The Spookiest Places to Visit this Halloween in the UK

Are you ready for a spine-tingling adventure this Halloween? The UK, with its rich history and ancient architecture, offers a plethora of haunted locations perfect for those seeking a good scare. 

From eerie forests to ghostly castles, we've compiled a list of the spookiest places to visit in the UK this Halloween. 

This ancient forest in Dartmoor is often described as one of the strangest woods in Britain. The stunted oaks, twisted branches and boulder-strewn ground create an otherworldly atmosphere. Dating back 7,000 years, Wistman's Wood is a remnant of an ancient forest that once covered this remote part of Dartmoor.

The name "Wistman's" is derived from the Devonshire dialect word "wisht," meaning uncanny or eerie.  Visitors have reported feeling watched, hearing unexplained noises, and experiencing sudden drops in temperature.

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This brutalist office block in London offers a different kind of spookiness. Located on Queen Victoria Street near Blackfriars, Baynard House was once a GPO sorting office and later briefly housed the BT Museum. Its concrete expanses and eerily quiet surroundings create an unsettling atmosphere in the heart of the city.

The building's creepy ambiance is enhanced by a strange totem-pole statue called "The Seven Ages of Man." This bizarre artwork features six zombified severed heads atop what appears to be an alien baby, creating a disturbing focal point in the area.

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This circle of trees atop the South Downs is said to be one of the creepiest places in Sussex. The ring only appeared after 1760 when local landowner Charles Goring planted hundreds of beech saplings. By the 20th century, it had gained a sinister reputation as a meeting place for witches, with reports of demon sightings, satanic worship, and even levitation.

Many visitors report feeling watched or sensing a threatening presence. Local wisdom warns against spending a night here alone, and those who have tried often report disturbing experiences.

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This Victorian museum, tucked away at the back of Oxford's Natural History Museum, is a treasure trove of ethnological curiosities. Founded in 1884, the museum has retained its original Victorian atmosphere, with dim lighting and hundreds of crowded glass cabinets creating a creepy and gloomy ambiance.

The museum houses a collection of artefacts from around the world, many of which are decidedly macabre. Visitors can see trepanned skulls and medieval torture devices. 

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This solitary iron-framed lighthouse, accessible only at low tide, creates a haunting scene on the vast wet sands of Whiteford Sands. It's one of the UK's last remaining iron-framed lighthouses.

Reaching the lighthouse requires a lonely two-mile walk across the sands, a journey that becomes increasingly eerie as you approach the rusting structure. Local folklore adds to the spooky atmosphere. It's said that at night, the sands reverberate with the hooves of some phantasmagorical creature. 

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This vast Victorian cemetery, home to over 50,000 graves, is a city of the dead. Inspired by Paris's Père-Lachaise cemetery, the Glasgow Necropolis sprawls across 37 acres, its winding paths and hills peppered with granite mausoleums, statues, Celtic crosses, and memorials.

The monuments, blackened by smoke from the old steelworks, create a gothic atmosphere that's particularly eerie at twilight. The Necropolis has been the site of numerous ghost sightings and unexplained phenomena over the years.

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This unique topiary avenue, stretching for 700 metres, takes on an eerie quality at dusk. The tradition began about 150 years ago when Amos Alexander, head forester for Clipsham Hall, started shaping the yew trees lining the avenue to the hall.

While Alexander's original designs featured shapes of people, animals, and birds, over time, the topiary has morphed into something far more surreal and unsettling. The current shapes resemble pot-bellied aliens.

As visitors walk down the avenue, especially as daylight fades, it's easy to imagine the shapes coming to life. Many report feeling as if the topiaries are watching them, their strange forms seeming to shift in the corner of one's eye.

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