With mysterious deaths ranging from the Georgian era through the early 20th century, bodies buried without tombstones and the ghosts that still claim the ruins as their home, the Rosewell Plantation is filled with spooktacular sights not for the faint of heart.

Intrigued folks can sign up to attend this year’s Rosewell Ghost Tours for “two nights of fright” on Friday and Saturday, Oct. 28 and 29, with one-hour tours at 7 and 8:30 both nights.

Ghost tour guide Marilyn Iglesias has plenty of stories to tell, beginning at the visitor’s center, past Native American land close to where Chief Powhatan and Pocahontas once lived, out to the site of the 1916 fire which gutted the Rosewell mansion, and through a trail in the woods to the ice house (where the living stored their dead for three days before burial so their souls could transition from this realm to the next). Each tour ends with a recent story from a group of men and their dogs who claimed to have had a much-too-close encount...