Taking a friend on a ghost tour is sure to frighten them more than traditional scare tactics such as showing them a horror movie or screaming "boo!" while painted head to toe in Wite-Out. Save office supplies for the office with today's Groupon: for $20, you get a Gaslamp walking tour for two from Ghostly Tours in History LLC (a $40 value). Tours are held Friday and Saturday at 7:30 p.m. and 9 p.m.
Historians and actors team up with ghost hunters wielding contemporary paranormal equipment to captain Ghostly Tours in History. Jumping off from Horton Grand Hotel at Fourth and Island Avenues or George's on Fifth, the PG-rated Gaslamp walking tour leads patrons through the once-seedy back streets of San Diego. A sinister cityscape will emerge amid stories of a famous gambler, a gunman's hangout, and the secrets of Chinatown and its portentously misspelled fortune cookies. Explore the enigmatic origins of Petco Park and one of the Stingaree's most infamous brothels as patrons drink in 60-plus minutes of spine-chilling tales rooted in historical fact. Guides direct shutterbugs toward apparition hotspots to assist customers in ensnaring phantoms and photo-bombing shadows on film. The tour ends at a local bar, where spooked-out patrons can trade ominous tales and underdeveloped Polaroids.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Animal Sounds
Identifying animal sounds isn't just for schoolchildren and the professional hunters who capture most of the meat our nation eats today—it's a skill that might just save your life. Test your knowledge by matching the animals to their telltale noises:
The Animals
1) Dog
2) Parrot
3) Tony the Tiger
4) Dodo Bird
5) Human
The Noises
A. Er-Er-Ber
B. Cluck-Cluck
C. Argh!
D. Bow-Wow
E. They’re Grrrrreat!
The Answers
1) D Dogs go Bow-Wow. Animal behaviorists believe this signature howl is short for "Bow, humans! Wow, you're not doing it…." Dogs hate humans.
2) B Parrots go Cluck-Cluck, assuming that the parrots have been living with a chicken.
3) E Frosted Flakes' spokescat Tony the Tiger went They're Grrrrreat!, though he was recently fired after being photographed eating Cheerios in a men's hotel outside Orlando.
4) A Dodo birds went Er-Er-Ber. Or did they? We'll never know, because man hunted the flightless dodos to extinction, believing their bellies to be filled with gold. Granted, they were filled with gold, but now there's no bird-gold for the rest of us. Thanks a lot, humans.
5) C Humans go Argh! to express their innate frustration that stabbing plants doesn't cause a delicious sugary goop to come out, even though that worked once, with maple syrup.
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