The Haunted Cottage unveils the history and hauntings of Harpers Ferry with toursthat delve into the area’s apparitions and the origins of modern paranormal research. As one of the nation’s premier training facilities for paranormal investigation, the Cottage tactfully equips ghost hunters with the knowledge and the spools of flypaper necessary for snaring specters. Before exploring electronic voice phenomena (EVP) and test-driving electromagnetic field (EMF) meters, hunters will study up on the early days of talcum-powder-assisted ghost hunting in the on-site National Paranormal History Museum. After the two-hour tour, workshop, and ghost hunt, guests can peruse the paranormal library, housing more than 300 books chock-full of spooky tables of contents and dog-eared pages stained with Ecto-Cooler.

On the eight-hour overnight ghost hunt, brave guests will spend a night investigating the cottage while piecing together bits of haunted history. In addition to taking EMF readings and temperature tabulations, hunters will sit in on video vigils of the house’s slave quarters, bedrooms, and cellar and perform EVP experiments to record apparitions’ moanings, mutterings, and croonings of game-show themes . Just before dawn, ghost hunters can gather over complementary coffee to discuss their research findings.

• For $10, you get a grand tour, a workshop, and a ghost hunt (up to a $20 value). Children younger than 5 are free.
• For $40, you get an overnight ghost hunt (an $80 value).

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