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Dare to be scared? Orlando Ghost Tours offers the chance for anyone to be a Ghost Hunter. Each tour is investigative, allowing the visitors to use equipment in a reportedly haunted location to aid in verifying local stories, as well as have a good time.
Downtown Orlando hosts a two-hour walking tour. This begins with Paranormal 101, an introduction to what ghosts are. For example, the guide explains how ghosts are energy based on the Law of Conservation of Energy where energy cannot be destroyed; instead it can only change forms. This energy has a charge since it is made up of electrons and protons, just as living people are, and that is why one of the investigative tools used is an Electromagnetic Field detector.
Paranormal 101 also include the different classification of ghosts; for example, genuine haunts are when ghosts are conscious but don’t realize they are dead. These crave attention and will open/close doors, change television channels, or turn on/off lights. Next is an object haunt. This is when the paranormal activity circles around an object, like a woman’s wedding ring, and will cease when the object has been removed. Third is a residual haunt. An event leaves a mark in the space causing it to replay the exact same way every time; for example, the Battle of Gettysburg. Lastly, the most misrepresented is the Poltergeist. This occurs normally around a family with a teenage daughter going through puberty. She doesn’t realize what she is doing, but the psychic history in her family causes her to have telekinetic episodes where her subconscious tries to organize her stressful life, like stacking chairs.
The second investigative tour is at the Greenwood Cemetery. Fortunately, Orlando Ghost Tours has permission to conduct this two-hour walking tour at night. The ghost stories through this historic location tell of the founders of Orlando and pass by civil war gravesites.
Orlando Ghost Tours’ most active site is the Belleview Biltmore hotel in Clearwater. Here the most common report by investigators, guests, and hotel staff are the ghosts of children, but they aren’t sad. A child’s ghost is often oblivious to being dead, quite happy playing all day with no rules, and might not have been a child at death. An old woman could return to the age she was happiest, in death.
One thing that the Orlando Ghost Tours likes to stress is that they have not hired actors or forced their guides to dress in period clothing and speak with a fake British accent. Instead, they offer an educational and active tour to enlighten and entertain guests. So, grab a tape recorder, camera, and put your ghost hunting skills to the test!
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