England's Spookiest City Marks Halloween

TREASURER'S HOUSE, YORK

The Treasurer's House, York, England, dating from medieval times, the existing building being 17th and 18th century. Ghosts of Roman legions march through the cellars. Date: 1950s Credit: Rights Managed/MARY EVANS

York in northern England is a historic city with a long tradition of spooky sightings and eerie apparitions. This Halloween, the city is celebrating its connections with ghosts.


In York, many locals claim their city is the most haunted city in Europe. It certainly has a strong tradition of ghostly hauntings and spooky sightings.

There is a legend that the ghost of Bettys' founder, Frederick Belmont, a Swiss emigrant who established the first Bettys tea room in 1919, walks the corridors of the branch.
Meanwhile, hidden around town are spectral sculptures of ghostly hauntings.

Some eerie wire frame installations appear around York where you least expect them, representing ghostly images from York's history with monks in the graveyard, nuns in the museum garden, even a bear.

The story goes that a bear escaped from York museum and chased the curator around the garden though both survived the incident.
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