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Tuesday, January 20, 2015

Somerset Ghost and Graveyard Bus Tour - Sat. 1/24

Somerset Ghost & Graveyard Bus Tour - Sat. 1/24

Bus tour of haunted sites near Princess Anne & Crisfield, led by author Mindie Burgoyne

MARION STATION, MD 

Mindie Burgoyne, author of Haunted Eastern Shore and Haunted Ocean City and Berlin will lead a bus tour this Saturday that will feature 4 historic graveyards and over 20 haunted sites in Somerset County. This is one in a series of six bus tours offered by Burgoyne’s company, Chesapeake Ghost Walks taking place during the colder months of the year - January through March. This Saturday’s tour will include sites between Princess Anne and Crisfield including Burgoyne’s own haunted house in Marion Station. Guests will experience most of the tour from the comfort of a luxury motor coach (restroom on board), but will be able to get off the bus and see the graveyards up close as well as some of the sites in Princess Anne. 

Sites on the tour include Teackle Mansion, the old Somerset jail (very haunted), Samuel Tull House, Cry Baby Bridge (Marion), McCready Hospital, Ananias Crockett House, Ira Todd House, Vance Miles House (Burgoyne’s home), the Crisfield Library, Captain Leonard Tawes’ House and the old Richard Christy house. Graveyards include St. Andrews Episcopal Church, St. Paul’s Church (site of Luke’s Grave), Crisfield Cemetery and the Tull Graveyard. 

Famous ghosts & stories featured on the tour: The ghost of Elizabeth Upshur Teackle, Ghost of Judge Sanford, The Hanged Man in Princess Anne, Little Annie Conner and Cry Baby Bridge, Lukes Grave, Old Ailsey’s Light, Little Olive Tull Left Behind, and the Spirit Vortex in Marion. 

Advance registration is required for the tour as seats on the bus are limited. Cost of tickets is $29 per person. The tour will meet the bus in Princess Anne at 12:30 pm on Saturday, January 24th and the tour will take approximately 4 hours. Guests will not go inside properties. This tour is a driving tour and includes sites in the “country” not on Burgoyne’s ghost walks of Princess Anne and Crisfield that run from April to December.  

GUEST DRAWING FOR BOOK & WALKING TOUR  -   Those who register for the Somerset Ghost & Graveyard Tour will be entered into a drawing done on the bus at the end of the tour for a copy of Burgoyne  s newest book, Haunted Ocean City & Berlin and a gift certificate for two to any one of the ten Eastern Shore ghost walks offered by Burgoynes company, Chesapeake Ghost Walks. 

EVENT: Somerset Ghost & Graveyard Bus Tour
DATE: Saturday, January 24, 2015
TIME: 12:30 pm to 4:30 pm
TICKETS: $29 Advanced Registration required (limited no. of seats)
REGISTER FOR TICKETS:  www.chesapeakeghostwalks.com

For more information and ticket purchase visit, www.chesapeakeghostwalks.com 

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