Dear Friends and Fellow Paranormal Enthusiasts, I'd like to take a moment of your time to introduce myself...
My name is Stacey Allen McGee and I am the International Director and Founder of
The ARC ~ Alternate Realties Center, formerly known as the United States UFO Information and Research Center, founded in February of 1994. My background and experience prior to professional paranormal research was in the travel and tourism industry and I am the Tour Operator and Director of Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours created in 2003, which is on its way to becoming one of the top tourism attractions in the Southeastern United States...
The Alternate Realities Center, or The ARC for short, is a not-for-profit organization dedicated to spiritual and scientific research and investigation of the paranormal. We are based in Northeast Tennessee and effectively cover, but are not limited to an area in the Southeastern United States from Knoxville, Tennessee to Marion, Virginia. The ARC has been featured on numerous television documentaries including the popular Turner Broadcasting series entitled "Liars and Legends", as well as radio programs, newspapers, and magazine articles since the organization's inception...
Representatives of The ARC have been conducting paranormal study of phenomena in various parts of the world, but focusing on an area of the Southern Appalachian Mountain Region of the United States to include all of upper East Tennessee as well as the Highlands of the Southwest Virginia for nearly two decades. Our website is www.AlternateRealitiesCenter.com boasting one of, if not the largest UFO and Paranormal Photo Galleries on the Internet receiving more than twelve million hits on our website during the year of 2008...
On a personal note, although I have been involved with professional paranormal investigation of ghosts and authenticly haunted places for a number of years now, my work actually began with serious scientific study of documented sightings of and close encounters with Unidentified Flying Objects - UFOs, and alledged abductions of human beings by the occupants of these unknown aircraft operating over and within official United States airspace and other areas worldwide. After several years of very revealing research into this enigma, it became evident that there might be subtle connections to other Parapsychological venues of research and we became one of the very first organizations to incorporate all areas of paranormal interest into the scope of what we represent - including Bigfoot, or Cypotozoology. It was at this point that we realized the organization needed a new name and the United States UFO Information and Research Center then became The ARC - Alternate Realities Center...
As the work with Ghosts continued, using six different scientific technics to study this area of interest, my knowledge of history, including personal Geneology revealing deep historical roots in my native region of Southern Appalachia, grew substantially as did my "psychic" ability. This was an unexpected "side-effect" of the process as I did not set out to be a "medium" or a "sensitive", or even a historian for that matter, but in the past several years, I have become both. Having grown up in a Christian background with personal principals to guide my spiritual endeavors based on the teachings of Christ I now, and very light-heartedly I might add, call myself the reluctant "psychic"...
In addition, my skills in a technique known in the modern era as "dowsing" have grown along with verified accuracy as compared with historical details and known facts presented by property and business owners, historical documents, and county records. Dowsing is one of the proven and effective techniques taught in what has become the number one most recognized college level Ghost Hunter Ceritication Class on the Google Search Engine and is entitled "Ghostology 101". The two day weekend seminar is taught throughout the year and is now recognized Internationally as one of the best programs for excellence in paranormal study throughout North America...
After we began offering our tours to the public to showcase the results of both spiritual and scientific study of the most historic and truly haunted locations of our region, popularity in our very unique approach and contribution to Northeast Tennessee and Southwest Virginia Tourism took off quickly. In September of 2005, Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours was recognized as one of the top ten ghost tour companies in America by popular votes in poll taken by Haunted America in New Orleans, Louisiana. One year later we moved up in position on the list to the top five, and in September of 2006, I was given the great honor of being recognized by Haunted America as being one of the top ten Ghost Hunters and Paranormal Investigators in the country. In 2008, I moved into the top five paranormal investigators in the country according to this same poll...
If you are interested pursuing a deeper understanding of the unseen world, I highly encourage you to follow-up on that by paying a visit to the ghost hunter store on our site at www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com for more information on how to sign up for the two day weekend ghost hunter getaway!!! Also, if you prefer to have more information sent via email, send a message to
[email protected] and I'll be glad to send the full details...
Meanwhile, here is our most recent news release from Appalachian GhostWalks Haunted Vacations Ghost and History Tours. We would appreciate your assistance in helping to get the word out about our tours and invite you to spend your next "Haunted Vacation" with us. Please call us at
(423) 743-WALK (9255) if you should have any questions, or would like to make reservations... We invite each of you to visit our award winning site at
www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com as well as our area of the mountains sometime soon...
Haunted Vacations Ghost and History Tours
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Appalachian GhostWalks Haunted Vacations Ghost and History Tours
Start a new tradition this year and bring your whole family, or tour group on a Tennessee "Haunted Vacation" with Appalachian GhostWalks' Tennessee and Virginia Ghost Tours...
TRI-CITIES, Tennessee - It's that time of year when we all start dreaming of our next get away. Why not start a new tradition this year and bring your whole family or tour group on a "Haunted Vacation". Appalachian GhostWalks Ghost and History Tours are lantern-led by real, professionally Certified Ghost Hunters who recount "spine-tingling" stories of real history and real ghosts! Bring your whole family, or tour group on a Tennessee and Virginia "Haunted Vacation" with Appalachian GhostWalks' Tennessee and Virginia Ghost Tours...
