Halloween Haunts: A Halloween Scare for the Ghost Tour Host
By David Allen Voyles
Halloween has always been a thrill for me, even as an adult. Without a doubt, it’s the main reason why I write horror. For over forty years, my wife and I, garbed in our October aliases of Mr. and Mrs. Dark (raising a glass to you, Ray Bradbury), have hosted an annual over-the-top, themed, Halloween party. The popularity of our “Dark Ghost Tours” party in 2014, when I took guests all over our property to tell stories about the little scenes of horror we had created, actually inspired us to throw caution to the wind and take out a loan to create our own small, family ghost tour business, Dark Ride Tours. Talk about scary…that was VERY scary! We were both in our sixties, for crying out loud. DRT featured a renovated 1972 Cadillac hearse, retired from actual funeral service, in which we took our paying guests to various haunted sites. ...More...