Spook tours booked

Two days of special tours to search for ghosts in the former St. Ignatius Hospital in Colfax have already been booked. Fifty people have responded to a posting for the tours which will be conducted in the basement and the first two floors of the building. The individual tours have been offered at $45 each, and the ghost hunters will be escorted on a three-hour tour, according to Michael Rizzitiello, city administrator.

He noted a lot of the ghost hunters who made on-line reservations were from the Lewiston/Clarkston area. They will be allowed to bring ghost hunting equipment.

The tour project has been launched by the Colfax Chamber of Commerce and the Downtown Association. They started on the project after the owners of the property toured St. Ignatius and adjoining property early last month.

The special tours will be conducted Oct. 27 and 28, and then one floor of the hospital will be open for a Haunted Hospital spook event on the next two days, Oct. 29 and Oct. 30. Admission for the spook tour will be $10.

The plans call for the tour participants to be shuttled up to the St. Ignatius site from Fonk’s on Main St. That mode will be done to avoid traffic snarls at the hospital’s location at the top of the Mill Street Hill. Rizzitiello said the shuttle service is also expected to help the tour hosts to keep track of the participants.

Rizzitiello said this will probably be the one and only year that the tours of the building will be offered because the owner plans to commence development of the building.