When falls lands with a thud in mid-October, you can bet you will start seeing some big orange pumpkins, crisp apples, harvest farm stands galore, and ghosts.  Well, ghost stories anyways.

There are many places to take a haunted ghost walk in Upstate New York.  And mid-October to mid-November is a great time to venture into the spooky world of the beyond.  This gallery lists a selection of great haunted ghost walking tours in cities all across Upstate New York.

I am a sucker for these things.  I love the theatrics of the tour leader, often times in full spooky regalia, as he or she weaves the tales that emanate from the old buildings, 200-year old churches, and ancient cemeteries of our region.

One of the best on this list is a walking haunted tour of a very old insane asylum in Genesee County (Finger Lakes).  Very popular, so book early.  As you will see some of these tours go on for several weeks, others might be for a specific day or weekend.  So look the list over and make your reservation soon.

Most of these tours are fun fundraisers for the building your are touring, in an effort to keep them viable for future generations.  So for that we applaud them.

Spooky?  Yes.  Fun?  Without a doubt.

If you know of a haunted ghost walking tour that did not make our list, we encourage you to visit our Facebook page and give us a shout out.  we really do want to hear from you!

Meet Your Friendly Ghosts On These Great Upstate NY Haunted Walking Tours!

Ghost and haunted stories are the order of the day when we reach the middle of October. And Upstate New York has plenty of ways for you to get in touch with your own supernatural favorites. This gallery looks at a bunch of fun haunted ghost walking tours in Upstate New York. The leaders of these tours, many of them in costume, will regale you along your midnight (or earlier) walks through haunted buildings, old cemeteries, and places where the unexplainable happened. Walk the streets of Albany and Utica and Rochester and here some real chilling tales. Take a tour of the creepy but historic old Rolling Hills Asylum where inmates are said to be still trying to get out. Walk through a haunted 1928 movie palace, and a couple of great mansions. All are fun for you this "haunted season."

Gallery Credit: Chuck DImperio

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