"You'll never look at the region the same way after chatting with Robert Oakes.”  

— Diane Bair, The Boston Globe

"Robert Oakes is an incredible speaker and tells ... stories so elegantly you feel like you've stepped back in time!" 

—Drew Babineau, paranormal investigator

Robert Oakes writes books about ghosts, leads tours in haunted places, tells stories, and teaches workshops. He has written three books, The Ghostly Tales of the Berkshires (2023), Ghosts of Northwestern New Jersey (2022), and Ghosts of the Berkshires (2020). His fourth book, Ghosts of Northeastern New Jersey, is due out in 2027. Since 2010, Robert has led immersive ghost storytelling experiences at historic locations, including Ventfort Hall and The Mount in Lenox, MA, and Arrowhead in Pittsfield, MA. At Arrowhead and The Mount, Robert has offered talks on authors Edith Wharton, Herman Melville, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. He has also given talks and readings for both children and adults at many libraries, schools, museums, and cultural centers. Robert has appeared on Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger’s New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed: Tellers and Stories show on BYUradio and has been featured in The Boston Globe, The Berkshire Eagle, and other media outlets. In October 2025, one of his stories was featured on the Risk! storyteller podcast. Robert earned his master’s degree from the Middlebury Bread Loaf School of English and has taught elementary, middle, and high school English, as well as adult writing workshops.