Ghost Tours Extended To Two Saturdays

HARTFORD — The tremendous response to the Mark Twain House & Museum’s Friday night “Graveyard Shift” ghost tours in October has led the museum to extend tours to two Saturdays: October 17 and October 24. Tours will take place at 6, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15 and 9 pm each weekend.

The tours were scheduled after recent paranormal probes, including one recently conducted by investigators from the Syfy Channel’s famed Ghost Hunters series.

Guides will relate haunted histories of the Clemens family and of the Victorian spiritualism so popular in Mark Twain’s Nook Farm neighborhoods, combined with ghostly details from eyewitness accounts of chilling encounters with the unexplained.

Tours conclude with a telling of Mark Twain’s favorite ghost story in the mysterious mansion’s little-visited basement, normally off limits to visitors.

There are still a very few spaces left on the Friday Graveyard Shift tours on October 16, 23 and 30. They will also take place at 6, 6:45, 7:30, 8:15 and 9 pm.

Cost is $17 for adults and seniors, $15 for members, and $13 for children 10 to 16. The harrowing tour is not recommended for children under 10. Tickets may be ordered by calling 860-280-3154.

 The house and museum are at 351 Farmington Avenue. For more information, call 860-247-0998 or visit MarkTwainHouse.org.