Strange True Tours by Jeffrey

09/02/2024

Here we go!

At the grave of Poe's first and last fiance, Elmira Royster Shelton.For whom he wrote 'ANNABELL LEE'Reading by Jeffrey

08/29/2024

Once you're in the zone...

08/29/2024

Feeling kind of blue...

08/25/2024

Halloween season is upon us!
I love this one from several years ago.
National News baby!

The agony of the past is still present on every corner and in every cemetery, making New Orleans one of the most haunted places in America.

08/23/2024

Now this is a bike tour to behold!

08/22/2024

It's that time of the year!
Let's get spooky!

08/19/2024

Join us on the Gram!!
You know I'm a great photographer!
Thanks!!
https://www.instagram.com/officialstrangerva/

08/18/2024

Out doing some research yesterday.
An incredibly poignant place in history.
A story with many horrific layers and lessons to be learned.

and F**k Lamar billboards!

08/18/2024

Shokoe Hill Cemetery, Richmond, Va.

08/16/2024

Richmond Va, get ready!

We launch on Sunday!

Something a little different than the typical ghost tour.
A true history macabre tour, no whitewashing, no holding back!

Welcome to the Premier Macabre History tour of Richmond.We will explore the strange and unusual side of Richmond's true macabre history and more!This is

08/14/2024

Introduction to Strange Richmond Tours.

Welcome to Richmond introduction with Jeffrey.Our first exploration of the amazing strange true Richmond stories.Join us on a Strange Richmond tour.strangerv...

08/13/2024

It was a pleasure to have this man tour for us!
Thanks Dane!

Known for: Deja Vu, The Magnificent Seven, A Love Song for Bobby Long

08/13/2024

Who wants to go for a spin on the 'Wheel of Death'!

Buried Alive?Devoured by Animals?Decapitated?Axe into Brain?Spin the wheel at the Poe Museum in Richmond Va.Let me know the outcome of your demise!

08/08/2024

08/08/2024

Popped up in an old file.
Charlaine Harris, author of True Blood.
She was so sweet!
Storycon, an author convention in New Orleans.
7 tours with 12 different NY Times Best Selling authors on the tours.
Absolute blast!!

08/08/2024

This beats trying to get through the French Quarter on bikes!!

08/07/2024

"They told me to take a streetcar named Barney"

Actually, Richmond had the first electric streetcars in the nation.
Just not as poetic...

08/06/2024

Ran into these guys yesterday talking about Liberty and Death and s**t.

08/06/2024

I've found a story more gruesome than anything in New Orleans!!
Truth is Stranger than fiction!!
This is going to be a tour like no other!
A true macabre history tour, no glorifying, just gut-punching reality, some subjects may make you uncomfortable.
Can you handle it?

08/06/2024

Christopher Tidmore (right) Judyth Baker (center)
Me on the left.

One of the city's historical experts and a world-renowned tour guide will be leading the Strange True Tours in New Orleans.
If you think I'm good, try Christopher!!

08/04/2024

I can see my living room windows in this picture.
The 2nd & 3rd black windows are on the right, on the first level.
There are remains still in the ground below me...

In 1791, two years after the founding of congregation Beth Shalome in Richmond, Isaiah Isaacs deeded a rectangular portion of his garden on Middle Street (now Franklin Street) to nine trustees. It was “to be used solely for the purpose of a burying ground” for “the Jews now residing in the Cit...

08/02/2024

There are many beautiful houses and great architecture up here in Richmond. Federalist, Queen Anne, East Lake trim, Italianate, Greek Revival, both large and small.
Walk in any direction, you're safe.

07/31/2024

Volunteering for this event and couldn't be happier!
I get to bartend as well as hear this talk!
Winner, Winner!

The Poe family was noted in Baltimore for their service in the Revolution and the War of 1812. A wheel-maker and later Assistant Deputy Quartermaster General, known to George Washington and the Marquis de Lafayette, David Poe Sr. gave much for the cause of Liberty alongside his wife, Elizabeth Cairn...

07/28/2024

Oct. 2nd 1925, the Church Hill tunnel collapsed killing 4 men, 2 men still remain trapped inside. Directly above is this children's playground.
The C&O 231

This is how we get horror stories...

07/26/2024

Hello Malibu

07/26/2024

"Monsters are real, and ghosts are too.
They live inside us, and sometimes they escape."
Stephen King

07/18/2024

"There is no beauty without a little strangeness."
Edgar A. Poe

07/14/2024

My history geeks!
Check this one out!

Thanks to New Orleans Cultural Economy for including our upcoming listening party in their weekly newsletter!

07/13/2024

New Orleans native and Icon Richard Simmons has passed.
Godspeed baby!!

Richard Simmons, the perennial 1980s workout personality who was defined by his uplifting spirit, has died.