What are you waiting for? Don your scariest costume this All Hallows' Eve and head out with your friends for your spookiest Halloween yet! Witches and wizards, ghosts and ghouls and the terrifying living dead are usually just the stuff of movies, but they could be all too real, take a look at our mysterious, spooky and exciting experiences and discover the truth this Halloween.

Where did Halloween come from?

Many people believe the festival of Halloween originates from the pagan festival of Samhain, when the Celts would offer sweets and fruits from the harvest or dress up in ghoulish costumes to disguise themselves from the spirits that would wander on the 31st October, in the hope that they would leave them alone. Over the last 2000 years, different religions and cultures have shaped the festival of Halloween into the holiday we know and love today.

Why do we celebrate it?

Halloween is celebrated every year and whilst the reason for celebrating might have changed, we observe a host of traditions to make this holiday a special event. From trick or treating and playing pranks to apple bobbing, pumpkin carving and dressing up as spooky characters like ghosts, vampires and witches, Halloween is a fun and exciting day to celebrate with friends and family.

Celebrate Halloween with a magical experience to remember!

Treat the Potter Heads to a studio tour dressed in their favourite house robes. Visit some of the most haunted spots in the England on a deathly ghost tour and discover if you really are afraid of things that go bump in the night! Or team up with your bravest friend and fight back against the alien invasion! Keep reading for some of our spookiest, eeriest and most spellbinding experiences.

A deadly London walking tour

Step back in time and explore the capital's sinister past, taking a mysterious London Sweeney Todd Tour to uncover the legend of the ‘Demon Barber of Fleet Street' or walk the same route at Whitechapel that London's most notorious serial killer and his victims took with a Jack The Ripper Walking Tour.

Battle the un-dead

There were warnings, but we never listened- battle the living dead and push yourself to the limits in this post-apocalyptic world with the Ultimate Zombie Experience – you're the country's last hope for survival!

Step inside the magical world of Hogwarts

The wizarding world awaits you and your fellow Harry Potter enthusiast with a Warner Brothers Studio Tour, taking you behind the scenes of Hogwarts and the set that brought the iconic Harry Potter movies to life!

A haunting Halloween

An eerie and ghoulish tour of the city with Cambridge Ghost Tours will plunge you and your fellow supernatural believer into the world of everything paranormal, visiting haunted graveyards and creepy spots that only a select few of tour-goers dare enter… are you brave enough to handle it?