Watch the moment the parade of phantoms sets off in Europe's most popular Halloween destination

Derry City in the north of Ireland – where Halloween originated with the Celtic festival Samhain – has been hosting amazing festivals for years and each year it gets bigger and better.

This year saw over 100,000 attend the four day free festival in the city centre, which is organised by the local public authority, Derry City 7 Strabane District Council.

The entire city centre gets transformed into a Halloween Town and visitors have been flocking from all over the world in ever jncreasing numbers each autumn to join in the fun, with adults and children and even pet pooches getting into the ‘spirit’ of the event by dressing up in fancy dress and hitting the town. If you like all things dark and spooktacular, you may want to put Derry Halloween on your bucket list too.