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Fort Burgoyne Ghost Hunt - Dover, Kent - 2026
Fort Burgoyne - Dover, Kent
2nd October 2026 - 8:00pm until 2:00am - Tickets £47 per person
Experience a night of ghost hunting at Fort Burgoyne in Dover, Kent with Ghost Hunt Events on 2nd October 2026, 8:00pm until 2:00am. Tickets £47 per person
History of Fort Burgoyne
Fort Burgoyne in Dover, Kent was originally known as Castle Hill Fort. Work started in 1861 and it was complete in 1868 as one of the Palmerston forts surrounding the South of England.
It was built to a polygonal system with detached eastern and western redoubts with a surrounding ditch, flanked by three demi-caponniers and a double caponnier to the North. Two detached wing batteries to the East and West of the main fort were also constructed in spurs off the main ditch. The main fort comprised a large parade ground, to the North of which was a long row of casemates, which provided the barrack accommodation for soldiers and officers. Above the casemates, on the terreplein, were Haxo Casemates, which housed the guns.
This was to guard the high ground northeast of the strategic port of Dover, just north of Dover Castle.
The fort is named after the 19th century General John Fox Burgoyne.
After the First World War Fort Burgoyne was used as military depot or store for Connaught Barracks. Until recently the central part of the fort was still owned by the Ministry of Defence, forming part of the Connaught Barracks site.
There were two mysterious deaths in February 1887, two men died for no known reason.
Event Details
Fort Burgoyne Ghost Hunt
📍 Fort Burgoyne, Dover, Kent
🕗 Time: 8:00pm until 2:00am
🎟️ Tickets: £47 per person - Deposit (£20) bookings available
SOLD OUT for Saturday 8th August 2026
Book Fort Burgoyne on Friday 2nd October 2026 - £47 per person - Tickets available
Please note
Over 18s only - No accommodation provided - Unsuitable for guests with limited mobility
☕ 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 Burgoyne
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View all our evidence from Fort Burgoyne.
Fort Burgoyne is available for private bookings, see Group Events for more information and pricing.
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 Burgoyne ghost hunts (previous 4 comments)
16 August 2025
Fort Burgoyne
"Thank you for such a great night!
We both thoroughly enjoyed the experience & would recommend it to our family and friends."
K.W.
16 August 2025
Fort Burgoyne
"Was a great night, thank you, we really enjoyed it and I'm sure to be booking a few more"
M.L.
03 May 2025
Fort Burgoyne
"It was a fabulous night with lots of activity"
V.M.
03 May 2025
Fort Burgoyne
"Had a great night thank you"
C.P.
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