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Charleston: Dark Hauntings Walking Tour & Customizable Stops

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Duration1h 30m

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You Pick the Hauntings: Charleston's 90-Minute Custom Ghost Tour

You walk through Charleston's oldest neighborhoods and choose which hauntings to explore—a graveyard, a hotel, a restaurant, or hidden alleyways—based on what interests you. A local storyteller leads the 90-minute tour, tailoring the stops and stories to your preferences. No two tours are the same, and you're never rushed through a location.

1h 30m

Step-by-step itinerary

Explore Charleston's haunted sites

Learn about St. Philip's graveyard haunting
Visit Charleston's most haunted hotel
Discover haunted stories at a quaint restaurant

The Experience

You step into an alley off King Street, and within minutes the city's oldest stories start pulling you backward. This isn't a fixed route where everyone sees the same three stops—you and your guide decide what you're walking toward. Pirates or gangsters, serial killers or cursed lovers, the most haunted hotel or the restaurant where something won't leave. For 90 minutes through Charleston, you're choosing the fear.

St. Philip's Church graveyard is usually on the list. The graves go back centuries, and there's one particular haunting that's stuck around longer than the people buried there. But you might skip it for the hotel instead—the one where guests report activity only on certain floors, which is its own kind of unsettling—or the restaurant that made the national list of most haunted eateries. The alleyways between these places are where the forgotten stories live, the ones that don't make the guidebooks. Adam and Darian, the guides who run this, know them all. They've built the tour this way because they got tired of leading groups through the same script every night.

The whole thing moves at a walking pace through downtown, so you're not rushing between stops or sitting on a bus. You're on the street where things happened, hearing it from someone who knows the city's actual history, not just the legend. Ninety minutes sounds short until you're standing in front of a building and the story takes ten minutes to tell properly. That's when you realize the time isn't the point—the detail is.

What’s included

Your tour includes 90 minutes of walking through Charleston's most haunted locations, customized based on your interests.
You'll visit sites like St.
Philip's Church graveyard, the city's most haunted hotel, and one of America's top 10 most haunted restaurants, guided by local storytellers Adam and Darian.
Every tour is different because it's built around what you want to explore.

Good to know

Easy physical levelWheelchair accessibleAccessible transportStroller friendlyPets welcomePublic transport nearby

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Is this one for you?Book this if you want to move through Charleston's ghost stories at your own pace and choose what you're curious about—the fixed route tours don't offer that choice, and this one does.