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Vampires! On a Boat! In New York City!

Actor Teel James Glenn, playing vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, greets visitors as they board the 2025 Gothic Vampire Cruise on the Hudson.
Davis Dunavin
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Actor Teel James Glenn, playing vampire hunter Abraham Van Helsing, greets visitors as they board the 2025 Gothic Vampire Cruise on the Hudson.

Every Halloween, WSHU’s Off the Path gets a little .... spooky. Visits to Lizzie Borden’s house, a haunted pirate cave, and Sleepy Hollow, to name a few. This year, reporter Davis Dunavin finds himself on a boat in the middle of New York Harbor — surrounded by creatures of the night — for New York City’s 5th annual vampire cruise.

The Gothic Vampire Cruise on the Hudson is co-hosted and features music by The Sedona Effect

Davis Dunavin loves telling stories, whether on the radio or around the campfire. He started in Missouri and ended up in Connecticut, which, he'd like to point out, is the same geographic trajectory taken by Mark Twain.