Haunted Wilmington began in 1978 when founder, Kim Miller Hirchak, began researching ghosts of historic Wilmington. Kim's single person operation interviewed hundreds of locals, including homeowners, tenants, employees, city officials, and others who encountered some of Wilmington's wayward spirits, recording hundreds of spectral events that are still part of today's tours. In addition, Kim and her growing staff spent countless hours reviewing old family letters, diaries, photos, and various other documents to help uncover the spirits behind each haunting. From a one person operation, Haunted Wilmington has grown significantly, and today we are recognized as one of the south’s oldest, continually operating paranormal research companies.
Though our primary area of expertise is historic, downtown Wilmington, we have studied spirits outside the old Port City. This includes all up and down the Cape Fear River, including the ghosts of Fort Fisher, Maco, Moores Creek National Battlefield, and New Bern, North Carolina. Since our inception we have logged well over 10,000 hours of actual, local, research. Today we continue to interview and document, and each year we add countless ghostly encounters to our portfolio.
In 1999, based directly on our research, Haunted Wilmington began offering public tours as the Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington. Our entertaining, fully costumed, professionally trained team of storytellers and actors, began introducing the general public to our many local ghosts. Our unmatched knowledge and commitment to quality entertainment has led us to be named one of the top Ghost Walks in America (USA Today), awarded Wilmington's Best Tour as voted by locals (Encore Magazine), and been consistently rated the #1 Ghost Walk in the south. Since 1999 we have entertained hundreds of thousands of guests, while conducting well over 65,000 local tours.
From our hundreds of actively haunted locations (and many more spirits), we have picked our top 30 haunted locations, which we vary each tour, each night. LIST HOW WE STARTED WITH THE BIG STORIES (NAME THEM), THEN ADD THE SECONDARY STORIES. THEN TALK ABOUT HUNDREDS OF HOURS OF OCCURRENCES AS PLACES LIKE THALIAN, ETC.
We can safely assure our guests that all 30 full length stories available on our tour (of which our guests visit 5-6 per night), have been personally researched by our team. Because we still actively research these ghosts, you can be sure to hear the most recent ghostly occurrences, including actual guest encounters during recent tours!
So if you’re looking for an original, authentic, non-franchised, locally owned and operated ghost tour experience, led by guides with the experience and ability to provide you and your family with the utmost in entertainment value, look no further than the Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington.
When Kim Miller Hirchak began researching the ghosts of historic Wilmington, North Carolina in 1978, she branched out beyond the old residential homes. She also spoke with various business owners, including some of Wilmington's oldest and most intriguing pubs. It as from these original interviews that she discovered an interesting pattern; pubs were filled with scores of people who often left their guards down (and their minds open), to spectral interaction.
When the Ghost Walk of Old Wilmington began conducting public tours in 1999, the next logical step was to begin offering a Haunted Pub Crawl. These were stories that, for various reasons, including content and location, could not be told on the nightly Ghost Walk tour.
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Our affiliation with our local film industry goes back to almost the beginning.
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