As you might expect, there’s a twist to Valentine’s Day at London Dungeon.
The South Bank attraction has a Dig Up The Dead day on Saturday, February 14 for hot-blooded boys and girls with an aversion to romance and flowers (unless they’re wreaths, of course).
The story is set in 1840s London at a time when grave robbers prowl the capital’s cemeteries digging up bodies to sell to hospitals for research. But when the bodies are in short supply these scoundrels turn to unscrupulous means to provide fresh corpses for hard cash.
On entry to the Dungeon, guests will find themselves in an East London grave yard, guarded by a watchperson, bent on interrogating everyone in their path about the recent grave robberies. Once inside the depths of the Dungeon guests will encounter John Bishop, the robbers’ leader, who reveals the secrets of the trade and deals unsuspecting guests, a ‘donor’ card. Guests will be ordered to scratch their card to reveal their fate – and those with ‘full body’ cards will be eligible for a live ‘dissection’ in the Doctor’s surgery.
For those with bodies still intact, a thousand years of London’s murky past with villains including Jack the Ripper, Guy Fawkes and Sweeney Todd is there to be discovered. As well as the heart-stopping Drop Dead ride.
Valentine’s Day opening times: Saturday 14 February 10am-6pm. Prices are from £20.50 (adult), £16.50 (children); show is included in main entry price.
