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Red Lion Hotel Ghost Hunt - Colchester, Essex - 2026
Red Lion Hotel - Colchester, Essex
12th September 2026 - 8:00pm until 2:00am - Tickets £50 per person
Experience a night of ghost hunting at Red Lion Hotel in Colchester, Essex with Ghost Hunt Events on 12th September 2026, 8:00pm until 2:00am. Tickets £50 per person
History of Red Lion Hotel
The Brook Red Lion Hotel in Colchester, Essex is a historical Grade I listed building dating back to 1465. Located in the busy town centre of Colchester, Britain's oldest recorded town, The Brook Red Lion Hotel in Colchester is one of the oldest inns in the area.
The Parliament Restaurant at the Red Lion Hotel was once the old Banqueting Hall, still showing its timbered beams.
There are three known ghosts - a small boy that can be seen in the Parliament restaurant occasionally and has appeared in a guest's photograph, a ghostly monk that hangs around in reception, but the most active is Alice Millar.
Alice was a chambermaid at the hotel and was killed by a lover.
Alice has regularly been heard whispering and even talking to staff. There are recent accounts of people's hair being pulled and a womans voice appearing on a video taken in one of the rooms, with no obvious cause.
The original rooms still have their original wattle and daub beams. They are also, obviously, the most haunted.
Event Details
Red Lion Hotel Ghost Hunt
📍 Red Lion Hotel, Colchester, Essex
🕗 Time: 8:00pm until 2:00am
🎟️ Tickets: £50 per person - Deposit (£20) bookings available
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Please note
Over 18s only - No accommodation provided - Unsuitable for guests with limited mobility
☕ Complimentary Tea, Coffee and Biscuits are provided in the breaks.
What to Expect
Our team of experienced investigators will be on hand throughout the night so that you can participate in:-
- Séances (in small groups)1
- Vigils (in the dark)
- EVP (Ghost Voice) Experiments
- Estes Method & Hartley Method Experiments
- Ouija boards, Glass Divination and Table Tipping
- Automatic writing, Dowsing and Pendulums
- Metaphysical experiments
- Use of our ghost hunting equipment (EMF/KII's, REM Pods, Ovilus, Thermal Camera etc)2
and much more with our experienced Mediums & Paranormal Investigators.
Event will include:-
- Usual group size 8-12 people (but may be a maximum of 15 on rare occasions)
- The number of groups depends on venue size.
- Controlled sessions & 45mins - 1 hour with our Mediums3/Paranormal Investigators
- Free time for you to investigate / explore on your own
- Opportunity for lone vigils throughout the evening
- Regular breaks
We can't guarantee spiritual or ghostly activity but we can guarantee that everything you experience will be 100% real.
1 At the Mediums discretion.
2 Not all technical equipment may be available at every event.
3 A Medium may not be present at every event.
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What Happens at the Event
Our events are always 100% investigation and vigil events, we won't waste time by taking you on a history tour of the venue.
We will not usually talk about the history of the building unless people ask us to do so.
We don't hold workshops or briefing on equipment usage. Any equipment that you will be using throughout the event will be explained at the start of each session by our team leaders.
For the first few hours (usually 1 hour per session) you will be in a group and you will spend time with our Mediums1 doing séances, where they will try to get the active spirit to move you in some way (this is not designed to scare you) and with our paranormal investigators doing experiments, table tilting, glass divination, Ouija boards, EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena a.k.a. ghost voice) experiments and other equipment experiments using the latest ghost hunting equipment.
After these controlled sessions you will have the opportunity to venture off on your own or in small groups to explore the venue or to hold lone vigils or re-visiting an activity that you enjoyed in our controlled sessions. In this part of the night you can use our ghost hunting equipment to do your own ghost hunt. You may take photos/videos with your own cameras throughout our ghost hunts. You may also use any of your own ghost hunting equipment during our controlled sessions.
1 A Medium may not be available at every event, please contact us for clarification.
Customer Feedback
What our customers say about previous Red Lion Hotel ghost hunts (previous 4 comments)
23 May 2026
Red Lion Hotel
"Was a good night. With a lovely group of people"
B.R.
23 May 2026
Red Lion Hotel
"Excellent evening 😀 we had a great group"
R.M.
14 March 2026
Red Lion Hotel
"Thank you guys for such a fab evening at The Red Lion"
L.B.
24 January 2026
Red Lion Hotel
"Cracking night and huge thanks to our hosts tonight, friendly, welcoming and an all round good pair of fellas. Cheers guys"
L.C.
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