Ghost Tour
Every night, come along as we take you through historic Greenwich Village on our New York Ghost Tours. Check our booking calender for when nightly tours are held. Our tours cover centuries of history as we take you to haunted locations throughout the area. These aren’t just tales to scare you. Everything we tell you on this tour is real. We constantly keep our tales up to date and we’ve done intense research behind every one of them.
All Ghost Tours meet in Washington Square Park at the Arch, located at Washington Square North, New York, NY.
Where To Meet, Park, & Directions
Meet:
All Ghost Tours meet in Washington Square Park at the Arch, located at Washington Square North, New York, NY.
Park: Parking near location or use parkme.com
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
FAQs
Please see your booking details for meeting location. There are neighboring parking garages and street parking that are available in the area.
Group size varies based on time of year and demand. We can keep everyone in your party in the same group. We've been doing this for years, and manage group size to ensure guests have a great experience. In the event you can't hear your tour guide, let them know, or move closer to them.
Pets are welcome as long as they do not disrupt ot distract from the tour.
The arrival time will be listed on your confirmation email and in the available tour times when you click the book button.
Tour Preview
New York has plenty of dark secrets. NYC Ghosts 8 or 12 haunting tales to scare the history of New York into your memory forever!
Our terrifying tales of death, hauntings, and lives lived in the filth and squalor of Manhattan’s Greenwich village during times of plague, disease, and pestilence. Washington Square Park, for instance, was not always the tranquil park it is today.
In 1797 the land was purchased by the city and used as a makeshift graveyard for the poor and indigent. This was a bargain-basement burial, cheap, thin coffins were used to encourage decomposition, so more bodies could be buried on top of those poor souls. Estimates put the number of the dead within the park at over 20,000 people. Walking on top of these victims of Cholera and Yellow fever puts a chill in you when you realize every step puts you on top of another grave.
Whether you have just a few hours to take in a New York experience, or if you are a hard-boiled local, you will learn more about the past and current hauntings of New York City on this hour-long tour than you could in a week of research.
Below are just a few of the 8 or 12 locations we will visit on your tour. Some of the further afield locations that we researched but were unable to include on our tour made it onto our blog, learn more about the sordid history of New York City, with NYC Ghosts.
What's On My Ghost Tour
Washington Square National Park
This park is no walk in the park. Built on the site of a Native American burial ground, the park was used as a site for mass graves for tens of thousands of the unfortunate. Washington Square Park has also been the site of lethal disease outbreaks and suicides. Tread here carefully.
Pirate's Den
More than a handful of secret dealings were carried out behind the inconspicuous brick facade of the Pirate’s Den. A notorious speakeasy during prohibition and a home for the mistress of New York City’s most corrupt mayor, The Pirates Den still echoes with the shouts of wild abandon and violent decadence from the era of Prohibition. Not everyone got to escape the secret rooms alive.
One If By Land, Two If By Sea
One If By Land, Two If By Sea is not only a restaurant, but home to at least one notable spirit: Theodosia Burr, daughter of Aaron Burr. What is now the restaurant was once part of Aaron Burr’s estate. His ghost has also been seen here, perhaps to be with his beloved daughter once again. Fans of the Broadway musical Hamilton will not want to miss this location.
