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4:35 p.m. April 07, 2009
Third Ward tour traces Milwaukee's ghost stories by Julie Lawrence
"Have I seen a ghost face to face? No, but not for lack of trying," Allison Jornlin says. Allison Jornlin isn't sure she believes in ghosts. In reference to the topic, she calls herself a Fortean, a term named for the American writer and researcher Charles Fort who cataloged curiosities and confounded scientists with anomalies they couldn't explain. Essentially, she's neither a strict believer nor non-believer. Rather, she's open to the possibility of paranormal activity, which makes her a perfect candidate to operate Milwaukee Ghosts, a series of local haunted history tours and investigations. "Have I seen a ghost face to face? No, but not for lack of trying," she says. "But there are too many little things that could be something real. There's a lot of evidence that seems to be compelling." And she's not referring to random glowing orbs, like the ones "Ghost Hunters" chase after on the SciFi channel (Those are just dust, she claims). Her ghosts stories deal more with local legends, historical tragedies and news-of-the-weird type stuff that is just creepy enough to conjure up a chill. The best of her strange tales surface during her Third Ward walking tours, which run
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