Paranormal Investigation: Ghosts Among Our Graves

Freespirit Paranormal Investigators are leading a guided paranormal investigation at Laurel Hill East on Friday, October 30, from 7 PM to 10 PM. It's a night tour through one of Philadelphia's great historic cemeteries, and the whole thing is run by the Freespirit team, who'll be showing you around the grounds after dark and pointing out their favorite hotspots and haunts.

Laurel Hill East is a real landscape, not a staged attraction, and this investigation is part of a larger October lineup that leans into that. It follows the cemetery's annual Soul Crawl, an after-dark flashlight tour that tells the storied lives of restless spirits from the late 19th and early 20th centuries and ends with drinks around roaring fire pits. On Halloween afternoon, the Nevermore tour traces Edgar Allan Poe's connections to people buried at Laurel Hill, and there's a Fall Foliage tour for those more interested in old trees and cemetery history than ghosts. If you're planning to do more than one, the investigation is the late-night bookend to the month's programming.

Practical details: the investigation runs from 7 PM to 10 PM, and you'll start at the Gatehouse entrance at 3822 Ridge Avenue. Tickets are $40 for general admission (ages 13 and up), $35 for seniors 65 and over and students with ID, $30 for members of the Friends of Laurel Hill, and $20 for youth ages 10 to 12. Anyone under 18 has to be accompanied by an adult. Since you'll be on your feet in a cemetery after dark, comfortable walking shoes are recommended.