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PA’s
Newest Walk-through Haunted Attraction
Opens
in Gettysburg
Actual
haunted property adds indoor walk-through attraction to bring ghost
stories to life.
GETTYSBURG,
PA –The
Farnsworth House Inn has a reputation for being one of the most haunted inn’s
in America. Now it has
Gettysburg’s only walk-through haunted attraction located next to the
historic inn at 415 Baltimore Street, GETTYSBURG’S HAUNTED ADDRESS.
Boasting “You heard ghost stories, now SEE them for yourself,” the
attraction is a house of horrors with startling special effects depicting
scenes of actual Gettysburg hauntings. LIVE actors will add to the scare on
Fridays & Saturdays in October. Visitors will make their way through
several detailed scenes complete with figures, sound and special effects. See
a civil war era viewing parlor, a makeshift hospital and an abusive orphanage.
Witness an exorcism, poltergeist activity and a séance. Special effects create
such experiences as a starlit sky of devil’s den to a hanging at Sach’s
bridge.
Rene
Staub of McSherrystown designed the attraction and Joe Kress of York added the
special effects. His skills created breathing bodies, floating objects and many
inanimate objects that go bump in the night to catch visitors off guard. Lori
Baker of New Oxford created the
many elaborate outfits using historical patterns that transformed the figures
into the civil war era.
Tickets
are $7.50 for adults and children 12 and under are admitted for free.
The
Farnsworth House Ghost Walks and Mourning Theatre offers a variety of
candlelight ghost walks that also enter the haunted inn, ghost stories in the
cellar, ghost hunts using equipment like the pros use, and a re-creation of a
civil war-era séance in their Victorian Séance Room, one of a few in
existence in America. Haunted dining is also an option in their dining rooms or
tavern.
The
Farnsworth House Inn is the origins of Gettysburg ghost storytelling.
Patti O’Day, daughter of the owners of the inn, felt compelled to
start telling stories in the house’s cellar in 1986 after she and her
grandmother had their own haunting experiences in the house.
The Shultz family purchased the property in 1972, opened the restaurant
that same year and lived on the second floor of the historic home.
Patti started to experience the presence of spirits since she first
walked over the threshold. The property has since been ranked as one of the
most haunted inns in America by both the Travel Channel and A&E and has
been featured on numerous networks. With
no fewer than 14 spirits, psychics have repeatedly told the owners that the
building is a haven for spirits because they not only recognize their presence
on a daily basis, but acknowledge the great suffering they endured as soldiers
and civilians during and after the battle.
Imagine
a haunted attraction where the visitors are not only the observers but the
observed by unknown onlookers from the past.
415 Baltimore Street, GETTYSBURG’S HAUNTED ADDRESS is no exception to
actual hauntings in Gettysburg. A
recent walk through by a psychic revealed what workers were witnessing while
preparing the attraction. Spirit activity has increased in the building,
including a woman and her son from the turn of the century and a man from the
19th century dressed in a plaid suit.
The house is visited by spirits of children who roam the halls of the
adjacent Farnsworth House Inn, for some of their antique toys are now located
within the attraction. Workers reported tools disappearing and malfunctioning,
strange noises and unexplained shadows. The
building, built in the early 1900’s had previous reports of a woman with a
striped blouse and a man who appeared to those who dwelled in the building.
Complete
your ghostly outing by enjoying a dinner reminiscent of the civil war era
served by period dressed servers. Make reservations for the Farnsworth House
dining room or come to their newly named Sweney’s Tavern and garden for
lighter fare and drinks. The tavern is now named after the inhabitants of
the house during the battle and yes, they are still there…in spirit. Go to www.farnsworthhouseinn.com
for all of Farnsworth House Inn’s offerings. Call 717-334-8838
for
any questions or reservations.
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Blood Runs Cold in New ''Beyond
Bizarre'' Tour Exploring Portland's Haunted Hideaways and Supernatural Stories
Portland Walking Tours Introduces
Bone-Chilling Ghost Tour July 1
PORTLAND, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Unexplained mysteries, ghostly adventures
and spooky stories fill the new “Beyond Bizarre”
evening tour from Portland Walking Tours. The tour begins July 1 and offers
both family-friendly and over-21 versions.
