps an irate Viking or a disgruntled businesswoman!
- Shambles - A charmingly crooked and fascinating old street that must be seen to be believed.
- Clifford’s Tower - Our journey concludes by the steps of Clifford’s Tower (subject to availability), where centuries of dark history have unfolded.
What's Included
- Expert local guide
- Expert local guide
What's Not Included
- No scheduled restroom breaks
- No scheduled restroom breaks
Additional Information
The Deathly Dark Tour of York offers a theatrical and grim dark comedy walking experience, ideal for those with a mischievous side eager to delve into the city’s eerie and mysterious past. Our guides are renowned for their delightfully dark humor.
Please be aware, this is a storytelling experience, not a scare attraction.
The tour is suitable for…
The Deathly Dark Tour of York offers a theatrical and grim dark comedy walking experience, ideal for those with a mischievous side eager to delve into the city’s eerie and mysterious past. Our guides are renowned for their delightfully dark humor.
Please be aware, this is a storytelling experience, not a scare attraction.
The tour is suitable for families, though some stories may be unsettling. Children must stay with their parent or guardian at all times.
Tour groups range from 20 to 50 participants, varying with the season. Private and small group tours can be arranged upon request.
- Dogs are welcome to join.
- LGBTQ+ friendly.
Location
Quacks Printers
Grape Lane
Your guide will meet you outside Quacks Printers, 7 Grape Lane. Please arrive 5-10 minutes before the advertised start time.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
Customer Ratings
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Emmabrocklehurst
Oct 1, 2024
Fantastic ghost tour, highly recommend - Went on this ghost walk with friends on Saturday and had a blast of a time. The man running the ghost tour had an excellent sense of humour and made us laugh throughout the whole experience. Really interesting stories told, my group of friends and I thoroughly enjoyed.
We can still hear the mysterious man sweeping the stones and puddles…. #puddlesweeper
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Penelope_m
Oct 1, 2024
If you do one tour do this one - Our Guide made the Tour, we had gone to York for girls weekend and this was a great introduction to York and it's past.
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Ellensa9018ir
Sep 30, 2024
Great entertainment rambling round ghostly York - Thoroughly enjoyed the quirky, interesting, funny and engaging ghost tour with Dorian on Saturday - it was a brilliant way to take a look around some of the city's spookier corners. We learned a lot and laughed a lot.
Dorian created a great atmosphere amongst a diverse crowd of all ages - we felt welcomed and looked-after, for all that we were also supposed to be chilled and horrified! The stories were very well-told and were full of creepy and sometimes heartbreaking details that definitely stuck in the imagination afterwards.
Wholeheartedly recommend this clever and endearing tour: if you're very lucky, you may even glimpse the ghastly puddle-man along the way...
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Keepinshade
Sep 30, 2024
A great tour even if you’re not into ghost stories! - We aren’t really into ghost stories as such, but this tour gets so many good reviews we gave it a try anyway. Very glad we did! The guide was superb in not only the way he presented the stories, but the way he interacted with the participants. One of the best walking tours we’ve experienced!
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Paul_s
Sep 29, 2024
Fantastic a must do! - We loved every minute of the ghost tour. The tour guide was a great character, very knowledgeable and funny. We where even treated to personal ghost encounter from our guide. Would definitely recommend this if you visit York. #puddlesweeper.
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Lpodlesak
Sep 29, 2024
Very fun ghost tour! - Super fun and entertaining. We laughed more than we expected. Great storytelling and spooky tales of the dark side of York #puddlesweeper
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324mattb
Sep 28, 2024
A highly entertaining and grisly adventure ! - Our tour was absolutely brilliant . It was highly amusing , very entertaining and full of grim and grisly facts about yorks past . Our guide was awesome , taking us on an hour and a half tour of the city that was packed full of character and mischief. We would highly recommend the deathly dark tour for anyone who would like to get to know the streets of York better , see some of the best sights - and learn some dark facts about yorks history .
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Ladydoom
Sep 30, 2024
Very good tour of Yorks ghostly history - The Deathly Dark Ghost Tour was very informative, though it wasn't quite the tour that I think some people were perhaps expecting. When you hear 'Ghost Tour' you often think of jump scares and spooky tales, and whilst there was definitely spookiness there were no jump scares and the tales generally made you stop and think ("My Good Sir, are you allright" comes to mind.. if you know you know).
It was very easy to find the starting location, and we ended up staying a minute or two after the departure time to allow for some late comers. The guide (Dahlia?) was VERY good, dramatic and engaging at the right times.
The tour itself was pretty much 90 minutes on the dot and ended up just outside the Shambles (as an aside I appreciated the guide pointing out the location of the York Ghost Cats to me as we went nearby as it made finding them in the daylight easier). The distance between each stop was pretty short and on mostly level ground, but the guide moves fast so if you have speed moblity issues this might not be the tour for you.
I definitely felt like I got my money's worth and would recomend this tour to people wanting to learn more about Yorks ghostly history.
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Experience730858
Sep 29, 2024
#puddlesweeper - Really good tour more funny than scarey to be honest .
One thing to note is make sure you are there 5 mins before it starts because we turned up at the meeting place at 8pm and the group had already left so we spent some time trying to catch them up ( in fact we ended up joining another tour by mistake for 15 mins lol)
Highly recommend for everyone!!
#puddlesweeper
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690beckif
Sep 28, 2024
Didn’t stop laughing - great tour! - I didn’t stop laughing…..I expected a scary tour but actually what I got was so much better. Good ghost stories portrayed by the very funny Dalton. Very quick wit and great performance. Really enjoyed it.
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