Post by auntym on Oct 16, 2011 21:00:48 GMT -6
www.forbes.com/sites/bethgreenfield/2011/10/12/haunted-ghost-tours-where-to-get-spooked/
10/12/2011
Haunted Ghost Tours: Where to Get Spooked[/color]
Beth Greenfield
Ghost tours—which are often haunted ghost tours—can be a truly intriguing (and wonderfully entertaining) way to learn about a town and its history. That’s especially true come October, when so many folks are looking to add a spooky factor to their itinerary. So read on, ghost town lovers: We’ve got a bedeviling dozen American locales to choose from.
Cemeteries are on the agenda of the Charleston Ghost & Graveyard Walking Tour.
1. Charleston, SC: Plantation houses, cemeteries, old pirate stomping grounds, nearby Folly Island, mass war graves, and hotels like the Battery Carriage House Inn—known for sightings of ghosts including a headless torso from the Civil War era—are all paranormal hotbeds in this well-preserved, historic city, considered to be one of America’s most haunted. Bulldog Tours is one of the most prominent leaders of ghost tours, offering various treks through town, graveyards and even the Old City Jail; plenty of others will also lead you through church cemeteries, on candle-lit ghost hunts or through sites of superstitious legends.
2. Gettysburg, PA: It’s probably not surprising that this bloody-battlefield site—where Confederate and Union armies clashed for three days in 1863—is among one of the best spots to find a bevy of haunted ghost tours. Search for apparitions including armed rebel soldiers, frightened Victorian-era children, blood-splattered orderlies, injured Union soldiers, and galloping horses—through author-hosted walking tours, candlelight strolls, paranormal-led treks, and ghost hunts that use professional equipment and may include an overnight in a haunted hotel.
3. New Orleans, LA: New Orleans tours bring you into the city’s uniquely spooky brew of voodoo rituals, elaborate cemeteries, vampire legends, surrounding swamplands, and legendary urban apparitions like the Armory Ghost, the Creole Lady of Faubourg-Marigny and Queen of Voodoo Marie Laveau. Explore all with theatrical historians, master storytellers, and French Quarter experts, plus quirky, ghoulish guides like Bloody Mary and Lord Chaz.
Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour hits the cemetery. Photo by Lori Smaltz.
Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour hits the cemetery. Photo by Lori Smaltz.
4. Savannah, GA: Candlelight walks in period costumes, rides on a haunted trolley, searches for cosmic encounters, cemetery strolls, creepy cruises in a hearse and ghost hunting at a former slave shanty just outside of the city are among the myriad ways to scare up some paranormal experiences in this gracious city, also considered one of America’s most haunted by many parapsychologists. Makes sense, considering its history as a battleground during the American Revolution, and as the site of many hurricanes, fires and yellow-fever outbreaks; an early mix of colonists, slaves, voodoo followers, pirates and sailors add to the chilling lore, while books like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil stoke the flames.
CONTINUE READING: www.forbes.com/sites/bethgreenfield/2011/10/12/haunted-ghost-tours-where-to-get-spooked/
10/12/2011
Haunted Ghost Tours: Where to Get Spooked[/color]
Beth Greenfield
Ghost tours—which are often haunted ghost tours—can be a truly intriguing (and wonderfully entertaining) way to learn about a town and its history. That’s especially true come October, when so many folks are looking to add a spooky factor to their itinerary. So read on, ghost town lovers: We’ve got a bedeviling dozen American locales to choose from.
Cemeteries are on the agenda of the Charleston Ghost & Graveyard Walking Tour.
1. Charleston, SC: Plantation houses, cemeteries, old pirate stomping grounds, nearby Folly Island, mass war graves, and hotels like the Battery Carriage House Inn—known for sightings of ghosts including a headless torso from the Civil War era—are all paranormal hotbeds in this well-preserved, historic city, considered to be one of America’s most haunted. Bulldog Tours is one of the most prominent leaders of ghost tours, offering various treks through town, graveyards and even the Old City Jail; plenty of others will also lead you through church cemeteries, on candle-lit ghost hunts or through sites of superstitious legends.
2. Gettysburg, PA: It’s probably not surprising that this bloody-battlefield site—where Confederate and Union armies clashed for three days in 1863—is among one of the best spots to find a bevy of haunted ghost tours. Search for apparitions including armed rebel soldiers, frightened Victorian-era children, blood-splattered orderlies, injured Union soldiers, and galloping horses—through author-hosted walking tours, candlelight strolls, paranormal-led treks, and ghost hunts that use professional equipment and may include an overnight in a haunted hotel.
3. New Orleans, LA: New Orleans tours bring you into the city’s uniquely spooky brew of voodoo rituals, elaborate cemeteries, vampire legends, surrounding swamplands, and legendary urban apparitions like the Armory Ghost, the Creole Lady of Faubourg-Marigny and Queen of Voodoo Marie Laveau. Explore all with theatrical historians, master storytellers, and French Quarter experts, plus quirky, ghoulish guides like Bloody Mary and Lord Chaz.
Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour hits the cemetery. Photo by Lori Smaltz.
Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour hits the cemetery. Photo by Lori Smaltz.
4. Savannah, GA: Candlelight walks in period costumes, rides on a haunted trolley, searches for cosmic encounters, cemetery strolls, creepy cruises in a hearse and ghost hunting at a former slave shanty just outside of the city are among the myriad ways to scare up some paranormal experiences in this gracious city, also considered one of America’s most haunted by many parapsychologists. Makes sense, considering its history as a battleground during the American Revolution, and as the site of many hurricanes, fires and yellow-fever outbreaks; an early mix of colonists, slaves, voodoo followers, pirates and sailors add to the chilling lore, while books like Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil stoke the flames.
CONTINUE READING: www.forbes.com/sites/bethgreenfield/2011/10/12/haunted-ghost-tours-where-to-get-spooked/