Shannon Spencer Scott

Shannon Scott (Credits: Scariest Places On Earth, MTV's FEAR, World's Scariest Ghosts, History Channel, Women's Network, Ally McBeal) is the adopted son of teachers and was raised in Rantoul, IL. He has worked as television producer, chef, writer, publisher, narrator, actor & ghost tour guide. No matter where Scott has gone or what he has done, there has always been some thread of the dead woven into his projects. His intrigue for storytelling things mystical & mortal began with his own childhood home built over the Illinois Indian village of Neipswah. During his teenage years, he took much pride as chief caretaker & grave digger of the town's oldest cemetery where the earliest German farmer settlers had buried during the 1840's. In fact, had it not been for his respectful and caring eye, these graves along with plots for stillborn & indigent children would've become permanently lost to the town. Because of his beautification efforts, the most meaningful praise came from Rantoul's oldest residents who expressed that the cemetery hadn't looked as beautiful in some 20 years. As a token of appreciation, the cemetery sexton gave Shannon his grandfather's set of 100 year old Meng's Farben Pastels for his next stage of life pursuits at The Savannah College of Art & Design. As a student of Painting & Drawing, it would be the use of this set that aided Shannon in creating a portrait("Two Lovers At a Picnic: The Voyeur") that received much esteem while hanging in London's National Gallery in the Spring of 1989.
Shannon's life in Savannah, GA became a natural place to become absorbed by all things historically beautiful & tragic. A town steeped in Freemasonry, religion, commerce, art and of course cemeteries. These elements, mixed with his insatiable curiousity for them, all spoke to the promise of becoming a great oral historian & one of Savannah's most recognized storytellers. A born performer, Shannon pioneered some of the city's first tours dealing with architecture, women's history, Revolutionary & Civil War, but ultimately found his niche in things paranormal and the occult. His tours previous to becoming a "ghost tour guide" had always held strong emphasis on religion, religious leaders, and the spiritual & esoteric practices of Creek Indians, Gullah/Geechee & other relative races. Shifting to the ghost tour platform in 1995 allowed him to add more focus to those topics, but more importantly, gave him a constant slipstream for developing metaphysical theories. His tours have been described as "high art" and always have had an intensely philosophical, but fun classroom quality. In 1999, Shannon's career sequayed into television when going to work for Triage Entertainment of Sherman Oaks, CA. He became party to researching and producing episodes for the hit show, "Scariest Places On Earth(Linda Blair)" and eventually others. Split between Los Angeles & Savannah, in 2002 Shannon was offered the opportunity to host a parapsychology conference for the country's most lauded field research organization, The American Institute of Parapsychology. What resulted was one of the largest news stories for the city when the A.I.P. named Savannah, "America's Most Haunted City." Shannon received the plaque on behalf of The City of Savannah. During this exciting week, he opened up his ghost tour company, Sixth Sense Savannah. In 2005, The New York Times named Sixth Sense Savannah as one of its Top 10 Must Do's of Savannah & the tour has been further lauded by CNN, NPR, CBS, Travel Channel and many others. As of 2007, Scripptive Productions of NYC has accepted production of a documentary written & commentated by Shannon Scott called "America's Most Haunted City."