Somehow, summer just isn’t the season for ghost tours. Winter, however, is a different matter. Here, then, is a tale of three cities:

– The City of Brotherly Love harbors its own secrets, tucked away in the shadows, join the Ghost Tour of Philadelphia for a guarded candlelight trek through the hidden areas. The back streets of Society Hill and Independence Park take on a whole new cast come twilight.

New York, New York! This is a city of myth and mystics, of deathly scandals and shadowy sightings. Ghosts of New York shows you a side of Manhattan you’ve never imagined – mysterious sightings, stranger-than-life tales, apparitions that will open your ordered mind. Each walking tour is 90 minutes long and covers just a bit less than a mile.

– America’s Second City isn’t about to be outdone by the Big Apple when it comes to hauntings, not this town. It counts among its more infamous residents Mrs. O’Leary’s cow (the animal really didn’t mean to cause such a ruckus) and Al Capone. Chicago Hauntings Tours gives a whole new twist to the saying “The Dead of Winter.” Get a really warm coat, steel yourself to the city’s howling winds, and head out to find some haunts.

Story by Jerry Chandler

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Author Jerry Chandler
Jerry ChandlerJerry Chandler loves window seats – a perch with a 35,000-foot view of it all. His favorite places: San Francisco and London just about any time of year, autumn in Manhattan and the seaside in winter. An award-winning aviation and travel writer for 30 years, his goal is to introduce each of his grandkids to their first flight.

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