Walking Tour: Black Belfast: Cathedral Quarter - Horror and True Crime

Schedule

Sun Mar 01 2026 at 02:00 pm to 05:00 pm

UTC+00:00

Location

Merchant Hotel Belfast | Belfast, NI

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Location: Starts outside the Merchant Hotel, 35-39 Waring Street, Belfast, BT1 2DY.
Tickets: £12/ max capacity – 20
TAKE A WALK ON THE DARK SIDE!
Join dark historian ANDREW JOHNSTON of ALTERNATIVE ULSTOURS on a devilishly informative and shockingly entertaining walking tour of Belfast's Cathedral Quarter.
Dare you uncover the sinister secrets lurking in these olden streets?
• Illegal experimental surgery in early Belfast
• A 'bioterrorism' scare at Belfast's mail HQ
• Sailortown's souls that cannot rest
• 'Spirits' uncorked at Belfast's oldest wine merchant
• George and Nora: a love-and-death story
• A harrowing outrage on Little York Street
• Bloody murder in Belfast's 'house of ill fame'
• Body snatching in Belfast - a ghoulish business!
• 'Jack the Ripper's' letter 'from Hell' to Belfast
• A Ripper suspect mob chase on Royal Avenue
• William Burke's connection to Belfast Central Library
• The shameful legacy of Belfast and the slave trade
• The forgotten bones beneath Belfast streets
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