Sunday, December 23, 2007

Ghost tour

So Friday night we went to dinner in Williamsburg at the Polo Club. It's like a Ruby Tuesday or something like that but its not a chain, and its owned by some family locally. It was pretty yummy, and I was ate lots of horrible fatty things and I enjoyed every bite. We then went on to Colonial Williamsburg and walked around while we waited for the tour to begin. There were about 15 people as well that took the tour too, but we were the only local ones. Everyone else was pretty much from out of state. You meet in front of the bookstore and then you walk down to the William and Mary Campus where they tell some ghost stories about the President's house. Apparently the president's house is really really old, how old I can't remember, but it's old. Anyways, every president and there family has had problems with a particular door staying shut in a room. Even if they would lock it or put furniture against the door the door would still open. Well 42 years ago a President living there decided that it had to be something with the structure and made some workers look into it, and under that very room they found a skeleton under the door, and ever since they removed the skeleton the door behaves itself. They told another story about the house, and then we walked down to Bruton Parrish Church and he told stories about the graveyard and sightings around the church, then we went to the Wyeth house and he told another story about Lady Skipwith and that her ghost is sometimes seen or heard there. After that he just told some historical stuff. It was sooo freaking cold that night, and the tour lasted about an hour and a half. I would rate it so so. It would have been cooler if they took you inside some of the places at night. Dave ditched our group and went over to the graveyard at the church to take pictures like a goof. He took a ton of other pictures on the tour and after we looked at them and didn't see any caspers so no ghosts lol.

I hear Richmond has a ghost tour as well and I wouldn't mind going to that either sometime for fun. I know I am a huge nerd, but I have always liked scary movies and ghost crap.

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