Booze & Boos

21/04/2025

It's ancient, but it's excellent. Columbus Ghost Tours wishes all our peeps a very happy Easter!

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19/04/2025

There is a lovely ominous sky for the first Night at Green Lawn Cemetery Tour this evening. Thanks to for the photo ! Tickets at www.columbusghosttours.com

15/04/2025

We had a great time on our final tour and investigation at The Jury Room. Join us this Saturday for a tour and investigation at The Ringside!

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10/04/2025

Thanks to Greg & Lisa B. and all the good people in the Burr Oak community who turned out for my Dark Delaware presentation last night. The room might look light and airy, but I filled it with tales of murder, mysterious disappearances, haunted houses and a voice that claimed to come straight from hell!

04/04/2025

After 13 years of saying "if I could show you what it looks like on the other side of this basement door," just made it as easy as the flick of a light switch. Thanks to last night's tour guests and our friends from in welcoming back Char Bar - we've missed you!!!💚👻🍻

31/03/2025

This Thursday, Columbus Ghost Tours is thrilled to return to a favorite old haunt on our Booze & Boos Tavern Tour! While they were closed for repairs, the owners of this special place did some alterations to make it even creeper than it was before! We can't wait to show you and share the stories. There are just a few spaces left - tickets at www.columbusghosttours.com

31/03/2025

Here are some snaps from yesterday's tours and investigations at the Columbus Cultural Arts Center and The Jury Room historic tavern. Congrats to on winning the Mister Bee Mothman Spice-Blend Potato Chips! Thanks for sharing. They were delicious! 🦋🥔😃👻

25/03/2025

Here is this week's schedule for Columbus Ghost Tours. This includes a behind-the-scenes tour and investigation at The Jury Room on the 166th anniversary of a tragic event that is thought to have spawned the building's ghosts!!! Even better, we will be giving one lucky ghost hunter at The Jury Room a bag of the highly sought-after Mister Bee Mothman style potato chips! They're delicious! Tix at www.columbusghosttours.com

23/03/2025

We had a long but fun Saturday giving tours at Green Lawn Cemetery, downtown Columbus, the Thurber House and Ringside Cafe. It was great to see a few familiar faces and make lots of new friends! Join Columbus Ghost Tours next Saturday for a paranormal investigation of the Cultural Arts Center from 7-9pm and/or The Jury Room from 10:30pm-12:30am. Tickets at www.columbusghosttours.com

22/03/2025

21/03/2025

This afternoon, I stopped by the Barbour County Historical Museum in Philippi, WV to visit the Philippi Mummies. These are the mummified remains of two female patients of the Trans-Allegheny Lunatic Asylum who, after their deaths, were embalmed by a man named Graham Hamrick.

Hamrick's methods proved very successful and the two corpses traveled the world with P.T. Barnum's Circus, but were eventually returned to the farmer-turned-undertaker in Philippi. They were forgotten about for many years, until they were purchased at an estate sale for a member of the Hamrick family.

The mummies were damaged in a flood during the late 1980s, at which point they were repaired and displayed at the museum.

The most heartbreaking aspect of the display is a letter written by one of the women stating that she had recovered and that she would be home soon. She also asked the reader to pass the letter on to her husband as she hasn't received any communications from him since she was brought to the Asylum and that he could come get her.

The letter had been marked "return to sender" unopened and was one of the meager possessions found after the woman's death.

Incidentally, Philippi is also the birthplace of Ted Cassidy, the actor who portrayed Lurch in the original Addams Family television show. The museum recently started leaning into this detail and now has a large display that includes his facial cast. The town even hosts Lurch Fest each summer - for those interested in all things Addams Family.

If you ever find yourself in North Central West Virginia, give the Barbour County Historical Museum and its mummies a visit!

