Whether its witches, vampires or ghouls, Hull is set to be one of the scariest cities in the UK this Halloween according to our online directories, including our very own city-visitor.

The data has revealed that searches for fancy dress shops in Hull is soaring in the run up to Halloween.

Hull has recorded 140% more searches compared to the average of the top twenty cities across the UK who have featured highly in searches for local fancy dress shops. In second place is the Isle of Man, with Liverpool coming a spooky third.

Which just goes to show that the residents of Hull obviously aren’t running scared of the recession and are gearing up for one of the best Halloweens yet!

The results are through for the past 6 months searches, which have led people to the Hull Cityvistor site from Google’s search engine.

It came as no surprise that hotels and restaurants have topped the charts, which are common search terms to look for in a particular city anyway.

What did amuse us, however, was that fancy dress in Hull was the third most popular search term. Perhaps the people of Hull are bigger party animals than we thought? I would imagine university students help boost these results, but even if you’re not part of that clan, feel free to let us know of any regular fancy dress parties that you may be hosting…!