83514877

THE TOUR
Hello! We are the Providence Ghost Tour, a walking haunted history tour of the East Side of Providence, RI. We have spent hundreds of hours researching both the haunted homes of this historic neighborhood as well as the many murders, suicides and accidental deaths that have occurred here over the years. We've uncovered some pretty crazy stuff. Did you know there is a street on the East Side no longer than a football field that is home to numerous strange deaths including a double murder by what the press labeled as the "East Side Slayer"?!? Did you know that there are several haunted Brown and RISD buildings, some of which are dorms?!? Or that our beloved Thayer St., one of the cultural centers of the state, has had its own little dark history...one filled with murder?!?
Come join us as we walk up and down the hills of the East Side letting you in on the little things we dug up...you'd be surprised with what we've discovered!
OUR RESEARCH
We decided that we would develop a ghost tour based on research and historical documentation. We wouldn't jump to any conclusions and would perform research on any story that we uncovered with the hopes of letting the tour participants make the call. We searched books, we searched the Providence Journal index, we talked to librarians, we talked to locals and we searched the internet. We handed out form letters door-to-door. We actually performed the tedious task of going through reel after reel of the Providence death records looking for "abnormal deaths". By doing so, we found murders, we found suicides, we found accidents and we found fire victims...and we found where they died. Many of the stories we uncovered have most likely been lost by time but we would like to think that we are resurrecting them. Although we tried to stay as objective as possible when compiling and presenting this data, we keep in mind that this morbid information is in fact an actual account of the lives of real people. We wish to maintain respect for these stories and hope you will as well.
We would like to consider ourselves skeptical believers in the paranormal and have tailored our tour to give you an unbiased view of recorded events, personal accounts and folklore. We do not spook you with the way we tell our stories, we spook you with the stories themselves.
Have you had a parnormal experience on the East Side or know someone who has? We would love to hear about it!