18/03/2025

POV: You're a sentient rear view mirror on our Beelzebus Tour. There are still a couple of spaces open for this Friday, March 21st. Tickets at www.columbusghosttours.com

17/03/2025

This is Christchurch Cathedral at the corner of Dublin, Ireland's popular Temple Bar district. It was Bram Stoker's inspiration for Dracula's castle, but the crypts have an even darker story to tell...

In August 1822, a Lieutenant Blacker descended into the crypts of Christchurch to attend the funeral of his colonel, Sir Samuel Auchmuty. Wandering through the gloom of the passages, he inadvertently entered a tunnel that connected the cathedral to a courthouse on the other side of the River Liffey. Two days later, a search party found Black's skeleton, picked clean by a large species of river rats that populated the tunnel. In his right hand was his broken sword, and surrounding him were the remains of approximately 250 rats that he had cut down in the darkness before being overwhelmed and consumed alive. His muffled screams are said to be heard on occasion near the entrance to the now-sealed tunnel. The cathedral still has the sword, though it is not on display.

However, they do display the mummified remains of a rat and a cat that were found stuck in a tube of the pipe organ there - a game of cat and mouse that ended poorly for all involved! Anyhoo...

A heartfelt, safe and happy St. Patrick's Day to each and every one!

16/03/2025

Start off your week with a pint of Guinness or a Shamrock Shake and end it with a tour of Columbus, Ohio's most haunted locations! There are still a couple of spaces available on our Spring Equinox Beelzebus Tour! ☘️👻

Tickets at www.columbusghosttours.com

15/03/2025

This is one of the ancient passage tombs at Loughcrew Cairns, in central Ireland. Archeologists date these to 3300 BCE - 700 years before the first Egyptian pyramids! This relic is located on the Hill of the Witch (or Caileach). Legend states that a witch jumped from hilltop to hilltop, holding a large number of stones in her apron. Each time she landed, boulders spilled out of her apron, creating the passage tombs. On the last hill, the witch landed poorly, twisted her ankle, broke her neck and died. She was buried on the spot and her lonely grave is said to be marked by a standing stone near the village of Patrickstown. Anyhoo...

Thanks for reading and Happy St Patrick's Day from Columbus Ghost Tours!

14/03/2025

Skyrne Church is a 15th-century ruin that sits at the center of a large hilltop graveyard just two miles east of the famed Hill of Tara in County Meath, Ireland

A shy nun is said to haunt the place, often vanishing as soon as she is spotted. The apparition of a tall man and his hunting hound are also seen strolling across the hillside on certain moonlit nights.

Recently, a photographer found himself in a tug-o'-war with a ghost here. When he placed his camera lens through the bars of a gated off window, something inside the tower grabbed his camera strap and it was all he could do to prevent his equipment from being pulled into the closed off ruin.

The most harrowing story, however, comes from the nearby Skyrne Castle. In 1740, a young woman named Lilith Palmerston found herself the target of a neighboring widower, Phelim Sellers, affections. After his advances were rejected, the man became enraged and murdered Lilith by forcing a bouquet of foxglove down her throat. Afterward, he fled but was eventually captured and hanged for the murder. His might be the ghost of an overweight man in 18th-century clothing seen at the castle. Lilith, however, appears as a lady in white, fleeing across the grounds with her hands at her neck. Occasionally, her screams are also heard echoing across the landscape, as she is seemingly doomed to repeat her final moments of life for all eternity. Anyhoo...

Thanks for reading and Happy St Patrick's Day from Columbus Ghost Tours! ☘️👻

13/03/2025

Top o' the evenin' to ya'! We've got a lite schedule this week, but have some exciting announcements coming up soon! Sláinte! 👻🍻☘️

06/03/2025

Join us this Saturday, from 11pm-1am, for a rare opportunity to tour and participate in a paranormal investigation of The Ringside Cafe. After the cafe has closed for the night, we'll set up shop and reach out to those who are said to linger in this historic restaurant. Get tickets for this unique event, available exclusively through Columbus Ghost Tours, by visiting www.columbusghosttours.com

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