rel=”nofollow” onclick=”javascript:_gaq.push([‘_trackPageview’, ‘/outgoing/article_exit_link’]);” href=”http://www.myspace.com/fortlauderdaleghosthunt”>ghost tour. It is more like taking the first class in a the course of How a Wizard Deals with the Spirits of the Night. More importantly she has fun on the tour, as a result, so do the guests – particularly the children. They are fascinated by Ms Scarlet’s collection of amulets, charms, incense and stones along with diving rods and a laser thermometer, which she uses to find and bring out the spirits of the Netherworld. The adults like her total style.
The night I went on the tour, there was a group of ten adults, half of whom were on it for the third time. “The tour can vary from night to night,” says our tour guide. “What I cover depends on the curiosity and questions of the crowd. “
“Usually the tour ends outside of two haunted, 100 year-old mansions,” says Alison, one of the third-time participants, “but tonight, because we have repeated the tour, Ms Scarlet walked a little farther to the site of the Cooley Massacre. “
“This incident, by a group of renegade Seminoles killing a wife, her three kids and their tutor, execution style,” adds Ms Scarlet, “started the Second Seminole War for which President Jackson had a fort built nearby called Fort Lauderdale. It is this area of land, next to the fork of the New River, where our city began and how we got our name.
“The spirits of the Indians, and the early Spanish and American settlers still linger. There are a few sightings of early and mid-20th century ghosts, but otherwise we have gotten lots of readings in this neighborhood and photos of many orbs.”
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