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Spooky previews from around the region
Halloween
Halloween Spook-tacular National Forest Adventure Farm, Burton-upon-Trent, Sat 19 - Sun 20 & Fri 25 October - Fri 1 November
Expect some spooky fun down on the farm this Halloween. Activities include broomstick training, pumpkin picking and a mummy maze hunt. There’s a haunted house to visit too, and a new-for-2019 wizard academy.
Haunted Castle Tamworth Castle, Staffordshire, Sat 26 October - Fri 1 November
Scarefest Alton Towers, Staffordshire, Sat 5 & Sun 6, Sat 12 & Sun 13, Fri 18 October - Sun 3 November
Alton Towers’ popular Halloween season of events returns for another year, complete with ‘spooks, frights and thrills for everyone’. The extended opening hours allow visitors to enjoy their favourite rides in the dark, while the popular visitor attraction is also hosting a
selection of extra entertainment. Younger visitors can enjoy the colourful Halloween Playland, join in with the Alton Towers ancestors’ flashmob, or dance and play games at the CBeebies Monster Ball. For older thrill-seekers, the park’s award-winning scare mazes have been ‘re-scarified’ for 2019, with a brand new maze added to the spinetingling line-up of attractions.
Tamworth Castle is hosting a week of ghostly goings-on this Halloween. Expect to meet some seriously creepy characters as you tour the castle - including the cackling hags - but cross your fingers you don’t bump into Master Slaughter, who’s always on the lookout for body parts to steal! For visitors fancying a late-night thrill, there’s the opportunity to take part in candlelit vigils in some of the castle’s most haunted rooms.
More Treat Than Trick Spooky Science Night
Drayton Manor Theme Park, Staffordshire, Sat 19 - Thurs 31 October
Drayton Manor is inviting families to dust off their broomsticks and treat themselves to some ghoulish Halloween fun this month. Attractions include The Haunting, which sees visitors being challenged to make their way through a long-abandoned vicarage in which ghostly apparitions and supernatural events are very much par for the course.
Thinktank Science Museum, Birmingham, Thurs 31 October
A-Scarium National Sea Life Centre, Birmingham, Sat 12 October - Sun 3 November
Discover the spooky creatures that lurk beneath the waves and explore the ocean depths when you visit the National Sea Life Centre this Halloween. Meet the mer-witch in her lair and help her cast a spell by finding the missing ingredients around the aquarium so that you can claim your reward. Visitors can also take part in a creepy creature twister game or watch a spooky pumpkin show.
Calling all mad scientists, witches and wizards - Thinktank is set to host a seriously spooky party this Halloween! Pop along to the event in your best fancy dress, watch the ‘spectacular’ Trick Or Treat show and dance the night away at the silent zombie disco. Visitors can also get hands-on by experimenting in the slime lab or making their very own family light photos.
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