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💀 TAKE A WALK ON THE DARK SIDE! 💀

Our Black Belfast horror and true crime walking tours continue through spring and summer 2026 with tours on Saturday afternoons from 2pm to 5pm. Three hours of grim, gory goodness!

There are four routes, with no repeated content. Come trawl the streets of old Belfast with dark historian Andrew Johnston and hear about ghosts, body snatching, serial killers, vampires, mummies, cryptids, black magic and oozings more!

🩸 CATHEDRAL QUARTER 🩸
Sat 28th March, Sat 25th April, Sat 23rd May, Sat 18th July, Sat 12th September

🩸 LINEN QUARTER 🩸
Sat 2nd May, Sat 30th May, Sat 27th June, Sat 25th July, Sat 19th September

🩸 QUEEN’S QUARTER 🩸
Sat 9th May, Sat 6th June, Sat 4th July, Sat 26th September

🩸 TITANIC QUARTER 🩸
Sat 21st March, Sat 16th May, Sat 13th June, Sat 11th July, Sat 5th September

Darken all four routes and get our Spirits of Belfast ghost tour FREE! 👻

All spring and summer dates on sale now. 🎟️

No booking fees, no minimum numbers, all tours dog-friendly. 🐾

Limited spaces, so be quick or be (un)dead! 🧟

Link to all tours in bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #BlackBelfastWalkingTour #WalkingToursBelfast #HorrorNI

Another Halloween date for the diary! 🎃

Andrew will present Eerieland: Ghost Stories of the North of Ireland at the @abbeyartscentreballyshannon, Co Donegal, on Wednesday 21st October. 👻

We can’t wait for this, not least because one of the scariest tales in the talk takes place in Ballyshannon! 😱

Tickets on sale now. 🎟️

https://abbeycentre.ticketsolve.com/ticketbooth/shows/1173673766

LAAARRRGGGHHHNE!

Burke & Hare are coming on Thursday 30th July. 🪦

We can’t wait to deliver our talk at Larne Museum and Arts Centre.

This is a FREE event, but spaces are limited and should be booked in advance by contacting Marian Kelso on 028 2826 2443 or at marian.kelso@midandeastantrim.gov.uk

This is a new one for the Taproom 👹

Dark historian Andrew Johnston of @alternativeulstours is coming in to talk Irish mythology, demons, fairies, harbingers of death, the usual.

The Banshee, the Dullahan, the Púca. Centuries worth of things that go bump in the night, all over a pint.

£15 per ticket or £20 to include a pint. Sounds like a decent Tuesday to us.

More details and ticket link in the bio.

#IrishMythology #BoundaryTaproom #AlternativeUlstours #BelfastEvents #Belfast

THANKS to today’s fun group on Black Belfast: Titanic Quarter, including guests from New York, Utah, London and Birmingham. 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The weather witch didn’t disappoint and delivered some classic Belfast wind and rain to backdrop the tales of horror! 🌨️

CHEERS also to @robins_hobby_cafe for another top refreshment stop. These guys are amazing. A family-run, independent, fully accessible, dog-friendly gaming café, located in a historic shipyard building. What’s not to love? Check ‘em out! ☕️

Next Saturday’s Black Belfast outing sees us back in the Cathedral Quarter. Book your date with darkness today! 💀

Link to all tours in bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #BlackBelfastWalkingTour

THANKS to today’s fun group on Black Belfast: Titanic Quarter, including guests from New York, Utah, London and Birmingham. 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The weather witch didn’t disappoint and delivered some classic Belfast wind and rain to backdrop the tales of horror! 🌨️

CHEERS also to @robins_hobby_cafe for another top refreshment stop. These guys are amazing. A family-run, independent, fully accessible, dog-friendly gaming café, located in a historic shipyard building. What’s not to love? Check ‘em out! ☕️

Next Saturday’s Black Belfast outing sees us back in the Cathedral Quarter. Book your date with darkness today! 💀

Link to all tours in bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #BlackBelfastWalkingTour

THANKS to today’s fun group on Black Belfast: Titanic Quarter, including guests from New York, Utah, London and Birmingham. 🇺🇸 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿

The weather witch didn’t disappoint and delivered some classic Belfast wind and rain to backdrop the tales of horror! 🌨️

CHEERS also to @robins_hobby_cafe for another top refreshment stop. These guys are amazing. A family-run, independent, fully accessible, dog-friendly gaming café, located in a historic shipyard building. What’s not to love? Check ‘em out! ☕️

Next Saturday’s Black Belfast outing sees us back in the Cathedral Quarter. Book your date with darkness today! 💀

Link to all tours in bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #BlackBelfastWalkingTour

🧹 THE WITCHERY CONTINUES! 🧹

Due to supernatural demand, we have managed to squeeze in one extra and final date (for 2026) of our Witches’ Way coach tour of County Antrim witchcraft history.

