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TRI-CITIES, Tennessee - It's that time of year when we all start dreaming of our next get away. Why not start a new tradition this year and bring your whole family, or tour group, on a Tennessee "Haunted Vacation" with Appalachian GhostWalks' Tennessee Ghost Tours lantern led by real, professionally Certified Ghost Hunters who recount "spine-tingling" stories of real history and real ghosts!

"Appalachian GhostWalks" has designed tour packages to help save Tennessee travelers money on their next visit to the mountains. Additional information on all of their "Spook and Save" vacation partners is available on their award winning website where visitors will find links to their "Discount Haunted Vacation Planning Packages". Here, you will find a variety of elegant, quaint, old-world style, and haunted bed and breakfasts, but also more modernized accommodations for those who prefer an alternate setting for their stay.

There are nine different historic walking tours in the Northeastern Tennessee mountains presently available to choose from all located just a short drive from Dollywood, Ober Gatlinburg, Pigeon Forge, and the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. These include haunted and historic Erwin and the Unicoi County Heritage Museum, Jonesborough - Tennessee's oldest town, Blountville, Greeneville, and Rogersville; Bristol's "Birthplace of Country Music GhostWalk" as well as the "Haunted Kingsport Walking and Bus Tours" - beginning on, or before June 2008; in Johnson City, formerly known as "Johnson's Depot" two different tours include the "Little Chicago GhostWalk" as well as the campus of East Tennessee State University with ghostly stories of hauntings as told by the faculty and staff from 1911 forward through present day.

In Southern Appalachian Highlands they offer their oldest tour known as the "Historic Abingdon Virginia GhostWalk", which features a package to encompass discounts on a play at The Barter Theatre, the Abingdon Carriage Company offering nostalgic carriage rides of the historic district, and a romantic and enthralling, lantern-lit tour - perfect for a holiday getaway; and in 2009, we will begin offering tours of Saltville, Virginia - the Salt Capital of the Confederacy during America's Civil War.

Each of Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours Haunted Vacations feature historical tours offering a small piece of a much larger puzzle as your very own Certified Ghost Hunter Guide and Historian weaves a chilly tale of our region's vast cultural heritage, and history coupled with true, spine-tingling ghost stories. Catering to both couples, as well as larger groups, one simple phone call to their informed staff will help you create a memorable Tennessee Vacation designed specifically for you and your travel companions.

Appalachian GhostWalks is proud to have won a Merit Award at the Pinnacle Awards early in 2007 as presented by the Northeast Tennessee Tourism Association and the company continues to grow. A spokesperson for the company announced that visits to their award winning website for this year had grown more than four hundred percent above this time last year with over five million hits.

On September 1st, 2007, Appalachian GhostWalks and Ghost Tours was voted one of the top five ghost tour companies in America by Haunted America in New Orleans, Louisiana. Offering a wide variety of vacation packages featuring many types of activities and area attractions to include both day and night activities there is something to keep you and your travel companions enchanted and entertained during your visit to the mountains.

Travel discounts are available on accommodations for recreational vehicles and tourists including a wonderful choice of very historic and sometimes haunted bed and breakfasts, camping, white water rafting, caving, bike and horseback riding, a local gem mine, a day at the spa, planetarium shows, barge and carriage rides, area museums and exhibits, visits to local water parks, skiing, seeing a live play, or a concert, casual and fine dining, with more on the way.

Now offering so many ways to save and make the most of your visit to the Southern Appalachian Mountains, Appalachian GhostWalks invites you and that special someone, or group to join them in saying, "Tennessee Sounds Good to Me"! Visit them online at www.AppalachianGhostWalks.com for additional information, or for a SPOOK-tacular good time please call (423) 743-WALK (9255) for reservations.