Ghosts Over Roswell
Thursday September 20, 2007 8:50 AM
Shouldn't that be UFOs? Maybe — if we were talking about Roswell, New Mexico. However, in Roswell, Georgia, ghosts are the paranormal phenomenon of choice and the members of the Roswell Ghost Tour will happily tell you all about the spectral residents of their town.
Located just north of Atlanta, Roswell is a quaint little city with a lot of history. Overlooking the town from the highest vantage point is the serene and majestic Barrington Hall, considered to be one of the best examples of Greek revival architecture in the United States. Another fine ante-bellum edifice is Bulloch Hall, a building that was once home to Mittie Bulloch, the mother of 26th President Teddy Roosevelt.
Roswell would be worth a visit for all the history waiting to be discovered along its quiet streets, but the town also seems to have a high penchant for paranormal phenomenon. Dianna Aveena (pictured) and her husband Joe, the owners of the tour, are both longtime Roswell residents whose own ghostly experiences inspired their involvement in the tour. Avid ghost-hunters themselves, the Aveenas pursue their spectral neighbors through a combination of technology and intuitive perception. They get a lot of encouragement from their living neighbors who regularly volunteer stories of their own ghostly encounters in the haunted town.
Avoiding cheesy stunts or theatrics, the Roswell Ghost Tour relies on the ghosts themselves to add spice to their nightly excursions. Judging by the number of intuitive perceptions, EVPs and weird photographs generated from the tour I recently attended, I would say that Roswell's ghostly inhabitants don't disappoint.
