Farnsworth House opens year-round haunted attraction
Gettysburg-s newest draw highlights ghost stories
(Gettysburg, Pennsylvania) - 6/29/2011
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CONTACT:
Rene Staub
Farnsworth House
(717) 334-8838
[email protected]
The Farnsworth House Inn is known as one of the most haunted inn’s in America. Now, it has Gettysburg’s only walk-through haunted attraction.
The attraction is a house of horrors depicting scenes of actual Gettysburg haunting events. Visitors will make their way through several detailed scenes complete with figures, sound and special effects. See a Civil War era viewing parlor and a makeshift hospital.
Special effects create such experiences as a starlit sky of Devil’s Den to a hanging at Sach’s Bridge.
Rene Staub, set designer and director of ACTS of Kindness Theatre Co., designed the attraction to not only scare, but educate with its elaborate settings that indicate customs and trends of the Civil War era.
“Mourning rituals and spiritualism were in full swing during the Civil War, though it is rarely discussed in history books,” Staub said. “It is an intriguing part of American history.”
The White House is also featured with Mary Todd Lincoln’s fascination with the other side and President Lincoln’s premonitions of death. No detail was spared from blood on bodies and walls to tears and expressions on faces. The turmoil of the battle and its aftermath is very apparent in the attraction.
Joe Kress, a theatre technical director from York, brought his team to Gettysburg to bring the attraction to life with hydraulics and electronics. His skills created breathing bodies, floating objects and many inanimate objects that go bump in the night to catch visitors off guard. Lori Baker from New Oxford created the many elaborate Civil War dresses and outfits using historical patterns that transformed the figures into the era.
Tickets are $7.50 for adults and $5.25 for children 10 and under. Farnsworth House Ghost Walks and Mourning Theatre offers a variety of candlelight ghost walks that also enter the haunted inn, ghost stories in the cellar, ghost hunts using equipment like the pros use, and a re-creation of a Civil War-era séance in their Victorian Séance Room.
For more information, call (717) 334-8838 or visit www.farnsworthhouseinn.com.
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