Junior Detective
Junior Detective
Karl (the Uncanny) Erbland (l), Denham, Joe, and Dennis Baylor pose with our newest Junior Detective First Class, 5-year old Marianna Banjoff after she secretly acquired a crucial piece of evidence at the close of Deadly Harvest on Kelleys Island.


Seaside Cheese and Brains
Seaside Cheese & Brains
Steve White, owner of Cape May's Seaside Cheese, was pleased to have us back for our first wedding party mystery. Check The Deadly Diamond of Widow's Watch.


Victorian Villa Inn
Where it all started
If you want to see where all this madness began, check out our Victorian Villa Gallery or go to The Victorian Villa Inn.
We're Back!
We're Back!
Those twisted but lovable folks from Shadow Stalkers are back on the mystery trail! Sherlock Holmes had a three year "Great Hiatus" in the middle of his career and that nice Mr. Denham has followed in his footsteps.  


Night of the Living Dead
Ravenwood's Night of the Living Dead
The faint of heart need not apply for this Nov. 8-9, 2013 adventure! Our surviving humans will need all their wits about them to deal with a horde of hungry zombies and tracking a killer will be the least of their worries!


Return to Ravenwood
The Dragon Claw Returns
On April 12-13 we're bringing back my all-time favorite castle mystery, The Adventure of the Dragon's Claw. A special guest homework assignment, creating their own version of the famous gift sent to King Louis XI of France, was a show-stopper our first time out!


Welcome to Shadow Stalkers!

If you've ever wanted to really investigate a murder rather than listen to actors delivering dialogue . . . if you've wanted to weave between dinner guests on a mission to obtain fingerprints . . . to explore an entire island looking for clues and scavenger hunt items . . . to play a game where the killers were playing too and might be stalking you right now . . . welcome to the world of Shadow Stalkers!

We began with a single flash of inspiration in the mind of a mystery guest more than 20 years ago and that idea has led to two decades of locked trunks, invisible ink, fingerprints, secret codes, torn maps and lost diamonds. Retired for two years so that nice Mr. Denham could finish writing his first book, the codes and ciphers have now been unpacked and dusted off and it's show time again, ladies and gentlemen.

Today we are putting our guests through their paces at Kelleys Island Venture Resort in Ohio, the Carroll Villa Hotel and Bedford Inn in Cape May, New Jersey, and we're back to our old haunts at Ravenwood Castle. Past clients have included Cedar Point Amusement Park, the Victorian Villa Inn, the American Heart Association, and Captain Montague's Bed & Breakfast. We have also designed team building adventures for Pillsbury, CenturyTel, Pepperidge Farms and the wonderful people working in Children's Services in Ohio. It's been quite a journey and our recent efforts have taken all we learned in that first 20 years and molded it into new directions such as Cape May's War of the Worlds where invading Martians struggled against Earthling defenders.

We have never stopped growing or exploring new problems and ideas . . . and we don't intend to. In Denham's Night of the Living Dead--Disguise for Murder the guests who arrived as zombies kept biting our humans and expanding their number. If you've ever been caught in the middle of a zombie outbreak you know how harrowing it can be. All our productions are custom cut to fit the location and theme and Rule Number One at all Shadow Stalker events is "You are here to have FUN. If you are not having as much fun as you possibly can, you are in violation of this rule!"

Everything else we do descends from that.