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Haunted attractions, scream parks and ghost tours in Richmond, VA. Business identity and contact details come from Google Business Profiles and reviewed official sources. Guest meeting points are shown separately with their sources. Seasonal attractions keep their own open dates, so check the business’s site before you go. Historic haunted places on this page are folklore, credited to the source site named on each place.
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When this railroad tunnel caved in on a work train in October 1925, at least two laborers were never recovered and remain entombed inside. Visitors to Jefferson Park above the seal…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Ghost-tour writers say a dark male shape many take to be Poe himself lingers near certain exhibits, especially his walking stick and Virginia Clemm's hand mirror. Two small blond b…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Richmond's best-known urban legend, the Richmond Vampire, ends here at the 1913 granite mausoleum of W.W. Pool. The tale grew out of the real 1925 Church Hill Tunnel collapse: a bl…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted house 🗓️ Opens 10/28
Ghost tour 🗓️ Opens 10/28
Ghost tour 🗓️ Opens 10/28
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The Carytown movie palace's longest-running story involves Robert Coulter, its manager for decades, seen as a tall man in a gray suit drifting through the balcony and aisles. Inves…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Staff at this Beaux-Arts grand hotel have long described switchboard lights flashing on their own, pay phones ringing in empty corridors and televisions cycling on and off in vacan…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Richmond's best-known ghost story begins with a documented industrial disaster. On October 2, 1925, a section of the Church Hill train tunnel collapsed, dropping 190 feet of soil onto the work crew below and setting off a cave-in that, The Richmonder reports, spread along most of the tunnel's length, buckling roads and swaying buildings on the surface of Church Hill. Many labourers escaped by crawling beneath the flatcars and out of the east end, covered in blood and badly wounded.
One man at the centre of the documented account was a fireman named Benjamin Mosby, who had been shovelling coal into the engine's furnace when the collapse made the train's steam tank explode. Contemporary newspaper reports of the accident, The Richmonder says, seem to have been factual — and then retelling did its work. Memories of the incident distorted over the years into something more sinister. The tunnel itself was never reopened as a working route; Richmond Ghosts' own tour page says the city cemented the area off, and the western portal can still be viewed beside the Atrium Lofts at Cold Storage on North 18th Street, per The Richmonder.
Around that disaster sit the older layers both tour companies work from. The Richmonder describes the Edgar Allan Poe Museum as sitting in the oldest building still standing in Richmond, and notes its haunting stories reach back to the 18th century, when the Ege family lived there, before it became a museum. Richmond Ghosts describes Shockoe Bottom — its tour's home ground — as Richmond's largest shipping area and, in its words, the second-largest slave trading centre in the United States, a place where death and disease were common long before the Civil War filled the city's makeshift hospitals.
This section is folklore — the famous part, and the part that is not history.
Out of the 1925 collapse grew the Richmond Vampire. In the lore The Richmonder retells, eyewitnesses saw a horrendous "creature" emerge from the wreckage — in some versions shrieking an inhuman sound, in others crawling across town, pursued, to Hollywood Cemetery, where it was found dead. The legend completes itself at the mausoleum of W.W. Pool in Hollywood Cemetery, which the creature — recast as a vampire, and after death as a ghost — is said to have disappeared into. The Richmonder's verdict, which this page adopts, is that the creature was almost certainly Benjamin Mosby: a burned, bleeding fireman fleeing an exploding steam engine, misremembered into a monster. Richmond Ghosts still tells the vampire version on its tour and describes Pool's mausoleum as the vampire's haunt "to this day." Both versions are printed here because both are the story; only one of them is history.
The tunnel keeps its own quieter legend. Richmond Ghosts reports that phantom train whistles and screams are often heard at the sealed C&O Church Hill Tunnel. Around Church Hill, The Richmonder adds the supporting cast its sources describe: four ghosts said to roam St. John's Church and its graveyard, and a Civil War spy among the spirits on the Church Hill tour route. Reported, attributed, unproven — folklore.
Hountix lists 9 places in Richmond, VA. Seasonal attractions keep their own open dates, so check each business's own site before you go.