"Appalachian GhostWalks" has designed tour packages to help save Tennessee travelers money on their next visit to the mountains. Additional information on all of their "Spook and Save" vacation partners is available on their award winning website where visitors will find links to their "Discount Haunted Vacation Planning Packages". Here, you will find a variety of elegant, quaint, old-world style, and haunted bed and breakfasts, but also more modernized accommodations for those who prefer an alternate setting for their stay...
There are several different tours in the Northeastern Tennessee Mountains presently available to choose from all located just a short drive from Dollywood, Ober Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. Tennessee tours include the "Haunted Historic Erwin and Unicoi County Heritage Muesum GhostWalk", the "Haunted Historic Jonesborough GhostWalk", the "East Tennessee State University Campus GhostWalk", the "Historic Tipton-Haynes GhostWalk", the "Haunted Historic Greeneville GhostWalk", the "Haunted Historic Rogersville GhostWalk", the "Haunted Historic Blountville GhostWalk", and downtown Johnson City's "Little Chicago GhostWalk". Appalachian GhostWalks' Virginia ghost tours presently include the "Historic Abingdon Virginia GhostWalk" departing from the Barter Theatre Stage II Cafe, and the "Haunted Historic Bristol GhostWalk" - the Birthplace of Country Music...
The principle website is http://www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com but further information on any of these tours can be found visiting any of the following links...
The Haunted Historic Rogersville GhostWalk - http://www.RogersvilleGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Greeneville GhostWalk - http://www.GreenevilleGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Jonesborough GhostWalk - http://www.JonesboroughGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Blountville GhostWalk - http://www.BlountvilleGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Bristol GhostWalk - http://www.BristolGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Tipton-Haynes GhostWalk - http://www.TiptonHaynesGhostWalk.com
The Historic Abingdon Virginia GhostWalk - http://www.AbingdonGhostWalk.com
The East Tennessee State University Campus GhostWalk - http://www.ETSUGhostWalk.com
The Little Chicago GhostWalk of Downtown Johnson City - http://www.LittleChicagoGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Erwin and the Unicoi County Heritage Museum GhostWalks - http://www.ErwinGhostWalk.com
Beginning September the 1st of 2009, Appalachian GhostWalks will be introducing two walking tours which are currently under production at this time. These include the "Haunted Historic Knoxville GhostWalk" as well as the "Haunted Historic Dandridge GhostWalk. Two bus tours will follow in production for a 2010 inauguration including the "Great Stage Road Haunted Adventure Tour" as well as the "Great Smoky Mountains Haunted Adventure Tour". Once again, additional information specific to these tours can be found by following any of the following links...
The Haunted Historic Dandridge GhostWalk - http://www.DandridgeGhostWalk.com
The Haunted Historic Knoxville GhostWalk - http://www.KnoxvilleGhostWalk.com
The Great Stage Road Haunted Adventure Tour - http://www.GreatStageRoadHauntedAdventure.com
The Great Smoky Mountains Haunted Adventure Tour - http://www.SmokyMountainHauntedAdventure.com
Each of their historically accurate tours offer a small piece of a much larger puzzle of regional history and rhetoric as your very own Certified Ghost Hunter Guide and Historian weaves a chilly tale of our region's vast cultural heritage coupled with true, spine-tingling ghost stories. Catering to both couples, as well as larger groups, one simple phone call to their knowledgeable staff will help you create a memorable Tennessee Vacation designed specifically for you and your travel companions...
Appalachian GhostWalks is proud to have won a Merit Award at the Pinnacle Awards early in 2007 as presented by the Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association and the company continues to grow. A spokesperson for the company announced that visits to their award winning website for this year had grown more than four hundred percent above this time last year with over twelve million hits. Also, Appalachian GhostWalks was the recipient of the Washington D.C. based U.S. Local Business Association's 2008 "Tour Operators and Promoters" Award. In addition, Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours was voted one of the top five ghost tour companies in the United States by Haunted America in New Orleans, Louisiana for the past four years and counting.
Travel discounts are available on accommodations for recreational vehicles and tourists including a wonderful choice of very historic and sometimes haunted bed and breakfasts, camping, white water rafting, caving, bike and horseback riding, a local gem mine, a day at the spa, planetarium shows, barge and carriage rides, area museums and exhibits, visits to local water parks, skiing, seeing a live play, or a concert, casual and fine dining, with more on the way. Packages featuring a wide variety of area attractions to include both day and night time activities offer visitors something to keep you and your travel companions enchanted and entertained during their stay...
Very truly and hauntingly yours...
Stacey Allen McGee
Tour Director, Appalachian GhostWalks
Website:
www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com Founder of The ARC ~ Alternate Realities Center
Website:
www.AlternateRealitiesCenter.com Email:
[email protected]
