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Ghosts in the News

Seeking Signs from the Other Side? Explore these 6 Spooky Spots

BY JENNIFER HUBERDEAU • OCTOBER 16, 2023 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

Do you believe in ghosts? If you answered yes, you’re not alone. According to the Paranormal America 2018 study, part of the Chapman University Survey of American Fears, 57.7 percent of the U.S. population believes that places can be haunted by spirits ...

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Are Ghosts Haunting the Berkshires?

BY AARON SIMON GROSS • OCTOBER 13, 2023 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

Do you believe in spirits? Over the past few years, ghost tours have surged in popularity in the Berkshires. Two decades ago, historical spots like Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum, Hancock Shaker Village or The Mount offered none. But today, those venues host a large variety of tours ... 

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Author Robert Oakes Had the Perfect Test Audience for His "Ghostly Tales"

BY JENNIFER HUBERDEAU • OCTOBER 12, 2023 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

“If I invited you to join me on a walk through a dark, haunted house, would you go?” “What if we had flashlights to light our way? Would you say yes?” Author and renowned Berkshires ghost tour guide Robert Oakes asks those questions at the beginning of “The Ghostly Tales of The Berkshires" ...

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A Look into Unexplained Phenomena in the Berkshires

OCT 29, 2021 • 22 NEWS WWLP

Berkshire County is a wonderful and beautiful place to spend time. It can also be pretty scary if you know where to look as the county boasts many stories of ghosts and sightings of unexplained phenomena...

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‘People Can Feel a Chill:’ Author Leads Ghost Tours through Ventfort Hall

BY MATT RISTAINO • OCT. 25, 2021 • SPECTRUM NEWS 1

LENOX, Mass. - Ventfort Hall is a Gilded age mansion and museum in downtown Lenox, and, if you believe the stories, one of the most haunted buildings in the Berkshires...

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The Berkshires Are Haunted. We Have the Ghost Stories To Prove It

BY DIANE BAIR AND PAMELA WRIGHT • SEPTEMBER 24, 2021 • THE BOSTON GLOBE

Ah, the Berkshires. Land of rolling hills, lovely hikes, great food, cozy inns … and ghosts. You’ll never look at the region the same way after chatting with Robert Oakes, author of the 2020 book, “Ghosts of the Berkshires.” ...

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Robert Oakes Breathes New Life into Ghost Stories

BY JACOB POSNER • JULY 21, 2021 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

LENOX — Robert Oakes has been leading ghost tours at The Mount, Edith Wharton’s former home, since 2010. An English major in college, Oakes had read Wharton before. But he said his interest in ghost ...

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A ‘Spirited’ Journey through History with Author Robert Oakes

BY HANNAH VAN SICKLE • JAN 29, 2021 • THE BERKSHIRE EDGE

LENOX — Author Robert Oakes has a penchant for chilling tales of the Berkshire Hills. He also holds the firm belief that, as individuals, we are urged along toward things we were meant to encounter ...

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Ghost Tours Go Virtual at The Mount in Lenox

BY MATT RISTAINO • OCT. 30, 2020 • SPECTRUM NEWS 1

LENOX, Mass. - Robert Oakes has been leading ghost tours at The Mount in Lenox for more than a decade. "There's so many different kinds of reports, from sights and sounds, smells, people ...

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Haunted Spaces in Local Places

BY ALANNA FLOOD • OCT 29, 2020 • 22 NEWS WWLP

Here in western Massachusetts you don’t have to look too far to get totally spooked! Robert Oakes, author of “Ghosts of the Berkshires,” shares some scary local tales ...

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Face the Haunts in Edith Wharton's Home

OCT 17, 2020 • THE NEW YORK TIMES

 ... and prepare to be spooked by an online ghost tour at the Mount, the country home that belonged to the writer Edith Wharton in Lenox, Mass. ...

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Ghost ships, swamp beasts, and all the creepy things that happen in Room 303

DIANE BAIR • OCT 8, 2020 • THE BOSTON GLOBE

“As a child recovering from typhoid fever, Edith Wharton read a ghost story. She suffered a relapse and blamed it on that story,” says Robert Oakes, a guide at The Mount who’s led ghost tours for 10 years ...

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Open Book with Robert Oakes, author of 'Ghosts of the Berkshires'

BY JENNIFER HUBERDEAU • SEP 11, 2020 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

Robert Oakes knows how to tell a good ghost story. Admittedly, he's had a lot of practice. For 10 years, Oakes has regaled The Mount's ghost tour groups with tales of eerie encounters ...


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'Ghost Hunters' To Air New Episode Filmed at The Mount in Lenox

BY JENNIFER HUBERDEAU • NOV 17, 2015 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

LENOX — Do you believe in ghosts? Edith Wharton poses this question in an essay that appears in the preface of a collection of her own ghostly tales. Those are the questions members of  ...

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SyFy’s Ghost Hunters Return to The Mount for Season Finale

NOV 16, 2015 • IBERKSHIRES.COM

LENOX, Mass. — SyFy’s hit show "Ghost Hunters" will conclude its current season with a trip back to The Mount, Edith Wharton's home in Lenox, to investigate reports of increased paranormal  ...

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The Better Sort of Ghost

BY DONNA LIQUORI • OCT 9, 2014 • THE TIMES UNION

It was in the stable on Edith Wharton's estate where my camera malfunctioned. It was this very area that a door began rattling on its own during one of the previous week's ghost tours, according to tour guide ...

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Berkshire Haunts Host Ghost Tours for the Brave

BY JENNIFER HUBERDEAU • OCT 19, 2014 • THE BERKSHIRE EAGLE

It was in the stable on Edith Wharton's estate where my camera malfunctioned. It was this very area that a door began rattling on its own during one of the previous week's ghost tours, according to tour guide ...

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Television Interviews

Dalton Community Television Interview

OCT 13, 2020

Robert talks with host Sue Jacobs about 

his new book Ghosts of the Berkshires.

New England Legends on WBGY

OCT 29, 2015

Legend Hunter Jeff Bélanger turns a page in Edith Wharton's

story to uncover some of The Mount's deepest, darkest secrets.

Podcast Interviews

Radio Interviews

Interview on The Apple Seed with Sam Payne on BYUr

Robert Oakes, Ghost Tour guide at The Mount in Lenox, MA interviewed by Sam Payne on the Apple Seed show on BYU Radio, October, 2013.

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