This tour is always a helluva fun day out, and we look forward to welcoming another group of the necromancy-curious on bank holiday Monday 31st August.

Tickets now on sale in link in bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #WitchesWay

💉 THE DOCTOR IS SIN! 💉

A fortnight today until Andrew takes to the stage of the @limelight.belfast again with another shocking true crime tale.

DID YOU KNOW…

The humble County Antrim village of Randalstown spawned a man who may well be Britain and Ireland’s worst ever serial killer? 😱

With a body count of potentially up to 400 victims, John Bodkin Adams makes Dr Shipman look like Dr Dolittle. 🩸

Come along on Thursday 28th May and get all the gory details and many rare images from what was described in the 1950s tabloids as the ‘murder trial of the century’. 📰

Andrew is bringing Ulster’s Doctor Death: The Killer Case of John Bodkin Adams to the @edfringe in August, so this is your chance to see the full show before it hits Auld Reekie.

Book an appointment with the not-so-good doctor today! 🎟️

https://www.ticketmaster.ie/alternative-ulstours-doctor-death-killer-case-belfast-28-05-2026/event/3800643CAE681C95

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

We took a road trip today to Errigal Truagh Medieval Church & Graveyard in County Monaghan.

This magnificent old burial ground features in two of our talks. Eerieland includes the tale of the graveyard’s parasitic ’demon lover’, as recorded in William Carleton’s poem The Churchyard Bride. 👻

Carleton’s poem is said to have inspired Bram Stoker during the writing of Dracula, which we cover in our Vaimpír talk.

Stoker is known to have visited Errigal Truagh several times and been transfixed by the eerie vaults and sinister stone slabs. 🪦

What a great night at the Hilton Belfast for the first staging of @nornconbelfast, Belfast’s new science fiction, fantasy and horror convention.

Massive appreciation to Tommy and Trevor for booking us, and to everyone who darkened our little corner of the hotel to hear about bad old Burke and Hare! 💀

We’re so chuffed the convention was a success. Belfast can never have too much of this sort of thing. Bravo! 👏

What a great night at the Hilton Belfast for the first staging of @nornconbelfast, Belfast’s new science fiction, fantasy and horror convention.

Massive appreciation to Tommy and Trevor for booking us, and to everyone who darkened our little corner of the hotel to hear about bad old Burke and Hare! 💀

We’re so chuffed the convention was a success. Belfast can never have too much of this sort of thing. Bravo! 👏

What a great night at the Hilton Belfast for the first staging of @nornconbelfast, Belfast’s new science fiction, fantasy and horror convention.

Massive appreciation to Tommy and Trevor for booking us, and to everyone who darkened our little corner of the hotel to hear about bad old Burke and Hare! 💀

We’re so chuffed the convention was a success. Belfast can never have too much of this sort of thing. Bravo! 👏

A lovely evening for a bit of ghost storytelling!

THANKS to tonight’s great guests. 🙏

Spirits of Belfast returns on Thursday 21st May. 👻

Ticket link for all tours in out bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #SpiritsOfBelfast #WalkingToursBelfast

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

Another magickal day out on The Witches’ Way has returned to the land of the living! 🚍

THANK YOU to today’s amazing assembly of demonomaniacs! It was a delight exploring County Antrim’s witchy history with you all. 🙏

Cheers also to Eamonn Rooney Coach Hire, North Coffee and Mystiques Enchantments for being part of it. You’re all stars. ⭐️

We have one more Witches’ Way outing this year, on bank holiday Monday 25th May. Join us!

Link to all tickets in our bio!

#AlternativeUlstours #TheWitchesWay

HEY, ANYBODY SEE A GHOST? 👻

THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU to everyone who came to the Marquis Hall last night for another scarily successful Terror Talk! 🙏

It was an amazing evening in Bangor city. We loved sharing Eerieland: Ghost Stories of the North of Ireland with you, and it was great to chat with many of you afterwards.

Thanks also to the brilliant staff from Ards and North Down Borough Council for looking after us so well. 👌

Andrew is back at the Marquis Hall on Saturday 1st August with a Lughnasa special of Witch! The Horrors of Ireland’s Witch Hunts.

Tickets on sale now in bio! 🎟️

#AlternativeUlstours #TerrorTalks