Did you see

that out of the corner of your eye? What was that thing

moving?

It was

probably just your imagination, or maybe it was the

return of the Widow Holliday, giving local residents a

thrilling tour through the Holliday-Dorsey-Fife house in

Fayetteville. You see, this region is full of ghosts and

where there are ghosts, there are ghost stories.

The Friends

of the Holliday House and the Southern Order of

Storytellers have teamed up to put on the fourth annual

Great Georgia Ghosts story telling tours. The lamp light

tours go through the Holliday House and the old City

Cemetery, while stories about the famous former residents

are told.

"They

are true Georgia ghost stories," said Sherri

Anderson, director of Main Street Fayetteville, "if

there can be true ghost stories." The central part

of the stories will be the Hollidays, but the tale of the

little girl lost in the tornado also will be told.

Getting the stories together was a team effort between

what the Friends of the Holliday House knew and what the

Southern Order of Storytellers knew.

The tour of

the house lasts approximately 20-30 minutes. The way the

tour is being run this year is a little different from

other years. Tickets for the tours will go on sale at

6:30 p.m. If you have a waiting period before your tour,

you are invited to visit the Pumpkin Walk site or take

the tour of the City Cemetery.

The tours

will be guided by costumed figures in lamp light. They

are hoping to create a spooky atmosphere that is creepy,

but not terrifying. Anderson says the tour is appropriate

for children who are old enough to understand at least a

little of what is being said. "It will definitely be

a unique way to spend Halloween," Anderson said.

The Great

Georgia Ghost Tours will be offered Friday and Saturday

evening at 7:30. Tickets go on sale at 6:30 p.m. and cost

$5 for adults and $3 for children. There will be plenty

of Halloween spirit in the area on both Friday and

Saturday for people to enjoy.

For

information, phone 770-461-6029 or 770-460-6322.

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