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Charleston Ghost & Graveyard Night-Time Guided Walking Tour

Charleston Ghost & Graveyard Night-Time Guided Walking Tour

Overview

Experience the chills of Charleston's only on-site graveyard tour. You will get an exclusive opportunity to walk inside the gates of Charleston's oldest graveyard after dark. Walk through Charleston's haunted Historic District, and hear stories of ghosts, haunted houses, voodoo and Low-country superstitions.

City: Charleston

Mon 30 Sep

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Starting at $39.50

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Mon 30 Sep

Starting at $39.50

Make a reservation

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What's Included

Local licensed guide

Additional Info

Wheelchair accessible
Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Please arrive 15 minutes prior to tour departure time
Operates in all weather conditions, dress appropriately
The pace of the walking tours is leisurely
Hand sanitiser available to travellers and staff
Regularly sanitised high-traffic areas
Guides required to regularly wash hands
By purchasing this tour, you are stating that you and your party are healthy and have not exhibited any signs or symptoms of COVID-19 in the past 14 days. If that changes, you will notify Bulldog Tours immediately.

What To Expect

Charleston Ghost & Graveyard Tour

Meet your guide at a central meeting point, then proceed to the graveyard where you will hear about Charleston's spirits and gruesome tales such as: • The ghost of Sue Howard, a grieving mother who prays at the grave of her dead child from the spirit world. Your guide has the picture to prove it. • The Great Nullifier, famous rebel warrior John C. Calhoun. Find out why he and his wife still dance in the street every year, for over 150 years running. • Tales of being buried alive. Doctors in old Charleston didn't take chances with contagious diseases. Fall unconscious in a hospital, wake up in a grave.Learn why the terms saved by the bell and graveyard shift were coined. You will be glad you weren't around when they were. While other walking tours are looking in through the iron fence, you'll be on the inside. Learn the history of Charleston's haunted graveyards and hear tales about famous individuals who found their final resting place in the Holy City. Don't forget your flash cameras. You never know what phantom images you can capture...

Bulldog Tours

Tours offered through Bulldog Tours

Circular Congregational Church

Enter the gates of the Circular Congregational Church graveyard exclusively with Bulldog Tours. Hear stories of infamous people laid to rest there.

St. Philip's Church

Charleston was settled in 1670 by the congregation of St. Philip's Church. Their graveyard is home to many of our most significant historical figures, including a signer of the Declaration of Independence. It is also home to one of the most intriguing ghost stories in Charleston!

The Powder Magazine

Completed in 1713, it is the oldest surviving public building in the former Province of Carolina. It was used as a gunpowder store through the American Revolutionary War, and later saw other uses

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Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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Reviews (775)

DanFromOhioUSA

Aug 2021

One thing to remember - that is NOT part of my review because it's no reflection on Bulldog at all - is that in August it is brutally hot, humid and still air downtown, no breeze at all. And Charleston has a funky smell to begin with. Makes for a LONG walk. The tour guide was quite passionate and gave a great delivery. Saying that a certain graveyard light is always on to prevent ghosts being bothered by flash photography, and then the light 'magically' goes off right when we're standing there is pretty cheesy. But it's meant to be taken as a sign that a particular ghost likes our tour guide. Ho hum okay if you're ten years old I suppose. I would have liked more stories about particular headstones that we could actually see, not ghosts that of course we never saw. And telling us that a couple of REALLY creepy beings materialized only 'last night' was pretty corny. Oh well there goes $250 for 1.5 hours.

Response from Host

Aug 2021

DanFromOhioUSA, Thanks so much for the feedback. We are sorry that you were disappointed the ghostly element of your ghost tour. There really is a fine balance of ghost stories to history and on that tour most of our guides do include some funerary art as well as some of the macabre colonial funerary practices. Perhaps with a different guide taking you through the graveyard, it would have resulted differently. We would like to make this right with you. Please feel free to reach out to our Tour Guide Manager, Andrew Kuhn, at [email protected] to discuss further. Thanks again for the feedback and for visiting Charleston!

Erica L

Aug 2021

I didn't find it spooky. There were too many guide tours at the same time in the same vicinity. You could hear motorcycles, cars in the street and the other tour guides speaking that were not part of your group. Our tour guide did give pretty good story telling. The cemetery wasn't that big. It is not in a remote area. We had the 9:30pm night tour. We had about 17 people in our group.

Erica W

Aug 2021

Great way for visitors to get to know the french quarters of the city! We did the graveyard ghost tour and had a good time.