Somebody died here. Book the walk that tells you who.
Which Whitechapel walk actually reaches the murder sites. What the Edinburgh vaults cost. Whether Salem in October is worth the crowd. Reviews of the ghost tours you can book tonight, city by city.
1The Whitechapel murdersThe Original Jack the Ripper Walking TourThe murder sites on foot, in the order they happened.
2The French QuarterAdults-Only New Orleans Ghost, Crime, Voodoo, and Vampire TourVoodoo, vampires and the crimes the guides do not soften.
3Under EdinburghHaunted Underground Vaults and Graveyard TourSealed vaults beneath the South Bridge, by candle.
4Salem, 1692Salem’s Best Ghost TourWhere the accusations started, and where they ended.
Six cities that built an industry on their own ghost stories.
A French Quarter that never stopped burying people badly, a mile of Whitechapel, squares laid over graveyards in Savannah, sealed vaults under Edinburgh, the town that hanged nineteen of its neighbours, and Charleston after the lamps come on.
New Orleans runs more ghost tours than any city on earth.
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The French Quarter has the stories, the above-ground tombs and the licensing rules that decide who can take you into them. Three different nights out, and they are not interchangeable.
Ghosts, voodoo and vampires on one walk
The Quarter’s greatest hits in one loop: the Sultan’s Palace, the LaLaurie house, a courtyard or two. Big groups, good storytelling, and the version most people book first.
Inside a city of the dead
St Louis No. 1 has been closed to unaccompanied visitors for years, so a guide is not an upgrade here, it is the only way through the gate. Goes in daylight, which suits the photographs.
Haunted bars, in a sensible order
Four or five rooms that have all buried someone, with a drink in each and the stories told at the bar rather than on a pavement. Starts late and ends later.
The American ghost tour has four capitals. Pick your city.
Two thirds of the ghost tours you can book anywhere are in the United States, and four towns carry most of them. What it costs to walk each one, and what each is actually about.
The ghost tours more travellers take than any others.
Every walk on the site →Whitechapel, the French Quarter, an underground vault in Edinburgh. These are the walks that keep selling out, and what earns each of them the slot.
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New Orleans Premier Ghost, Voodoo and Vampire Walking Tour
Explore New Orleans after dark on a 1-hour-45-minute ghost, voodoo, and vampire walk with vivid stories, historic sites, and practical tips.
From · $27
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The World Famous Underground Ghost Tour
from $26
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The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour
from $25
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Haunted Underground Vaults and Graveyard Tour
from $32
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Adults-Only New Orleans Ghost, Crime, Voodoo, and Vampire Tour
from $37
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Ghost Walking Tour Where Legends Come To Life
from $27
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Ghosts, Legends, Medieval Underground & Dungeon Tour
from $31
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London Jack the Ripper Guided Tour with Ripper-Vision
from $27
Britain does ghost tours in the alleys where the crimes were committed.
London has Whitechapel and the plague pits; Edinburgh has sealed vaults under a bridge and a kirkyard with a poltergeist on the payroll; York claims more hauntings per street than anywhere in England. The stories are older and the walks are colder.
The walking tour is still the best way to be told a ghost story.
No bus window, no headset, no queue for the next departure. A guide, a lamp and a street that has not changed shape since the thing happened. Most of what is worth booking on this site is a walk.
Three ghost stories no other kind of tour can tell you.
Haunted houses and rattling chains turn up everywhere. A mile of Whitechapel pavement, a street sealed inside a bridge and a courtroom that hanged nineteen people on spectral evidence do not.
The Ripper Walks
Five murders inside a square mile over ten weeks, and the case is still open. The walks work because the geography survived: Mitre Square, Durward Street, the arch on Henriques Street are all still there, and a good guide walks them in the order the bodies were found. The bad ones show you a photograph outside a pub.
- 1The Original Jack the Ripper Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 7,833 reviews
- 2London Jack the Ripper Guided Tour with Ripper-Vision★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 4,840 reviews
- 3Jack the Ripper Small Group Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.7 · 3,159 reviews
The Sealed Vaults
When Edinburgh built the South Bridge in the 1780s it left nineteen arches enclosed underneath, and the rooms inside were let out, flooded, abandoned and forgotten until the 1980s. Prague, Rome and Naples have their own versions. All of them are cold, confined, and capped at a handful of people per guide.
- 1The World Famous Underground Ghost Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 9,272 reviews
- 2Haunted Underground Vaults and Graveyard Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.6 · 6,607 reviews
- 3Ghosts, Legends, Medieval Underground & Dungeon Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.3 · 5,104 reviews
The Witch Trials
Nineteen people were hanged on Proctor’s Ledge and one was pressed to death for refusing to plead, on evidence no court would hear now. The good Salem tours are history rather than horror: the meeting house site, the accusers’ addresses, the ledge itself. October is the month everyone comes and the worst month to hear any of it.
- 1Bewitched Walking Tour of Salem★★★★★★★★★★ 5.0 · 1,895 reviews
- 2The Salem Witch Walk★★★★★★★★★★ 4.5 · 1,301 reviews
- 3Witches & Haunted History Walking Tour★★★★★★★★★★ 4.8 · 1,290 reviews
What a ghost tour will not tell you until you turn up.
Almost all of these are on foot, outdoors, in the dark, and they run in the rain. Start times move by an hour or two with the season, because the tour needs it to be dark. Many are 13+ and the adults-only ones mean it. Underground tours are confined, low-ceilinged and capped at a handful of people. If any of that is a problem, the indoor and daylight options below are the honest answer.
- 1Comedy Horror Ghost Bus Tourfrom $28
- 2Comedy Horror Show: York Ghost Bus Tourfrom $26
- 3Ghost Bus Tour of Edinburghfrom $24
What a night on a ghost tour actually costs.
Every tour on the site, grouped by price. A self-guided phone hunt and a private paranormal investigation are the same activity in name only.
Where nearly all of it sits: the standard city walk, self-guided phone hunts and the storytelling tours.
Longer nights out. Pub crawls with drinks in, carriage and trolley rides, guided cemetery access.
Private guides, overnight paranormal investigations and the small-group hunts with equipment.
Four haunted walks that will not wait for you.
Most ghost tours can be booked from a bar stool an hour beforehand. These four run on group caps, city licences and a calendar that takes no interest in when your flight lands.
- 01The Original Jack the Ripper Walking TourA capped group walking Whitechapel on foot after dark. The evening departures go first, and London gets dark early from October.
- 02Haunted Underground Vaults and Graveyard TourThe vaults are a confined space underground with one way in, so numbers are hard-capped per guide rather than per tour.
- 03Salem’s Best Ghost TourOctober is Salem’s whole year. Tours sell out weeks ahead and the town closes streets to traffic for the month.
- 04Haunted Evening Horse and Carriage Tour of CharlestonCharleston limits how many carriages work the historic district at a time, so the evening slots are gone long before the day.
Savannah and Charleston walk you round on a candle.
Both cities were laid out on top of their own burial grounds and neither has ever pretended otherwise. Savannah gives you squares and Spanish moss; Charleston gives you alleys, church graveyards and the old district jail. Both do it slowly, on foot, by candle.
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By city, from the French Quarter to the vaults
By kind of night, from a candlelit walk to an overnight hunt
New Orleans to Salem: the ghost tour run down the American East.
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