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You can still get a good scare in Bayfield. A few souls braved pouring rain
and their own imagination as they went on a ghost walk about Bayfield. Danielle
Kaeding tagged along.
(Tour guide) "Some people say love survives even death." NAT SOUND: Scary
Organ Music…:06 "This story is undying proof. A rainy, dark, cloudy night is
actually the best night to do a ghost tour." Seven courageous souls embarked on
their journey to hear the “Ghosts and Legends of Old Bayfield” as told by
Bayfield’s own Virginia Hirsch.
She started the walks in 2003, and has been scaring the wits out of people
ever since. Hirsch says every tour is different, and she never knows what people
might see especially when they stop by the Theodore Ernst House. “I was telling
about the house, and I was looking at the lady who was fussing with the baby so
she wasn’t looking at the house. Suddenly, the young husband went, ‘Owahh!’ I
said, ‘What’s wrong?’ And he said, ‘I saw her.’ I said, ‘What did you see?’ He
said, ‘The lady in white came to the window. She put her hands on the window,
and she looked at me and then she faded.’”
Hirsch says not everyone is a believer in ghosts, but she enjoys telling the
stories of those who wish they weren’t like one worker at Bayfield's old
courthouse. “She would be working in her space late in the evening when she
would hear the sound of children laughing and playing in the corridor, and she’d
rush out to see who had gotten into the building—only to find everything dark
and deserted, all the doors still locked.” Sometimes, she picks up a few along
the way. “They heard something when they were walking by. They heard a
screeching. They both were like “Uhhh.” “There you go.” “Is anybody in there
right now?” “Depends upon how you define anybody.” Mark Otto of Woodbury,
Minnesota might just be one of them. “Mark, ‘Did you hear that?” “Yeah,
definitely.” “Ugh, good thing I didn’t hear it.” Carol Funfar of Fargo, North
Dakota, might just be a convert now too. “You know, there are times. Let me tell
you. I said I was pretty scared when I heard the voices at that one house. I
could’ve believed almost anything then.” "You've been a wonderful group. Thanks
for taking the tour."
"Yeah, it was good. It was really fun. Awesome. Yeah." The ghost tours
continue until September on Friday and Saturday eeeeeveniiiinnnnngggs.
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