Lily is a creepy doll sold by LA Ghosts. (photo courtesy of LA Ghosts)

Just in time for Halloween season, LA Ghosts is offering novel ways to enjoy the upcoming holiday on Oct. 31. Marketed as being 100% COVID-19 safe, the four new offerings are intended to be ways to safely indulge in ghostly adventures.

The adaptations include a haunted doll, streaming ghost tours at home and self-guided mobile adventures.

LA Ghosts has launched a voice app to tell ghost stories on Amazon Alexa and Google Home. The voice app lets people listen to ghost stories from any device equipped with Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant, delivering over 100 voice actor-narrated ghost stories from over 20 cities.

After LA Ghosts was forced to shut down in-person led tours due to COVID-19, the company launched apps for iOS and Android that turn a smartphone into a virtual tour guide. The app combines actor narrated voice, images, video, text, GPS triggers, voice navigation, and a map and route. Guests can also enjoy self-guided tours on location, using the app to walk them through the streets to each haunted location whenever and with whomever they want.   

The app leads to a one-time haunt of Marilyn Monroe as well as haunted historical locations like the TCL Chinese Theatre, the Hollywood Roosevelt and the Magic Castle.  As part of the journey, the app offers stories of several unexplained and creepy encounters that have taken place around Hollywood Boulevard over the last century.

In addition to Los Angeles, the app also lets users take virtual ghost tours in cities across the country. Audio narrative and spooky images further enhance the tour.

A haunted doll and effigy called Lily hearkens to a Viking tradition of warding off evil spirits and is modeled after the Countess Elizabeth Báthory, commonly referred to as the female Dracula. The Halloween tradition of the doll showing up outside the house and someone taking it inside has often been used to scare friends and family, and to ward off ghosts.

GhostFlix, the virtual edition of LA Ghosts’ popular ghost tour of Los Angeles, is available as an on-demand streaming platform for haunted experiences across the country. Since launching in July, hundreds of viewers have tuned in to walk with local guides through over 15 cities across the U.S. to visit haunted locations and learn terrifying stories. Guests on this safe-at-home tour can type questions and hear answers from passionate local guides who lead the in-person tours or experience past ghost tours in the city of their choice on demand. Shows start at $13 for on-demand tours, or $15 for live streamed tours.

Visit laghosttour.com/ghostflix.