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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

Sun 06 Oct

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Starting at $39.50

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Sun 06 Oct

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)

964jennaj

May 2020

Our guy did a great job. Very knowledgeable and well-versed in the history of Charleston. Fun to listen to - funny and seemed really into the history.

Katrina_M

Mar 2020

Best experience ever. If you visit Charleston you have to go on a ghost tour. Our tour guide was awesome.

SC S

Mar 2020

This tour was a complete joke. Firstly the very young tour guide had lived in Charleston less than a year and his immature delivery (the word “like” was used 5 times per sentence) of the stories offered absolutely no credibility. The stories were badly delivered from an even more poorly concocted script. Secondly, since this is an organized tour some of the sites mentioned cannot be visited to reduce disruption to local residents. We would have been better picking up the free local building guide and we would have been able to walk right up to, and visit the buildings described in the stories. My partner and I lasted approximately 25 minutes into the scheduled 90 minute tour before realizing that the best we could do was salvage the 65 minutes we would no longer waste of the precious time we had in Charleston. We dropped off the tour. Hiring out of town students to sell Charleston folklore this way might seem like good business for Bull Dog Tours - It’s frankly nothing short of a tourist trap. Spend your money elsewhere enjoying Charleston’s culture.

Response from Host

Mar 2020

Dear SC S, we have reflected upon your comments with a contrite heart. We are truly sorry and we humbly repent. Your guide is a young man whom we have trained with great care. He shows much promise and we will continue to work with him, to make his tour better and more pleasing in your sight. We believe in him and we do not think our hopes are misplaced. Panning the young is not new. Every generation tends to hold the next in disdain, and yet they are our future. We respect your opinion and your right to express it, but he is ours and we are proud to have him on our team. You experienced less than a third of his tour. We would like to think that your impression may have changed had you at least followed him into the graveyard, which is the highlight of the tour. We encourage you to contact Randy Johnson, our Guide Manager, at [email protected]. We will gladly refund your tickets but we cannot identify your real name from your moniker. We try very hard to deliver top notch tours and we believe our reviews substantiate that fact. No one likes being called a tourist trap and it cuts us to the bone. You have a great day, Mr. SC S, and you take care. We greatly appreciate your taking the time to let us know how you feel. We learn from it and move on. Regards.