The Ghost Bus Tour

Halloween is the time when people think of taking spooky tours and quailing at scary tales, with great tours, dungeons, escape rooms and themed events on offer. But why jump on the bandwagon with everyone else, and suffer greater queues, crowds, guides yelling to make themselves heard, let alone the damp and cold of late autumn? Let’s Go Out-ers don’t go with the herd!

Selflessly researching some fantastically spooky experiences recently, we were reminded that thrill-seekers have a great choice from top scaremongers all year round. One such is the Ghost Bus Tour, whose tolling bell and sepulchral conductor roam the streets of three of the UK’s most historic cities, spreading fear and dread (OK, and lots of laughs), whatever the season. Feeling suddenly brave in the spring sunshine? Jump on board and put your mettle to the test…

Squeals on Four Wheels

Ghost walks are all very well, but why simply stroll with the undead, when you can take the bus? Ghost Bus Tours run the world’s only comedy-horror theatre show on wheels, capital entertainment in London, York and Edinburgh. Tourist, visitor or local, you’ll find so much to unearth from the darkness that has lain in secrecy under our city streets throughout the ages, from royal executions to devious spirits trapped on the material plane.

The Ghost Bus Tours’ classic 1960s Routemaster has been redesigned to give passengers a fully ‘Fright Bus’ service. This fully immersive and entertaining experience, employing on-board actors and technical trickery, combines to create the spookiest comedy tour in town. Your creepy conductor provides the commentary for this sinister sightseeing show, revealing haunted places, unmarked burial grounds and the skeletons in each city’s cupboard.

The London Ghost Bus Tour

All aboard the ‘orrible omnibus for a ride around the dark side of London! Hop aboard London’s Necrobus a 1960s Routemaster with an eerie backstory departing regularly from 8 Northumberland Avenue, close to Trafalgar Square and multiple tube stations. Expect plenty of gallows humour as your twisted (and very funny) guides spill tales of murder, execution, torture, and ghosts at key locations.

Your 75-minute tour will reveal the hidden, the unseen, and the spectral sights of London, including the demon barber of Fleet Street, the Cross Bones Graveyard of Southwark, the famous tombs of Westminster Abbey and the black dog of Newgate Prison, among many more. You'll laugh, you'll learn and you'll scream as you see London's best-known landmarks in a new light and discover little-known sites just beware of getting a one-way ticket…

The Edinburgh Ghost Bus Tour

A mecca for tourists during summer’s Fringe Festival, quieter spring is a great time to visit this vibrant city, mixing Georgian splendour with Scottish tradition. But what grim history lurks beneath the narrow, winding streets of the medieval Old Town? Hop aboard the Necrobus to find out! Running daily haunted tours of the best of the city’s grisly landmarks, Edinburgh’s Ghost Bus Tour knows the best locations to whisk you, terrifyingly, off to. Boarding from Waverley Bridge, sit back as your charismatic conductor whisks you through Edinburgh's most brutal bits of history on an ex-funeral bus!

All Ghost Bus tour guides are classically-trained actors, matching excellent record of high-class customer care along with the spine-tingling thrills and chills. Explore the city’s macabre history and learn about murders, witch hunts, torture and hauntings in famous sights like Edinburgh Castle, The New Town, Grassmarket, Greyfriar’s Kirk, The Old Town, Holyrood Palace and the Royal Mile. Introduced to many of old Edinburgh’s restless spirits, after your tour you may need a wee dram to settle your own!

The York Ghost Bus Tour

Did you know that quaint York is actually Europe's most haunted city? That’s the least grisly fact you’ll come face to unsettling face with on York’s most immersive ghost-tour, as you board the spooky vintage Necrobus for a guided tour of the darker side of the North's most picturesque city! Departing daily from directly outside York railway station, you’ll encounter all of York’s top attractions, including Clifford’s Tower, York Minster and Dick Turpin’s Grave.

Delve into the city’s macabre history and its most gruesome secrets on the way as you cruise between 'Ghoulygate' (Gillygate), the 'River Ooze' (the River Ouse), and the 'Treasurer's Hearse' (Treasurer's House). For the ultimate murderously good time, dare you follow your guide on foot into the depths of the historic Shambles, before heading back to the sanctuary of the bus? Hang on, on a screamingly funny tour where nothing is as it seems, is the bus really so safe after all…?