“We hired a leading expert on the paranormal
and a proven clairvoyant to help us develop this tour, and now, as certified
members of the International Ghost Hunters Society, we’re
leading walkers on an eerie crawl through the creepiest parts of our town,”
said David Schargel, founder of Portland Walking Tours. “Our
popular Best of Portland, Epicurean Excursion and Underground Portland tours
have always been historical and factual, but Portland’s
spooky, weird and wacky past haunted us until we gave in and created the
Beyond Bizarre tour.”
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the article
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Valley
Rangers Paranormal Investigators
164 Harmon Avenue
-
Cranston
,
RI
02910
May
1, 2005
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Daniel J. Bidondi, Jr. (valley_rangers@hotmail.com)
Days
and Evenings: (401) 996-1617
-
PRESS
CONFERENCE & PHOTO OP –
7:45pm
Tuesday
May 3rd at
Cumberland
Monastery
Cumberland
,
Rhode
Island
AT
LEAST ONE DEMONSTRATION OF
PARANORMAL
PHENOMENA HAS
PROVEN PREDICTABLE TIME AND AGAIN
Valley
Rangers Paranormal Investigators who have studied the Monastery
and Dog Track for more than 10 years will meet up with Shelley
King the noted world traveled Spiritualist who has investigated
the paranormal in places ranging from
Gettysburg
to Castles in the
UK
to the
Hearthside
Mansion
built in 1810 in
Lincoln
,
Rhode Island
.
The
Valley Rangers have announced that spiritual energy is growing
so powerful in some historic Seaconke Wampanoag
Indian ancestral areas that at
least one
demonstration of paranormal phenomena has proven predictable
time and again, ensuring a successful news story and
media event.
The
Valley Rangers Paranormal Investigators is strictly an
organization chartered in
Rhode Island
and
Massachusetts
dedicated to
researching the paranormal.
It is not in any way connected to or controlled by
politics, Indians, casinos, land claims or any other matter.
The
Rangers have been investigating paranormal phenomena in
Northern Rhode Island
for over 10 years.
Press
Conference and photo op will be at:
7:45pm Tuesday May 3rd at Cumberland Monastery
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Valley
Rangers Paranormal Investigators
164 Harmon Avenue
-
Cranston
,
RI
02910
-
PRESS RELEASE –
May
4, 2005
FOR
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact:
Daniel J. Bidondi, Jr. (valley_rangers@hotmail.com)
Days
and Evenings: (401) 996-1617
PARANORMAL
YIELDS ARCHAEOLOGICAL FIND
Ghosts expose
Historic Wampanoag Settlement
The
Valley Rangers Paranormal Investigators finally showed the press
why they believe at least one spirit lives in the cross at the
Monastery in
Cumberland
.
With onlookers present, Dan Bidondi showed evidence of a
moving electrical magnetic field in the cedar timber cross that
has been there since before the Monastery fire in 1950.
Electricians consulted could not explain the readings,
and photos shown by the Investigators showed what they claimed
was a spiritual entity around the cross.
As
further proof, Rangers offered to guide onlookers on the mile
long trek to the archaelogical site they claimed to have found
while following an “entity”, an orb of light to the remains
of an ancient Seaconke Wampanoag encampment.
Over
rough terrain the observers, including
REUTERS photographer Jessica Rinaldi,
(the first to photograph the site) and WHJJ News Reporter Kevin
Willette followed their guides, tripping in the mosquito
infested darkness to witness remains of an encampment that may
predate colonial contact.
Once
there, a square of rocks with larger rocks at four points for a
fire within a circle of stones with a predominant red one for a
seat which geologists identified as a “Wamsutta” stone
(named after the son of the great Wampanoag Chief Massasoit.
Seaconke Wampanoags were the Indians who met the Pilgrims
and helped them during the first hard winters.
The
increased paranormal activity at Lincoln Dog Track and the
Monastery have caused several paranormal investigative groups
including “Paraex Research Foundation” (Paraex.org), “Volusia
Investigations into the Paranormal”, and some associates of
“The Atlantic Paranormal Association” to monitor the current
situation.
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