Know Any Good Ghost Stories?
We Want To Hear Your Tale!
Please share your personal stories of hauntings, phantasms and paranormal activity around the village of Madrid. They will comprise the upcoming Ghost Town Ghost Tour, which will guide visitors on a spooky journey where they can hear terrifying tales as told by the people who lived through them.
This upcoming audio tour is being made possible thanks to Madrid Cultural Projects and a 2023 Grant from Lou French and Chris Singleton.
Get Paid!
All contributors will be paid $25/hour, as well as receiving a free copy of the tour.
Open Call for Interviews Fall-Winter 2023
Santa Fe Reporter: "There's A New Tour In Town"
"It's a deep dive into the fascinating history of the little town. You'll find interviews with locals, some of whom have lived in Madrid their whole lives, and a narrator with a soothing voice ...
One might be skeptical of the accuracy of the GPS, especially when all the buildings are so close together, but that's not the case; it works exceedingly well ...
Every building in Madrid, be it a little jewelry shop or a public bathroom, tells a story."
-- Santa Fe Reporter (October 22, 2018)
the story behind these stories
I got the idea for the Madrid tour while researching a different audio project. It occurred to me that my hometown has such a fascinating history, and so many incomparable storytellers, that this tour could be both an introduction for the curious visitor as well as a vault for Madrid's collective chronicle. The advancing years of many old-timers was an added consideration. In sad fact, a distressing number of voices on the tour have deceased -- yet with great humility, I believe that a small part of their stories live on here.
I realized that to achieve the production level which this documentary deserved, I would need funding to pay the storytellers for their contributions, buy recording equipment, and promote the project. So I organized a crowdfunding campaign, Bingo at the Mineshaft Tavern and Kickstarter. It was so successful that I was able to expand the project's scope, and ultimately recorded over seventy hours of interviews. Cutting down all those interviews into a tidy two-hour walking tour, I was forced to leave out a number of especially picante tales. Some of these may be found in "Too Hot For Tourons," now available through discreet inquiry.