Culture
A Walk Through Philadelphia's Haunted Past
Ghost tours illuminate the spookier side to a city’s history.
On The Job is a series of conversations with the people who keep neighborhoods running.
Nestled in the grass of Signers Garden in Old City, the lantern barely illuminates the woman standing behind it. She wears a long black dress, trimmed with lace and fastened across the back with brass buttons. Our guide for the evening, Kate, made it herself; it’s one of two gowns she dons for these nights when she steps away from her day job as a Wawa manager to lead crowds of believers and skeptics alike on a tour of haunted Philadelphia.