#ghost tours

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“CIMG3755” (2007)

[biscuitsandwaterx13x]

So I remember the first time I watched Shaun of the Dead with my friends about a year ago & they were all saying that I looked identical to David, something that I obviously denied

Fast forward to last week, I get cast in a local ghost tour as a guy named "Dave" who gets his intestines ripped out in the first five minutes of the tour & indirectly causes another character's death when she goes out to look for him

Universe what are you trying to tell me

[paranormal-playground-podcast]

The Haunting of Waverly Hills Sanatorium: America's Most Terrifying Hospital

The Waverly Hills Sanatorium haunting stands as one of America’s most documented supernatural phenomena. Moreover, this former tuberculosis hospital in Louisville, Kentucky attracts thousands of paranormal investigators annually. Additionally, the facility’s dark history creates the perfect backdrop for unexplained occurrences. The Dark History Behind the Waverly Hills Sanatorium…

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[three-eyed-rabbit]

Instead of going to the Baltimore concert I think I'm going to be going to the Raleigh north Carolina one instead!

[sckcboo]

my favorite group of people - minus CelinaSpookyBoo 👻🖤💋

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[popculturelib]

Haunted States of America: Florida

Daytona Ghost Walk: Haunting Tales: The History, Folklore, and Science Behind the Tour (2002) by Doris "Dusty" Smith

Dusty Smith was the founder of the Haunts of Daytona Ghost Tour, the Daytona Beach Paranormal Research Group, the International Association of Cemetery Preservationists, and the charity Saving Graves. Daytona Ghost Walk is a great example of the kind of book that inspired the Haunted States of America series: one written by an author heavily involved in local culture. Unfortunately, since Dusty Smith passed away, it seems that these organizations have since gone defunct.

Dusty Smith wrote multiple other books, several of which we have at the BPCL:

Ghost Hunting 101: A Guidebook for the Beginner (2011)

The Haunted Halifax River Cruise: Haunting Tales of Murder, Mystery & Mayhem (2002)

The Riverfront Park Ghost Walk: The Spirits of the Downtown Business District (2002)

If you're interested in graveyard preservation in general, we have the unrelated A Graveyard Preservation Primer (1990) by Lynette Strangstad with the Association for Gravestone Studies.

The Browne Popular Culture Library (BPCL), founded in 1969, is the most comprehensive archive of its kind in the United States.  Our focus and mission is to acquire and preserve research materials on American Popular Culture (post 1876) for curricular and research use. Visit our website at https://www.bgsu.edu/library/pcl.html.

[clove-pinks]

I follow a lot of War of 1812 historical sites and organisations, and it's always interesting to see what they're doing as a business model and community outreach. Ghost tours are extremely popular; at this point I don't know of a War of 1812 site that isn't haunted, and I think there's at least one War of 1812 ghost ship still haunting the sea (Young Teazer).

Offering milhist programming from different eras or campaigns seems to happen now and then. I've seen more than one place have WWI reenactors for a special occasion, and (for obvious reasons) a lot of the historical reenactment groups that put together War of 1812 impressions also do Napoleonic Wars. Fort Meigs, the top(?) USAmerican War of 1812 tourist fort, also hosts wargaming and miniatures.

Next to hauntings, the other thing that ties together the War of 1812 historic sites is Regency/Jane Austen-themed tea time. I mean why not, it's the 1810s? Here's a picture from Fort George in Niagara-on-the-Lake:

Fort George in particular seems to do a lot of Jane Austen stuff, they've even had speakers on Regency fashion.