For those planning on bringing kids to see the annual firework show at Alton Towers, the theme has now been revealed ...

If you're looking for a spooky adventure this Halloween season, look no further than McPike Mansion in Alton, Illinois.

Theme park Alton Towers Resort has revealed details of its 2025 fireworks spectacular. Alton Intelligence will combine light, music and pyrotechnics over three nights between November 7 and 9. It will ...

Ho-ho-how would you like the chance to win a Santa Sleepover at the UK's biggest theme park? We're giving away one night's accommodation in Alton Towers Hotel or Splash Landings Hotel for a family of ...

Ever since my visit to the new Alton Towers scaremaze ‘Edge of the Forest’, I’ve been attempting to convince my son that the noises he heard, emanating from my general direction, were not of his ...

From creepy cottages to dark forests, I faced Alton Towers Scarefest 2025’s scariest mazes and survived a night full of jumps and scares. Did you know with a Digital Subscription to Lancashire Evening ...

There's a nervous excitement in the air as we slowly move through the trees. We've been queueing for about 30 minutes, eagerly waiting to try out the latest scare maze at Alton Towers, Edge of the ...

Halloween thrill-seekers are transforming October into a peak month for theme parks, with Merlin Entertainments revealing the period now rivals August for profitability. The owner of major attractions ...

Riding rollercoasters at top speeds or whizzing around loops upside down doesn't scare me. But, I openly admit to being terrified of the dark, scary movies and anything slightly spooky or unknown.

John Badman is a 1982 graduate of SIU-Carbondale, with a major in cinema and photography and a minor in law enforcement administration of justice. He has worked at The Telegraph in Alton full-time for ...