Halloween – Trick or Treat

Haunted House – York - Stonegate

 

When I was in York in September, we came across this haunted house, it was situated around the back of a witch shop/magic shop I guess. I’m not 100% what would be the right name for it. Anyway it costs £7.50 per adult or £5 for a student, so we braced ourselves and decided to go in. In the shop there was a set of monitors which displayed the inside of the house, it was so that no one gets lost in the house.

 

We were highly warned regarding that anything that happened in the house had nothing to do with the owners and that they could not take responsibility, they told us how so much had gone wrong in the past few weeks with the house. Noble and I were pretty sceptical about this, I was secretly terrified as anything to do with ghosts generally freaks me out but I wasn’t going to let on that I was scared!

 

We were taken out of the shop and led up an alleyway directly to the left and went into a small reception area, where the woman explained what would happen. She then left us to go through the door on the left. It was explained that an audio track was going to alert us and guide us through the tour. In the first room we weren’t really taking it seriously, we were checking our phones and not really listening then got asked to move to the next room. The next room was a hallway and to create effect they actually just left us standing there in the dark ,which in itself gives me the creeps. Everything was sensored so it knew when you were entering rooms etc.

 

Each room told the story of what used to happen in each room, some of the stories were really sad, one of the rooms told the tale of a maid girl who fell pregnant and then gave birth to a still born. It was really sad and in those days you just got told to just get on with it! There was no NHS in those days!

 

 

The second last room we entered into was a seance room which gave me the creeps completely! There were oouji (can't spell that) boards and it totally creeped us out! Most of the time in this haunted house we were just left in the dark. I can't decide if this house was haunted or not, i also can't decide if it was cold just because they had put air con on or something. I definitely enjoyed myself here though :)

 

Katy

 

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