The chills and thrills are real on the new Haunted Euharlee Ghost Tour.

The Euharlee Historical Society has teamed up with the Paulding Paranormal Society to present a two-night walking tour of the old town and its invisible inhabitants.

The idea came from Johnny Mitchell’s Smokehouse – one of the haunted old buildings near the historic Euharlee Covered Bridge, said Billy Engler, director of the Paulding Paranormal Society.

“Euharlee’s really interesting for history and for the paranormal,” Engler said. “There are the original buildings built in the early 1800s: the granary, commissary, old store, courthouse and calaboose (one-cell jail). We’re going to have actors dressed up inside in period clothing. They’ll tell you how they died.”

Arrive for the tour of known sightings of ghostly activity between 6 and 9 p.m. Oct. 30 and 31. Each tour will take 45 minutes to an hour. The tour starts and ends at Johnny Mitchell’s Smokehouse, 100 Covered Bridge Road in Euharlee. The guided tour costs only $2 per person.

“You’re going to see the real paranormal evidence that we caught,” including photographs, video and sound, Engler said. “It hasn’t been just my team that’s been doing investigations. We’ve worked with the Northwest Georgia Paranormal Research Society, directed by Joey Bell out of Rockmart. There’s a lot of buildings here we’ve been checking out for the past year. You’ll hear about the history and about the evidence we found.”

Two of the Euharlee History Museum’s ghosts have stated their names, said museum staffer Linda Gossett Cochran.

“The museum is where we get some really good evidence,” Engler said.

Anyone who would like to watch how ghostly evidence is gathered can join Engler’s After-Hours Ghost Hunt on those two nights, from 10 p.m. to 3 a.m. It’s limited to six adults, for $40 per person. Tickets are at www.hauntedeuharlee.com.

He uses video cameras, film cameras, digital cameras, audio recorders and EMF (electromagnetic field) meters.

He also goes to libraries, courthouses and museums to learn who might have lived, worked or died in the building to be studied. That way, he can call the ghosts by name and ask them to respond.

“I need to know as much as I can about it to know what to ask, who to talk to,” he said.