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Graveyard Shift Ghost Tours return in June and July for some summer chills! 

 


 



Hartford's most popular ghost tour returns for some summer chills during June and July!

The tours will entertain, educate and perhaps frighten guests on Friday and Saturday, June 26 and 27, and also on Friday and Saturday, July 24 and 25. Tours step off at 6 p.m., 7 p.m., 8 p.m., and 9 p.m.

After three eventful investigations by TAPS for SyFy's Ghost Hunters and an episode of My Ghost Story, The Mark Twain House creeeeeeaks open its front door for nocturnal tours. 

 

On the Graveyard Shift Ghost Tour participants will hear about these investigations -- and learn about Mark Twain's own interest in the supernatural. Spiritualism and ghostly tales were a big part of the Gilded Age, an age of uncertainty, materialism and spectacular credulity much like today.

 

Don't believe in ghosts? Decide for yourself on these evening visits to the Clemens mansion. An hour-long guided tour takes you through the main house, the servants' wing, and down into the basement, normally off-limits to visitors.  

 

Filled with haunted history, dark tales and Victorian traditions surrounding seances and spiritualism, these tours are as educational as they are goosebump-inducing.  


Tickets: $22 for adults / $17 for members / $15 for children age 16 and under (recommended ages 10 and up). Call (860) 280-3130 or visit marktwainhouse.org and click on Events to purchase tickets online.

 

Tsponsored by Tsunami Tsolutions.

 

 

The Mark Twain House & Museum (www.marktwainhouse.org) has restored the author's Hartford, Connecticut, home, where Samuel L. Clemens and his family lived from 1874 to 1891.


Twain wrote his most important works during the years he lived there, including Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court.

In addition to providing tours of Twain's restored home, a National Historic Landmark, the institution offers activities and educational programs that illuminate Twain's literary legacy and provide information about his life and times.

The house and museum at 351 Farmington Ave. are open Monday through Saturday, 9:30 a.m. - 5:30 p.m., and Sunday, 11:00 a.m. - 5:30 p.m. They are closed Tuesdays during March. For more information, call 860-247-0998 or visit www.marktwainhouse.org.

Programs at The Mark Twain House & Museum are made possible in part by support from the Connecticut Department of Economic and Community Development, Office of the Arts, and the Greater Hartford Arts Council United Arts Campaign.