Kreepy Kemptown Ghost Walks return for a fifth season of scary stories and eerie locations on Saturday, February 13.
Described recently as “The best value for money of all the tours in the city”, The Ghost Walk starts at 7.30pm every Saturday night from The Marine Tavern in Broad Street, Kemptown.
Adrian opens the box office in the bar at 7pm and is available to answer any questions or sell you a selection of spooky gifts at pocket-money prices.
Until he started the tours, Kemp Town’s haunted history was somewhat neglected. If anyone wanted an evening of chilled spines they would have to turn to Brighton’s most famous tour, Ghost Walk of the Lanes.
But Brighton’s East End has an equally macabre past resulting in many sudden deaths, which according to Adrian is how ghosts are created.
“Some don’t realise they are dead, some have lived a rather dubious life and are afraid of what awaits them on “the Other Side” so choose not to cross and some don’t know what to do next as they are completely unprepared.” he said.
Since February 2012 when he began the tours, Adrian has gone from being an actor creating work for himself to a fully fledged Paranormal Investigator.
Not a day now passes without him studying the subject and after producing a tribute to Antix Productions’ popular Most Haunted in Worthing three years ago, he and his team were offered a television show of their own.
He continued: “It was originally branded “The Unrested” and I had already done a couple of location shoots when it was put on hold. I am told by the Production company behind it that we will resume this year with a new title to the show.”
Adrian recently staged another tribute to this iconic show at The Marine Tavern.
He added: “It was an amazing night. We had a small group of people who had never experienced either investigations of this kind or séances and came along neither believing nor disbelieving.
“Lee Cockshott the ‘Guvnor’ gave us complete access to all areas of the building and we found some entities that were not documented previously. Half way through the night one of our group was twice attacked in front of the whole group by a man from the 1920s. I stepped in and challenged it to attack ME, but of course the guy is as much a coward in death as he was in life and prefers to victimise women. Some sceptical opinions were certainly swayed by the end of the night.”
Adrian now also hosts a web series which explains aspects of the Paranormal in easy to follow steps (“DEAD but NOT FORGOTTEN”) and he was the first Ghost Hunter in many years to investigate The Royal York Hotel on Old Steine, just before it opened as a youth hostel in 2015.
He is now working on enhancing his Clairsentient abilities, hopes to train as a Medium and regularly answers enquiries about all things Ghostly via his Kreepy Kemptown Ghost Walks Facebook Page.
Nowadays, Adrian includes some of his own experiences of Kemp Town’s dead residents on the tour, so be prepared for the hairs on the back of your neck to stand on end long into your Saturday night!
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