Overview

Your ghost hunt at HMP Shrewsbury Prison “The Dana” will see you exploring this haunted location in the dark. Are you ready to be creeped out?

Shrewsbury Prison Ghost Hunt

Head over to the renowned Shrewsbury Prison for a ghost hunt, a chilling, gothic Victorian-era edifice and one of the most sought-after places in the UK for ghost hunters. As day visitors pack up, your brave friends and you will explore the venue, finding abandoned, dreary cells and hallways. During the evening you will seek to experience various communication with the spirits. With a unique experience such as this, make sure to be prepared for a night of thrills and adventure. Are you brave enough to visit?

Are you looking for a real paranormal experience? Don’t wait, sign up now and join us in exploring a spooky Prison. Prepare yourself for a night that you will not easily forget!

Welcome to your Ghost Hunt Experience

Are you ready to have a unique, unforgettable experience? Join us, Haunted Houses events, at Shrewsbury Prison for a night of ghost hunting, and you’ll have exclusive access to a mysterious building and the opportunity to unlock secrets and try to make contact with spirits. We have specially equipped scientific gear for you, and access to our well-informed staff to teach you about Ouija boards, glass divination and table tipping. In small groups, you’ll have plenty of time to maximize the evening and acquire all the ghost hunting knowledge you need. If you’re a paranormal novice or have gone ghost hunting before, you’ll definitely love your time at Shrewsbury Prison on a thrilling ghost hunt.

ABOUT YOUR GHOST HUNT: 

Join us for an immersive ghost hunt, in which we take precautions like spiritual white light protection and grounding. We don’t need any tricks or pretend activity here! If you’ve never done it before, we’ll introduce you to the tools and techniques, and show you how to use the equipment. This isn’t a history or ghost tour – it’s the real deal. During the night, we’ll let you experience the ghost hunting with experiments and solitary vigils, with unlimited drinks provided by us. In the end, we’ll all sit together and share what we’ve encountered, wrapping up a night that promises real paranormal investigation.

• This exciting event is a real ghost hunt experience
• Your hosts are knowledgeable, experienced and friendly
• We do not condone any tricks or the faking of activity
• Ghost hunting with us is in small groups, we do not believe in overcrowding
• Spiritual white light protection and grounding before you start
• We can offer an introduction to ghost hunting techniques and equipment for all our first-time ghost hunters
• Psychic and scientific experiments for you to try throughout the night
• Lone vigils in the dark for the bravest or experienced ghost hunters
• Full hands-on use with the equipment
• Unlimited hot and cold drinks throughout the night
• Guests may bring personal midnight snacks if they wish
• A group discussion of findings at the end sharing experiences
• This is not a Ghost Walk or History Tour. Your focus is paranormal investigation
• FREE onsite parking

EQUIPMENT PROVIDED:

• – EMF Readers: K2 Meters, Gauss Masters
• – Rem Pods
• – MEL Meters
• – Laser Grids
• – Thermal Imaging Cameras
• – Spirit Boxes including the Estes Method
• – Trigger Objects / Sensor Lights / “Cat Balls”
• – Ouija Boards / Glass Divination / Table Tipping
• – Dowsing Rods / Crystal Pendulums

PLEASE NOTE BEFORE BOOKING:

• This location has no sleeping facilities
• This location is not suitable for wheelchair users sorry
• Adults only – You must be at least 18 years to attend
• Those aged from 16 may attend when accompanied by a responsible parent or parental guardian
• Not suitable for those in pregnancy
• This is a dark location, all attendees must bring a torch with them
• Sensible footwear is essential, and warm layered clothing in cold weather

All of our booking terms and conditions are agreed to at the point of sale and we advise reading through these prior to booking.

When you book a spot at our event, please ensure you will be able to attend. We are unable to provide a refund, offer credit, or switch dates, as all payments are non-refundable and non-transferable.

Haunted Houses Events Ltd was founded in 2014. It is one of the most experienced ghost hunt experience providers around. 

Reported Ghosts

With so many lives being taken within the hard-stone walls of Shrewsbury Prison, it is not hard to see why so many ghostly cries have been heard across this empty prison in the dead of night!

Victims of untimely deaths was not just confined to the hanging room, Clatter of objects thrown from the cells from angry spirits who remain, perhaps in protest to the torment from their harsh treatment.

Suicides, murders and of course hangings will have left its sinister mark all around this building. Many report dark and intimidating shadows, cold breath is said to be felt on your skin and hair pulling and bottom pinching of ladies has been experienced more than once!

The spirits here that remain can pass as quite threatening, being known to make bangs and slam doors shut, so this location is highly recommended to those with a brave disposition or having a real excitement for aggressive activity

Venue History

HM Prison Shrewsbury was a Category B/C men’s prison in Shrewsbury, Shropshire, England and closed for good in March 2013. The former prison site, on Howard Street, adjacent to Shrewsbury railway station, is near the site of the Dana Gaol, a medieval prison.

There has been a prison on the site since 1793, the original building being constructed by Thomas Telford to plans by Shrewsbury architect John Hiram Haycock; the present prison building was constructed in 1877. The prison took female convicts until 1922.

The name The Dana is still often used for the prison, as well as being the name of the road to one side of the prison and the pedestrian route that runs from near the front of the prison into the town centre via a footbridge over the station. The now disused platform 8 at the station is masked from the opposite platform by a high wall which was used for transporting prisoners between 1868 and the First World War. A bust of prison reformer John Howard is above the main entrance to the prison. The street leading up to the prison from the main road is also named after him.

Between 1902 and 1961 there were several executions by hanging at Shrewsbury Prison. HMP Shrewsbury for the crime of murder:-

Richard Wigley aged 34 yrs on Tuesday, 18 March 1902 (Mary Ellen Bowen (girlfriend])
William Griffiths aged 57 yrs on Tuesday, 24 July 1923 (Catherine Hughes (mother)
Frank Griffin aged 40 yrs on Thursday, 4 January 1951 (Jane Edge)
Harry Huxley aged 43 yrs on Tuesday, 8 July 1952 (Ada Royce (girlfriend)
Donald Neil Simon aged 32 years on Thursday, 23 October 1952 (Eunice Simon [estranged wife] & Victor Brades her lover)
Desmond Donald Hooper aged 27 yrs on Tuesday, 26 January 1954 (Betty Smith)
George Riley aged 21 yrs on Thursday, 9 February 1961 (Adeline Mary Smith [neighbour])

In almost every case the murder victim was female. Executions took place at 8.00 am and all executed prisoners were buried in unmarked graves inside the prison. These since have been dug up and the remains dealt with. The four executions which took place during the 1950s were all conducted by Albert Pierrepoint and his assistant. The last execution in 1961 was conducted by Harry Allen and his assistant. In February 2014 the Ministry of Justice stated that the remains of ten executed prisoners were exhumed from the prison in 1972, cremated at a local crematorium and the ashes scattered there.

In September 2004, Member of Parliament George Stevenson called for an enquiry into the amount of suicides which had occurred at Shrewsbury Prison. This came after 3 inmates had hanged themselves at the jail in 2 weeks. There are suicide cells where these men would have been held under close watch, but obviously not close enough.

A report in 2005 named Shrewsbury prison as the most overcrowded in England and Wales. In August 2008 a further report stated that the prison had 178 places in use but held 326 inmates – an overcrowding rate of 183%. A report in June 2012 by the Prison Reform Trust awarded Shrewsbury second place in England and Wales for overcrowding, holding 326 prisoners in space designed for 170 men, a figure exceeded only by Kennet in Liverpool at the time. In 1934, the prison had contained the larger number of 204 cells.