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The Great Victorian Ghost Hunt At Samlesbury Hall

For the first time in history, Samlesbury Hall is inviting the public to take part in a unique ghost hunting adventure like no other. Like psychical researcher Hereward Carrington, spiritualist Sir Arthur Conan Doyle and spirit seeker Charles Dickens – who stayed at Samlesbury Hall in 1867, perhaps as part of his personal fascination to find a genuine haunted house, YOU can become part of Samlesbury Hall’s haunted heritage by taking part in The Great Victorian Ghost Hunt on Friday 13th March 2026. Samlesbury Hall is reputedly one of the most haunted houses in Britain with records of 13 different ghosts which are alleged to haunt the historic manor house and its grounds.  Published accounts of ghostly encounters at the hall date back to 1873, the most famous of which is that of Lady Dorothea Southworth, a young Elizabethan woman who fell in love with the wrong person and paid the price for doing so… Paul Howse from the Samlesbury Hall Ghost Project, who have created the event said “Samlesbury Hall is one of the UK’s crown jewels in terms of supernatural heritage and as part of our 700th anniversary of the hall next year we thought it was about time we took our ghosts seriously.  There are countless ghost hunting teams in the UK, but what we have created is totally unique in its approach.  Rather than walking around in the dark with gimmicky flashing boxes, we are harkening back to the grand age of the Victorian era, and using techniques and equipment that psychical...