CREWE and Nantwich Ghost Walks will take place on Wednesday evenings between September and March.
Previous tours, which stopped in May due to family circumstances, have taken thrill-seekers to 18 locations across the town centre and Welsh Row, where there are believed to have been at least 34 separate sightings of ghostly figures.
Morgan’s Mount, City Walls, Chester Haunting. Apparitions of Cavalier soldiers appear at this medieval tower named after a Royalist gun captain during the Civil War siege of Chester.
Old City Hospital, Hoole, Chester Haunting. Apparition of ‘man in a brown suit’ visiting his sick mother seen by several nurses in 1976; woman later tells nurses her son was killed in Second World War.
Rowton Lane, just south of Chester city Haunting and poltergeists. New house in Rowton Lane haunted by apparitions probably associated with Civil War Battle of Rowton Moor. Voices; objects moved and disappeared. Woman saw ‘ghost’ in house in 1960s, according to local journalist.
Watergate Street, Chester Haunting. Young girl dressed in 17th century clothes; unspecified location.
Tudor House, Lower bridge Street, Chester 1. Haunting. Headless apparition on upper storey said to belong to Cavalier gentleman who lost his head to stray cannonball during Civil war siege. Haunting. Grey lady seen pacing landing.
Thornton’s, Eastgate Street , Chester 1. Poltergeist. ‘Sarah’, jilted on her wedding day, is best known spirit in ‘Chester’s most haunted house’. Moves objects, shoves people on the stairs. Large jovial man in apron. Insubstantial, almost invisible male spirit.
WH Samuels, Foregate Street, Chester Ghost. Originally Bear’s Paw Inn; staff at this jeweller’s claim building is haunted by a ghost called ‘George’
Ye Olde King’s Head, Lower Bridge Street, Chester 1. Haunting. Phantom child roams pub, especially bedroom No. 4. Haunting/poltergeist. Messages appear on mirror in bedroom No. 4; items disappear in bedroom No. 6. Ghost. Woman experienced ’shadowy watcher’ at foot of her bed in bedroom No. 6.
Active ghost nicknamed ‘George’ in cellar area, reported by staff in travel agency; formerly a wine merchant’s shop.
Abbey Green, off Northgate Street, Chester Poltergeist. Regular poltergeist activity at Georgian house on Abbey Green: keys, wine bottles and solid iron stove all moved; doors inexplicably locked.
14 Dee Hills Park, Chester Haunting. Ghostly monk wakes sleepers in large Victorian gothic mansion overlooking the River Dee
Regular poltergeist activity: brushes, cards, kettles and glass vases all move – sometimes witnessed by customers.
102 Watergate Street, Chester Haunting. Unexplained bumps, rattlings and cold draughts make this the house where no-one will live.