Here are five U.S. cities that celebrate their ghostly friends year-round, but offer special events for visitors on Halloween.Galveston, Texas: After its founding in 1836, Galveston was devastated by the Great Storm of 1900, which killed thousands of residents. The aftermath of that hurricane is only part of what's remembered here on Halloween. Dash Beardsley will lead a Galveston ghost tour through Oct. 31. On Halloween evening, visitors can venture inside Broadway Cemeteries, the island's most historic resting place, where the markers on the tombstones are known for telling the real story.
Savannah, Georgia: Anna Powers, who lived during the early 1800s, is said to haunt 17Hundred90 Inn of Savannah. After watching the sails of the young sailor she was in love with slowly fade into the distance, she threw herself from the third-floor window, or so it is believed. In 2007, USA Today declared the inn one of the most haunted buildings in America. On Halloween, Savannah Tours leads its Creepy Crawl Tour to the lounge of 17Hundred90 as it takes visitors on a 2.5 hour spirit hunt, stopping at several of Savannah's pubs, and relaying the ghost stories that still haunt businesses today.
Salem, Massachusetts: Before her life was cut short by hanging, Bridget
Bishop exclaimed, "I am no witch. I am innocent. I know nothing of it."
This Halloween, visitors can go back in time to the year of her death,
1692, as members of the Puritan jury and listen to her witchcraft
trial in Salem's Old Town Hall. Author and historian Jim McAllister is
also leading tours by candlelight as he recounts Salem's past.
New York, New York: More than 175 years old, the Merchant's House Museum was once home to a family made wealthy by merchant Seabury Tredwell. With his wife Eliza, the couple raised eight children, the last of whom was born in 1840. That child never married and would die in an upstairs bedroom in 1933. On Halloween, guests can sit in the parlor arranged for a Victorian funeral and listen as Anthony Bellov reads 19th-century horror stories. Following the stories, Bellov will turn to the discussion of his most current research: paranormal happenings within the Merchant's House Museum.
San Jose, California: The Winchester Mystery House was built in 1884 under the direction of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the rifle company, but construction wouldn't halt until her death 38 years later. Winchester was said to have continued construction on her 160-room home all those years, based on the suggestion of a medium who met with Winchester after the premature death of Winchester's husband and infant. On Halloween, the Winchester Mystery House is leading several tours by flashlight through the oddly constructed mansion.
Photo: NewYorkology
New York, New York: More than 175 years old, the Merchant's House Museum was once home to a family made wealthy by merchant Seabury Tredwell. With his wife Eliza, the couple raised eight children, the last of whom was born in 1840. That child never married and would die in an upstairs bedroom in 1933. On Halloween, guests can sit in the parlor arranged for a Victorian funeral and listen as Anthony Bellov reads 19th-century horror stories. Following the stories, Bellov will turn to the discussion of his most current research: paranormal happenings within the Merchant's House Museum.
San Jose, California: The Winchester Mystery House was built in 1884 under the direction of Sarah Winchester, heiress to the rifle company, but construction wouldn't halt until her death 38 years later. Winchester was said to have continued construction on her 160-room home all those years, based on the suggestion of a medium who met with Winchester after the premature death of Winchester's husband and infant. On Halloween, the Winchester Mystery House is leading several tours by flashlight through the oddly constructed mansion.
Photo: NewYorkology
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