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Philadelphia is aiming to spend Halloween scaring visitors this year.

The City of Brotherly Love is highlighting its more gruesome attractions and the dark stories behind its historical sites.

The city's most haunted spot is thought to be the St Peter's Church Cemetery, where the spectral residents include a horse-drawn carriage that drives through the graveyard, two Native American chiefs and a man from the colonial era.

The Eastern State Penitentiary, once home to gangster Al Capone, also has its fair share of ghouls with a lady in white being seen in the former asylum wing and a prisoners and prison guards still serving their time.

Over Halloween the former prison and the church yard, among other ghostly sites, welcome visitors who are prepared for a fright.

Some hotels, bars and restaurants in the city also hide a gruesome past. The Black Bass Hotel in Bucks County is said to have two ghosts, a landlord who was murdered and an old woman who sits with a revolver on her lap.

In Philadelphia ghostly goings-on can be found in the weeks before and after Halloween (31 October).


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