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World’s Spookiest Ghost

Tours

Brace yourself for the ultimate,

most spooky ghost tours!

As thrilling as ghost tours are, they can often be
a little … underwhelming. But some places
have taken their ghost tours to a whole new
level -- with guest participation. Check out a
variety of truly scary ghost tours, where ghost
enthusiasts can spend the night in haunted
places, experience paranormal activity with
ghost-detecting devices and communicate with
the dead. These are the ultimate, interactive
ghost experiences!

Q Station
This popular heritage hotel inside
Sydney Harbour National Park is a former
quarantine station from the 1800s. Immigrants
from 1830 to 1884 who were suspected of
carrying contagious diseases were quarantined
here for an average 40 days. Plenty of deaths attraction runs until the beginning of November, Death Trivia
occurred in this station -- almost 600! -- and and it’s one of the rare times the public will
some individuals never seemed to leave. One of have a chance to enter the building.
the most haunted places in all of the Australia,
Q Station offers a variety of ghost tours, but the The Stanley Hotel A body decomposFollowers of the
most thrilling is the Ghostly Sleepover. After a This hotel is so haunted that it inspired Zoroastrian religion leave their dead atop a
late-night tour of the most haunted buildings, Stephen King to write The Shining. Opened in local tower, where vultures handle the nasty
guests have the opportunity to bring their own 1909, the historic hotel was designed by business of disposing the spiritually impure
sleeping bags and stay the night in the former architect F.O. Stanley, and is notorious for its flesh. es four times as fast in water than on
doctors’ and nurses’ rooms, infamous for spirit paranormal visitors. F.O.'s wife can still be seen land.
activity. and often plays the piano, children are heard
laughing late in the night, and objects go A dentist invented the Electric Chair.
Hack Green Nuclear Bunker missing. While Stephen King stayed in room
Not for the faint of heart! At Hack Green 217, the fourth floor seems to be the hot spot for A human head remains conscious for about
Nuclear Bunker, one of the UK's most secret ghost activity. The Stanley Hotel’s Ghost Hunt 15 to 20 seconds after it is decapitated.
defense sites, paranormal tours are held in offers guests the chance to find (and see!)
complete darkness and total isolation. The ghosts with actual ghost hunters. A murder is committed in the US every 23
bunker’s site has been home to many battles and minutes, which makes about 22852 murders
deaths for more than 500 years. The bunker Winchester Mystery House each year.
itself is a vast underground labyrinth of Legend has it this mansion was
corridors and creepy rooms with paranormal specifically built to accommodate spirits, thanks About 100 people choke to death on ballpoint
investigations and tours ending around 4 a.m. to the kooky woman who lived here. Sarah pens each year.
(though times can be extended upon request). Winchester held nightly seances to commune
Ghost fans can bring their own sound-recording with the dead, including her daughter and Ancient Egyptians shaved off their eyebrows
equipment should they want to capture the voice husband. The house contains secret to mourn the death of their cats.
of the Commanding Officer, a tall, broad- passageways, twisting hallways, a window built
shouldered, intimidating ghost who has been into the floor and stairs that lead … nowhere. Burials in America deposit 827,060 gallons
spotted standing in doorways. Also keep an eye The house offers guided daily tours, and of embalming fluid—formaldehyde,
out for 2 ghost dogs, one of which supposedly sightings and incidents are reported frequently, methanol, and ethanol—into the soil each
bit a medium. even by those who previously didn’t believe in year. Cremation pumps dioxins, hydrochloric
ghosts! The annual “Fright Nights” give visitors acid, sulfur dioxide, and carbon dioxide into
The Blumhouse of Horrors the opportunity to experience a large, interactive the air.
Downtown Los Angeles's most haunted maze throughout September and October. []
Cancer is the second leading cause of death in
theater is normally closed to the public -- but
Orange County, California. Number one is
throughout October the building is open for a
heart disease.
truly thrilling journey into the past. The Variety
Arts Theatre saw a chilling tale unfold in the
Cockroaches can live for nine days without
1930s, when the theater owner’s wife
desperately wanted to be a magician's assistant. their heads, at which point they die of
starvation.
So she climbed into a magic box … and never
came back. Said to be haunted also by a
Diabetes is the fourth leading cause of death
deceased actor in a Shakespearean costume,
in the U.S., accounting for about 180,000
Variety Arts Theatre is reopening as a scary
deaths per year.
experience brought to visitors by Blumhouse
Productions (which produced the movies
Dr. Alice Chase, who wrote 'Nutrition for
Paranormal Activity and Insidious). Even with
Health', died of malnutrition.
40 actors in staged scares, you’re bound to
experience the real ghosts that linger inside. The