Unfortunately this tour was a disappointment. It started out with our guide, Simon, not only not asking how to pronounce my family’s last name, but also saying it incredibly incorrectly in a mocking tone, laughing that he butchered it without a true apology or attempt to fix his pronunciation. From there, we went on to 5 or 6 stops in much of the same part of Charleston (stopping in a lot of parking lots versus historical streets/structures) and hearing stories. The content itself, featuring exclusively wealthy ghosts and no mention of slavery or Gullah culture, felt tone deaf in 2021. There was even a comment made by our guide that he thought the ghost of John C Calhoun was spotted across from the church yard of St Philips Church because he was upset about his statue being removed by BLM activists (Calhoun was a lifelong, ardent supporter of slavery)—again, a comment that struck me as tone deaf and inappropriate. Perhaps a history tour rather than a ghost tour is what I should’ve done, and what I would recommend to those who typically join ghost tours to learn about local history.