Carson City's popular tour of local haunts is here again.
The 17th annual ghost walk - this year dubbed We Know Dead People - takes place Saturday.
Two 90-minute, one-mile tours - called the Undertaker and Overtaker - leave each half hour from
10 a.m. to 3 p.m. from in front of The Firkin & Fox on the corner of Carson and Third streets.
"It's a guided tour by costumed guides featuring ghost stories and inside performances by performers from the Bruka Theater," said Candace Duncan, executive director of the Carson City Convention and Visitors Bureau.
At the Edwards House on the Overtaker Tour, for example, Karen Chandler, Carson High drama teacher, will play a psychic who tries to make contact with Carson City founding father Abe Curry. Curry, onetime warden of the state prison and superintendent of the Carson City Mint, died in 1873.
Curry's funeral procession on Nevada Street will be featured in both tours.
The Undertaker tour takes visitors to such ghost-ridden landmarks as St. Peter's Church on Minnesota Street, 611 Robinson and the Orion Clemens House, the home of Mark Twain's brother at the corner of Division and Spear streets. Also on Spear Street is the Brougher-Bath Mansion, the stately home built by mining tycoon Wilson Brougher and later owned by Carson City postmaster Ernest Bath.
The tour also includes Curry Street's Rinckel Mansion, built in 1873 by Mathias Rinckel and now the home of the Donald W. Reynolds Press Center.
The Overtaker tour visits the Esser Home at the corner of Fourth and Thompson streets and the site where one 2005 ghost walk attendee said she felt her pearl necklace clasp being undone by unseen hands.
The tour also visits the Bliss Mansion, now a bed and breakfast allegedly haunted by its original owner, millionaire lumber-and-railroad magnate Duane L. Bliss. Across the street the tour goes to the Bender House, one of the west side's biggest mansions built by the state's first attorney general, George Nourse.
It also stops by the Edwards House on Minnesota Street, where the psychic will be communing with Abe Curry, and the home's ghostly nanny reportedly keeps the piano dusted.
Each tour can accommodate 40 people and Duncan said tickets were already selling fast for the popular annual event for the whole family.
What: We Know Dead People ghost walk
When: 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, with two tours leaving each half hour
Where: Leave from The Firkin & Fox, corner of Carson and Third streets, travel on one-mile tours through west side
Cost: $20 for adults, $10 for children 6 to 12 years old, free for children under 6
Details: To buy tickets in advance call 775-687-7410 or visit online at www.activitytickets.com