Curated Haunted Walking Trails & Ghost Route Maps
Verified historical walking tour itineraries through America’s most haunted cities. Experience real 17th to 19th-century murder trials, voodoo necropolises, and bullet-scarred battlefields with GPS route maps.
Salem Witch Trials & Spectral Gallows Walking Trail
A 2.4-mile twilight walking route through 1692 trial grounds, Jonathan Corwin’s Witch House, Old Burying Point Cemetery, and Proctor’s Ledge on Gallows Hill.
- Jonathan Corwin Witch House—the only surviving structure with direct ties to the 1692 hearings
- Old Burying Point (Charter Street Cemetery) consecrated in 1637
- Salem Witch Trials Memorial stone benches inscribed with the condemned victims’ final pleas
French Quarter Voodoo & Phantom Courtyards Trail
A 1.8-mile shadowy route through Royal Street courtyards, the infamous LaLaurie Mansion, Muriel’s Séance Lounge, and St. Louis Cemetery.
- The Royal Street LaLaurie Mansion—America’s most notorious haunted residence
- Muriel’s Jackson Square Séance Lounge with nightly reserved ghost table
- New Orleans Historic Voodoo Museum and Marie Laveau altars
Gettysburg Ghosts & Civil War Spirits Twilight Trail
A 2.1-mile lantern-lit historical journey through the bullet-scarred Farnsworth House, Jennie Wade House, and East Cemetery Hill ridges.
- Farnsworth House Inn cellar with over 100 Confederate sharpshooter bullet holes in the exterior brick
- Jennie Wade House—memorial to the only civilian killed during the 3-day battle
- Ghostly Images of Gettysburg authentic EVP audio repository
Savannah Historic Squares & River Street Shadows Trail
A 2.0-mile Spanish moss-draped route across Calhoun Square, the haunted Sorrel-Weed House, Marshall House, and riverfront cotton warehouses.
- Sorrel-Weed House—one of the most actively investigated antebellum mansions in America
- Calhoun Square—laid out directly over an unmarked burial ground
- The Marshall House 1851 yellow fever hospital corridors
Charleston Historic Battery & Graveyard Lantern Trail
A 2.2-mile cobblestone route through St. Philip’s Church Cemetery, the Old City Jail, Poogan’s Porch, and the Old Exchange Provost Dungeon.
- Old Charleston City Jail—1802 prison that held Lavinia Fisher and Civil War captives
- St. Philip’s Western Cemetery—home of the famous 1987 Sue Howard Hardy ghost photograph
- The Old Exchange & Provost Dungeon where pirate Stede Bonnet was imprisoned
Key West Old Town & Robert the Doll Ghost Walk
A 1.9-mile tropical twilight route through the historic Artist House, Captain Tony’s Saloon, Key West Cemetery, and Fort East Martello.
- The Artist House—Victorian home where painter Eugene Otto first kept Robert the Doll
- Captain Tony’s Saloon—original Sloppy Joe’s built over a 19th-century hanging tree and grave plots
- Key West Historic Cemetery—established in 1847 with famous humorous and tragic epitaphs
Boston Freedom Trail Shadows: Historic Burying Grounds & Colonial Spirits
A 1.8-mile atmospheric twilight walking route connecting Central Burying Ground on Boston Common, Granary Burying Ground, King’s Chapel, and historic harbor alleyways.
- Central Burying Ground—1756 Boston Common resting place of British soldiers, artist Gilbert Stuart, and early Bostonians
- Granary Burying Ground—1660 burying ground of American Revolution icons: Samuel Adams, John Hancock, and Paul Revere
- King’s Chapel Burying Ground—Boston’s oldest cemetery dating to 1630, featuring intricate 17th-century winged skull headstones
Philadelphia Old City Ghost & Colonial Shadow Trail
A 2.1-mile twilight walking route through 18th-century cobblestone alleys, Christ Church Burial Ground, Independence Hall grounds, and historic gaslit tavern quarters.
- Independence Hall & Congress Hall—site of the Declaration of Independence and lingering 18th-century phantoms
- Christ Church Burial Ground—resting place of Benjamin Franklin and signers of the Declaration
- Elfreth’s Alley—the nation’s oldest continuously inhabited residential street, dating to 1702
Chicago Gangland Shadows & Historic River Ghost Trail
A 2.5-mile evening walking trail tracing the 1915 Eastland River Disaster, historic Lincoln Park speakeasies, and legendary Gilded Age phantoms along the Chicago River.
- Eastland Disaster Memorial on the Chicago Riverwalk—honoring the 844 victims of the 1915 maritime catastrophe
- Congress Plaza Hotel & Florentine Room—1893 World’s Columbian Exposition landmark with legendary paranormal history
- Excalibur Castle (Chicago Historical Society 1892 building)—historic Romanesque fortress surviving the great urban expansion
St. Augustine Oldest City Ghosts & Castillo de San Marcos Trail
A 1.8-mile nocturnal walking route through 450 years of Spanish colonial conquest, the coquina bastions of Castillo de San Marcos, Old Jail gallows, and Huguenot Cemetery.
- Castillo de San Marcos (1672–1695) coquina masonry fortress and legendary dungeon chambers
- Old Jail (1891) Romanesque Revival complex designed by Henry Flagler with documented gallows site
- Castle Warden (1887) winter estate and site of the tragic 1944 hotel fire