Ghosts, Murders, Tourists and the Quality of Fear Why do people enjoy being frightened? Does the subject matter, matter? At Macabre Tours UK, we run highly popular ghost tours in both Bath and in Bristol, but we also have a dedicated Jack the Ripper Tour in Whitechapel, London. One of the interesting features that we have observed is the difference between how people approach the ghost tours compared to the way they approach the true crime story of A beautiful yet infamous laneway in...

Haunted Trees of Bath The Haunting of Trees On our Bath Ghost Tour, we visit three very special trees. The first of these is haunted in its own right, with visitors describing chilling experiences beneath its branches. One marks the spot of long-forgotten atrocities, the tree acting as a marker for these dark deeds. The final tree was used to stage unofficial executions; miscreants being strung up from its branches. But why should trees be associated with hauntings? Why might a tree...

The sight of a ghostly nurse, gliding through darkened corridors has long been a trope of horror movies and literature. But where does this come from? Are hospitals more haunted than other buildings? And if so, why? In Bath we have our own haunted hospital, the Mineral Waters Hospital on Upper Borough Walls. It is an imposing Georgian building that opened for business in 1739 and is currently awaiting redevelopment. Across the road is the old leper hospital and between them is an underground...