Service Description

The Children's Alleyway Ghost Tour This is our longest tour, it is about 115 minutes. On this incredible tour all the stories are connected by thread bringing them together. One fascinating story after another. It's strange stories are alarming to some. Strange things happen on this tour. Batteries are drained. Photos are distorted. Orbs sometimes flash and move down the alleyway. It's weird. offered only a few times each year in September and October. Since the mid 1930's the citizens of Sharpsburg have reported sightings of unfamiliar children running through the alley near the Big Spring. This was a community gathering place before the advent of indoor plumbing, and it was a child's daily chore to fetch water here. There are many historical accounts of children's use of the alley, particularly as a daily shortcut to go to school. Is it coincidence that after several prominent and aged citizens of the town who had experienced the Civil War died in the early 1930's that unknown children began to appear here? The Children's Alleyway tour tells the stories of Jacob McGraw, Savilla Miller, Theresa Kretzer, Dewitt Clinton Rench, Henry Kyd Douglas and Aaron Good. Also on this tour we try to work in stories of about 16-18 Confederates who died on Main Street during the battle, and The Woman in Black who strolls the main street in search of her husband who was buried in a field after the battle. Their lasting impact on the history of Sharpsburg, and perhaps even more than that, is felt to this day. Stories on this tour usually include at least 4 of the following: The Lost Infantry Company The Woman in Black The Happy Waving Man The Haunted Home of Aaron Good We're from Here: The Incident at the Big Spring The Disappearance of The Old Veteran