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With the Halloween season soon upon Pleasanton, the Museum on Main is preparing for the return of its popular, interactive Ghost Walk series next month.
Presented on four fall evenings, the program offers a family-friendly guided tour of the “most haunted sites along Main Street” — complete with actors in costume as figures of local lore, electromagnetic field testing and spooky tales from the “ghost hosts”, according to museum officials.
“Ghost Walk has successfully brought the haunted side of Pleasanton to ‘life’ through the stories and experiences collected over the years from psychics, ghost hunters and downtown merchants and workers. It is a unique experience, more spooky than scary, with lots of atmosphere and no jump scares,” said Rachel Brickell, the museum’s director of education.
Now more than 15 years old, the Ghost Walk allows residents and visitors of all ages to meet some of the prominent spirits of downtown and hear their haunting stories straight from the source — courtesy of adult actors and youth performers from Pleasanton’s Creatures of Impulse improvisation troupe.
“The improv students have been a wonderful addition to Ghost Walk. They bring so much energy to the program and we can’t wait to share this year’s talent with participants,” Brickell added.
The tour guides will lead the groups around nine haunted locations, with a K2 Electromagnetic Field Meter in hand to look for EMF spikes that might indicate activity or communication from the other side, museum officials noted.
The two-hour tours will run on the evenings of Oct. 11-12 and Oct. 18-19, with one group leaving every 30 minutes between 6 p.m. and 8 p.m. (five sessions per night). They will be held rain or shine, so organizers urge participants to dress accordingly. Halloween costumes are also highly encouraged, they said.
Most of the tour will be outdoors, but in a few spots people will be able to go inside the haunted building, including two locations where use of stairs is required to access the ghosts.
Tickets are on sale now, and they often sell out well before the tours begin. For more information, go to museumonmain.org, call 925-462-2766 or visit the museum at 603 Main St.
