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SHE'S GHOSTING ME

who runs St. Charles Ghost Tours on Main Street, D owns a white Toyota van that he has modified with S-shaped landau bars to look like a hearse. A skeleton sits shotgun, seatbelt buckled. His vanity plate reads “6Six6.” With his white beard, glasses, and red jacket, Henry bears a resemblance to Santa Claus, but he tells our tour group he’d rather be Krampus, the demon monster who punishes bad boys and girls at Christmastime. Speaking of, he has noticed Halloween’s increasing popularity over the years and thinks it now rivals the December holiday. Which is good for business. He estimates he has given tours to 30,000 people. But despite his running the ghost tour for

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