Birmingham Ghost Tours: Revealing the Unseen

| October 31, 2013 

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Birmingham Ghost Tours: Revealing the Unseen

 

Walk around downtown Birmingham and you see many old, vacant buildings. But Wolfgang Poe argues just because you can’t see someone in one of those old buildings doesn’t mean nobody’s there. Poe reveals a side of Birmingham filled with mystery, unsolved crimes and death in his nightly ghost tours. On this Halloween we tag along with Poe to hear the stories he’s personally researched. We start on a corner you may have passed many times — the parking lot across from the Redmont Hotel. The history of it though, may surprise you.

 

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