Overall this was a fantastic tour. We really enjoyed getting to touch and feel the equipment frequently used in paranormal investigations. We had Mike as our guide, and he was both knowledgeable and friendly. They keep the groups small, which we liked, it was more intimate and made you feel less like a faceless crowd following someone with white cake makeup through the dark streets at night. The tour is based in fact, so you get a lot of the more historically accurate side of the stories, rather than the romanticised or downright made up stories often told in this city.
Some tips pluses and pointers:
1) Not a good tour if you have a catty group likely to trash talk either your guides or each other. There is a high powered microphone used for picking up EVPs, which will record EVERY conversation in the group, and the raw file will be sent to everyone in your group, so keep that in mind.
2) You have opportunities to experience any of the pieces of equipment you want, there is a halfway point where people can switch, but we found in our group if you asked someone else if you could try a piece of equipment they were holding, people were more than willing to share.
3) If you are not a physically fit person, keep in mind, it's not the walking that is hard with these tours, it's the standing. At several points you will be standing for a long time, listening to the stories of what happened there, and using the equipment to look for things. Mike does a GREAT job of trying to make stopping points near benches in the squares, or near Colonial Park Cemetery, but there just isn't always the option to take a sitting break. Otherwise, he's pretty patient in waiting at crosswalks and things for people to catch up if they don't move as fast as the rest of the group.
4) Our one real complaint isn't really even a complaint so much as a constructive request. In the beginning of the tour, they tell you to be a good neighbor and if someone in the group catches something on the audio equipment, or one of the various meters, to point a camera or one of the ipads that direction and just see if we can catch anything. And that's awesome, people do try and do that. But I think that at some points the tour becomes a lot about moving on, than about standing in one place to capture something, so there wasn't often a chance to pair up like this. Several times people in our group thought they were catching something on their equipment, but were being waved forward to keep moving. In this same vein, there is NEVER a point where there isn't talking. Either the guide is talking (necessary to tell the stories of what happened in each square, it is a tour after all) or other people in your tour group are talking. So having the audio equipment just makes you more of a stalker listening in on the other people you're touring with, rather than getting to catch any EVP's. It would be great if in at least a few of the locations they would ask everyone to be silent, and maybe give us a few minutes to see if we can pick up anything with that particular piece of equipment. There was never a point in time when certain people in our group were not chatting, so that was a bummer. Though neither you, nor the tour company can control who is in a group. Drunk people are gonna do what drunk people do, and that's usually, "be loud."
Overall we highly recommend this tour. It's such a great and different experience! Certainly an up and coming tour company in Savannah, and very knowledgeable. You are sure to have a great time.