


Duration: The walking portion is about 60 minutes. Please allow around 90 minutes total including check-in and wrap-up.
Language: Delivered in English with clear storytelling and a steady pace.
Guide standard: Led by trained current or former Cambridge University student guides focused on historical storytelling.
Content focus: Haunted colleges from the outside, historic streets, religious conflict, university legends, and unsolved mysteries.
Scare level: Atmospheric and story-driven rather than frightening. This is not a horror show.
Group size: Shared groups are capped at 19 guests.
Recommended age: Best for adults and older teenagers. Not recommended for young children.
Food and drinks: Guests may bring their own drinks.
Weather: Runs in most weather conditions. Dress for the outdoors.
Accessibility: Uneven historic streets. Not fully step-free.
College Access Notice
This is an external walking tour only. No college entry tickets are included, and all stories are told from public streets and viewpoints.
Meeting Point and check-in
Walking tours depart from Great St Mary’s Church (The University Church)
Senate House Hill, Cambridge CB2 3PQ
Please arrive 10 minutes early for check-in to ensure an on-time departure.
As crowds fade and the city quiets, Cambridge, known for science and reason, reveals something older: centuries of tradition, conflict, rumour, and stories that never fully disappeared.
On this evening route, you follow historic streets and college exteriors that feel familiar by day yet strangely different at night.
Your guide shares Cambridge stories you will not find in standard guidebooks, built around real events, documented cases, and local folklore. It is calm and atmospheric, designed for depth and curiosity rather than loud scares.
As crowds fade and the city quiets, Cambridge, known for science and reason, reveals something older: centuries of tradition, conflict, rumour, and stories that never fully disappeared.
On this evening route, you follow historic streets and college exteriors that feel familiar by day yet strangely different at night.
Your guide shares Cambridge stories you will not find in standard guidebooks, built around real events, documented cases, and local folklore. It is calm and atmospheric, designed for depth and curiosity rather than loud scares.
A one-hour shared night walk through Cambridge’s darker history, told with context and care.
This tour follows a carefully designed evening route through medieval lanes, courtyards, river-adjacent streets, and famous college viewpoints. Cambridge’s long history holds stories of curses, unexplained deaths, religious tension, and unsolved events, often tied to places you would never expect.
Along the way, your guide weaves ghost stories together with Cambridge figures, traditions, and historical context, showing how fear and imagination shaped life before science offered clearer answers. Many guests leave feeling they have met a different Cambridge, darker, older, and more mysterious.
A one-hour shared night walk through Cambridge’s darker history, told with context and care.
This tour follows a carefully designed evening route through medieval lanes, courtyards, river-adjacent streets, and famous college viewpoints. Cambridge’s long history holds stories of curses, unexplained deaths, religious tension, and unsolved events, often tied to places you would never expect.
Along the way, your guide weaves ghost stories together with Cambridge figures, traditions, and historical context, showing how fear and imagination shaped life before science offered clearer answers. Many guests leave feeling they have met a different Cambridge, darker, older, and more mysterious.
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