SPOOKTACULAR mayor Sahran Abeysundara led a spine-chilling parade through Haslemere on Friday last week, as families enjoyed an afternoon of creepy crafts as part of the museum’s popular annual Hallowe’en event.

Children dressed up and brought along pumpkins to carve at the afternoon art session ready for the parade and made hanging lanterns, glowing skulls, grisly badges, and ghoulish masks.

The museum’s HYPE club were on hand to help out and volunteers served up themed food in their ‘Witches’ Tea Room’. The parade set out from the museum down the High Street to Charter Walk as evening fell.

Heather Matthews, visitor information manager who hosted the event with the museum, said: “It is always wonderful to see all the families enjoying themselves and the children really getting involved with the arts and crafts as well as the pumpkin carving.”

Scary happenings continued on Saturday at a sell-out ‘Museums at Night’ when families explored eerily decorated galleries by torchlight and watched a special screening of the film Paddington.