Yahoo News Halloween events in Liverpool and around Merseyside
There's a fantastic range of family-friendly and horrific events happening in Liverpool and around Merseyside this Halloween. No matter what your scare tolerance is, you can still make the most of the spooky season festivities.
Annual events such as Newsham Scream Park and Farmaggedon return to scare the living daylights out of visitors. For a more relaxed evening, Liverpool ONE will once again host its for-all-ages Halloween street party.
There's also a great selection of events if you don't mind a short drive to get there. The abandoned Camelot theme park is reopening for thrill seekers to explore while Blackpool's Pleasure Beach Resort will take guests on a "Journey to Hell."
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Check out everything happening in and around Merseyside this Halloween.
Newsham Scream Park
Four new experiences will also be added to the park in previously inaccessible areas in time for Halloween. They include: ‘The Mortuary’, ‘HUMANimal’, 'The Priest Hood’ and ‘Under the Bed’. Further additions include the horror selfie museum, new street entertainment, stage acts and live music, food court and licensed bars, plus tarot readers, mystics, fortune tellers and more.
The hospital has been described as the most haunted building in Liverpool with previous visitors requiring a safe word to cope with the experience. The park reopens on Friday, October 4. Read more here.
Farmaggedon
One of the UK's biggest scarefests will be welcoming horror fans through its doors for an unforgettable night of terror when it opens this weekend. Farmaggedon is an award-winning attraction located near Ormskirk and every year brave souls test their courage by facing the horror.
Across the Farmaggedon grounds, guests can enjoy a range of live music, dancers and street performers. There will also be food and drink available. Farmaggedon opens again on Saturday, September 27. Read more here.
Liverpool ONE Street Party
The family-friendly event will see the shopping complex filled with spooky characters, street performances and heart-pounding music along the way.
The party is free to attend and offers visitors plenty of interactive opportunities. There's also a fancy dress competition where children of all ages can join in to see who can scare the judges the most. There’ll be prizes up for grabs for those who bring their most creative costumes. The street party takes place on Sunday 27 October from 11am – 5pm. Read more here.
Halloween Lakeside Trail
The Halloween Lakeside Trail returns to Partridge Lakes in Culcheth, Warrington, for another year of spooky family fun. From Friday, October 4, to Thursday, October 31, the tailor-made experience will be available for all ages to enjoy as it sways towards spooky instead of scary.
Set across 70 acres in Cheshire's countryside, the event returns for a second year following a great response from visitors in 2023. Families can set off to the mystical forest, wander through Skeletons’ Hollow, dance with friendly ghosts and pass the woodland spider’s tunnel to the witches’ lair. Read more here.
And only a short drive from Liverpool...
Abandoned Camelot Theme Park
This Halloween, a world of terror is coming to Lancashire as the spine-chilling event returns to the North West for its fifth instalment at the deserted Camelot theme park in Chorley. The organisers are even promising that guests will leave the neglected site 'believing in pure evil'.
The award-winning scare event will feature 11 horrifying zones hidden within the depths of the derelict theme park. Visitors can anticipate the return of some familiar faces as part of the gruesome and terrifying Carni Valley set.
The event kicks off on Saturday 26 September, with events running until mid-November. Read more here.
Journey to Hell
Blackpool's Pleasure Beach Resort has announced two new attractions for its annual 'Journey to Hell' scare nights. The theme park has revealed plenty of new additions for horror fans to look forward to this year including two new live-action scare zones - 'Down the Rabbit Hole' which will be Alice and Wonderland themed and the bizarre 'Cabinet of Curiosities.'
There will be a big difference to the annual event as only three rides were included in last year's event and were available on a ‘one shot’ basis, meaning guests could only ride each once. Nine rides are included in the event for 2024 and all but the live-action scare zones will be available for unlimited riding.
Journey to Hell: Freak Nights take place on selected dates from October 11 to October 31, 7pm until 10pm. Read more here.
Halloween Light Trail
The Halloween Trail - a 'spooktacular' Halloween-themed light show - will open at the Trafford Centre from Thursday, October 17 to Sunday, November 3. The immersive experience promises to 'captivate visitors of all ages this spooky season'. The trail will feature more than 100,000 lights and immersive installations based on a Skeleton Village theme.
Guests can expect supernatural surprises and moments of spooky delight, including thousands of tiny laser beams creating a mist-filled garden of light. The space will be illuminated by vibrant, colourful bats and LED eyes watching from above. Read more here.
