(Feb. 25, 2016) Chesapeake ghost and graveyard bus tours return this winter with a four-hour experience in Berlin and Ocean City on Saturday, March 5.
Tickets cost $32 to ride on a comfortable bus with bathrooms as creator Mindie Burgoyne takes participants to haunted sites and tells stories about local landmarks in northern Worcester County.
As of Monday afternoon, the bus is about half full with 25 seats remaining.
“Ocean City is the most interesting and my favorite of the tours,” Burgoyne said. “It is an unlikely town, was never a hometown and unique with no graveyards. All stories are happy, romantic and provide a vacation for visitors.”
The Ocean City portion of the bus tour visits outer lying areas not featured on her Chesapeake ghost walks.
Participants will have the opportunity to stroll the haunted Rackliffe House grounds on Assateague Island and visit Capt. William Carhart’s grave in West Ocean City.
“We add sites like Captain’s Hill [residential development] and take the bus by Rackliffe House,” Burgoyne said. “You get out and experience walking the same path where it is rumored John Rackliffe was murdered by his slaves. It is very powerful.”
The bus also makes a stop in front of the Dunes Manor Hotel on 28th Street, where she will tell tales of founder Thelma Conner continuing to be a presence more than 16 years after her death.
“We will stop at the Life-Saving Station Museum. I love telling the Trimper carousel and inlet Indian stories,” Burgoyne said. “I always encourage people to come back and visit the sites.”
In Berlin, Burgoyne takes visitors to St. Paul Episcopal Church cemetery and the Atlantic Hotel to recount spooky stories of its visitors and inhabitants.
The bus will end up in an area where elementals are often spotted and take a trip to the healing tree in front of the Calvin B. Taylor Museum.
“Pieces of the ghost walks will appear and we always hear on every tour people didn’t expect the historical aspect,” Burgoyne said.
Ghost walks will start back up in April and organizers encourage interested parties to get their tickets for the March 5 event before they sell out. The tour runs from 12:30-5 p.m. The bus will leave from the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin.
Visit www.chesapeakeghostwalks.com to purchase tickets. Call 443-735-0771 for more information.
Tickets cost $32 to ride on a comfortable bus with bathrooms as creator Mindie Burgoyne takes participants to haunted sites and tells stories about local landmarks in northern Worcester County.
As of Monday afternoon, the bus is about half full with 25 seats remaining.
“Ocean City is the most interesting and my favorite of the tours,” Burgoyne said. “It is an unlikely town, was never a hometown and unique with no graveyards. All stories are happy, romantic and provide a vacation for visitors.”
The Ocean City portion of the bus tour visits outer lying areas not featured on her Chesapeake ghost walks.
Participants will have the opportunity to stroll the haunted Rackliffe House grounds on Assateague Island and visit Capt. William Carhart’s grave in West Ocean City.
“We add sites like Captain’s Hill [residential development] and take the bus by Rackliffe House,” Burgoyne said. “You get out and experience walking the same path where it is rumored John Rackliffe was murdered by his slaves. It is very powerful.”
The bus also makes a stop in front of the Dunes Manor Hotel on 28th Street, where she will tell tales of founder Thelma Conner continuing to be a presence more than 16 years after her death.
“We will stop at the Life-Saving Station Museum. I love telling the Trimper carousel and inlet Indian stories,” Burgoyne said. “I always encourage people to come back and visit the sites.”
In Berlin, Burgoyne takes visitors to St. Paul Episcopal Church cemetery and the Atlantic Hotel to recount spooky stories of its visitors and inhabitants.
The bus will end up in an area where elementals are often spotted and take a trip to the healing tree in front of the Calvin B. Taylor Museum.
“Pieces of the ghost walks will appear and we always hear on every tour people didn’t expect the historical aspect,” Burgoyne said.
Ghost walks will start back up in April and organizers encourage interested parties to get their tickets for the March 5 event before they sell out. The tour runs from 12:30-5 p.m. The bus will leave from the Atlantic Hotel in Berlin.
Visit www.chesapeakeghostwalks.com to purchase tickets. Call 443-735-0771 for more information.