High Lodge Spooky Walk: Is It Worth It for Families? (Halloween 2025)

Tonight was the night - ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, and every creature that likes jumping out and screaming in your face.

We took the kids on their first Halloween ghost walk, at High Lodge in Thetford. Now that my fingers have thawed out and my nose isn't shaped like an icicle any more, I can finally sit down and write about it.

My honest verdict: for a family-friendly ghost walk, it was properly spooky.

Arrive at the lodge and the first thing you see is a mini fairground set up in the middle of the field, food stalls dotted everywhere - fried chicken, hog roast, curry, frankfurters, the lot. If you hadn't eaten before you got there, you would by the time you left. There were rides too: carousels, a Ferris wheel, teacups spinning fast enough to worry me slightly.

Then the walk itself. I'll admit I went in thinking it might just be a few lights strung through the trees - a bit underwhelming. I was wrong. Thirty or forty spooky scenes were set up through the woods: graves, glowing figures in the trees, eyes peering out of the dark, giant spider nests strung between branches, and a laser light show that wouldn't look out of place in a nightclub. Deeper in, there was a graveyard with skeletons climbing out of the ground, a headless horseman doing his rounds, and cages hanging overhead with what I can only describe as corpses, all set to eerie sound effects piped in from somewhere in the trees. By the time we came out the other side, even our goosebumps had goosebumps.

We cashed in some tokens at the fairground and went on the Ferris wheel, my son shouting "wwwweeeeee" the entire way round while everyone nearby laughed along.

Then it was back to the car, heaters on full, everyone thawing out, heads full of spooky memories.

Verdict: worth it. We'll be back next year.