Aurora antique shop doubles as a ghost tour destination

AURORA, Mo. (KY3) - We’re five weeks away from Halloween, and no doubt a lot of folks are looking to get into the spooky season with haunted houses, hayrides, and cornfields.

In Aurora, you can take a tour of a 140-year-old building said to be haunted.

Today, it’s the Junk Gypsy’s antique store on Olive, but on certain nights, you can take a tour led by Show Me Something Spooky.

The hauntings are said to be related to the building’s origin as a saloon, gambling hall, and brothel.

“It feels a bit eerie everywhere,” customer Alice Holden, who came from England for the visit, said. “You always feel like you’re being watched. I always feel like someone stood right behind me. No one stood there.”

For two and a half hours, visitors go on all three floors of the Haunted Aurora Brothel, hearing about its history and the ghostly sightings.

The tour wraps up with customers using some paranormal equipment to do some ghost hunting of their own.

“The history is fun and everything, but people go to ghost tours to try to find ghosts,” tour guide Dalton Harris of Show Me Something Spooky said. “So we want to give them a unique opportunity to do that for themselves.”

The Haunted Aurora Brothel has three dates in October its hosting ghost tours: October 8th, 15th, and 29th. Tours are from 7 p.m. until 9:30 p.m. and are $25 per person.

Click here to visit the Haunted Aurora Brothel Facebook page to learn more.

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