Why
This Exists

Patrick  ·  The Guy in the Kilt  ·  Savannah, GA

My name is Patrick. Most people in Savannah know me as the Guy in the Kilt.

For more than 12 years, I’ve walked these streets at night — leading tours through Savannah’s history, its hauntings, and the spaces where the two become difficult to separate. I’m a TV-featured paranormal investigator, a storyteller, and someone who has spent over a decade studying what this city holds and what it refuses to let go of.

I didn’t set out to become a ghost tour guide. I set out to understand something. Savannah has a way of pulling you deeper than you planned to go.

Where it started

I was a teenager when my brother died. And the question it left me with never went away.

It wasn’t a dramatic question. It came quietly — in the weeks after, in the ordinary spaces. Driving. Sitting still. Where did he go?

That question is what set me on this path. Everything that followed — the paranormal research, the years on Savannah’s streets, the TV work, the thousands of tours — all of it traces back to that moment. I wasn’t chasing ghosts for entertainment. I was looking for an answer to something I couldn’t put down.

Savannah drew me in because this city holds its history differently than most. The stories here aren’t folklore. They’re specific. Documented. Personal. Over more than a decade of research and guiding, I’ve come to understand that this city doesn’t let go of its dead — and I’ve never stopped asking why.

Why a dinner?

Because people tell the truth at a table. There’s something about sharing food that drops the performance — the one we put on in crowded venues, on group tours, in loud rooms. I’ve guided thousands of people through these streets, and I know what a group of strangers looks like before they’ve had a chance to settle in. A table changes that.

Breaking Bread With The Dead is the experience I needed when I was a teenager carrying a question too big for me to hold alone. Not a ghost hunt. Not a lecture. Not a performance. Something that takes the question seriously — that sits with it honestly — and makes room for you to do the same.

I bring 12 years of research, thousands of hours on these streets, and one question I still haven’t fully answered. Whatever you believe when you arrive, you’re welcome at this table.

— Patrick, The Guy in the Kilt