Fort Riley Ghost tours are back again this Sunday, October 23rd.

Established in 1853 as ‘Camp Center’, Fort Riley was at the center of a cholera outbreak where thousands of people were infected and died within a matter of hours from contracting the disease.

To this day, there are many parts of Fort Riley that are haunted.

Tricia Verschage, ‘Ghostess’, said that she has had personal encounters with some of the haunted activity on Fort Riley.

“I used to work on one of the brigades on Fort Riley for six years and the first question that people would usually ask me was ‘is my house haunted?’…but one commander actually had a house that was haunted,” said Verschage. “They had a cavalry soldier that lived up on the third floor, a mother and two children on the middle floor where the bedrooms where and then on the lower floor there was an old man that wore like an Abraham Lincoln hat.”

Verschage and her teenage children, who babysat for that Commander, saw the ghosts whom were very friendly.

“They kind of  hung out with us all night long and watched tv with me – they like Toddlers and Tiaras,” said Verschage recanting the story told to her by her teenage daughter.

Verschage said that she knows where many of the haunted houses are, but most people don’t want to know if they are affected.

The Ghost Tours on Fort Riley will be this Sunday, October 23rd from 4:00 – 7:00 pm.

Everyone should meet on the Cavalry Parade Field (site of Apple Days) for the approximately 1 1/2 mile walk that Verschage describes as “stroller friendly”.

This event is free and open to the public.