The Boston Spirits Walking Tour

The Boston Spirits Walking Tour

This unique tour takes you to downtown Boston's most infamous haunted locations.

Will you glimpse the roaming spirits of witches and other "undesirables" hanged and buried in the Boston Common? Will you be grabbed from behind by the ghost of the Central Burying Ground?

After fleeing the burial ground, you will make your way across the Common and into the well-lit and beautifully manicured confines of the Public Garden. Nothing bad could happen here. It's too upper crust to allow such petty thoughts of unquiet spirits and unmarked graves. As if sensing your returning bravery, you are led over to the statue of a cherub that stands stoically in a fountain near the Arlington Street entrance. Nothing bad could happen here.... Unless, of course, you, too, can see the two elderly ladies - the legendary "Proper Bostonians" - dressed in the style of the 1930s coming over from the Ritz Carlton. Just like they've been doing for the past 60 years. Sometimes they stop and smile hello. Just before they disappear into thin air.

As we pass by some of Boston's most historic buildings, hear the true stories of the spirits who haunt them. We lead you to a harmless-looking stone building just down the street from the State House.

It's the Boston Athenaeum, home to more than 700,000 books, including original works by George Washington, as well as the bibles that King James sent to the colonists to try and turn them to religion instead of revolution. The athenaeum was also once home to a literary circle of well-known authors, including Nathaniel Hawthorne, no stranger to the supernatural himself.

It seems that Hawthorne had a special relationship with this book-filled building. A relationship with the ghost of a man who, to this day, still calls for the elevator to come to the third floor to get him. The Boston Athenaeum is said to be haunted by the scholarly Rev. Harris, who was seen there by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
Next explore the confines of the Omni Parker House, with stories of hotel founder Harvey Parker, a man who cared so much about his clientele that he is said to still look after them personally, more than 100 years after his death. Perhaps you will meet the proper Bostonian Harvey Parker... over a hundred years after his death!

All these frights, and many more, await you at...

New England Ghost Tours
P.O. Box 812128
Wellesley, MA 02482-0014
781-235-7149