1 hour 30 minutes (approx.)
Daily Tour
10 people
English
Any place with houses so old and grand as Beacon Hill is bound to have a few skeletons in the closet. Our guides know where the bodies are buried (not literally), and deliver salacious tales of gossip, intrigue, hauntings, and violence on the streets of Boston’s wealthiest neighborhood. Some of the most infamous murders in American history took place on the slopes of Beacon Hill. Join us and encounter beheadings, sword duels, dismemberments, grisly relics left behind by the dead, and dark rituals aimed at bringing them back to our world. The Gas Lamps that light these streets are nearly two hundred years old, casting creepy flickers, even today. Many horrible figures have emerged from the shadows to cross through their eerie glow, on their way to or from some horrible business. Now they come back to life, conjured on the Beacon Hill Ghost Tour. This tour is not for the faint of heart or the weak of stomach, so parental discretion is advised.
We begin our tour at one of the oldest and most haunted libraries
in America, built so that every window looks out on the tombstones of an old graveyard.
Here you will learn of a book in the library’s collection that is bound in human skin, and
the eerie effects it has on anyone who handles it.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
In front of the Massachusetts State house, the statue of Mary Dyer stands a stone’s throw from the Boston Common,
where in 1660 she was hanged as a heretic. But before her hanging, a pregnancy gone
horribly wrong forced her to make a secret burial on the Common, though something so
monstrous wouldn’t remain a secret for long…
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
When Dr. Parkman walked out the door at 8 Walnut Street
in 1849, he was never seen again…or at least not in one piece. Here began the story of
the most famous murder of 19 th century America, so famous that on a visit to America
twenty years later, Charles Dickens was asked what he’d like to see and replied “take
me to the room where Parkman was murdered”
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The Puritans were the founders of Boston and Harvard College,
but they were also fond of harsh punishment: ear cropping, branding, beheading. Hear
the tragic story of native sachem Matoonas, who rebelled against the Puritans when a
horrific judgement was carried out against his son, only to suffer the same fate in exactly
the same place
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Once the residence of Edwin Booth, older brother to infamous
assassin John Wilkes Booth. Seemingly cursed after the crime of his brother, when
Edwin died his spirit do not go quietly…
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
At number 9 Willow Street, famed poet Sylvia Plath was first introduced
to the Ouija Board by her husband Ted Hughes, and claimed to be visited by dark spirits
named Pan and Colossus. When her husband left her and a dark ritual failed to bring
him back, Sylvia’s end was near…
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
The niece of Montgomery Clift became a headline when she was
involved in the so called “debutante murder”- a disturbing affair involving opera,
deranged plans for a Halloween party, and a trip to Brazil that ended in an Insane
Asylum
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
Once a bawdy house serving sailors of Boston’s Back Bay, here is
where the famous “Sonambulist Murder” occurred, in which the brutal murderer was said
to be sleepwalking during the crime. See the alley where the sounds of the crime echo
to this day
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
To finish the tour, hear about the “Witch of Lime Street”,
who channeled the profane spirit of her dead brother and made an enemy of Harry
Houdini; and the “Boston Barrel Murder”, in which a grisly discovery was made in a
barrel floating in the nearby Charles River
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Free
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