Post by Joanna on Oct 12, 2015 23:21:55 GMT -5
Josiah Bayley House, Cambridge, Md,
Chesapeake Ghost Walks
Chesapeake Ghost Walks, a company out of Somerset County, has scheduled more than 30 ghost tours to run between now and Halloween in 10 towns that span 80 linear miles along the Eastern Shore. They include guided haunted walks through historic districts of Easton, Cambridge, St. Michaels, Ocean City, Berlin, Princess Anne, Pocomoke, Denton, Snow Hill and Crisfield. There is also a special tour offered at the company owners’ haunted Victorian home.
During Halloween week, the company will offer 15 walks – 11 of these ghost tours fall on Halloween weekend. Each ghost walk lasts just under two hours and is personally guided by someone well-versed in local history as well as the paranormal. Most tours include a nighttime stroll through a graveyard and some include sites like healing trees, elementals (non-human spirits), river walks or walks into a forest.
Collectively, the 10 ghost tours cover more than 120 stories of the haunted Eastern Shore – stories that include Bloody Henny and the LeCompte Curse (Cambridge), The Town Dog Killer (Denton), The Ghost in the Governor’s Mansion (Snow Hill), The Haunted Carousel (Ocean City) and The Child Spirit at the Atlantic Hotel (Berlin). All the walks were written and crafted by company owner and author Mindie Burgoyne.
On the third weekend in October, Ms. Burgoyne and her husband open their own haunted home to guests who are lucky enough to get tickets before they’re sold out. “Our home is what inspired me to write about haunted places,” she said. “When we bought our home in 2002, strange things started to happen. Then the incidents got scary. When the incidents became terrifying, we put the house up for sale, and that was only 13 months after moving in.” Though most of the activity has quieted down, the Burgoynes still experience unexplained events from time to time, which they talk about as they guide guests through their residence. Living in that house has inspired Burgoyne to write three books and scores of articles on haunted houses and properties.
Additional information on the ghost tours is posted on the Chesapeake Ghost Walks website. The company also has a YouTube channel where Burgoyne tells some of the stories in a Haunted Minutes series. www.TravelHag.com
Source: DelmarvaNow, October 12, 2015.