iGUIDE, a proprietary camera and software platform for capturing and delivering 3D virtual tours and property data, is providing an immersive tour of three reportedly haunted places in the U.S. just in time for Halloween. Using iGUIDE’s 3D virtual tours to map these haunted spaces, viewers can experience them virtually.
The three historic haunted locations include the Historic Jefferson Hotel in Jefferson, Texas, the Bradford-Ma Barker House in Ocklawaha, Florida, and the Collingwood Arts Center in Toledo, Ohio.
The Historic Jefferson Hotel is the oldest of all hotels in the state and claims to be “The World’s Most Haunted Hotel.” The grand Victorian structure is a former cotton warehouse, brothel, and speakeasy with a dark history of murder and suicide. Today, the hotel features a living museum with more than 13,000 square feet of eclectic antiques, including an eerie doll room, a wall-to-wall mirror room, and a clown-themed room. Hotel guests report moving dolls and objects, mysterious voices, children’s laughter, and ghostly apparitions.
The Bradford-Ma Barker House is the site of the longest gun battle in FBI history with the notorious gangster Ma Barker and her gang. FBI director J. Edgar Hoover once called them “the worst criminals in the entire country,” and Ma Barker became the only woman to top the agency’s most wanted list. The home, preserved with historical accuracy to its 1930s origins, is riddled with bullet holes. Ma Barker, who was shot and killed during the shoot-out, is reported to haunt the house. Her Tommy-gun-toting figure is said to lurk on the front porch and yell to visitors to “get out.”
The Collingwood Arts Center, one of the oldest buildings in Toledo, Ohio, is considered one of the city’s most haunted places and is featured in the books, “Ghost Hunting Ohio” and “Haunted Ohio.” Once home to a convent, supernatural sightings have been seen and photographed throughout the Gothic and Romanesque-style structure. The basement is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a nun who died in its depths.
Between now and Halloween, visitors can virtually tour these haunted places on iGUIDE’s Spooktober Series and suggest the next haunted property for iGUIDE to explore.
