Ghosts of Fredericksburg Self-Guided Walking Audio Tour Guide

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Go on a ghost tour in Fredericksburg with a smartphone app that functions as your personal tour guide, audio tour, and map all in one. Visit haunted buildings and hidden joints at your own pace with step-by-step offline GPS directions. Enrich your experience with historical images and videos. After downloading the app, start your tour near Riverfront Park. Walk to The Chimneys, home to unexplained footsteps, where you can sometimes hear a ghostly harp player. Then, head to the Fredericksburg Visitor Center, another haunted building, thanks to the structure dating back almost 200 years. As you pass the corner of Caroline and George Streets, hear how spectral Union soldiers foiled a planned renovation of a historic property. Just past that, at 1002 Caroline Street, listen to Nesbitt recount the tale of mysterious footprints which appeared in a long-locked room within this building. Next, look across the Rappahannock River toward Chatham and learn the rich Revolutionary history of that town as well as the story behind the infamous White Lady of Chatham. Then it’s on to the Lewis House, supposedly still inhabited by the vengeful spirit of Fielding Lewis, brother-in-law of none other than George Washington. The Rising Sun Tavern, up next, was much beloved by tavern keeper John Frazer — so much so that he’s rumored to have never left. Continue walking until you reach 303 Fauquier Street where a tragic suicide has resulted in years of strange and inexplicable phenomena, reported by visitors and employees alike. Stop by The Kenmore Inn, just down the street, which was made into an impromptu Union hospital during the Civil War. As you can imagine, all the grisly violence this inn saw left plenty of restless, unquiet dead behind. Get ready for a visit to a cemetery by moving to St. George Episcopal Church and Cemetery. Find out why this church has been of great interest to ghost hunters for decades as you get closer to it. Finally, walk back toward The Chimneys and hear another chilling tale about it, this one with roots in the famous Underground Railroad of Antebellum America. Conclude the tour here, just a block from where you began.