Boston and Fort Warren
There’s no question that Boston is an entirely contemporary city. There are many urban attractions here that are truly at the cutting edges of culture in the world, and a night on the town is an adventure into the modern and everything beyond. It also has its fair share of old places, too, and old traditions. Those looking for the best hotel rates Boston can offer will very likely be looking for the new, but the old is worth exploring as well.
Places like Fort Warren are definitely interesting points of focus. To get here, one needs to take a boat across Boston Harbor, and it’s well worth the trip. There are old dungeons where prisoners were kept during the Civil War, and if it sounds a little spooky, it certainly is. One of the most exciting things about history has everything to do with the ghosts one finds.
At Fort Warren , there’s plenty of fodder for spooky material, but the story of one particular woman is more interesting than the rest. The story goes that she would dress as a man to sneak in to see either her lover, or her husband (the story changes, as they always do). She was discovered, and subsequently hanged in a dress that the warden’s wife provided. A woman in the same dress is often seen, and more often heard. Another voice from Boston’s history.
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