Blackpool-based Supernatural Events has released its new series of ghost tours and eerie experiences from May to September 2009 that includes Overnight Investigations at the Grand Theatre, return visits to Blackpool Zoo, North Pier Theatre, Blackpool’s Opera House and Spanish Hall Suite, Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks and even a coach trip to Derby!
At the beautiful Victorian Grand Theatre, the spiritual home of Supernatural Events, there are four overnight investigations on Friday 8th May and Saturdays 27th June, 18th July and 1st August. On each investigation you will have the opportunity to spend five hours ghost hunting using paranormal investigative equipment such as crystal pendulums, dowsing rods, thermometers, energy meters and motion detectors!
There is a very special guest for a super-natural Overnight Ghost Walk at the Grand on Friday 15th May, when psychic medium Ian Lawman returns to Blackpool! Ian has appeared on numerous paranormal-based television programmes including Most Haunted, I’m Famous and Frightened and just days ago saw the first episode in the second season of his acclaimed Living with the Dead series.
On Thursdays 21st May and 18th June, and Wednesdays 15th July and 16th September Blackpool Zoo opens its doors late at night for those interested in the supernatural to visit some areas that have baffled paranormal investigators in the past. Those attending will have the chance to investigate some areas of the Zoo which was the site of the original World War II municipal airport.
There is a welcome return to Blackpool’s Opera House for on Tuesdays 26th May and 21st July, and Monday 28th September when you will visit the auditorium, stage and bar areas to find out what really goes on “behind the scenes”.
There are four ghost tours at the North Pier Theatre this season; on Friday 29th May, Mondays 6th July and 10th August, and Sunday 13th September. Previous participants on tours here have seen shadows of figures, strange lights and heard strange sounds!
On Thursday 4th June and Wednesday 9th September you can have the opportunity to walk amongst the stars of the movies, popular music and telvision when Supernatural Events takes its ghost tours to Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks. These tours culminate with a walk through the Chamber of Horrors – in the dark!
Ghost tours return to the Spanish Hall Suite, situated in the Winter Gardens complex on Wednesday 10th June and Monday 17th August. These tours are extremely popular; book now before they sell out! Supernatural Events has organised a Ghost Coach Trip to Derby, the “dead centre of England”, on Friday 25th September. Those brave enough to board the luxury coach will travel to the haunted Derby Jail, owned by Richard Felix of Most Haunted fame before being taken on a ghost walk of some of the most haunted of areas within the city to learn about its ghosts, murders, executions and hauntings. The final stop is at the famous Mr Grundy’s Hotel for evening supper and to investigate the hauntings in the hotel’s cellar and bedrooms!
Tickets for all Grand Ghost
Tours, Overnight Investigations, Ghost Walks and Coach Trips must be booked in advance. Call the
Grand Theatre Box Office on
01253 290190 or book online at
www.SupernaturalEvents.co.uk. You can book in person at the Grand Theatre, Church Street, Blackpool or at the Information Desk in the Hounds Hill Shopping Centre. Hurry though! These events do sell-out quickly!
Further details on all events are available at www.SupernaturalEvents.co.uk. The website features details on all locations, photo galleries, video clips, a monthly competition where you could win free tickets to one of the events, and much more. You can also register for regular e-newsletters and find out about the latest tours and special events as soon as they are organised. There is also a texting service where you can also register to receive updates direct to your mobile, simply text GRAND GHOST to 82055 (registering costs one standard text charge; on some price plans free; texts sent to those registered are free.).
Diary of Supernatural Events (May to September 2009)
MAY 2009
Friday 8th – Overnight Investigation at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 11pm to 4am.
Monday 15th - Overnight Ghost Walk with Ian Lawman at the Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 11pm to 4am.
Thursday 21st – Blackpool Zoo Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
Tuesday 26th – Blackpool Opera House Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
Friday 29th – North Pier Theatre Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
JUNE 2009
Thursday 4th – Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
Wednesday 10th – Spanish Hall Suite, Winter Gardens, Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
Thursday 18th – Blackpool Zoo Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
Saturday 27th – Overnight Investigation at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 11pm to 4am.
JULY 2009
Monday 6th – North Pier Theatre Ghost Tour, 11pm to 1am.
Wednesday 15th – Blackpool Zoo Ghost Tour, 10pm to 12 midnight.
Saturday 18th – Overnight Investigation at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 11pm to 4am.
Tuesday 21st – Blackpool Opera House Ghost Tour 10pm to 12 midnight.
AUGUST 2009
Saturday 1st – Overnight Investigation at The Grand Theatre, Blackpool, 11pm to 4am.
Monday 10th – North Pier Theatre Ghost Tour, 11pm to 1am.
Monday 17th – Spanish Hall Suite, Winter Gardens Ghost Tour, 10pm to 12 midnight.
SEPTEMBER 2009
Wednesday 9th – Louis Tussaud’s Waxworks Ghost Tour, 9pm to 11pm.
Sunday 13th – North Pier Theatre Ghost Tour, 11pm to 1am.
Wednesday 16th – Blackpool Zoo Ghost Tour, 10pm to 12 midnight.
Friday 25th – Grand Ghost Coach Trip to Derby (includes tours of Derby Gaol and Friargate area of the City, visiting two haunted pubs, supper in the haunted Mr Grundy’s Tavern and time to investigate the cellar and bedrooms at the Georgian House Hotel).
Monday 28th – Blackpool Opera House Ghost Tour, 10pm to 12 midnight.
Ends…
It was a Supernatural Events Success Story at the Blackpool Tourism 2008 Business in Excellence Awards held today (Tuesday 31st March 2009) at Pleasure Beach Blackpool when Supernatural Events scooped the Marketing & Innovation Award 2008 sponsored by ReBlackpool.
Supernatural Events is proud to bring you Grand Ghost Coach Trips. Throughout the year, we organise tours to some of the most haunted locations in the North West. Past tours have taken groups to Derby Gaol, Pendle Hill, Lancaster and Samlesbury Hall.
We will be departing from Blackpool’s Grand Theatre at 3.30pm by luxury coach to travel to our first stop, the haunted Derby Gaol. After a tour of the Gaol, we will then enjoy(!) a ghost walk of some of the most haunted of areas within Derby’s Friargate area to learn about its ghosts, murders, executions and hauntings (calling in at a pub or two en route, to learn of their hauntings and maybe a little light liquid refreshment?). We finish our evening at the famous Mr Grundy’s for evening supper and to learn of (and investigate) the hauntings at the hotel when you will get the chance to go into the cellar and maybe a bedroom or two where paranormal activity is said to take place. We depart from Mr Grundy’s at 11pm for our return to Blackpool, arriving at approximately 2.00am.