Join us as Robert Oakes, author of Ghosts of the Berkshires, virtually leads you through the rooms and halls of this historic estate sharing tales of its hauntings. See places where the eerie encounters occurred, listen to the first-hand accounts of those who experienced them. This tour also includes some stories and exclusive footage of the unrestored third floor and basement of Ventfort Hall!

This tour is available to view on-demand. Once you purchase your ticket, you will receive the link to view on YouTube to watch at your convenience until the end of the day on Friday, January 7, 2022.

Robert Oakes is an author, teacher, storyteller, and singer/songwriter originally from northern New Jersey and currently residing in the Berkshires in Western Massachusetts. Since 2010 Robert has led the ghost tours at Edith Wharton's The Mount in Lenox, MA, and has represented the museum and its ghosts on Syfy’s Ghost Hunters, Jeff Belanger’s New England Legends series on PBS, and The Apple Seed show on BYUradio. In 2020, Robert's debut book, Ghosts of the Berkshires, was published by Arcadia Publishing.

Ventfort Hall members and volunteers can receive a discount for this event! Please email info@gildedage.org for the discount code. Discount can only apply when initially purchasing tickets and cannot be applied after tickets are purchased. To apply a code, click on "Enter Promo Code" at checkout.

Ventfort Hall has a strict no-refund policy and tickets are nontransferable.

Tickets purchased on Eventbrite are for the streamed event online. There are no in-person tickets to purchase for this event as it is online only.

Listed on the National Register of Historic Places and designated by the Massachusetts Cultural Council as an important partner of the Lenox Cultural District, one of the five such Berkshire County districts, Ventfort Hall Mansion and Gilded Age Museum was built in 1893 for George and Sarah Morgan, the sister of legendary financier J. Pierpont Morgan. Tours of the historic mansion are offered daily, as well as Tea & Talks, such exhibitions as the Bellefontaine Collection, concerts, theater and other programs. This elegant Jacobean-Revival Berkshire “cottage” is open to the public year-round and is available for private rental. Ventfort Hall, also an Official Project of Save America’s Treasures program sponsored by The White House, has undergone substantial restoration, which continues.