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Shepton Mallet Prison Ghost Hunt - Somerset - 2026
Shepton Mallet Prison - Somerset
19th September 2026 - 9:00pm until 3:00am - Tickets £65 per person
Experience a night of ghost hunting at Shepton Mallet Prison in Somerset with Ghost Hunt Events on 19th September 2026, 9:00pm until 3:00am. Tickets £65 per person
History of Shepton Mallet Prison
HMP Shepton Mallet, sometimes known as Cornhill, is a former prison located in Shepton Mallet, Somerset, England. Before closure Shepton Mallet was a category C lifer prison holding 189 prisoners.
The prison was opened before 1625, expanded in 1790 and further building work was undertaken in the 1820s and 1830s. This included the installation of a treadwheel for those sentenced to hard labour. In 1843 the number of cells was increased by adding a second storey to each wing. The prison was damaged during a fire in 1904. In 1930 the number of inmates had fallen and the prison was closed.
Following the outbreak of the Second World War in 1939 the prison was reopened as a military prison. It was initially used by the British Army and later by American forces who constructed a new execution block to hang condemned prisoners. It was also used for the storage of important historical documents from the Public Record Office in London, including Domesday Book.
Much of what has taken place here was brutal. In the 17th and 18th centuries men, women and children were kept in horrendous conditions, starving in packed, smallpox-infested cells. Former inmates lie in unmarked graves throughout the grounds. Seven judicial executions took place between 1889 and 1926, but the total number of executions at Shepton Mallet in its early years is unknown. During the Second World War, it was adopted as a military prison by the British and Americans. By the end of 1944, 16 American soldiers had been hanged and two shot by firing squad for crimes that included rape and murder. The notorious gangsters the Krays were among its former inmates.
Event Details
Shepton Mallet Prison Ghost Hunt
📍 Shepton Mallet Prison, Somerset
🕘 Time: 9:00pm until 3:00am
🎟️ Tickets: £65 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.
Location of Shepton Mallet Prison
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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 Shepton Mallet Prison ghost hunts (previous 4 comments)
25 May 2024
Shepton Mallet Prison
"Thanks for hosting last night. We had an interesting night...Many thanks to you and the team"
D.W.
25 May 2024
Shepton Mallet Prison
"We had a great night last night"
L.W.
25 May 2024
Shepton Mallet Prison
"We had such a great time!! Can’t wait for the next one!"
S.B.
25 May 2024
Shepton Mallet Prison
"Thank you for a wonderful night."
L.W.
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