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MARQUETTE -- Halloween is right around the corner and many people are already getting into the spooky spirit.  Northern Michigan University's Paranormal Research Team is doing their part to help by providing haunted tours through Marquette.

"After Perry died--not too long after he died--people reported seeing the elevator operating on its own."

Stories like this were common along the Haunted Marquette Tour, as members of the PRT guided residents on driven tours through town.

"We feel it's our job to educate citizens of the Upper Peninsula and Marquette about local haunted places around town," said Matthew Kohls, co-president of the group.

Participants of the tour got a chance to hear tales of hauntings in popular local places such as the break wall at Presque Isle and the Landmark Inn.

This is the fourth year the organization has hosted the haunted tour as a fund-raiser for their paranormal investigations, something they take very seriously.

"We try to solve and find paranormal activity with scientific means," Kohls said.

Though they insist on scientific methods, they do admit that sometimes they are a bit misunderstood.

"Sometimes we get people who are really positive, but a little uninformed," one of the guides told her group.  "They think we're the Ghostbusters and we're going to come in there with plasma packs and stuff."

But they don't let it bother them as they continue to provide the public with local legends and some spooky fun.

The tours run from 5 p.m. to midnight Friday and Saturday and 5 p.m. to 11 p.m. on Sunday.  Prices are five dollars for the public and three dollars for NMU students with their student ID.