Brownsville hosts guided Ghost Walk
The Northside Beautification Committee will feature family-friendly tales of the supernatural at 13 properties in Brownsville on a guided Ghost Walk Aug. 6 to raise money for neighborhood projects.
The walking tour begins at 9 p.m. at Brownsville Fire Company 1, 520 Market St., where tickets will go on sale at 8:30 p.m.
The 90-minute tour, which is $7 per person, crisscrosses Brownsville’s Northside Historic District. Dressed in period attire, property owners of 19th-century homes will relate firsthand experiences and discuss living with spirits on a day-to-day basis.
The walking tour winds along Market, Front, Brashear and Church streets and will include Nemacolin Castle, a National Trust landmark perched atop an Indian campsite and Redstone Old Fort. Paranormal groups have documented spirits actively roaming the halls of the 22-room house museum and former Colonial trading post, which overlooks the Monongahela River.
New on this year’s tour is Market Street Emporium, whose owners have experienced numerous paranormal incidents since they bought the property in February.
Participants also will visit the graves of the Bowman family, who built “the castle” in the late 1790s and continuously occupied it until the late 1950s. They and other colorful characters from Brownsville’s past are interred in Christ Church Anglican Cemetery at 319 Church St.
This year’s tour will wrap up inside the emporium, a shop filled with antiques, collectibles, new merchandise and arts/crafts. Participants will hear firsthand accounts of documented incidents at 3:06 a.m. and 3:06 p.m. and other mysterious events from owner Kim Brashear and her husband, Rocky, a Civil War re-enactor.
The walk is not strenuous. Flashlights and walking shoes are recommended. For more information, call Jeff Wilhelm at 724-880-6528.