Hello, everyone. Welcome back to National Park After Dark. You're listening to a trail tales episode today.

Yeah, tales from the trail and probably a bunch of other places because we don't have rules anymore.

That is so true. Well, let's hop into it because we have, you all wrote in a bunch of really cool stories that

we're excited to share today. Would you like to go first? Sure. Would you like me to go first?

I can go first. Why not? Cool. I'm feeling crazy. All right. So my first story is titled

Ghost Hors, a discipline technique. Hey, ladies, I love the pod and have been listening for several years now and am a proud

outsider.

I appreciate the work and dedication you put into each episode.

I recently finished the Harper's Ferry Ghost Tour episode and wanted to share about a

ghost tour I went on as a child.

I am the child of two huge history buffs.

Family vacations were most often spent exploring historical landmarks, which

were an easy drive from our New Hampshire home. I was also a very superstitious and supernatural

loving child, which made many of these places extremely stressful for me. I distinctly remember

my dad taking my brother and I into Salem while he was working on a project in college

and being told

that I had to behave or he would set the witches on me.

There I was, barely tall enough to peek over the window into the back seat, sure that the witches

would be on me the second I stepped out of line.

I feel like this was a consistent trend throughout childhood with insert,

supernatural creature here, so behave I did. One year, our family travels took us to Gettysburg,

Pennsylvania. Now my parents love this place. They literally have a shrine in their house with all

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