Get spooky and join us for these ghoulish activities in October 2024

Strange Victorian Obsessions House Tour

Victorians were fascinated with mystery and illusion and this tour through first floor rooms in the 1879 Physick House Museum shares that fascination. Learn about the famous Harry Houdini who captivated Victorian audiences with his intricate escapes, the Goddess of Mystery, Ionia, a Belgian beauty who Victorians worshipped for her spectacles of magic, The Great Lafayette, who became known as the world’s greatest magician, and Pepper’s Ghost, an illusion still used today, with Sherlock Holmes, Jack the Ripper and more. Purchase tickets here.

Spirits & Oddities Trolley Tour

Cats in ghostly form purr from the beyond. Beloved family members photographed without their heads. Graves equipped with a torpedo to put off intruders. Victorians of the late 19th century held wild notions about the mysterious passage between life and death. Belief in ghosts and spirits was common and superstition abounded. Hear several Cape May ghost stories and more strange stories from Victorian Cape May history that are macabre, mysterious or just plain weird! Purchase tickets here.

Historic Haunts House Tour

Tour select rooms with your guide and learn about Victorian Spiritualism in Cape May’s only Victorian house museum, the Physick House Museum, widely reputed to be haunted. In the museum, guides will compare the methods of spirit contact used by the Victorians with those of today’s paranormal investigators. Select rooms on both floors are included in the tour. Purchase tickets here.

16th Annual Scarecrow Alley at the Physick Estate

The grounds of Cape May’s original haunted house, the Emlen Physick Estate, 1048 Washington St., is transformed for the spooky season. Scarecrow Alley is a highlight of the Estate’s Halloween decorations. Walk the grounds and vote for your favorite ghoulishly gruesome or foolishly funny scarecrow. Open to the public. Free admission to the grounds. September 30, 2024-October 31, 2024. More information here.

Learn More

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