Staffordshire's most haunted house is set to transform into a
most spectacular Halloween mansion for its annual Spooktacular.
Every year Shugborough, near Stafford, hosts an evening of
Halloween family fun with haunted mansion, ghost train rides, fun
fair, garden ghost tours and entertainment.
This year is promising to be bigger and better than ever as
staff are planning a squeal, a bang or a fright around every corner
of the ghostly mansion house and scary servants' quarters.
However staff at the estate can't promise all the ghosts will be
Shugborough employees in costume! One or two might be real!
It is said the working historic estate, near Stafford, boasts an
army of ghosts from the housekeeper who swishes her skirts through
the corridor to Lady Anson, who leaves the imprint on the bed each
day, not to mention the children that rattle ladders or the lady in
the riding habit.
In the run up to this year's Halloween things really are going
bump in the night at the estate and strange happenings are afoot. A
locked door mysteriously keeps opening and the light behind it
switching on and off and just last week a member off staff claims
to have followed a Victorian gentleman through some of our
rooms.
Perhaps the Shugborough spooks are planning to put in a special
appearance during the fun and hocus pocus of the biggest Halloween
event in the area.
Shugborough's Halloween experience attracts thousands of people
each year who come to enjoy the spooky mansion and servants'
quarters. This year the fun will include a ghostly disco, trick or
treat and apple bobbing and an owl display from Gentleshaw Wildlife
Rescue.
The event which takes place on Saturday October 30 will see the
mansion house bathed in eerie green light and a host of fun
entertainment laid on from fire juggling to stilt walking.
Warming autumnal food and drink will also be laid on for
visitors from hog roasts to hot punch.
People buying tickets by telephone or online can get discounted
tickets and the prices in advance are £9 adults, £8
concessions and children, £26 for a family (2A+3C) and
£13 family (1A+1C).
Gates creak open at 5pm and warm, sensible clothing is advised.
On the night prices are £10 adults, ££9
concessions and children, £30 family (2A+3C) and £15
family (1A+1C).