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Sounds like the Ghost Walk went pretty well yesterday. The Nevada Appeal has the story.

The Genoa Ghost Walk is still coming up tonight.

Travel Nevada reminds us that the fall Carson City Ghost Walk is coming up, right around the corner. This year the walk is held on October 24th, exactly one week before Nevada Day. These guided tours of Carson's west side begin at 10am, and run every half hour until 3pm. Tickets can be had for $20 for adults, $10 6-12 years old, 6 under free, and can be obtained by calling (775)687-7410 or visiting the website to buy online.

Two tours are being offered this year. The Undertaker Tour features spirits residing in St. Peters Church, 611 Robinson, the Orion Clemens House, Brougher/Bath Mansion and the Rinckel Mansion. The Overtaker Tour featuring the Esser Home, St. Theresa's Church, the Bliss Mansion, and the Edwards House.

Also this year Minden, Gardnerville and Genoa are having ghost walks.

The Carson City Ghost Walk has been an October tradition for over a decade. A week or two before Halloween some of the town's historic houses open their doors to guided tours and tell some of their best ghost stories. Recently the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau has begun putting on a Ghost Walk in the spring too. This year the spring tour will be on Saturday May 23, 2009. The 90-minute guided candlelight walking tour begins at 6pm and will feature 11 stops around the west side of town.

I missed this last summer when they first put it up. The Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau put up on YouTube a three-part look at the Carson City Ghost Walk, with footage from the 2006 walk.

This coming weekend is when all the various area ghost walks are talking place. Both Carson City and the Carson Valley are having their haunted walks this weekend. Four in all, spread over Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

• Friday, October 24: Gardnerville Ghost Walk. Tour times are 6:30 p.m., 7:30 p.m. and 8:30 p.m. Guided tours will depart from the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center, 1477 Highway 395, Gardnerville. Tickets are $5 per person.
• Saturday, October 25, Daytime: Carson City Kit Carson Trail Ghost Walk. Tours depart every 30 minutes from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. Meet in front of the Firkin and Fox, at the corner of Third & Carson Streets. Tickets are $15 per person.
• Saturday, October 25, Evening: Haunted Gardnerville Cemetery Tour. Guided tours depart every 15 minutes between 6:30 p.m. and 8 p.m. Meet at Gardnerville's Garden Cemetery. Tickets are $5 per person.
• Sunday, October 26: Haunted Genoa Ghost Walk. There are two tours, leaving at 10:30 a.m. and 11:30 a.m. Meet at Genoa Courthouse Museum. Tickets are $5 per person.

You can also read my report of the 2005 Carson City Ghost walk.

Looks like Dayton is getting into the Ghost Walk business too, to follow along with Carson City, Gardnerville, and Genoa. The one in Dayton will be next Friday, October 26th (Nevada Day), starting at 5:30pm. Here's the flyer.

The Haunted Weekend is coming up in just a few days here. This is the second year that Carson City, Gardnerville and Genoa have joined forces to offer one unified weekend of their various Ghost Walks. Here's what going on this weekend, from the Record Courier.

-- The Haunted Gardnerville Ghost Walk guided walking tours depart from the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center in Gardnerville at 5:30, 6:30, 7:30 and 8:30 p.m. Oct. 19. Cost is $5 per person. Hot cider provided by the Douglas County Historical Society.

-- Carson City's Something Wicked This Way Comes Ghost Walk is Oct. 20. Ticket holders take tours along the Kit Carson Trail with stops at some of the oldest buildings and homes. Tickets are $15 for adults and $10 for ages 6-12. Tours are 9 a.m. until 3 p.m. at Telegraph Square, on the corner of Telegraph and Curry streets.

-- The Douglas County Historical Society's 12th annual cemetery tour is at the Mottsville Cemetery where some of Nevada's earliest pioneers are buried. Guided tours are about every 15 minutes from 6:30 - 8 p.m. Cost is $5 per person.

-- The Haunted Genoa Ghost Walk departs at 10:30 and 11:30 a.m. and 12:30 p.m. Oct. 21 from the Genoa Court House Museum on Main Street in Genoa. Tickets are $5 per person.

For more information, go to visitcarsonvalley.org. Call 782-2555 or (800)727-7677.

The R-C also has details on what you can expect to see on the Gardnerville Ghost Walk. And the Nevada Appeal has details on Carson's Ghost Walk.

Halloween is becoming a bigger deal every year in Carson City. The Ghost Walk itself has become a huge event over the last few years, and now the Visitor's Bureau is taking steps to make it even bigger by teaming up with their neighbor to the south, Douglas County. This year seems to be the inaugural year of the "Haunted Weekend", taking place October 20, 21 and 22.

For one price ($30), you can take part in four different ghostly events around the Carson and Eagle Valleys:

• October 20: Meet the ghosts of Gardnerville on the guided Haunted Ghost Walk. Meet at the Carson Valley Museum & Cultural Center. Tours depart hourly between 6:30-8:30 p.m.
• October 21 Day: The popular Carson City Kit Carson Trail Ghost Walk begins at 9 a.m. and departs every half-hour until 3 p.m. from Third & Carson Streets. This year's theme is Grave Concerns. Guided walking tours offer ghostly glimpses into the residents who made history here. There are two tours:
  • The Resurrection Tour features spirits appearing in: Brewery Arts Center, Esser Home, United Methodist Church, Brougher Bath House and Rinckel Mansion.
  • The Remembrance Tour features spirits appearing in: Stewart Nye Home, Edwards House, The Bliss Bungalow, and Bliss Mansion.
• October 21 Evening: Cemeteries hold special fascinations for many and make one wonder about those buried beneath. Wonder no more about these "past lives" as the ghosts of the historic Genoa Cemetery come to life between 6:30-8 p.m. Meet at the cemetery.
• October 22: Learn even more about Genoa's haunted sites on the Genoa Ghost Walk between 10:30-11:30 a.m. Meet at Genoa Courthouse Museum.

This seems to be a pretty excellent promotion, and a good demonstration of the two counties coming together to attract visitors. Of course you can buy tickets to each of these events separately as well. The Carson City Ghost Walk is $15, and each of the others is $5 apiece.

You can make reservations by calling (775)987-7410, or download the PDF form (80kb) and fax it in.

The Carson City Ghost Walk is coming up this Saturday. Every year, around Halloween, the most haunted houses in Carson City open their doors for a guided tour, and let the public in to hear spooky tales of former residents that never quite left. There are actually two separate ghost walks, each one visiting a number of different houses, so you get to pick which walk you want to go on. This year the two walks are:

The Superstition Walk - You’ll visit the Bliss Mansion and Bliss Bungalow, the former St. Teresa’s Church, and the Stewart-Nye and Edwards homes. You’ll also hear stories about the Yerington, Jones, Rickey, Crowell, Curry, Chartz and Smail homes.

The Spells Walk - You’ll visit the Brougher Bath mansion, Brewery Arts Center, and the Esser, Rinckle and Ferris mansions. You’ll also see the Orion Clemens home, Methodist Church, Ormsby-Rosser house, St. Charles Hotel, and the Hyman-Olcovich House.

The Ghost Walk is one day only, Saturday, October 22nd. It starts at 9:30am, and tours leave from the Nevada State Museum every half hour until 2:30pm. Each tour spends about an hour and a half walking around Carson City’s historic west side, strolling the streets and visiting the open houses. Tickets are $15 per adult, and it’s recommended that you reserve a spot by calling 687-7410. I think everything before noon is already sold out.