Ghosts and Haunted Places:
Tour Reviews

Commercial "ghost tours" can be the fastest way to locate haunted sites when you travel. Take these tours for fun, and you won't be disappointed. And, you may have a genuine encounter with ghosts.

ABOUT OUR REVIEWS
On most tours, the company knows that they are being reviewed. Generally, the tour provides Hollow Hill with a free tour for two staff reviewers. We never promise a favorable review, so you can trust our recommendations.

Reviews, by region

BOSTON and vicinity (MA, NH, ME)

MA: Boston Spirits Walking Tour - link

Eerie blue lights seen on the Boston Spirits Walking Tour

Guide Jim McCabe offers a warm and personal touch to his 90-minute walking tour of downtown Boston's haunted locations. Mixing history, popular visitor attractions, and well-researched folklore, this tour offers guests a chance to explore the eerie side of after-dark Boston.

At the final stop on the tour, we saw visual anomalies while photographing them. (Example in photo, above.) This was easily the high point on the tour, and it was so far above average, we were delighted to find this location.

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Not reviewed yet
MA: Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour, Salem ("Witch City") - link
Preliminary reports from other ghost hunters suggest that this tour offers some genuinely haunted locations. However, on our recent visit to New England, we were not able to reach the tour manager by phone. We hope to review this tour, next time we're in Massachusetts.

Also not reviewed:

New England Curiosities Walking Tours, a little different from the usual.

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NEW ORLEANS

New Orleans: Haunted History Tours

Marie Laveau's tomb,
from the Haunted History Tour

CEMETERY & HISTORY TOUR

Fascinating tour guides lend wit & humor to a great tour of New Orlean's colorful--and sometimes haunted--history. From Marie Laveau's grave to notes about the very eccentric history of the French Quarter, this walking tour provides a great introduction to the area, and it's well worth your time. When we bring someone to New Orleans for the first time, this is the first tour that we recommend. Wear your walking shoes, you'll be seeing a lot!

NEW ORLEANS HAUNTED HISTORY GHOST TOUR

Don't leave New Orleans without taking this eerie tour, especially after dark. Some of New Orleans' best tour guides--including author Kalila K. Smith--escort you through the streets and back alleys of the French Quarter, and share real ghost stories and folklore that you won't hear anywhere else.

If you're in the Quarter to find ghosts, take this tour as soon as you arrive. You'll discover where to get the best ghost photos, and have chilling encounters with the pirates, murderers, and other colorful personalities who've lingered here after death.

Visit their website: New Orleans' Haunted History Tours

SAVANNAH, GEORGIA

"The Book" Tour, by Gray Lines of Savannah - link

Bonaventure Cemetery,
from "The Book" Tour

A comfortable minibus and friendly guides make this a must-see tour if you're in or near Savannah and you've enjoyed the book, Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. In addition to the landmark sites and some great history, ghosthunters will especially enjoy Bonaventure Cemetery with eerie hanging moss lending a dramatic atmosphere to chilling tales of spirits that still walk among us.

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INTERNATIONAL - UNITED KINGDOM

Mercat Tours, Edinburgh, Scotland - link

Bring your camera and a good dose of courage, as Mercat's personable guides share Edinburgh's gruesome past and macabre humor on the city streets as well as underground. This tour concludes with a happy visit to a friendly pub, where guests can swap their own impressions of a very rich tour.

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