Spirits of Summit Avenue - St. Paul Ghost Walk

Name: Spirits of Summit Avenue - St. Paul Ghost Walk
Start: 2024-10-11T19:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-10-11T20:30:00-05:00
Location: St. Paul Cathedral

Schedule

Fri Oct 11 2024 at 07:00 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

St. Paul Cathedral | Saint Paul, MN

“There has been much sorrow here, a lot of suffering … things have been done that shouldn’t have happened.”
That's what the psychic medium was saying on Summit avenue in the Griggs Mansion during a séance in February of 1969. Reporters from the St. Paul Pioneer-Press were there at the behest of the building's owner, Carl Weschcke, who himself had seen different apparitions wandering the halls. “The house has a heaviness about it — like a ball and chain." The reporters heard the squeaking of footsteps up the stairs when there was no one there as well as thumps and knocks on the wall that they couldn't explain. After they described their experience, they finished the article by saying "There is no prize on earth that could get us to spend a single night alone in that great stone house that seems to speak in sounds we cannot explain or understand." A study in Gilded Age opulence and Victorian era ghost stories, by 1890, 40 millionaires were living on Summit Avenue in St. Paul and some of them never left...
Join us for this brand new 90-minute haunted history tour on Summit Avenue from the people that wrote the original St. Paul ghost tour. Dare to uncover the secrets and mysteries that lurk in the shadows of this historically haunted street. This is not your average walking tour - this encounter with the paranormal might just leave you questioning what lies beyond the mortal realm.