KINGMAN — A cast and crew of over one hundred is thrilling audiences walking the Beale Street Theater produced Historical Ghost Tours. This Friday and Saturday, October 24th and 25th will be the final tours run between 7 and 9 pm.
The third-year director of the production, as well as being a tour guide, is Christine Fredriksen. She related that the original scripting was done by the early organizers of the event. When Ms. Fredriksen came on board, she added to the stories with assistance from the Kingman Historical Society.
“The Beale Street Theater Historical ghost walks have two unique, narrated tours around downtown to tell para-normal stories, historical stories, and scary stories of downtown Kingman,” said Fredriksen.
The “Lost Souls” tour relates the story behind the Tong assassination, visits both the Beale and Brunswick Hotels, and encounters a frightening walk down a darken alley. “Haunted Whispers” is the other path which addresses the circumstances of both the first and last hangings in Mohave County. On the lighter side, there is a stop at the wedding site of the Clark Gable-Carol Lombard wedding, however, the tragic end of the marriage is related.
These stories are delivered by costumed narrators and at several locations the stories are acted out by Beale Street players, such as the events leading up to the last hanging in Kingman.
Both tours finish up at the “Thriller Dance” that features a very energetic sequence danced by a mob of zombies. Never fear, project organizers report there have been no ‘deaths by fright’ in the more than half decade of Beale Street Theater Historic Ghost Walking Tours.
The entire presentation has a costumed cast of nearly 75 players and they are backed up by a crew of nearly 25, all connected in some way with the Beale Street Theater. It is quite an undertaking as plans for this years’ event started almost immediately after the 2024 Halloween presentation.
