Another of those 2025 bucket list items was to go on a Providence Ghost Tour. Laurie had done it with her girlfriends a couple years ago and told me I would enjoy it because you learn a lot of history. Most, if not all ghost tours I've been on teach you a lot of history about the area. For example, on this tour, I learned a little bit about Edgar Allen Poe. He did spend time in Providence courting a woman that he eventually became engaged to.
We met on the east side of Providence at a small park where Roger Williams "dust" is buried. The tour leader was dressed in period clothing which must have been warm on the muggy evening. We walked for roughly ninety minutes with four couples. We stopped at multiple locations where the guide would tell us a story about "a ghost" or a haunted building.
The area we walked is extremely hilly and we did have a couple of good climbs but the area was really cool. Most of the buildings we walked by are owned by Brown University and RISD. Many of them were brick and reminded me a lot of the part of Philly that Independence Hall is in. I enjoyed the scenery as much as I did the tour.
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| The park we met at has this statue of Roger Williams looking over the city |
Up until Laurie went on this tour with her friends, I had no idea that this tour existed. The tours run April until October. Times change throughout the year starting at 8 pm in July. The cost was a steep $27 but it was worth doing once, or at least once every few years. I enjoyed going on the tour. Link below
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