Miamitown Ghost Tours

I really enjoy each season. I love the anticipation each of the four. I love drinking hot chocolate in winter, road trips with the windows down in summer.

In my own mind, I like to break the year down to two simpler seasons too. Around January I start to look forward to baseball season. In August I look forward to Halloween.

Autumn and Halloween are the best. Flannel shirts are appropriate. I don't want to sound like a cliche, but I could look at colorful leaves on trees all day long. I love scary movies, and I love a little bit of a chill in the air.

I love spookiness. I enjoy hearing scary stories, and feeling a connection to things that are a little scary.

Jenn and I like to travel a lot, obviously. We enjoy making "haunted" stops on our trips.

I will probably write about some of our previous trips later, probably closer to Halloween, but we have visited Salem Massachusetts several times. We've been to the Lizzie Borden House. We have spent time in several supposedly haunted B&Bs. I have lost count of how many "ghost walks" we have taken. Alcatraz, Seattle Underground, The Winchester Mystery Mansion... we've been there. I could go on and on.

I thought now would be a great time to mention our favorite ghost walk again, Miamitown Ghost Tours, since their new book (their SECOND book) is coming out in early June.

The Morris brothers have been doing their ghost walk in Miamitown since 2006. Jeff and Michael are friendly, and excited about their tour. They also seem a little odd themselves. They are eerily casual and calm. Think Lurch from the Adams Family, or the Tall Man from Phantasm. It truly adds to the experience. These guys are all ghost hunting.

They charge $10 a person, BUT there is a $2 off coupon on their website! A group of 4 of us took their tour before Halloween last year, and used the coupon. The Morris brothers spent a solid 2 hours with us on a full and fascinating tour. Not only that, but we asked if they could change the start time a bit because of travel issues, and they were accommodating. It was an off night too, so no one else joined our tour. Our tour was very personal.

I'm not going to do the math here (you can do it in your head if you want) but Jeff and Michael obviously didn't make a ton of money off of my group that night. They stuck around to answer our questions too, and to discuss ghost hunting. This was a very affordable adventure for us (we each used a coupon!) but I am certain Jeff and Michael did not compromise on the quality of our tour.

I am sure that the town where the brothers do their tour is charming during the day, but at night it is a little creepy. I say that in a nice way, it is a cool little town but it just feels strange anyway. I think, even without a ghost tour, this town would feel a bit odd.

I would not want to give anything away about the tour, but there is a bridge and a school (among other stops). The stories told about each were strange, spooky, and dark. Many of their tales involved sad and creepy true crime events.

Of all the tours I have been on, this was the one that felt the most real. As our guide told us about the school (his back was to the school) I was certain I saw something go past a window inside of the building. Our group started to walk to the next stop on the tour. I was about to say something when my friend Fako said that she had seen something go by the same window! Our stories matched.

And the bridge is not your usual "crybaby bridge." There story was researched and frightening. You have to hear them tell about the red truck.

I enjoy every "haunted" tour I take. I can honestly say that I have never been on a bad one. I really enjoy the more bizarre stories that you will not get on the regular bus tour of an area.

Theirs has a very authentically dark feel. 2 guys talking about the town they have researched. No hocus-pocus strings attached gimmicks here. They don't get too excited about specks of dust caught on film.

The thing I appreciate most about Miamitown Ghost Tours, and what separates them from other tours, is that it is a couple of guys running the show. It is not a franchised tour. They are keeping it going year round, not just in September and October. These guys enjoy doing this. Sure, you can take a ghost tour any night of the week in Gatlinburg, New York, or San Francisco. Many towns have one ran around Halloween. This one is ran in a small town all year long!

Check out their website. They have a lot going on right now, with Halloween still many months away. I can't wait to see what they have planned in October!

http://miamitownghosttours.com/