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An Uninvited Guest on Last Week’s Tour?

Posted By itwas1793 on January 28, 2010

Amy B. sent us this email and photo from the tour in downtown St. Petersburg last week:

Hello,
My name is Amy I went on the Ghost Tour last night in St Pete … and I had a great time. My friends and I captured some great pictures of some orbs, and I wanted to share one of the best ones I took with you. It was very visible and blueish in color. Thank you again.

Ghost Tour of St. Petersburg

She took the photo in the dining area of The Pier Hotel, a building which, incidentally, has a history of strange happenings. In particular, people used to say a disembodied voice could be heard bellowing through its halls.

In the mood for a winter chill?

Posted By itwas1793 on January 21, 2010

We are! Valentine's Ghost Tour

That’s why we’re getting ready for the upcoming Valentine’s Ghost Tour of Philadelphia on February 12th, 13th, and 14th!  We’ll be hosting Candlelight Walking Tours each night at 7:30 pm (and 9:30 pm on Saturday), which will begin outside Varga Bar at 10th and Spruce Streets and last about an hour and a half.

Love is one of the classic ingredients of a ghost story, so we’ve round up all the hauntings brought about by love and its many discontents, and spun tales of romance and heartbreak, revenge and betrayal, and, of course, undying love!

Finally, we can kiss those ordinary Valentine’s happenings goodbye!

Check out all the details here >> www.ghosttour.com

Haunted Headlines

Posted By itwas1793 on January 13, 2010

Sports fans can now blame it on the strange:

From the blog Ball Don’t Lie comes word of the Knicks hightailing it out of Oklahoma City because the hotel they stayed in, The Skirvin Hilton, is haunted.

For two days, several players had trouble sleeping because they were convinced that their downtown hotel, The Skirvin Hilton, is haunted.

“I definitely believe it,” Jared Jeffries told Frank Isola of the New York Daily News. “The place is haunted. It’s scary.”

Eddy Curry claims he slept for only two hours Sunday night because he couldn’t stop thinking about ghosts roaming the hotel. … For years, guests staying at the Skirvin Hilton have reported strange noises and ghost sightings. … the hotel’s original owner had an affair with a maid that led to a pregnancy. To avoid scandal, the maid was locked on the top floor where she went crazy, gave birth and then jumped out a window killing herself and the baby. Since then, guests have reported hearing a wailing infant [and] Renaissance Vinoy Hotelseeing naked female ghosts…

Reminds us of the Renaissance Vinoy Hotel in St. Petersburg, Florida, which has a similarly strange story of its own.  In 2003, several members of the Boston Red Sox admitted to seeing an apparition of a man dressed in 1930s garb who would vanish into thin air.

A Rare New Year’s Event on the Full Moon

Posted By itwas1793 on December 17, 2009

phghcornerstoneRing in the New Year with the spirits of The Cornerstone Bed & Breakfast in Philadelphia, PA. Evening includes three hour investigation with The Ferrymen and their ghost hunting equipment, post-investigation reveal, free CD, champagne toast and light hors d’oeuvre.

Click here for the low down.

Announcing: Midnight Ghost Hunts!!

Posted By itwas1793 on December 9, 2009

Gables InnThe first event of the Midnight Ghost Hunt series takes place on Saturday, January 9, 2010, at The Gables Inn in Beach Haven, NJ — an old Victorian building which has been a gathering spot on Long Beach Island for over a century. The paranormal team The Ferrymen will lead a real paranormal investigation of this haunted building, the first such investigation in 10 years. Join us as we attempt to peer behind the veil that conceals us from the world of the dead.

Tickets are $89 per person, which includes a five hour paranormal investigation from 9:00 pm to 2:00 am and an all night buffet dinner from The Gables’ award-winning restaurant. Space is limited.

For more information, click here, call 215.413.7000, or email ghosttour@ghosttour.com.

13 Reasons Why We Love Friday the 13th

Posted By itwas1793 on November 13, 2009

1. We like mysteries.

2. We like unexplainable occurrences.

3. We like unpredictability.

4. We like folklore.

5. We like superstitions.

6. We like fear of the unknown.

7. We like the word paraskevidekatriaphobia

8. …and the word triskaidekaphobia.

9. We’re afraid of Camp Crystal Lake.

10. We like garlic.

11. It only happens a few times a year.

12. We like freaking people out, too.

13. We get to do a Friday the 13th Ghost Hunting Tour.

Happy Halloween!

Posted By itwas1793 on October 31, 2009

Our favorite night of the year has arrived! We’ll be posting pictures of all the fun soon…

Until then…

St. Petersburg: A Ghost Hunting Tour to Remember

Posted By itwas1793 on October 29, 2009

The following account comes from Judy, a Ghost Tour guide in St. Petersburg, Florida. The night in question, October 25th, she was conducting a Ghost Hunting Tour. By all accounts, it truly was a remarkable experience.

“In the Sunrise (maybe Sunshine) meeting room, one of the guests had taken a photo in the far right corner which showed an orb and a strange marking, like an arrow tip, pointing into a nook in the wall. He zoomed into the orb with his camera, and showed me a definite, leering face of a man within the orb. The strange marking had shown up on three photos in a row, moving position every time. The ‘arrow’ was in close proximity to the orb. We decided to enter the room to inspect the wall to see if there was a physical explanation for the marking. There were only the two of us in the room, the young man who took the picture standing to my right, when I ran my hand along the wall to check for undulations. Finding nothing unusual, I said, ‘There’s nothing here.’ The moment I finished speaking, I felt my hair being gently pulled back from the left side of my neck. There was no one standing to my left (that I could see). I stood transfixed, when suddenly something grabbed the left side of my neck, a little roughly. I jumped, very startled, and became angry, stomping out of the room telling the ghost that what it did was not very nice, and to not do that to me or my guests.

When I entered the lobby, most of the guests were huddled around a young woman who had visited the same meeting room shortly before my encounter. She said that something brushed her cheek, but not roughly. Where she had been touched, her cheek was bright red, and there were visible finger marks. I asked for someone to inspect my neck, where a red welt was discovered in the spot where I, too, had been touched. The welt was gone by the next day.

There was something else I didn’t mention to you earlier. One of the guests showed me a picture of what he thought was a paranormal occurrence in the meeting room next to the Sunrise room, but all I could see was a vacuum cleaner up against the wall. One group who had been in that room earlier mentioned that when they were in that room, the vacuum was in the center of the room. We asked the desk clerk where the vacuum cleaner normally would be, and she said that the hotel never leaves that vacuum in the meeting room. She wondered what it was doing in there, at all.”

We can’t wait to see what awaits our next Ghost Hunting Tour!

Pictures coming soon…

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Posted By itwas1793 on October 29, 2009

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