Ghosts, Candlelight and Williamsburg
By Charlie. Filed in Travel |
Who would suspect that the most entertaining thing to do in Williamsburg, Virginia, might be to hunt down ghosts? For the last fifteen years, the Original Ghosts of Williamsburg Candlelight Tour has been named the Number One Most Requested Evening Program. Perhaps it shouldn’t surprise me. Ghost tours are extremely popular throughout the world; I’ve been on them in London and Edinburgh, in Albuquerque and New Orleans, even in downtown Hollywood. And when one considers ghosts, one doesn’t think about modern ghosts, recent passings, as it were, one thinks, instead, about the past. For that, Colonial Williamsburg is a fine fit to pursue its many hauntings.
This particular ghost tour offers a guide who will take you through the city streets of Colonial Williamsburg, leading you by candlelight (perhaps to make the experience just that much more eerie). A number of past visitors with the Original Ghosts tour have taken some fairly startling photographs: mysterious faces and bodies behind windows (taken in front of the Bruton Parish Church, about a month ago); weird floating orbs and ghost mist in the air (taken over on W. Nicholson St.). Despite the many interesting photos, I remain a skeptic, especially about orb images, which often seem to me to be more than dust captured in the camera’s light.
The ghost tour through Colonial Williamsburg is based on L.B. Taylor’s book, “The Ghosts of Williamsburg.” Taylor is the author of 18 books filled with stories and eyewitness accounts, providing historical background and information about the culture and buildings of the time the ghosts first appeared. In fact, Taylor’s book is a good thing to read once you get back from the tour, safe in your hotel room in Williamsburg, to really delve into this matter of ghosts. Perhaps I shouldn’t be so skeptical. It’s more likely than not in a city that dates back to 1632, which is plenty of time to build up the ghostly population.
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