Looking for Authentic Haunts this Halloween?

Looking for Authentic Haunts this Halloween?
September 28, 2010
Pitch Engine

09.28.2010– WARREN COUNTY, OH – (September 28, 2010) – In the historic village of Waynesville, you won’t find Freddy Krueger or chainsaw-wielding madmen. Ohio’s most haunted village has authentic hauntings and paranormal sightings that happen all year round.

October, however, is the peak time for guests to experience hands-on ghost hunting during haunted historic walking tours and a Ghost & Goblet Dinners that combine Waynesville’s rich history with its paranormal past and present.

“These are not sensationalized tours,” said Linda Morgan, Program Chair of Museum at the Friends Home and Tour Guide for the Ghostly History Walking Tours of Waynesville. “The stories we tell are experiences from people we know, stories recounted to us and based on historical fact.”

Morgan, who has collected many of the stories visitors hear on the tour has also witnessed eerie occurrences in her time as a guide.

“We recommend that participants bring a camera on the tour,” said Morgan. “Visitors have photographed ‘orbs’ and other objects which are there, but not, and you don’t know exactly what it is.”

Waynesville’s Haunted October Events:

Ghostly History Walking Tours – Waynesville, Ohio
7:30 p.m. Every Wednesday, Friday and Saturday from October 13 – October 30

Experience Ohio’s most haunted village first-hand as you tour historic buildings along Main Street and throughout the Quaker Hill area of Waynesville while learning of ghostly encounters past and present. You begin at the Museum at the Friends Home, a restored boarding home which looks very much as it did when retired Quakers and single school teachers lived there around the turn of the 20th Century.

Location: Museum at the Friends Home, 115 South Fourth Street, Waynesville. Tickets are $10 for ages 12 and up. Space is limited. Reservations: 513-897-1607 or www.friendshomemuseum.org.

Ghosts & Goblets Dinner and Ghostly History Walking Tour – Waynesville, Ohio
7:00 p.m. Every Wednesday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday in October

Enjoy fine dining in the historic Inn, with scary tales of the Hammel House past (and present). After dinner guests will take a ghostly walking tour of downtown Waynesville. The evening concludes with coffee, cookies and more ghostly tales as well as a tour of the Museum at the Friends Home. Dinner at the Hammel House Inn includes a harvest salad, Inn Keepers dinner pudding (chicken in a sherry cream sauce with celery suffusing) topped with herb bread crumbs, zucchini and carrots and pumpkin roll for dessert.

Location: The Hammel House Inn, 121 South Main Street, Waynesville. $34.95 per person includes dinner, tour, taxes and gratuity and museum tour. Recommended for ages 12 and up. Reservations Required 513-897-2333 or www.thehammelhouseinn.com

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More Historical Haunting in Warren County.

Ghosts in the Museums Tour – Lebanon, Ohio
Haunted Harmon Hall - 7:00 p.m. on October 9, 23 & 30
Ghoulish Glendower - 7:00 p.m. on October 8, 16 &31
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