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7 Spooktacular Ghost Tours to Give You Chills

A Tourism Boo-mIn a basement at the Stanley Hotel in Colorado, paranormal investigator Lisa Nyhart pulls out equipment that uses radio frequencies to monitor "electronic voice phenomena" -- words, sounds and noises that supposedly come from the great beyond. Her guests on the hotel's ghost tour huddle close as she calls out into a dark hallway, addressing spirits by name in a firm but friendly voice.Ghost tours have become big business in recent years, helped by TV shows such as the Travel Channel's "Ghost Adventures." People pony up various sums for evenings of spooky storytelling organized by enterprising operators who have developed walking tours around all kinds of historic haunts, from Victorian mansions in the Deep South to underground tunnels in the Pacific Northwest.Paranormal tourism seems to thrive in educated, literate, high-tech societies, notes Tobias McGriff, an author and the founder of Blue Orb Tours in Savannah, Ga. "People immersed in these cultures seem to always be ...

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