Storytelling and history will intermingle as part of the Great Georgia Ghosts Storytelling Tours taking place on Oct. 27 and 28 at the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum in Fayetteville. The scares take place each evening from 6:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. and tickets may be purchased at the door. Admission is $5 for adults and $3 for children 12 and under.

Professional storytellers will recount true ghost tales every half hour to appropriate age groups. The Parlor will host adult stories, The Attic will be for teens and adults and Doc’s Room will entertain children’s stories. As each group leaves, Tombstone brownies and Doctor Holliday’s Prescription Punch will be served.

“We’re expecting a great turn-out for this event,” remarked Nancy Price, Main Street director. “It has been done in year’s past and was a tremendous success. This is an opportunity for the community to visit the museum and learn about Fayette County history.”

Meet real live ghost hunters from the West Georgia Paranormal Research Society as they share their results from studying the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum and see a recent photograph of a captured spirit.

For the month of October through the Great Georgia Ghosts Tour, a special mourning exhibit featuring Victorian Mourning Styles and Rituals will be displayed at the museum. Mourning jewelry, gowns and letters will be displayed from the 1800’s.

Families can make a night of it by first by visiting the array of jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins lining the sidewalks at the Old Courthouse as part of the traditional Fayetteville Main Street Pumpkin Walk. Then, stroll over to the historic Holliday-Dorsey-Fife Museum for the Great Georgia Ghosts Tour. Trick-or-Treat on Main Street will take place on Sat., Oct. 28 from 3 to 7 p.m. For more information about these events call Fayetteville Main Street at 770-719-4173 or visit the city’s Web site at www.downtownfayetteville.org.

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