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Rory Raven



Haunted History in Rhode Island
This presentation focuses on several local ghost stories and how they overlap and connect with real history. Providence native Rory Raven grew up hearing stories told by his Irish family. When he fell sick with a childhood ailment, his family's cure was to keep him in a dark room for a few days. During that time, one of his sisters crept into the room to read him stories by Edgar Allen Poe by flashlight. Raven feels this was a formative experience. His approach is more popular, historic, and folkloric than academic or paranormal.

Rory Raven created the Providence Ghost Walk (in 2000), a walking tour through the haunted history of Providence, where he shares many of the stories he has collected about the spookier side of the city.