Elaina Vrattos Jacobs-Tour Guide

31/10/2024

26/09/2024

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17/09/2024

When you can see it from the street??? How creepy is this?? Yikes. Thank you Kristina Elliott!

09/09/2024

Another questionable photo from the Howard family. It’s always a lot of fun hunting for ghosts.
Join me in Salem… Halloween is coming👻

09/09/2024

Beth Howard took these.

09/09/2024

This building is completely empty but Saturday night Zach Howard found someone lurking while taking photos on my tour.

14/06/2024

I was hacked. I am working with Facebook to fix this issue and secure my account. If you get any requests or solicitations from me PLEASE ignore them. Feel free to also check with my personally too. Thank you!

29/05/2024

Hannah Anaya sent this to me. On one of my ghost tour from Burial Point Cemetery. The first picture is as take…then we zoomed in to the Grimshaw House that was in the background.

26/05/2024

Also from Katie Marie who was on my tour last night.

26/05/2024

From Katie Marie who took my tour last night. Three pictures back to back prove the movement of these possible orbs.

19/05/2024

An Interaction with a ghost by one of my Tour Guests. He was staying with his daughter at the Hawthorne hotel. after my tour he decided to try to communicate with a ghost he felt was present in his room. See what happened…

04/05/2024

Enjoy!

04/05/2024

Last nights adventure into the Waverly Hills Sanitarium was unnerving. I took plenty of pictures looking for ghosts. I caught one amazing picture. Typically you take three in a row so you know you got one but in this case I think it’s clear. But for the record… you can clearly see a figure’ legs and feet in middle pic.
This is either one entity or two. In this wing there were two sisters, one of whom delivered a baby with TB. Both sisters kept side by side
These feet look different to me, so I’m thinking it could be the two walking together
Or one being
I’m open to either.

22/04/2024

Looks like we may have an on looker!
Thank you Alan Wong for sending this picture from our Sslem Night Ghost Tour. This is the Gardner-Pingree House!!

21/04/2024

Descendants of the Allen family gathered in town last week on a beautiful Spring day to commemorate the 400 year anniversary of the arrival to the New World of William Allen. Born in England in 1601, and a descendant of “Alan of Bard” one of the Battle of Hastings Norman conquers in 1066, Willam arrived to the shores of Cape Anne in 1624 as an indentured servant with the Merchant’s of Dorchester Company. The company later moved its location to Naumkeag, and they were there to greet Governor Endicott and the settlers who arrived with him in 1628. In 1640, Allen removed to Manchester, which was at the time referred to as “Jeffries Creek”. In 1645 , when Manchester was incorporated, he was elected a selectman. Tradition says Willam was a carpenter who built the first sawmill over what is now know as Sawmill Brook. He was the progenitor of most of the numerous families of Allens who resided in what is now Essex County. The Allen family would prosper in the coming years, working as merchants and ship’s captains. Over the ensuing years 14 Allen’s would be lost at sea, some fishing and a few involved in the “African Trade”. The family also had a role in serving in the military. Serving in the Contential Army under the command of General George Washington, Nathaniel Allen was among those troops who crossed the Delaware River on a stormy Christmas night to win the Battle of Trenton. Four Allen’s who served in the GAR died in the Civil War, and their names are enshrined in Nubian marble behind the front desk of the Manchester library. In 1820, the Allen home at 13 Washington Street was built by Captain John Allen, who was son of a sea captain and father of another. The homestead, which was once part of a 50 acre land grant in 1638 from the King of England. The home was later designated in the Massachusetts Historical Society for being continuously occupied for 10 generations by the same family. A fire gutted part of the residence in in 1987, but through the heroic actions of the Manchester Fire Department and volunteers was saved. In 1993 the housed passed out of ownership of the Allen family, but the plaque commemorating the house still adorns the home. In the ensuing years, Allen’s would go on to become doctors, lawyers and civil servants, and although no family members are privileged to still reside in MBTS they are still strongly attached by their roots, and remember that the home, like the rest of the Commenwealth, stands on stolen ground taken from Masconomo and his people.

15/04/2024

This house in Lexington is known as the Hancock-Clarke House. It was built in 1738, and it was the childhood home of John Hancock, who lived here from 1744 to 1750. On the night before the battle, both John Hancock and Samuel Adams were staying at the house. One of the goals of the British redcoats was to capture these two leaders of the Patriot cause, but around midnight William Dawes and Paul Revere arrived to warn them of the British plans. Both Hancock and Adams then headed north to Burlington.

The house was nearly demolished in the 1890s, but it was instead purchased by the Lexington Historical Society and moved across the street, where the top photo was taken around 1900-1915. Then, in 1974 the house was moved again, back to its original site, as shown in the bottom photo in 2023

The house is still owned by the Lexington Historical Society, and it is seasonally open to the public for tours.

Historic image courtesy of the Library of Congress, Detroit Publishing Company Collection.

10/04/2024

The original Michelin Man from 1894.⁣ The Michelin Man aka Bibendum is white because rubber tires are naturally white. It was not until 1912, that carbon chemicals were mixed into the white tires, which turned them black. The change was structural, not aesthetic. By adding carbon, tires became more durable.⁣
Michelin also began reviewing restaurants so that more people would travel further distances in their cars to eat at these restaurants. This in turn would wear down their tires faster, and force them to buy more.⁣
The star system that Michelin uses goes up to three and is broken down by whether or not it's worth driving to the restaurant.
One star: "A very good restaurant in its category" (Une très bonne table dans sa catégorie)⁣
Two star: "Excellent cooking, worth a detour" (Table excellente, mérite un détour)⁣
Three star: "Exceptional cuisine, worth a special journey" (Une des meilleures tables, vaut le voyage).

08/04/2024

Sharon McNulty Campolo sent me these photo which she took of the Grimshaw House last night( April 7, 2024). Salem Ghost Tour.

21/03/2024

From my tour tonight. Thank you Elena!!

26/11/2023

Shots sent to me from Tash Silverio-Cruzado who was on my tour last night.

26/11/2023

The ghosts come out to say hi

28/10/2023

Something is lurking at the Gardner-Pingree mansion.

28/10/2023

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28/10/2023

Someone in my group asked the name of the female ghost that haunts this cemetery. I did not know and when he looked at his photos he took while asking me, he saw this!!!!

Tour Guide Specializing in Salem, MA
Historical, Witch Trials and Ghost/Paranormal. Available for Cu