About Us

In 2010, Mike founded a tourism company called Madison Ghost Walks dedicated to preserving the Wisconsin capitol city's history and folklore, as well as showing people a great time around the city. Today, Mike has expanded his mission to ten U.S. states including California, Puerto Rico, and even The U.S. Virgin Islands.

Mike performs in the Weird Wisconsin Rock Band, Sunspot, and is the co-host of the See You On The Other Side podcast with pop culture and paranormal themes. He has also been featured on the BBC and TRVL Channel's In Search of Monsters.

Recipient of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference's 2016 Wisconsin Researcher of the Year Award, Allison Jornlin has been investigating strange phenomena for more than 20 years.

Inspired by Chicago's Richard Crowe, who kickstarted U.S. ghost tourism in 1973, she developed Milwaukee's first haunted history tour in 2008.

Allison currently works as a professional weirdo, speaking throughout the U.S., writing for a variety of publications, and developing haunted history tours for American Ghost Walks. She has also be featured in the media including an appearance on the CW's Mysteries Decoded.

With more than 30 years of experience in the tourism industry and over 135 countries and territories visited, it was about time that Leo did the San Juan Ghost tour, after experiencing many of those stories himself!

Tea is a Milwaukee native, host of Tea's Weird Week, and an award-winning journalist and author of five non-fiction books including Monster Hunters, Wisconsin Legends & Lore, and American Madness.

He is also the founder and director of the Milwaukee Paranormal Conference, an annual celebration of all things paranormal that was established in 2015.

Rita is a lifelong Lake Geneva area resident, with a lifelong love of the paranormal, spooky, and macabre. When she was 18, Rita went on her first haunted history tour in New Orleans and declared, "I'd like to do this someday in Lake Geneva".

Passionate about storytelling and honoring history, Rita brings both a reverence and a twist of humor to her tours.

Ursula Bielski is the founder of Chicago Hauntings and the host of WYCC PBS's The Hauntings of Chicago.

An historian, author, and parapsychology enthusiast, she has been writing and lecturing about Chicago's supernatural folklore and the paranormal for nearly twenty years and is recognized as a leading authority on Chicago and Midwest ghostlore and cemetery history. Her tours are the basis and foundation of our Chicagoland routes.

Scott founded and led the LA Hauntings bus tour and has an extensive knowledge of Hollywood and Los Angeles haunted locations. He has been actively involved in researching the paranormal for more than half of his life. He is also the author of the book, Voices from the Chicago Grave.

Markus has been working in various aspects of film and television production since 1997. His work has taken him across America while working on set for Lost, The Dark Knight, Forgetting Sarah Marshall, Stranger Than Fiction, and many more.

Diane Ladley is a nationally award-winning storyteller, folklorist, public speaker and author, named by other storytellers as "America's Ghost Storyteller."

Her coast-to-coast reputation for masterfully told, spine-tingling tales is hailed by critics, peers and ghost story enthusiasts alike. Her research forms the foundation of our Naperville and Aurora ghost tours in Illinois.

Growing up in Waukesha, Josh has had interactions with the paranormal since a young age. These scary and mysterious happenings were confusing at the time but there was one place he knew he could find answers: the library.

In his time at UW-Oshkosh he met a group of like minded individuals and was able to form the university's first-ever paranormal research team that has been to locations across the Midwest.

Tony is a long-time Chicagoland paranormal investigator, having belonged to several paranormal groups in the area. Tony has also appeared on My Ghost Story on the Biography Channel, and on Fox News.

Tony takes great pride in what he does and loves sharing the haunted history of the Chicago area with visitors and natives alike. He also hosted the Chicago Hauntings video series for CBS Chicago.

Anna works as our customer service manager / tour coordinator. She resides in northern Illinois and has her BA in International Relations from UW-Stevens Point. Anna's interest in paranormal activity started when she was a little girl that grew up in an old house riddled with spooky, unexplainable occurrences. She enjoys watching creepy YouTube videos, spending time outdoors, traveling and painting in her free time. You can find her artwork here.

Sally Lobkowicz, founder of Red Cloak Tours, is a researcher and writer specializing in genealogy and history. Sally put her talents to work in the towns of midcoast Maine, beginning with tours in Damariscotta in 2007. Now called a "Maineologist" by some, she developed Maine's number one haunted history tour company with Red Cloak Tours, which is now Maine Ghost Walks.

Virginia is the founder of Bayfield Heritage Tours, LLC that created guided historic and ghost walking tours in Bayfield, Wisconsin, now called the Bayfield Ghost Walk. Virginia is a member of the Milwaukee Storyteller's Guild, the Wisconsin Storytellers, the Northland Storytelling Network, the National Storytelling Network and the National Association for Interpretation. She conducts workshops on "The Art and Business of Walking Storytelling" and the writer of Ghosts and Mysteries in the Bayfield Graveyards.

Lisa has been leading Haunted History Tours in Madison since 2013. She is an avid storyteller with a lifelong interest in the supernatural, history, and folklore. She has appeared on podcasts and television and has also been featured in various print publications.

Lisa always felt she was born into the paranormal, having arrived into the world on October 30--Devil's Night--in Detroit. Devil's Night started as a rather dubious cultural phenomenon where people engaged in petty mischief but over the years escalated into major vandalism and arson fires in the city. Perhaps fittingly, Lisa became a firefighter for the City of Madison and recently retired after a 28-year career.

Lisa loves getting into character and sharing her knowledge of Madison with visitors and residents alike. She delivers her tours with reverence and flair!

Storyteller Linda Lee is our Ghost Guide to The Gopher State. Linda joined the team in 2015 as one of the inaugural hosts for the Minneapolis tour, but quickly branched out her expertise to St. Paul (The Evil Twin) and beautiful Stillwater by the St. Croix River. Now Linda manages the paranormal explorations in Minnesota, training new ghost hosts as well as continuing to deliver spooky fun to our guests when she leads tours.

Jean Pesce worked in New York film production before attending NYU where she received her MFA in screenwriting and film directing. Jean currently lives in Los Angeles with her rescue dog, a Brussels Griffon named Henry. She has been working on TV shows out here in LA, and will soon be directing her first feature — a dark comedy, CUTTLEFISH. Jean is a huge history and True Crime nerd and loves exploring the endlessly eerie history of Hollywoodland! Most notably, Jean was voted "Most Enthusiastic" in the Third Grade, and she has the t-shirt with felt lettering to prove it.