‘TIS THE SEASON … TO TOUR A CEMETERY

Check out some of the area’s most popular walking tours of cemeteries and eerie downtown streets. Heritage Frederick offers its Murders and Mayhem Walking Tours every Saturday through Oct. 28, where tour-goers walk the streets of Frederick and learn about its darker side, from the scandalous to the nefarious true stories of its past. Maryland Heritage Tours brings its weekend Ghost Tours of Historic Frederick, which journeys through Frederick’s gruesome and bloody past and reveals documented stories of the paranormal. Roots & Stones on Oct. 21 is an archaeology tour of the Halfway African American Cemetery near Hagerstown, where nearly 400 Black Hagerstonians were laid to rest in the between 1897 and 1932 (rain date Oct. 22).