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Oct. 31, 2006, 12:05 PM EST / Source: The Associated Press

Legend has it that University Hall is haunted. That’s the story anyway. Maybe you believe it, perhaps you don’t — but it’s a safe bet you’ll encounter the lore on the Providence Ghost Tour, a popular weekend walking tour to places of murders, suicides and reported spooky sightings on the city’s historic East Side.

Similar tours have blossomed around the country, from the antebellum south to colonial New England to the west, with guides marketing the macabre tales of their cities to those with an interest in the supernatural — or simply eager for a cheap spook during Halloween season.

“It’s not as hocus-pocus as it was before where you had people going around trying to scare you. It’s trying to be a little bit more factual,” said Mike Gertrudes, a 26-year-old entrepreneur who founded the Providence Ghost Tour this year with his friend Courtney Edge, also 26.

Tour organizers, explaining the industry’s popularity, say people are increasingly comfortable about discussing their paranormal sensations. The supernatural also figures prominently in contemporary television and film — think “The Sixth Sense” — and technology like digital cameras and camera phones gives believers hope they can capture an orb or apparition and see it appear instantly on their screens.

“I really think the people are fascinated by the supernatural, the life afterwards, the spirit, what happens to our spirit,” said Jim McCabe, whose New England Ghost Tours offers walking tours in Boston and bus trips to other places in Massachusetts.

McCabe’s tour includes stops at the Omni Parker House Hotel, where he points out a mirror on the mezzanine floor that Charles Dickens rehearsed in front of before literary readings. The ghost of the long-dead hotel founder, Harvey Parker, is said to still tend after his guests.

The tour also capitalizes on the city’s rich Revolutionary War history with a visit to the Central Burying Ground, where McCabe says the remains of hundreds of redcoats were uncovered in the late 19th century.

McCabe’s business started in the mid-1990s with bus tours to Salem and Marblehead, Mass., on Boston’s North Shore. It has since expanded, operating from May through November, and attracts more women than men.

“I think women are more spiritualistic,” McCabe said. “They’re more attuned to the spiritual world than men are.”

In Providence, on a recent wind-whipped and cold Friday evening, about 40 customers assemble for the start of the tour in a park at the base of the East Side. They huddle round a statue of Roger Williams, Rhode Island’s founding father, and learn that his remains lie below.

The guides offer a dose of deadpan humor. Participants are warned to stay on the sidewalks lest they get hit by a car and become another ghost. And as the group ambles through the cold, Gertrudes, mustering the exuberance of a football coach rallying his players, hollers out, “Are you excited?”

The tour, which runs Fridays through Sundays, lasts about an hour and 45 minutes. Several spooky sites are dormitories at the Rhode Island School of Design, including one residence hall that is said to have spirits roaming the basement and a parlor with a television that turns itself on and off.

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Sir Christopher Frank Carandini Lee CBE, CStJ (27 May 1922 – 7 June 2015) was an English actor, singer and author. With a career spanning nearly 70 years, Lee was well known for portraying villains and became best known for his role as Count Dracula in a sequence of Hammer Horror films, a typecasting he always lamented. His other film roles include Francisco Scaramanga in the James Bond film The Man with the Golden Gun (1974), Count Dooku in the Star Wars prequel trilogy (2002 and 2005), and Saruman in the Lord of the Rings film trilogy (2001–2003) and the Hobbit film trilogy (2012–2014).

Lee was knighted for services to drama and charity in 2009, received the BAFTA Fellowship in 2011, and received the BFI Fellowship in 2013.  Lee considered his best performance to be that of Pakistan’s founder Muhammad Ali Jinnah in the biopic Jinnah (1998), and his best film to be the British cult film The Wicker Man (1973).  He frequently appeared opposite Peter Cushing in many horror films, and late in his career had roles in six Tim Burton films. 

Always noted as an actor for his deep, strong voice, Lee was also known for his singing ability, recording various opera and musical pieces between 1986 and 1998, and the symphonic metal album Charlemagne: By the Sword and the Cross in 2010, after having worked with several metal bands since 2005. The heavy metal follow-up Charlemagne: The Omens of Death was released on 27 May 2013, Lee’s 91st birthday.  He was honored with the “Spirit of Metal” award at the 2010 Metal Hammer Golden Gods Awards ceremony.

I don’t believe that ghosts are “spirits of the dead” because I don’t
believe in death. In the multiverse, once you’re possible, you exist. And
once you exist, you exist forever one way or another. Besides, death is
the absence of life, and the ghosts I’ve met are very much alive.

What we call ghosts are lifeforms just as you and I are.
-Noted paranormal investigator Paul F. Eno

Dear Friends:

The term “paranormal” dates back around 1915 and has come to define experiences that lie outside “the range of normal
experience or scientific explanation” or that “indicates phenomena that are understood to be outside of science’s current ability to explain or measure.” And there are thousands upon thousands of stories
throughout folklore, in popular culture, and in personal experiences that can be labeled “paranormal phenomena.”

Today, the term “paranormal” implies almost all things that seems impossible by known natural laws, (I stress known). Then adding the prolific videos/photos that are being added every day to the internet, the paranormal can be walking stick figures, obscure and vague grainy images of who knows what, UFOs, people acting strangely or under what appears to be possession, rocks moving by themselves, time travelers, orbs, dust, etc., etc.…and the list goes on!  It appears that there are more things paranormal than has been scientifically proven.  When will it end???

For the sake of Halloween, the paranormal is the template for creating all things spooky!  The paranormal is an endless supply of content that can be creatively exploited for making fantasy fun nights in October, scares in the movies, in music/sound effects and TV shows. Real or paranormal, who cares.  It comes down to one important human psychology, and that is We Love to Be Scared!!!

So, bring on the paranormal please and let the party commence.