Though Halloween is two weeks away, Wareham got a chance to be spooked early. Haunted History Night took place on Saturday, Oct. 17, allowing ghost-hunters to tour and investigate some of Wareham’s historic buildings.

WBSM-AM's Spooky Southcoast Radio hosted the event along with Jeff Belanger, founder of Ghostvillage.com and the host of the “30 Odd Minutes” television show, and the Wareham Historical Society. A portion of the ticket fee benefitted the Historical Society, with $950 raised to help preserve the buildings used in the event.

Participants toured four of the Historical Society’s properties: the Fearing Tavern on Elm Street - which dates back to before the Revolutionary War - and the Old Methodist Meeting House, the One-Room School House, and the Union Chapel, all located on Main Street and built in the 1800s.

Each of the buildings was manned by a member of the Historical Society and a ghost expert from Spooky Southcoast, while the guests were split into groups to tour the buildings.

“The people who arrived are loyal followers [of ghost-hunting],” said Angela Dunham, vice president of the Historical Society and a coordinator of the event.

Dunham added that the ghost hunters participating in the event, which she said was very successful, brought their personal equipment and did their own readings of the buildings.

Tim Weisberg, the host and creator of Spooky Southcoast, was stationed in the Fearing Tavern for the evening and said guests got some “pretty interesting” readings with their equipment.

Using a “ghost box,” a type of radio that ghost hunters use to allow spirits to “grab” words off radio waves, attendees could ask questions that could potentially be answered.

Weisberg said most people asked the spirits why they were in the Fearing Tavern and the response “dead” kept coming up. An attendee also made a connection with a recently-deceased loved one, which was verified by medium Tiffany Rice, who helped out with the event.

In other hauntings, Weisberg said Spooky Southcoast co-host/co-creator Matt Costa told him during a snack break that the One-Room School House was definitely haunted, particularly in the old post office station located inside the building.

“I thought, ‘I have to see this for myself,’” Weisberg said, adding that he wanted to check it out even though he didn’t have any of his equipment with him. “I just got a weird feeling [when I went inside].”

Before the investigations took place, the attendees were treated to dinner at the Mill Pond Diner and listened to presentations by Belanger and Andrew Lake, author of “Ghosthunting Southern New England” at the Old Methodist Meeting House.

Saturday’s event was the first of its kind, but Dunham said Spooky Southcoast has requested that it become an annual occurrence, though the Historical Society’s board will have to make the final call.

Weisberg said the group has seen a lot of interest for a repeat event, not only from attendees, but from people who did not attend but heard about the event via social media and word-of-mouth. However, Weisberg said another event would not occur until spring, due to the lack of heat in the buildings.

Spooky Southcoast airs 10 p.m. to midnight on Saturdays on WBSM-AM 1420 and on www.spookysouthcoast.com.