Your ultimate guide to Halloween in Liverpool for 2024

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Prepare for your hair to stand on as the spookiest time of year is approaching. Whether you’re looking for something to keep the kids busy or an event that truly sends chills down your spine we have got your Halloween guide for 2024.

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00:00We have your 2024 guide to Halloween in the region.

00:05Farmageddon is an award-winning interactive horror experience in Ormskirk.

00:09The whole park is themed with Roman creatures of the night.

00:12The farm contains interactive scare attractions, a zombie paintball experience

00:16and a whole host of gruesome entertainment from live bands to magicians and performers.

00:21With interactive horror houses including the Beast of Terror, Contagion and the Meat Locker,

00:26visitors will also be granted the chance to visit Freak Street, the House of Rock and the Zombie Arms

00:31where evil spirits are served in a glass.

00:33All visitors must be 16 or over to attend Farmageddon which runs until Friday 1st November.

00:39Ghosts, pirates, witches and everything in between are set to take over Liverpool 1

00:43as part of a spooktacular Halloween party.

00:45The event which takes place on Sunday 27th October offers a full day of family-friendly entertainment

00:51from spooky characters and performances to the popular children's Halloween fancy dress competition.

00:57As part of the park line-up, the much-loved local drumming group Katoomba

01:00will bring a Halloween twist to their performance, taking to the streets to get everyone in the spooky spirit.

01:06Fever's Candlelight concert series is set to light up Sefton Park Palm House

01:10with special Halloween-themed shows.

01:12These haunted evenings will feature favourite movie soundtracks including The Addams Family,

01:17Beetlejuice, Ghostbusters, The Exorcist, Thriller and many more.

01:21The unique musical programme welcomes everyone over the age of 8 on Saturday 26th October.

01:26Newsham Park Hospital is one of the spookiest places in the city

01:30and now Newsham Scream Park has made it even more chilling.

01:33It's quite a spooky building in its own right.

01:36It's built in the Gothic style by Alfred Waterhouse.

01:38He was a Liverpool-born architect.

01:40He also did Liverpool University, Manchester Town Hall.

01:45The thing about the Gothic style is that it is a spooky style.

01:48It's full of pointy bits and creepy arches and things.

01:51Atmosphere are one of Europe's biggest skirt attraction companies

01:54and have designed each blood-curdling experience.

01:58Further, new additions for 2024 include the Horror Selfie Museum,

02:02new street entertainment, food courts, stage acts and live music,

02:05plus tarot readers, mystic fortune tellers and more.

02:08Steeped in folklore, the Victorian Grade II listed building certainly has a chill about it

02:13whether you believe in the paranormal or not.

02:16The building itself is intrinsically spooky.

02:20Just being here without any sort of actors or the things you'd expect from a scare attraction

02:25is scary enough.

02:27We've just spent an hour walking around the building

02:29and there's been plenty of places where the temperature's dropped.

02:32Things have been, shadows have been seen in the corner,

02:34noises have been heard echoing around the halls.

02:37It's a very atmospheric place, so it's the ideal place to have something like

02:41you should scream park.

02:43The event, which runs until Saturday 2nd October,

02:45is back with four new scare experiences

02:48which will wind through the building's claustrophobic corridors

02:51and dilapidated dormitories.

02:53This Halloween season, previously hidden parts of the building

02:56will be used for the first time.

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