Ghosts and Demons of the City walk

Our meeting point is Blackfriars Station, north end of Blackfriars Bridge. 0795 201 2487 if you are lost!

Saturday 31 October 2015
3pm-5pm
£5
We've just taken the tickets off-sale for this as we've got to print the guest list off. There are still spaces to if you would like ot come along meet up at Blackfriars Station, Queen Victoria Street, Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4D
Meet at the north end of Queen Victoria Street, Queen Victoria Street, EC4V 4DY.

Join London Fortean Society host Scott Wood on a walk across the haunted square mile.

How much horror is there is the City of London? Join Scott Wood for a sunset ramble

through the Square Mile. Where the Devil met a coachman, where a mummified ghost walks, where the dead rose and where demons stare down on to the street. There will be haunted pubs, haunted stations, haunted churches, the ghost of Dick Whittington's Cat, an undead bank clerk and much more.

Scott is writes irregularly for Londonist and is the author of Urban Legends of London: The Corpse on the Tube and Other Stories.

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