Over 100 of the Scariest Places to Visit in the UK and Ireland
Take a spooky journey round the British Isles with the UK's best known psychic, Derek Acorah. Derek presents a fascinating guide to 100 'haunted' sites throughout Britain and Ireland, including his incredible ghostly encounters, what you can expect to find at each location, as well as detailed information on opening hours and access. Find out just how haunted Britain and Ireland are in Derek Acorah's fascinating guide to over 100 spooky sites. Derek shares fantasic strories of epic battles, lost lovers, murder, suicide and other ghostly goings-on at locations far and wide. Discover why the ghost of a Victorian actor haunts the Adelphi Theatre in London, what many tragedies haunt the Snickleway Inn of York, and why a mysterious ghostly monk has been sighted in the Tyneside Cinema. This ghostly guide has a map with each section and spooky sites helpfully ordered by county or geographical area. Entries range from haunted castles and manors to shopping centres, hotels, beaches and even bowling alleys. An ideal travelling companion, each section offers helpful information on opening hours and access. It is perfect for a family holiday. You can design your break to take in pubs with poltergeists, eerie stately homes or haunted abbeys!
Following a career as a footballer with Liverpool FC and USC Lion in Australia, Derek Acorah began to tap into the psychic skills he first noticed as a child. He became an Investigator with the International Society for the Paranormal Research (ISPR), the world's authority in Field Parapsychology, in 1998 and has since become one of the country’s most famous mediums, with several regular TV shows on Living TV. He makes appearances on various other TV and radio shows, both in the UK and the US, and has toured internationally and is the author of a number of books.