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Marconi
Hotel at Camp Evans
to be haunted for halloween
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By
Fred Carl
<> Fright
Master Nels and Fright Mistress
Judy Warren
are busy raising the evil
spirits of Camp
Evans. They are preparing a family
friendly Halloween experience inside
the haunted Marconi Hotel for kids and parents. If you dare to
visit,
the hotel will be open 6 to 10 p.m.
on Friday
and Saturday, Oct. 20, 21,
27 and 28.
The $5 donation will be used to help InfoAge continue preserving historic Camp Evans.
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The
guided tours will start in the main
hallway. In the lobby visitors
will hear the funeral piano and see people drinking witch's brew,
their
last drink. In the gutsy kitchen
guests
will meet the deranged
rook preparing
his body part stew. In
the cobweb
filled dining hall the
spirits are
dancing for eternity. Care to
dance? As you leave the dining
hall you will
pass the stairway to nowhere, where someone is still hanging
around. Visitors’ next walk is
down the hallway to Hades
to see the wedding of
the departed sprits and other
former guests of the hotel hanging around.
Then they will be taken
into the
dungeon to see the poor victims on the rick, in a stock and
strapped
into an electric chair. If you
arc allowed to
leave the dungeon, you will be escorted past the spider room, the vampire bat room and the mad scientist "High
Voltage"
laboratory. Finally the tour, just like life, ends in a
Cemetery.
The evil and haunting at Camp
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Evans
arises from the Indian burials, the
deaths on the site, and the spirits of enemy soldiers
killed by secret
weapons designed there. Possibly
more
dangerous are the aliens
and UFOs
which have regularly
visited Camp
Evans
since 1946.
<>Are the
Indian spirits still angry
over losing their land? In the1880s,
Asbury Park Press publisher Hugh
Kinmouth died along the stream
and walks the property looking
for stories late at night. During
World War II Col. Paul Watson
died in the
Marconi Hotel. Has his
ghost left
the hotel? Does he know
his radar helped win that
war? During World War I and
World War II secret inventions developed at Camp Evans enabled the Allied Armed Forces to kill millions of enemy airmen, sailors and soldiers. Will they visit on Halloween
seeking revenge? Is the ghost of
the Nazi spy captured in Camp Evans and later shot still waiting
to be picked
by a U boat?
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InfoAge
volunteer, Bill Burke, gets ready for
Halloween in the haunted
Marconi Hotel with two of his frightful
friends
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they've
been livin' and working amongst
us in vast
quantities ever since.
The government
knows all about 'em:”. Will the aliens be friendly
when you visit?
Dressed
in Halloween costumes to help your
fright experience are members of
the Shore Regional
High
School Shore Players,
members
ot the National Thespian
Honor Society,
Wall High School Chapter and members of
the Wall Township Boy Scouts. The proceeds from the event
will
help
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InfoAge,
help support this years
plays by the Shore Players and the Wall Thespian Society and
help with
Boy Scout activities.
Are
you willing to
visit Camp
Evans to see the spirits, ghost and evil
kept hidden the rest of the year?
InfoAge and Fright Master Nels and Fright
Mistress Judy Warren invite you
to visit. If you under 6
or just timid a fun train
ride awaits you while the hearty go into the hotel to he entertained. Directions and more information is at
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