ABOUT SIXTH SENSE SAVANNAH

Shannon S. Scott
Native of Rantoul, Illinois, Shannon moved here to study fine arts at The Savannah College of Art & Design and has been a tour guide since 1989. At age 25, he opened his own publishing company, Jones Street Productions and published the city’s most advanced and specialized maps and travel guides. He has taken an active stand for “better information” for visitors and locals alike through his many endeavors.

His fervid love for Savannah’s history began with pioneering the first tours focusing on women’s history, architecture, Civil & Revolutionary Wars, and an entire tour just covering River Street. This broadbased understanding of the entire Low Country ultimately added to the richness of his ghost stories.

In 1999, Scott became a part of the creative team that launched the Fox Family Channel Hit, “Scariest Places On Earth” hosted by Linda Blair (The Exorcist) & Zelda Rubenstein (Poltergeist). In 2002, he organized the first annual parapsychology conference for the country’s most recognized field research group, The American Institute of Parapsychology, and personally received the group's highest honorarium of “America's Most Haunted City”™ on behalf of the City of Savannah. He was also honored with being made Georgia Sectional Director of The A.I.P. The city’s receiving the honor became the biggest news story to hit Savannah since the publishing success, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil. In 2005, The New York Times voted Sixth Sense Savannah as the only tour company among its “Top 10 Things To Do When In Savannah” In 2007, The New York TImes once again wrote up his 2nd touring venture “America's Most Haunted City™ — The Tour” as its pick for a top shelf family driven tour. In 2007, he sold production rights to “America's Most Haunted City” to Standoff Studios and is slated for release in Spring of 2008.

Chris Soucy
Chris Soucy is a 20 year resident and is a 20 year veteran of all of Savannah’s stages as actor, director, writer, producer, set designer, sound engineering and more. Most recently he retired from his longest stint as Director of Theater for The City of Savannah’s Cultural Affairs offices. As a father of a 3 year old, of particular interest is his work with countless children’s theater and related classes of which he still actively conducts. Along with Chris having been a reporter for The Savannah Morning News and teaching martial arts classes for Savannah Law Enforcement & “Special Ops” groups, Chris has had broad access to the Savannah community and its many strange stories, events and personalities. In addition, Chris heads Savannah’s only recognized paranormal investigation collaborative, “Savannah Ghost Hunters” and conducts investigations on a weekly basis. He has also been an associate partner and tour guide for Sixth Sense Savannah for over 2 years.

Doug Farrell
Doug Farrell is a professional actor who’s worked in New York City, Los Angeles, and Chicago, but has called Savannah “home” for the last ten years. He’s an author, filmmaker, songwriter, a vegetarian chef and an illustrator. His first novel, Glamour Job: A Fairy-tale for Grown-ups has been gathering critical praise as a unique blend of urban fantasy, science fiction and social commentary -- it features goblins who run a very profitable cosmetics company in Chicago. He’s currently working on next two books in his “Lunarcentric Trilogy”.

Doug is no stranger to the paranormal. He says, “I’ve had so many strange encounters, that the paranormal has become normal to me. My friends say I must be some kind of lightening rod for all things supernatural.” He’s had regular run-ins with dopplegangers, faery-folk, ghosts, poltergeists, demons and even time-travelers (who claim they’ve read his books — that’s “books” plural — he’s only published one so far.)

For years, though, his passion has been collecting first-person stories about ghosts. Stories told by the people who experienced their own encounter with the supernatural. When he was asked to join forces with Sixth Sense Savannah, it seemed to be a perfect fit. He gets to use his gifts as a story-teller — he gets to share the ghost stories he’s collected in Savannah — but there’s the added benefit of his supernatural magnetism, because the pictures taken by the folks on his tours are flat-out amazing. If you get Doug Farrell as a tour-guide, please bring a camera.

Doug lives with his fabulous wife, Ellen and their three brilliant children in the wooded outskirts of Savannah.