October rolls around and it’s easy for thoughts of the spooky, the unsettling, the macabre to float through the pumpkin spice haze. Of course, it’s difficult to disentangle the eerie and odd from history and with this handy guide, you won’t have to.
Fort Wayne embraces its history and the many things that have happened here over the decades. ARCH Haunted Walking Tours Saturday, October 6, 2018 @ 7:00 pm- Downtown Walking Tour "One-mile walk lasting about an hour past locations of downtown Fort Wayne’s most gruesome events of legend, lore and actual historical fact. Meet your tour guide at Visit Fort Wayne, 927 S. Harrison St., at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to begin." Tickets: $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for children 6 to 17, and children 5 and under are free. Only 100 tickets will be available for this date. Find more details and purchase tickets here. Saturday, October 13, 2018 @ 7:00 pm-West Central Walking Tour "One-mile walk lasting about an hour past locations of the West Central neighborhood’s best ghost sightings and stories, plus spooky additions of downtown legend, lore and actual historical fact. Meet your tour guide at Visit Fort Wayne, 927 S. Harrison St., at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to begin." Tickets: $10.00 for adults, $5.00 for children 6 to 17, and children 5 and under are free. Only 100 tickets will be available for this date. Find more details and purchase tickets here. Saturday, October 20, 2018 Fright Night Walking & Bus Tour Walking Tour: "One-mile walk lasting about an hour past locations of downtown Fort Wayne’s most gruesome events of legend, lore and actual historical fact. Meet your tour guide in the lobby of the Grand Wayne Center at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to begin." Tours leave every hour on the hour from 6-10pm. Tickets: $10.00 adults, $5.00 kids 6-17, & free for children 5 & under. Bus Tour "Ninety-minute bus tour of downtown Fort Wayne’s most gruesome events of legend, lore and actual historical fact, plus downtown’s and the West Central neighborhood’s best ghost sightings and stories. Meet your tour guide in the lobby of the Grand Wayne Center at least 15 minutes before your tour is scheduled to begin." Tours are at 6, 8 & 10pm. Tickets: $15.00 adults & $10.00 kids. Each bus tour is limited to 52 tickets. All Fright Night tours will meet in the lobby of the Grand Wayne Center where ARCH will have a ticket table set up. You can also purchase tickets online. For more information about ARCH, check out their website. A Night in the Old City Jail Saturday, October 20, 5:00 - 9:00 pm "The History Center, 302 E. Berry St., Fort Wayne, IN 46802 Dare to be scared at The History Center! Travel through the darker side of Fort Wayne’s past with a visit to the Old City Hall Building. Get goose bumps inside the iron cells that housed generations of inmates in the Old City Jail. Take your very own mug shot and discover the artifacts of those who broke and upheld the laws throughout Fort Wayne’s history. Glimpse the decayed remnants of General Wayne’s actual coffin fragments while enjoying Mad Anthony’s Monster Mix Candy Mashup. Stroll the creaking floors of the museum through our halls of hair-raising heritage. Are you brave enough to discover Fort Wayne’s frightening past? If so, enjoy Fright Night at The History Center." Fright Night Lantern Tours Saturday, October 20, 2018 You can't and shouldn't leave the Old Fort out of your plans for Fright Night 2018. "Tour the Old Fort at night. Your path lit only by a candle, you will be guided by a historic interpreter who will present the Old Fort as it was in the early 1800’s and share tales of encounters with the Fort’s resident ghosts." Admission is $5 per person. Tours run from 6:00 pm - 10:30 pm. Create your own tour... No time for the scheduled tour? Short on cash? Maybe your more of a lone wolf explorer. In that case, we found a list of the 12 most haunted places in and around Fort Wayne. Do you dare seek the ghosts out on your own? We would love to see how your adventures went! Feel free to share your comments and photos with us. Happy Halloween!
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