Bozeman Magazine

“Why did the game warden arrest a ghost? He didn’t have his haunting license.”

Funny, huh?

You can hear jokes like these and more at Bannack State Park’s annual Ghost Walks event.

Ghost Walks resurrects the past by bringing the town’s dead back from the grave. Spooky? Consider the setting: nighttime in a western ghost town, in the middle of nowhere, lit only with lanterns and bonfires. Live reenactors play the ghosts of rogues and wretches from the town’s early days, when gravediggers were kept busy burying those who died from gunshots, accidents, and infectious diseases.