#ghost-tours

#ghost-tours

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania -- If you're looking for a fright this Halloween season, Ghost tours of Philadelphia has you covered. The guided tours will take you through various locations around the old city section of the city. Each place comes with its own chilling and ghostly tales. One of the most notable locations would be Washington Square, formally known as Congo square where it was a burial ground for Africans. It is also said that around 2,000 soldiers who fought in the Revolutionary war are still buried there as well.

The result was the San Francisco Ghost Hunt, a 90-minute evening-based walk from Japantown to Pacific Heights that combines local history with staged effects to highlight the literal and figurative spirits of the city. It covers deceased figures like Mary Ellen Pleasant and Gertrude Atherton, as well as the historic Majestic Hotel, where the tour usually ends. Some of this year's October tours conclude with a walkthrough of the Majestic's infamous Room 407, purported home of the specter "Lady Lisa".

Located off 162nd Street in New York City's Washington Heights neighborhood, there is a historic mansion dating back to the Revolutionary War that is said to be terribly haunted. The Morris-Jumel Mansion, now a museum, functioned as George Washington's military headquarters during the Battle of Harlem Heights. Later, former vice president Aaron Burr married its owner, Eliza Jumel, who was one of the wealthiest women in America upon her death in 1865.