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These are some places you can start your ghost hunting at. These are suggestions and you should not limit yourself to just these, spirits can be everywhere. Don’t let the age of a building or area fool you. The house I lived in for 29 years which had ghostly activity in for 26 years is only 70 years old but it is built on land that was settled and lived on in 1685. Also, remember, do not trespass, Against the Law.

* Cemeteries - The age of the cemetery doesn’t matter but the older it is, the more time it has had to accumulate restless spirits. Why cemeteries? Well there are theories such as they are portals to the other side or that some spirits are drawn to their former bodies in their grave.

* Schools - Schools and former sites of schools may have the build up of psychic energies and imprints of all the highly emotional events that have transpired there.

* Theaters - The actors have run the gambit of human emotions inside the walls of a theater plus many have interesting hauntings attached to them.

* Battlefields - These are nice locations simply because of their nature. Many violent deaths in one area will always hold some spirits and psychic energy there.

* Churches - There is a long history of the faithful returning to the church they worshipped at. They may be looking for the salvation they were promised and cannot find.

* Hotels/Motels/Boarding houses - Many dark dealing and highly emotional events take places in these rooms.

* Historic Locations - Many historic buildings, because of their age, have had more time to have spirits attach to it. These buildings are often open the public and can give you a easy place to start. Many even have known histories of hauntings and you may be able to gain access to the building after hours after speaking with the caretakers.

* Books on Local Haunted Places - This is what I used at first to get into some places. They let an author publish the fact the place is haunted so there is a chance they may allow you in to take a look.

The word on the World Wide Web is the world’s first ghost walk or haunted tour was first established in the city of York, England in 1973. Since then, many have popped up throughout Great Britain, the United States and for the most part the entire world. In each case, one or two people lead a group of other people through the streets to haunted houses, haunted buildings, crime scenes and local cemeteries, pointing out local ghost stories and urban legends along the way.This might take some work.

Beginning a haunted walking tour is easy, all you need is ghosts! Ghost stories and local urban legends of your city can easily be gathered from books and word of mouth stories. If you live in an historic town or city with a rich history of stories and events, you’re in a far better position than someone who doesn’t!

Research your baby ghost steps before you begin to walk with the spirits. Every ghost tour certainly does. Many ghost tours have humble roots as plain historic city tours. Others started just as a one time thing have turned into full blown million dollar business.

To begin your research ask questions, visit your city’s historic areas, go to museums, hotels and places of interest and begin your own haunted paranormal fact gathering. The mistake a lot of first time tour guides face is setting themselves apart from other tours. Often ghost tours are started by ex- ghost tour walk guides that have worked for other haunted or non-haunted tour companies. Always it seems all they do is take a story or what they learned while working for an established tour company and don’t change the information, following the same route and haunts of their former employers. Competition is fun, but set up a tour that is distinct and different. Look for new haunted locations, find new stories and set your company apart from the rest.

A great Haunted Ghost Tour to start your own Ghost Hunting should last around 1 -2 hours, and visit at least 8- 10 different haunted places, all with different ghost types and paranormal phenomena associated with each location. The better tours always mix real spooky stories with colorful tales of local history, famous people or strange haunted real life characters and folklore. And often guides tell what unexplained paranormal things have happened when others have taken your particular tour in the recent past, including stories of ghost sightings or encounters and ghost photos taken on the tour.

Many ghost tour operators visit the local history section of libraries and start building up a casebook of alleged hauntings, supernatural occurrences, strange customs and beliefs; focus your searches on unusual historical characters, locations of public murders, and mysteries, etc. Locals often tell great tales of demons, ghouls, witches… these are the best haunted stories to find and learn; few do the research to make them better, though. You don’t have to stick to the book! Story telling is a personal thing!

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