Newsham Scream Park

Once an orphanage and later an asylum, the derelict Newsham Park Hospital has been attracting ghost hunters and urban explorers for years. The atmosphere in its maze of abandoned wards and crumbling corridors is enough to make most people turn around and leg it straight back home – and that was before it was made into Newsham Scream Park.

Add a cast of creepy characters – diabolical nuns, crazed psychiatrists, and sinister cult leaders – and you’ve got one of the most terrifying scare attractions around.

There’s a huge new jump scare experience that’s said to be the most terrifying yet as well as the return of three of visitor’s ‘favourite’ (I’m using that term loosely) scare mazes, reworked and made even more gruesome for 2026.

The event is 14+ but the most extreme scare attraction, Helluminati is strictly adults only.

Newsham Scream Park gets a big fat nope from little ol’ me, thanks very much. But maybe you’re feeling braver.

Scaredy cats can always retreat to the courtyard where there are food stalls and a bar, plus live music, DJs, tarot readers and spirit guides (just in case anyone or anything followed you out).