Dublin Ghost Bus Tour
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The Dublin Ghost Bus Tour is a unique night-time bus tour through Dublin, Ireland taking in several supposedly haunted places and taking in a lot of the spooky history of the city. The total duration of the tour is approximately 2 hours and 15 minutes.
[edit] The Tour
The bus itself is a specially customised double decker coloured purple with several spooky images on the outside and with purple seats and curtains to make the mood suitable for the tour on the inside. The tour only runs at night (although earlier tours start during the day at certain times of the year) and includes two major stops where the passengers disembark the bus and visit locations where ghosts have supposedly been seen.
The bus leaves from outside Dublin Bus Headquarters on O'Connell Street and heads down past Trinity College. Along the way, the tour guide (a professional actor) tells the story of Bram Stoker and how he came up with the idea for his Dracula novel as well as several other stories, involving a myriad of creatures such as banshees and gruesome tales of surgeons paying body snatchers for fresh corpses, such as the famous Dr. Clossey.
This story sets the scene nicely for the trip to St. Kevins Graveyard, on Camden Row. The tour guide possesses a key, which he uses to let the group into the disused graveyard, and locks the gate afterwards. he then precedes to regale the group with tales of hauntings in the graveyard before talking in further detail about grave-robbers, including Burke and Hare, before using a volunteer to simulate what a real grave robbing would be like. The visit to the nearby church involves a trick where a key appears to turn by itself and a story about why the church is haunted. People on the tour are then encouraged to take pictures or videos, with many showing strange spots or orbs when viewed.
The next stop on the tour is St. Audoen's and the 40 steps, where two nuns and a police officer saw a ghost in the 1970's. Again, members of the tour are encouraged to use their cameras, again often resulting in strange images being seen. The tour ends on O'Connell Street.
