1 to 2 hours (approx.)
Daily Tour
5 people
English
Most ghost tours in a city start at nighttime and go with a big crowd that can hold you back or move too fast. This Boston Self-Guided Ghost Tour takes you around the city by foot without a group so you can move as quickly or as slowly as you like. Gain access to 60+ historic stories and narrations while you stop at popular Boston landmarks.
The Boston Athenæum is one of the oldest independent libraries in the United States. It is also one of a number of membership libraries, for which patrons pay a yearly subscription fee to use Athenæum services. The institution was founded in 1807 by the Anthology Club of Boston, Massachusetts.
Note: This 2+mile-long tour covers the essentials of Ghost of Boston in 1-2 hours.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Built in 1927, the Omni Parker House is a historic hotel in Boston, Massachusetts. The original Parker House Hotel opened on the site on October 8, 1855.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
The Granary Burying Ground in Massachusetts is the city of Boston’s third-oldest cemetery, founded in 1660 and located on Tremont Street.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
The Central Burying Ground is a cemetery in Boston, Massachusetts. It was established on the Boston Common in 1756. It is located on Boylston Street between Tremont Street and Charles Street.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Town officials set aside for burials part of what was then the Boston Common to help alleviate overcrowding in the nearby King’s Chapel Burying Ground. The Granary Burying Ground took its present name in 1737 when a granary, a small building used to store grain, was moved to the site presently occupied by the Park Street Church. All interments ceased at the Granary in 1880.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
John Hancock Grave – Large obelisk marker is fitting of his signature which graced the Declaration of Independence. Obelisk added 100 yrs after death in 1895.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
James Otis Jr. (February 5, 1725 – May 23, 1783) was an American lawyer, political activist, pamphleteer, and legislator in Boston.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
King’s Chapel Burying Ground is a historic graveyard on Tremont Street, near its intersection with School Street, in Boston, Massachusetts. Established in 1630, it is the oldest graveyard in the city and is a site on the Freedom Trail.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Revolutionary War Patriot, Silversmith. He is best remembered for alerting the Colonial militia of the approaching British forces before the battles of Lexington and Concord in Massachusetts on the night of April 18, 1775, as dramatized in Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s famous poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride.” He was born in Boston, Massachusetts; his father was of French Huguenot descent and a silversmith by trade. At the age of 13, he left school and became an apprentice to his father.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
The Old State House is a historic building in Boston, Massachusetts. Built in 1713, it was the seat of the Massachusetts General Court until 1798. It is located at the intersection of Washington and State Streets, and is one of the oldest public buildings in the United States.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
The Boston Massacre site marker is located at the intersection of State and Congress Streets in Downtown Boston, outside of the Old State House, a few yards away from where the Massacre took place. The Massacre site has been moved twice, both times from the center of the intersection.
5 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included
Explore the hidden mysteries of Boston’s history by taking a self-guided ghost tour through Copp’s Hill Burying Ground. Experience the eerie atmosphere as you walk along the haunting pathways and listen to the whispers of the spirits that linger from the past. Prepare to be spooked by the spectral mysteries that await you on this chilling adventure.
10 minutes • Admission Ticket Not Included