23/10/25 - Spookie Forest Walk!

Tonight was the night. Ghosts, ghouls, skeletons, and every creature that enjoys popping out and screaming in your face were all on the agenda.

We decided it was time to take the kids on their first ever Halloween ghost walk—at High Lodge in Thetford. Now, with my fingers thawed, nose no longer resembling Icicles, and sanity mostly intact, I can finally write about it.

My honest verdict? For a family-friendly ghost walk, this was surprisingly spectacularly spooky!

When you arrive at the lodge, the first thing you notice is a mini fairground in the middle of the field. There were food stalls everywhere, each smelling like a tiny slice of heaven. Fried chicken? Check. Hog roasts? Check. Curry and frankfurters? Check. Basically, if you didn’t eat before you came, your stomach might start haunting you.

Then there were the rides. Carousels, a Ferris wheel, teacups spinning like they were auditioning for Fast and Furious 7… Honestly, it was a tiny wonderland of mild chaos.

Now, onto the main event—the walk. At first, I thought, “Hmm… just some lights in trees… this might be a bit underwhelming.” How wrong I was. As we ventured deeper, I realized they had gone all in.

There were 30–40 different spooky scenes set up along the way: graves, glowing ghosts lurking in the trees, creepy eyes peering from the darkness, “Tree-ants” (giant spider nests with a side of nightmares), and a full-on laser light show that would make any nightclub jealous. Deep in the forest, we stumbled across a graveyard with skeletons rising from the ground, a headless horseman doing his rounds, and metal cages overhead stuffed with… well, corpses. All of this while eerie sounds played from hidden speakers. By the end of it, we were so cold that even our goosebumps had goosebumps.

We redeemed some tokens at the fairground and hopped on the Ferris wheel. My son’s reaction? A continuous, gleeful, “Wwwweeeeeeee!” for the entire ride. Passers-by laughed. I laughed. The ghosts probably laughed too—if ghosts have a sense of humour.

Finally, we piled back into the car, heaters blasting, limbs thawing, and hearts full of spooky memories.

Verdict? Another Great success!!.