Haunted History of Salem Guided Walking Tour in Salem booking from $30.00

Haunted History of Salem Guided Walking Tour

Overview

Experience Salem's macabre past on this 1.5-hour walking tour. During your lantern lit stroll, follow your professional and engaging guide down the haunted streets, past ghostly buildings and a chilling cemetery. Listen to authentic tales or murder and accidental death as well as paranormal stories on this thrilling tour of Salem! (This tour does NOT discuss the 1692 Witchcraft Trials; take our other tour for witchcraft history).

City: Salem

Mon 28 Apr

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Mon 28 Apr

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What's Included

Analytics on any ghost photos you may get

Guide will dress in a costume

All ghost and paranormal stories are exclusive to Salem Historical Tours.

We do not go in any buildings so admission is not included nor necessary

Local, professional and certified local guide

Additional Info

Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
Service animals allowed
Public transportation options are available nearby
Suitable for all physical fitness levels
Children must be accompanied by an adult
Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
Tour times vary by season. Available tour times reflected during checkout. Please plan to arrive 15-20 minutes prior to your tour. Check in at Salem Historical Tours Office at 8 Central Street, Salem, MA.
Traffic and parking can be very difficult and October is much worse with "LA Level" traffic. Give yourself extra time to get here and park no matter what your GPS is telling you. Check our website for details on where to park and options to get here..
Our public walking tours can pose challenges for participants with mobility and accessibility concerns. Tours are 90 minutes long and about one mile in length. Each participant must be able to complete the one-mile tour within 90 minutes, providing for frequent stops to view sites and for information from the tour guide. As Salem is a historical city, there are narrow and uneven sidewalks, bricks, cobblestones, and stairs. During events and festivals (and particularly October), with crowds and street vendors, the streets can become difficult to navigate.

What To Expect

Salem Historical Tours & Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour

Meet your professional and entertaining guide, who will light the way for your hauntingly historic walking tour of Salem. Follow them into the night to begin your 1.5-hour walking tour. With the light from the lantern, make your way through Salem's streets. Through your guide's storytelling, dark humor, and captivating tales, learn about the paranormal activity in this infamous town. You will visit as many of these locations as time allows, hearing stories of Visit documented hauntings, accidental death and murder.

Ropes Mansion and Garden

Enter the backyard of the Ropes Mansion that is replete with paranormal activity and includes stories of several people who died in the house. There have been many sightings in the colonial revival garden so take many pictures and maybe you catch an anomaly.

Old Burying Point Cemetery

You will get to see the oldest cemetery in Salem which is one of the oldest in the country. You will hear tales of paranormal activity in the cemetery and the buildings around it. Many anomalies have been seen in our cemetery.

John Ward House

The John Ward house is where accused witches were examined in 1692 when the home was across the street from the jail. It has since been relocated to the grounds of the Peabody Essex Museum, but the activity is still there.

The Witch House at Salem

The Witch House is the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, who was one of the key judges during the 1692 Witchcraft Trials. There is a lot of paranormal activity there that has been captured by our guests. Eight of Corwin's children died in the home and the employees who run the home constantly report weird happenings in the home.

Gardner Pingree House

The Gardner Pingree House was built in 1804 and had a sensational murder there in 1830 involving a complicated conspiracy to get the money of Captain Joseph White. The plan unravelled as the co-conspirators turned on each other resulting in a suicide and the execution of two men.

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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 (372)

LoriH1296

Oct 2018

My teenage daughters and I really enjoyed this activity. Our guide, James, was full of energy and one-liners, keeping the tour fun and engaging - not scary by any means. (If anyone was born to entertain, it's him.) The value is great, 90 minutes' worth of a tour, the longest activity we experienced in Salem. Plus, everything seems to shut down in Salem pretty early in the evenings, so it was nice to have a family-friendly activity to do past 6 pm. Definitely recommend.

marylour999

Oct 2018

This tour was ok, no big stories etc, kinda bland. Guide was quite animated so he was enjoyable didn’t really see much

Anonymous

Jul 2018

First of all there were far too many people in this walking tour. It was hard to move around and hear the guide. James was our guide he was very friendly but really not very informative. We seemed to walk to a spot , stop and he would give a small amount of info. It really was just a walk around town. In many cases he forgot names and dates. Our time would have be better spent doing a self tour.

Response from Host

Jul 2018

Sorry you feel this way. We take a maximum of 50 people on the tour and use an amplifier. All the tours in town do the same. Every tour in Salem is a walk around Salem. We bring you to locations where there has been murder, accidental death and paranormal activity. We ask people if they can hear us at the beginning of the tour and to tell us if they can't and we can adjust accordingly.

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