Cynthia Rintye 

Cynthia's debut spoken word album, Veil of Time: Ghost Stories from Atlanta, received an Honor in the 2018 Storytelling World Awards Program in the category of Storytelling Recordings.

"Cynthia Rintye tells a great ghost story. Her ghost stories are great because they are true. At least she tells me they are. I have no reason to doubt her. She tells with the authority of belief.  I promise you, this is a chilling collection of tales, told in a chilling manner. Be advised: don't listen to the album alone." 

Andy Offutt Irwin, Winner of the National Storytelling Network's Circle of Excellence Award.

A storyteller for the Lawrenceville Ghost Tours since 2005, Cynthia also led ghost tours in downtown Atlanta and Veil of Time features stories about paranormal activity at landmarks like the Fox Theatre and Underground Atlanta—real ghosts in real places. 

Other stories on Veil of Time are based on accounts told to Cynthia by people taking her tours: witnessing three small ghosts running on the stairs at the old Lawrenceville Female Seminary; encountering a terrifying, evil spirit at the old Georgia Mental Health Institute. 

Her story about Lawrenceville’s haunted jail is based on lore handed down for almost 170 years and backed up with a detailed account written by someone involved in the incident.  This tale also includes a long list of recent paranormal activity witnessed in the jail by guests and guides during Lawrenceville Ghost Tours.   

On the final cut of the album, Cynthia recalls a painful paranormal encounter she had in the Historic Lawrenceville Cemetery, where she leads Haunted Cemetery Tours on weekends in October.   

Each story on the album is introduced with a brief bit of music, composed by Cynthia and arranged by Atlanta musician Matthew Trautwein, creating a unique mood; a raucous bar band, a foreboding round, an unsettling music box.

Veil of Time, produced by nationally renowned storyteller, Andy Offutt Irwin, is available on CD at CDBaby.com and via download everywhere.  

Listen:

Encounter: Lawrenceville Cemetery

Atlanta Shakespeare Tavern

Three music intros

 Superstition at the Fox

 Headless Horseman of Underground

Winecoff Hotel Fire

Arnold Hardy/AP

Shakespeare Tavern

 Headstone of Ada Wilson who died at the Female Seminary