About
Us
Go green
with Baltimore Ghost Tours! Our walking tours contribute nothing to global
warming. Baltimore Ghost Tours is locally owned and operated, and 100%
of our tour guides are local actors.
The
Original Fells Point GhostWalk is a Certified
Authentic Baltimore Tour. We are members of the Baltimore
Convention and Visitors Bureau and The
Baltimore Tourism Association.
When Amy
Lynwander and Melissa Rowell set out to research ghost stories of Fell's
Point, they started knocking on doors, talking to residents and bar
owners, and combing through documents at libraries. Their findings were
revealed during the Fell's Point GhostWalk in October 2001.
In July,
2005, they published their first book of Baltimore ghost stories, Baltimore's
Harbor Haunts.
While
researching their book, the duo uncovered stories from the Mount Vernon
neighborhood and began the process all over again to create the Mount
Vernon GhostWalk, which debuted in September, 2007.
What motivates
Rowell and Lynwander is capturing the rich history of these unique neighborhoods
and presenting it in a new way.
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Our Tour Guides
Judy
Judy is a native of Baltimore and an experienced actress. She has a
love of history and has always considered Fells Point to be the most
colorful place in Baltmore. Judy has done extensive theatre in the Baltimore/DC
area. She has performed with most of the area theatres, the Baltimore
Museum of Art, the Visionary Art Museum, at the Maryland Rennaissance
Festival, children's theatre, toured in murder mysteries, founded a
sketch comedy troupe, and performed in Baltimore and Ocean City in the
Baltimore comedy classic, "The Drunkard". She was "Herbie's
wife" in Barry Levinson's Avalon, and has done many radio
voiceovers. Judy has several crazy cats, one of whom, Claude the polydactyl,
caused her to hire professional tree climbers with spikes in their boots
after he became stuck in a tree. Judy's favorite time of year is Halloween,
and she suspects that she was burned at the stake in a previous life.
Leanna
When Leanna moved to Fell's Point ten years ago, she immediately
felt at home with the artists and color characters that roam the
streets. She met the love of her life at The Cat's Eye Pub and suggests
that others do the same! Leanna has proudly graced several Baltimore
area theatre stages and films. She continues to pursue acting as
a member of the Screen Actor's Guild. Look for her in HBO's "The
Wire" and John Waters' A Dirty Shame.
When
the Ghost tour found Leanna in 2002, she was able to combine her
two passions, live performance and the dead. When she's not leading
the tour and seeing ghosts, Leanna is watching "Forensic
Files" on Court TV and reading true crime stories.
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Sam
Sam lives, works, and plays in Baltimore with his wife
Molly, daughter Maya, and too many dogs. Sam is the ultimate part-time
man. He produces talk shows for Public Radio stations WYPR and WEAA,
he also moves art for the Walters Art Museum and picks balls for the
Maryland State Lottery. Sam is also the name sake for the local bagels
chain, Sam's Bagels. His favorite hobby is playing music blindfolded.
Noel
Noel's
family moved from the Baltimore area in 1979, but he returned to
attend the Johns Hopkins University, graduating in 1992 with a BA
in history and anthropology. He left Charm City for all of three
months before coming right back to live while getting his Master's
degree in anthropology from the American University in DC. After
following a woman to Cleveland for two years, he returned to the
same haunted apartment he had before he left, played in an Irish
band, and helped found the Mobtown
Players -- a small theater company that specializes in classical
and new works. Who says you can't come home again? He currently
lives in Patteron Park with his wife, Beth, and cat, Ariadne, and
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Kathy
Kathy
has been our tour guide since 2003. Kathy loves it and can tell you about
the time a police officer stopped the group to tell his own ghost story.
She’s a history buff and an actress who also portrays characters
for her own production agency, "Adlib Productions", as well as other local
production companies. Kathy holds a master’s degree in History. She
teaches Communications at the College of Notre Dame and a host of other
classes at various schools. If that’s not enough, Kathy dog sits
and has two to five canines crashing at her place at any given time.
Lauren
Lauren
is currently the education and program coordinator at the Jewish
Museum of Maryland, where she leads tours regularly. She has also
led tours at the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, the Phillips
Collection, and the Sackler Gallery of Asian Art. Presently, she
is studying graphic design at Maryland Institute College of Art.
She graduated from George Washington University, majoring in painting
and art history. In her free time, she dances with Blue Orchid Bellydance.
You can visit her website at www.lsilberman.com. |
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Brandon
Brandon
is an actor and writer whose work has been seen around the country
and on three continents. His one-man show, Welcome to Baltimore,
Hon, was selected for the Creative Alliance's Best of 2001 performance
series, "By Popular Demand," and was named "Best
Performance Monologue" in Baltimore Magazine's "Best of
Baltimore 2002" issue. His award-winning piece, George Bush's
Nuts, toured Fringe Festivals, colleges and clubs in Orlando, Minneapolis,
San Francisco, Seattle, New York City and Baltimore in 2002. |
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Brandon has a new one-person show scheduled to debut at the Creative
Alliance January 12th, 2008 called the GHOST
MAN CHRONICLES, that takes a humorous look at his last four
years as a ghostly tour guide, paranormal investigator and otherworldly
raconteur, in Baltimore.
He
currently lives in a very haunted house with his two cats, Muggins
and Tonkatsu.
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Robbie
Robbie has been a tour guide for us since 2004 after a co-worker
who admired her storytelling skills suggested she audition. Robbie
leads tours and is an administrative assistant for the Baltimore
Museum of Public Works. Robbie enjoys making people smile (in her
opinion life's most beautiful make-up), laugh (life's most beautiful
music), telling stories and touching the imagination. She is a single
parent and mother of one. |
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