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Halloween graveyard tours and a graveyard joke
There are haunted prison tours and haunted hotels to sleep in. Here is another way to traipse through some haunts for Halloween.
Graveyards that can seem peaceful during the day are perfect settings at night for finding chills and thrills. If there is a graveyard in a town or city near you, I bet there's a tour. Regardless of the season, graveyards offer a span of history that includes triumph and sorrow. Each one hold clues and mysteries to the people who have lived before us.
Here's a Halloween graveyard joke you can say when you are going past a graveyard: "How many people do you think are dead in there?"
(**Continue for answer and a sampling of graveyard tours.)
- In Alexandria, Virginia, walk along the six blocks on the Ghosts & Graveyard lantern tour with a costumed guide who transports visitors to the 1800s through tales of ghosts and unsolved mysteries. The tour ends in the graveyard. Although Halloween inspired, it goes through November.
- There are several ghost and graveyard tours in Nova Scotia. Several are offered year-round.
- Ghosts and Gravestone Trolley Tours of Boston, Massachusetts goes through November 2. This tour is hosted by a 17th century gravedigger who tells tales of Boston's murderous past. Two of Boston's oldest graveyards are included.
- The same company that offers the tour in Boston has similar tours in Savanah, Georgia and St. Augustine, Florida. The Website has a link to haunted tales and while you browse ghost type sounds put you in the mood.
- In Charleston, South Carolina, there is a tour company that specializes in creepy, scary places. The Charleston Ghost and Graveyard Walking Tours brings people through graveyards where tales of love, loss and prominent people can be found.
- San Antonio, Texas has several ghost tour options. Many included graveyards, whether you walk or take a vehicle. These tours are also offered year-round.
- Like San Antonio, San Diego has several ghost tour options. Several include graveyards. If you scroll down the page, you'll see many links for other ghost and graveyard tours throughout the United States.
- To amp up a graveyard ghost tour, here's one that combines a stay in a haunted hotel with a ghost and graveyard tour. This version is in Columbus, Ohio. The Lofts, a boutique hotel that was once a warehouse in the early 1900s has a ghost called "Lady of the Lofts. There's a package deal that includes a night in the hotel, breakfast and two tickets to "The Haunted Columbus's Best of 20 Years Bus Tour." If that tour is sold out the Columbus Landmark's Foundation has other ghost tours and guided visits through Greenlawn Cemetery. Greenlawn Cemetery is where humorist James Thurber is buried. Perhaps he'd appreciate the graveyard joke.
** Answer to graveyard joke: "All of them."
This joke gets people every time. Here is the joke in its entirety if you forgot the question.
If you are passing by a graveyard say, using a voice that evokes the idea that you are looking for a number: "How many people are dead in there?"
Answer: "All of them."
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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Susan Lewis Sep 1st 2011 2:58PM
I love ghost tours immensely. The best one I have gone to in St. Augustine was put on by Ghost Hearse. We got taken around places at night in a giant hearse! It was totally insane. Their site is http://www.ghosthearse.com if anyone is interested