A medium will attend both of these vigils, so it will certainly be an interesting night.
All vigils are attended by trained stewards and an experienced guide.
Actual recent photograph of an unidentified orb of light in St James's Cemetery
These vigils start after 11pm, after you have assembled at Peter Kavanagh's pub. Then you will be taken down into St James’ Cemetery, a sunken Gothic churchyard that lies adjacent to the Anglican Cathedral. Here you will remain until the light of dawn arrivesm and down there lay some fifty-four thousand Victorian dead. Ghosts abound in this atmospheric dormitory of the deceased. Many years ago I discovered that the cemetery was haunted by the solid-looking ghost of the Right Honourable William Huskisson, a man who had the dubious distinction of being the first person to be run over by a locomotive. This took place in September 1830, when Huskisson was knocked down by George Stephenson’s prototype steam-powered railway vehicle, The Rocket. At Radio Merseyside I interviewed Bob Lawless, a tramp who encountered Huskisson’s ghost at the cemetery one night, and the vagrant described how the apparition dragged its mangled leg as it chased him out of the foggy graveyard. Five other people have seen that ghost, but Huskisson is but one of a spectral society of spooks that haunt the cemetery. I have catalogued 221 reports of ghostly goings-on in St James’s Cemetery from Victorian times up to just a few weeks ago, when there was a major scare in the north-western corner of the graveyard. It all began when a young couple walking their dog noticed a ‘blurred white shape’ darting from behind the nearby tree trunks. The dog began to howl and the fur on its back stood on end. The couple then realised something unearthly was peeping at them from behind a tree, and so they turned around and, dragging the distressed dog along by its leash, they hurried out of the twilit cemetery. The news of the ghost that played hide and seek reached the ears of Ken and Marty, two amateur investigators of the paranormal, and they bravely staked out the apparition by camping in the wooded area of the cemetery for twelve hours. Their vigilance finally paid off when they videoed and photographed a luminous orb of light (see photograph above) that floated over the tomb of magistrate Samuel Holme, who died in 1872. Since February of this year, a phantom bell and a woman’s screams have been heard in the same corner of the cemetery where the orb and white blurred entity are currently roaming. The unnerving sounds seem to originate in a particular tomb which I am currently investigating...