Spine-Tingling Events Planned For Halloween

WASHINGTON GREEN — The Gunn Museum & Library has a pair of events planned in the two nights leading into Halloween.

Insight Paranormal Agency recently conducted a paranormal investigation at both the 1908 Gunn Memorial Library and the adjacent 1781 Museum. Hear what the ghost hunters found roaming the halls during a lecture on Thursday October 29, at 6:30 pm, during a free program at the library.

Tony Diana, co-founder with Steve Bednar of Insight Paranormal Agency, will explain the different types of ghosts, the equipment they use in their surveys, and show evidence of haunted sites that they have investigated in Connecticut. Insight is a paranormal investigation group comprised of volunteers who have a passion for the supernatural. They seek answers to questions about the other side, but with an ear towards reality.

Participants will be encouraged to bring their favorite local ghost stories to share.

Gunn Memorial Library is at 5 Wykeham Road, the intersection of Wykeham Road and Route 47 on Washington Green.

Then on Friday, October 30, Gunn Memorial Museum will host the 2nd Annual Washington Green  Cemetery Tour from 6:30 to 8:30 pm.

The museum will be transformed for the evening into a frightful place with a spine-chilling exhibition of funeral artifacts, including authentic 19th century coffins, a Civil War era embalming table, post-mortem Victorian mourning photographs, and gravestones.

Hair-raising tales about ghosts, spirits and phantoms will be told at the museum before tours depart for a nearby cemetery. Costumed guides will lead visitors from the museum to the cemetery where the town’s departed citizens will be stationed by their gravestones to tell their tales.

Visitors will have the opportunity to explore the shadowy cemetery and hear fascinating stories about some of Washington’s most noteworthy citizens from years past. Guided tours will depart from the museum every ten minutes between 6:30 and 8:30, following a path of luminaria through the cemetery. Visitors are encouraged to bring a flashlight.

More than 300 people participated in last year’s inaugural tour. Organizers have added new stops to this year’s tour, hoping to keep the interest on an increasing level.

This event is free and open to the public. Rain date is Sunday November 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 pm. Call 860-868-7756 or visit GunnLibrary.org for more information.