Whitby: North Yorkshire

On the 27th and 28th November 2021 Folk Horror Revival will again host a Winter Ghosts event at the Metropole Ballroom in the haunting coastal town of Whitby (Tickets available HERE)
In addition to the beguiling talks and bewitching music that will delight your senses, Whitby too is both a beautiful and strange place to visit especially in winter when the streets are not mobbed with people … well not live ones anyway.

Join me now whilst I reminisce on just one haunting eve I spent at Whitby and tell a winter’s tale of some of the North Sea town’s haunted history.

Following the proceedings of the first Winter’s Ghost event several years ago, I stayed over for an extra night in The Stoker Room of the weird and wonderful La Rosa hotel, a place (and room) I had previously spent a great Yule break with…