Get Spooked: Haunted Weekends at the Vanderbilt Mansion

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Looking for some spooky family fun? Stop by Haunted Weekends at the Vanderbilt Museum, Saturday and Sunday, Oct. 18-19 and 25-26, and Nov 1-2.

You’ll find ghoulish figures and “Un-Living History” tours of the mansion on Saturday on the hour from 12-4 p.m. Sunday tours are given at 12:30 p.m., 1 p.m, 2 p.m, 3 p.m and 4 p.m.

Tours include Vanderbilt ghost stories told by mansion guides dressed for the occasion – Delia O’Rourke, the Irish cook, dressed in her bloody apron and carrying a meat cleaver, and the Vanderbilt family’s guest, aviator-industrialist Howard Hughes, dressed in the dirty, bloody clothing from his plane crash. Visitors also might run into the Phantom of the Opera or the occasional witch.

To help those in need, Vanderbilt Mansion and Planetarium is currently hosting a drive for the Northport/East Northport Food Pantry, which collaborates with Long Island Cares. The project – which serves nearly 160 families weekly – is sponsored by the First Presbyterian Church of Northport and the Ecumenical Lay Council. Bring nonperishable, packaged foods including traditional Thanksgiving foods, juice boxes, cereal, peanut butter and jelly, dry pasta, pasta (spaghetti) sauce, rice, tuna fish, canned vegetables and pet food.

If you go: The Vanderbilt Mansion, Museum and Planetarium is located at 180 Little Neck Road in Centerport. Tickets for the tour, at $5 per person, are available at the door. All visitors also pay general museum admission –$7, adult; $6, students with ID and seniors 62 and older; and $3, children 12 and under. For more information, visit http://www.vanderbiltmuseum.org, or call (631) 854-5579.