Screencap taken from www.cleveland.com
Scare yourselves silly with the inaugural 2013 Halloween Haunted Cleveland Ghost Tours, evening-long bus tours that will run every Friday through November 1. Participants can expect to explore the sites of some of the city’s worst disasters, as well as some of Cleveland’s most infamous crimes, including the 1930s Torso murders in Kingsbury Run and the disappearance of schoolgirl Beverly Potts in 1951.
The tours are led by one Chuck Gove, Cleveland homicide detective by day and fearless ghost hunter by night.
“Cleveland has so much history and so many old buildings,” he says. “It makes sense that we might have a lot of ghosts, and that people would believe in them.”
Other stops on the bus tours include the Soldiers and Sailors Monument at Public Square, where the hidden underground catacombs are rumored to be haunted; Franklin Castle; the side of the 1944 East Ohio Gas Explosion that devastated several city blocks and claimed 130 casualties; the Police Museum at the Justice Center; and the Midwest Railway Preservation Society, an eerie train graveyard which serves as the final resting place of allegedly haunted steam engines and locomotives.
The tours kick off at 6pm every Friday at the Powerhouse parking lot in the west bank on Cleveland’s Flats. Tickets cost $50 each and are available at www.hauntedcleveland.net. They include a bus tour, water and snacks.
