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Fort Amherst Ghost Hunt - Chatham, Kent - 2026
Fort Amherst - Chatham, Kent
11th December 2026 - 7:00pm until 1:00am - Tickets £49 per person
Experience a night of ghost hunting at Fort Amherst in Chatham, Kent with Ghost Hunt Events on 11th December 2026, 7:00pm until 1:00am. Tickets £49 per person
History of Fort Amherst
Fort Amherst in Chatham, Kent was built to protect Chatham Dockyard after the invasion by the Dutch in 1667 which raided the River Medway and attacked Chatham's Royal Dockyard.
In 1708 plans were beginning to be drawn up to construct a fortification to protect the Royal Dockyard from a land based attack.
In 1714 land was bought for the construction of the fortifications but work did not start until 1755.
Part of the site chosen included a chalk pit with a number of caves. These caves were extended between 1776 and 1805 to provide an underground labyrinth of tunnels, protected underground gun positions and protection in the event of a siege. The tunnels contain many interesting and important features including a well, privies, loopholed defences, cannon positions and defendable gateways.
To ensure the protection of the Dockyard, three defendable gateways were constructed to control and defend access into the area protected by the Chatham Lines.
In 1820 the defences were declared obsolete due to better artillery equipment with a greater firing range. The whole of the fortifications were used as a training ground during the Victorian period, the practice sieges were so popular that thousands of people came to Chatham to watch them.
During WWII the tunnels were utilised by the Anti-Invasion Planning Unit and Civil Defence, who used a section as their headquarters. This is where Civil Defence was co-ordinated for the North Kent area in the event of bombing as well as support and assistance to the general public after such an incident. A section of the tunnels has been reconstructed into the Civil Defence HQ as it was in 1939.
Event Details
Fort Amherst Ghost Hunt
📍 Fort Amherst, Chatham, Kent
🕖 Time: 7:00pm until 1:00am
🎟️ Tickets: £49 per person - Deposit (£20) bookings available
Book Fort Amherst on Friday 11th December 2026 - £49 per person - Tickets available
Please note
16 & 17 year olds with parents/guardians - No accommodation provided - Unsuitable for guests with limited mobility
Please wear warm and comfortable flat footwear - floors are uneven/slippery in places
☕ Complimentary Tea, Coffee and Biscuits are provided in the breaks.
What to Expect
Our team of experienced investigators will be on hand throughout the night so that you can participate in:-
- Séances (in small groups)1
- Vigils (in the dark)
- EVP (Ghost Voice) Experiments
- Estes Method & Hartley Method Experiments
- Ouija boards, Glass Divination and Table Tipping
- Automatic writing, Dowsing and Pendulums
- Metaphysical experiments
- Use of our ghost hunting equipment (EMF/KII's, REM Pods, Ovilus, Thermal Camera etc)2
and much more with our experienced Mediums & Paranormal Investigators.
Event will include:-
- Usual group size 8-12 people (but may be a maximum of 15 on rare occasions)
- The number of groups depends on venue size.
- Controlled sessions & 45mins - 1 hour with our Mediums3/Paranormal Investigators
- Free time for you to investigate / explore on your own
- Opportunity for lone vigils throughout the evening
- Regular breaks
We can't guarantee spiritual or ghostly activity but we can guarantee that everything you experience will be 100% real.
1 At the Mediums discretion.
2 Not all technical equipment may be available at every event.
3 A Medium may not be present at every event.
Location of Fort Amherst
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What Happens at the Event
Our events are always 100% investigation and vigil events, we won't waste time by taking you on a history tour of the venue.
We will not usually talk about the history of the building unless people ask us to do so.
We don't hold workshops or briefing on equipment usage. Any equipment that you will be using throughout the event will be explained at the start of each session by our team leaders.
For the first few hours (usually 1 hour per session) you will be in a group and you will spend time with our Mediums1 doing séances, where they will try to get the active spirit to move you in some way (this is not designed to scare you) and with our paranormal investigators doing experiments, table tilting, glass divination, Ouija boards, EVP (Electronic Voice Phenomena a.k.a. ghost voice) experiments and other equipment experiments using the latest ghost hunting equipment.
After these controlled sessions you will have the opportunity to venture off on your own or in small groups to explore the venue or to hold lone vigils or re-visiting an activity that you enjoyed in our controlled sessions. In this part of the night you can use our ghost hunting equipment to do your own ghost hunt. You may take photos/videos with your own cameras throughout our ghost hunts. You may also use any of your own ghost hunting equipment during our controlled sessions.
1 A Medium may not be available at every event, please contact us for clarification.
Customer Feedback
What our customers say about previous Fort Amherst ghost hunts (previous 4 comments)
13 February 2026
Fort Amherst
"Thank you for the most amazing night at Fort Amherst last night"
N.P.
13 February 2026
Fort Amherst
"Granddaughter and myself had a great time. Our first one, certainly won't be our last. Thanks to all involved."
M.P.
09 January 2026
Fort Amherst
"It was definitely an experience that's for sure!"
C.B.
09 January 2026
Fort Amherst
"It was great, definitely a good night out."
T.P.
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