If you respect your personal space and are sick of the same old-same old, The Haunted Cleveland Ghost Tours may be just what you are looking for.

This year, the Tour offers their Burning River Tours with stops at Riverside Cemetery, the USS Cod, Whiskey Island, Great Lakes Brewery and Franklin Castle.

Jump on a bus with the charming and funny tour guide, Beth, and you are in for a ride. As you pass locations, Beth tells stories of various hauntings.

"In the past I used to write my tour stories, I was very blessed in 2001 or 2002, I found my host who took over the research and writing part," Chuck Gove, the owner of Haunted Cleveland Ghost Tours, said.

LISTEN to the owner Chuck Gove talk about his Cleveland Ghost Tours

"In Riverside we have a lot of notables." Beth announces as you pull into the cemetery, "We have James Ford Rhodes, who won the Pulitzer Prize. Sections 19 and 29 is where the people who donate their bodies to science are buried, and the Tiedemann family [lived in the Franklin Castle] is buried here."

The next stop is the USS Cod, which ended up in Cleveland as a training vessel.

This submarine is haunted by a past Navy sailor who drowned while trying to salvage it in 1945 when one of its electrical torpedoes caught fire, threatening to sink the sub.

Andrew Johnson was one of the sailors who tried to get control over the situation. He was washed overboard and drowned. Caretakers of the ship claim to this day that it is haunted by Johnson. They say that he watches over the ship.

Creepy, right?

Next, was the high point of the evening, Whiskey Island. Do I need to say more?

This is not only a gorgeous sight, it is also really spooky.

The Coast Guard station was the highlight of Whiskey Island. This island was home to a hospital for cholera patients during an outbreak.

"They built Cleveland's second hospital here during the cholera epidemic." Beth said, "They called it the Pest House and most of the people did not make it out of the hospital. So they say that there's a woman in a nursing uniform that you see, and people have heard babies crying and a lot of other weird things that they contribute to that time." 

LISTEN to Beth talk about the history of Whiskey Island

After Whiskey Island, the tour stopped at the Great Lakes Brewery. Really no ghost stories here, but it's an interesting tour of the brewery. You learn how Great Lakes makes their brew, so if you're a fan of their beer this will be your favorite stop.

Then the promoted highlight of the evening, Franklin Castle. The tour was supposed to go up to the ballroom, but the developer of the castle, Charles Milsaps, made the last minute decision that the tour was going to the servants' quarters.

Quite a change, right?

Although Franklin Castle is really haunted, it was not at all a spooky experience. The reason - Milsaps led the tour of the castle. He took this time as an opportunity to say what he plans to do with the castle, instead of tell scary stories, which was expected on a ghost tour.

LISTEN to Beth talk about the history and events at Franklin Castle

"It is geared more for adults, even more towards baby boomers," Gove said.

LISTEN to stories and experiences people had on the tour