Eerieland: Ghost Stories of the North & North West of Ireland

This Halloween, go beyond the realm of death with dark historian Andrew Johnston of Alternative Ulstours, as he shares supernatural tales from the grave!

Andrew will take you on a virtual road trip, unleashing nightmarish lore from Northern Ireland and the Irish border counties. Across the landscape, malevolent forces linger, from a violent, bone-chilling poltergeist that plagued a helpless family to a grand mansion cursed by stolen Egyptian mummies.

Discover a remote farmhouse where two failed exorcisms compelled a shattered widow to flee. Learn about a tragic spirit that escaped a priest’s trap to haunt a hotel until its fiery destruction. The torments culminate in one of Ireland’s most notorious stately homes, where a phantom’s touch left a burn mark, fulfilling a deadly spectral pact.

Steel your nerves for an evening of hair-raising horror with Alternative Ulstours!

Self-styled ‘dark historian’ Andrew Johnston is the driving force behind Alternative Ulstours, Northern Ireland’s leading horror and true crime tourism provider. His Black Belfast walking tour series explores the city’s macabre side, covering everything from cryptozoology to cults, disease to disasters, and hangings to hauntings. Andrew’s sell-out Terror Talks at Belfast’s Sunflower Public House (and on the road) span a massive spectrum of the uncanny. His entertaining lectures dissect Irish vampires, local witch hunts, notorious murderers, cursed mummies, the history of Satanic music and much more. His show Burke and Hare: Body Snatchers, Serial Killers, Ulstermen sold out its full run at the 2025 Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and he appeared at the 2025 East End Conference in London to examine Jack the Ripper’s Belfast connections.

Long before stepping into tourism, Andrew enjoyed a colourful former life as a newspaper journalist, a punk drummer and a zookeeper.