Ghost Tours of the South

Get your Halloween chills below the Mason Dixon Line

Oct 6, 2007

Spirits from the other world seem to gravitate here. Is it the Spanish moss or old antebellum mansions? Southern ghost tours are varied and delightfully scary.

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ALABAMA

Miz Eliza, Gerald and Confederate General Edmund W. Pettus are a few of Selma’s ghostly residents set to send shivers during the city’s first annual Haunted History tour October 19 – 20th.

ARKANSAS

High up in the Ozark Mountains, this 19th century Victorian town is chock full of unearthly residents and spirits. Eureka Springs Ghost Tours promises no theatrics as they lead visitors through the ornately decorated local cemetery or the Crescent Hotel with its Lady in the Garden.

www.eureka-springs-ghost.com

FLORIDA

“History becomes Horror” is the tagline for Historic Guides’ tours. Fun-filled as you listen and quake (slightly) while colorful tales of wayward rumrunners, tobacco industry toughs, Teddy Roosevelt and his Rough Riders and a shady lady or two are spun by knowledgeable and often “famous” guide.

GEORGIA

Why wait til you are dead to ride in a hearse? Enjoy it now with Savannah Hearse Tours. Grab seven of your friends as you traverse the town looking for ghouls and goblins by some of the best mansions in town.

LOUSIANA

Imagine yourself along the winding streets of the French Quarter and meeting past residents of the Big Easy. Haunted History Tours is the perfect medium for gaining access to the other side. When a tour begins at Rev. Zombie’s Voodoo Shop rest assured supernatural activity will be a full warp speed. Want something with a bit more bite? Check out their Vampire Tours

NORTH CAROLINA

When the location is off the Cape Fear River – how can the ghosts and goblins of this port city not be of the highest caliber? From cutthroat pirates, to murderous barmaids and a dentist with a penchant for leaving old teeth and small change at his former house Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington introduces you to many of them. They also offer a spirits meet spirits visit with a haunted pub tour.

SOUTH CAROLINA

Occupied since the 17th century Charleston is chock full of specters and tours finding them. One of the oldest is the Charleston Ghost and Dungeon Tour that takes you down to a creepy cell of old. Make sure someone has the key.

www.bulldogtours.com

TEXAS

Habla “scared”? Here a daytime tour features the Spanish Governors Palace and a stop at the “Tree of Sorrows” where 26 souls met their end by swinging in the breeze.

And speaking of spirits more can by found with San Antonio Ghost Tours at the Alamo. Who knows, with the vendor provided ghost -hunting equipment, you might run into Jim Bowie or Davy Crockett during the night tour.

VIRGINIA

Starting at colonial period and through modern day - the Virginia Scientific Research Association offers Friday and Saturday “hands on” ghostly experiences with plenty of research equipment and actual paranormal investigators. Skeptics are welcome and fun is guaranteed!

www.vsra.net

WEST VIRGINIA

The Banshee of Marrtown and the East End Ghoul are just two of the spooks featured on the Haunted Parkersburg Ghost Tour. Otherworldly residents come from the age when railroads ruled in West Virginia, the Civil War was fought on her lands and in 1966 as an alien Indrid Cold appeared a mile from the town limits.

(304) 422-3131

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