25
Apr/2008

by amanda_jene

I recently took a trip to Alton, Ill with a couple of friends of mine.  I have always heard that it was "The Most Haunted Small Town in The Country."  I ended up having to schedule a private tour, as this was in February, before the tour season started.  I was charged $40 per person.  The lady who did the tour (this was not the Troy Taylor tour, unfortunately, as I am sure that would have been worth my while) had originally told me that that she would be driving us around to all of the haunted locations in town.  When she showed up (15 minutes late, I might add) she insisted that I drive my vehicle and she just ride with us.  Mind you, all three of us were smokers, and she also told us that we could not smoke in our own vehicle during the tour.  She took us all over town, telling us all kinds of crazy stories about 20 or more houses.  We only got out of the car once, at a Confederate Cemetery.  She completely skipped over the McPike Mansion, which is the most famously haunted place in Alton and opted to show us the ugliest house in town instead.  So, now I am out $40 a person (no discount for driving ourselves) and also a tank of gas that I should not have had to use.

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