Black Shuck Cambridge Ghost Tours

03/02/2019

Just when we thought it was all over, snow blanketed one of Kent's main routes bringing it to a standstill

19/01/2019

We're still here! Bookings for private tours being taken all through the winter. And you're keeping us very busy in the cold...

02/12/2018

‘Lucifer and little devils,’ Tauplitz, Austria. Photograph by Charles Fréger.   In a recent interview, French photographer Charles Fréger revealed that he has always been fascinated by European tribal traditions. This fascination inspired the well-known artist to travel all around Europe to c...

19/11/2018

Bookings are now being taken for week commencing 10th December onward. Like graveyards in the dark and cold? So do we! Come and hang out in them with us... we recommend our one hour Haunted Cambridge Tour for the Winter months.

30/10/2018

We are now SOLD OUT until the 10th December!!
Have a Happy Halloween / Blessed Samhain everyone!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=ChlW283_33s

Halloween by The Misfits, from 12 Hits From Hell album, 2001.

17/10/2018

Wednesday 24 October 2018 Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology Get hands-on with the past and present of the Plague at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology. Buy Tickets Wednesday 24 October 2018 19:00Book tickets Meet and chat to researchers working in Ancient DNA, bioarchaeology, and contem...

12/10/2018

Hello all - speaking from the depths here! We've been a bit quiet on social media, because you've kept us all so busy! It means that we are now FULLY BOOKED for both October and November... bookings begin again on week beginning December 3rd...

08/09/2018

Cool stuff! Halloween is so important to us that we'll be taking a break from tours for the most wonderful part of the year - the last week of October. So this is a perfect solution!

http://programme.fearinthefens.com/

06/09/2018

Woo! You've kept us BUSY over the summer! Now we go into the best part of the year, and we're already booking FAST. If you want a September or October tour, let us know very soon...

09/08/2018

*phew* We've been rushed off our feet this July and early August - you've kept us so busy with tour bookings, even social media has been as quiet as the grave! We've now got some more availability into late August and September, so let us know if you want to book. As a welcome treat - we got to see one of our fave Dark Lords play in the UK. Who loves horror stuff more than us and good old Glenn Danzig? The eternal question - Is he Demon?

20/05/2018

We often refer to this film on our Witch tour, it's often the first way many of us came to hear the name 'Witch Finder General'. A must see for anyone living in this Eastern Area or England.

Made just before his tragic death at 25, Michael Reeves' horror masterpiece Witchfinder General exposed an English countryside rife with superstition and savagery.

18/05/2018

Thinking of a tour in the summer - but worried about 'no ghosts'? We are obsessed with Midsummer Ghosts! Read our blog on it here - http://cambridgeghosttours.com/blog/4588331075/Midsummer---Ghosts-in-the-light/9880219

17/05/2018

SHE is often called Britain’s last witch, but Scottish medium Helen Duncan was nothing of the sort. Instead she was merely a fraudster apart…

04/05/2018

Did anyone see the excellent 'True Horror' last night on Channel 4? Well worth watching on Catch Up if you missed it - trust us...

01/05/2018

Blessed Beltane to you all! We've a busy busy week of private tours ahead - looks like the spirit of Beltane has brought you all out!
https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/may-day-beltane-pagan-holiday_us_5723b124e4b01a5ebde59c3b

Beltane is a summer festival celebrated around the world.

30/04/2018

Happy Walpurgisnacht! This 'second' Halloween is the night of the Witches - and this is a fabulous list of witchy films for tonight. We heartily recommend Blood on Satan's Claw.
http://www.thespookyvegan.com/2018/04/20-more-witch-films-to-watch-for.html?m=1

Tomorrow is Halfway to Halloween and Walpurgisnacht or Witches' Night! I can't believe it is already the end of April with only six month...

02/04/2018

Critics warn exorcism can be a form of spiritual abuse as priests report jump in possession claims

01/04/2018

Happy Easter! We are emerging - stay tuned for updates!

28/02/2018

Someone Put a Statue of Jason Voorhees in a Minnesota Lake For Divers to Stumble Across

23/02/2018

14/02/2018

We've been busy writing about Black Shuck this morning (yes, yes, new tour info and brochure still coming very soon!) and came across this film! Anyone seen it?! Patrick Swayze - Black Dog? We missed this in the 90s, it's based on the British Black Dog myths apparently (with some arms dealing and American gangsters thrown in...!)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Dog_(film)

Black Dog is a 1998 American action thriller film directed by Kevin Hooks and starring Patrick Swayze. The film tells the story of a trucker and ex-con who is manipulated into transporting illegal arms. The film co-stars musicians Randy Travis and Meat Loaf.

31/01/2018

This fab exhibition has been extended - all our followers need to pop along!

We have extended Safeguards Against Witchcraft until Sunday 25 March 2018, to take account of our temporary closure for spring cleaning during the month of January.

For centuries, builders and homeowners secreted spiritual middens, such as shoes, bones and witch bottles, in walls, fireplaces and under floors in order to protect their property, their kin and themselves from the forces of witchcraft. Using some rarely displayed objects from our own collection, we are exploring the customs and traditions that guarded Cambridgeshire homes against evil intent.

Find our more at http://ow.ly/Sn3j30hQQN9

24/01/2018

This is one of 54 infant skulls which were stashed away in the former dissection room at the University of Cambridge. The earliest specimen dates from 1768. For much of the 18th and 19th centuries, executed criminals provided the main legal access to cadavers. The gallows did not produce enough bodies to meet the demands of the medical schools, however, and so anatomists enlisted the aid of body-snatchers. Because corpses were sold by the inch, infants were not very profitable. Consequently, scholars previously thought that dissection of young children was relatively uncommon. This discovery suggests otherwise. Many of the bodies pictured here were sold to anatomists by poor and desperate mothers who could not afford burial. Unlike adult cadavers which often exhibit huge incisions, all but one of these skulls show tiny cuts from knives that were used to delicately divide the skin. “We found that the anatomists were dissecting them in a completely different way because they are so special,” said Dr. Piers Mitchell, a biological anthropologist at Cambridge, who coauthored a recent study of the remains. From cradle to grave, these tiny skulls remind us that medical science owes a great debt to the poor whose bodies most often fell into the hands of anatomists in earlier periods. If you’re interested in this subject, I’ll be returning to it in future posts. You can also check out my book , which is about Victorian surgery (link below). You can find out more in the Journal of Anatomy. Photo Credit: Nick Saffell.

http://bitly.com/2lhYa0f

17/01/2018

Taking bookings for private witchcraft tours - would The Witch finder General find you guilty of doing naughty things with Satan?

15/01/2018

Today is Blue Monday.
https://scarfolk.blogspot.com

12/01/2018

Quick reminder - it's the Whittlesey Straw Bear festival this weekend, so if you are not on a private tour with us, here's another way to get your fix of fenland weirdness and wonder!

03/01/2018

Happy ! Remember the genre was invented by a teenage girl — Mary Shelley, who began Frankenstein in 1816 when she was 18 years old.

24/12/2017

Merry Xmas!

21/12/2017

Blessed Yule all! We're in the 'dark' part for tours. We'll see you on the other side for our 2018 season - with some exciting changes and a whole new tour to boot!