Real Haunts

Witches Brew Tours is your key to all things haunted, magical, and macabre in New Orleans. Our knowledgeable and experienced Paranormal professionals will take you back in time and you will see and experience of the darkness that Lurks in the city of New Orleans…..This is NOT for the Faint at Heart!!

Ghost City Tours is America’s Premiere Ghost Tour company, offering ghost tours in Savannah Georgia, New Orleans Louisiana and Chattanooga Tennessee.

Our ghost tours are the perfect way to explore your favorite haunted city after dark. We’ll challange your beliefs in the afterlife as we craft stories about true hauntings where the ghosts still torment the living.

All of our Ghost Tours are carefully researched and are the result of many hours behind the scenes. We take great pride in the fact that you’ll always get the truth, no matter how spooky, while on a tour with Ghost City Tours.

We offer ghost tours 7 days per week in each of our cities.

Gators and Ghosts is an independent booking agent in New Orleans. We work with more than 25 different tour companies to find the right tour for you.

You can explore New Orleans’ incredible history: from the Native Americans, to French and Spanish rule, the Cajuns and the Creoles, the Louisiana Purchase, the pirate Jean Laffite, Andrew Jackson and the Battle of New Orleans, slavery, Madame LaLaurie and her haunted mansion, Voodoo Queen Marie Laveau, Mardi Gras, jazz music, the Storyville brothels, early rock n’ roll, Hurricane Katrina, and the ongoing rebuilding.

While visiting new Orleans you can see our beautiful above ground cemeteries, the 24 hour party that is Bourbon Street, our amazing architecture, magnificent and fascinating plantations, the mighty Mississippi River, and our levees, canals, and parks.

Have you ever been on an airboat? There are tours that can go deep in the bayou with a Cajun guide and so you can view alligators close up. At Gators and Ghosts we personally attend and research the various activities and excursions that we recommend, so we can ensure you’ll have a wonderful time.

We love our city and our work. New Orleans has so much to offer and we are here to help you discover it.

Best Savannah Ghost Tours, Since 1995, Sixth Sense has been the leader in uncovering Savannah’s haunted heritage. From voodoo rituals to exorcisms, Sixth Sense has seen it all! Now’s your chance to learn from the experts why Savannah has been deemed “America’s Most Haunted City™!”

Savannah is a city like no other. Here the spirits of the dead walk the streets with the living and houses are often shared with centuries old residents not quite ready to move on. Whether you’re looking to whet your appetite with tales of the strange and supernatural or unearth Savannah’s darkest paranormal secrets, Sixth Sense will take you there. We offer a wide array of tours throughout the Historic District each night exploring poltergeists, hags, human possessions, hidden cemeteries, disembodied spirits, morgue tunnels and ghostly phenomena all told by the most adept of ghost hosts. The Bonaventure Cemetery Tour™ is also offered for those wishing to see the final resting place of some of Savannah’s more bizarre and colorful characters.

Join us as we pull back the veil and illuminate Savannah’s haunted history from its pre-Colonial spectres to the present. Sixth Sense paints a chilling and scintillating picture of the psychical, paranormal and other-worldly events that haunt Savannah to this day. Our TripAdvisor.com reviews speak for themselves. We promise a hair-raising experience you won’t soon forget. Consider yourself formally invited…”

Hearse Ghost Tours was founded in 2002. Hearse Ghost Tours was voted the #1 Ghost Tour in the United States by the leading travel site, Trip Adviser. Hearse Ghost Tours is World Famous and has been in numerous Magazines and News papers around the World. It has been on the Travel and Discovery Channel. All tour guides are licensed and experienced. We are not sure if they are alive or dead.

We are always looking for bodies.

Ghost tours

Ride in real Hearses that were in service for more than 15 years with actual funeral parlors. Cruise over the cemeteries and through the beautiful streets of the Historic and Victorian districts. Hear of the spirits and ghost that are believed to haunt Savannah. You will see striking buildings where strange energies linger and you will hear the dark stories of the cities past on a potential paranormal journey you will never forget.

Haunted Savannah Tours was founded in 2011 by longtime paranormal enthusiast and ghost hunter Chris Allen. Our Savannah Ghost Tours have since grown to include two different tours offered nightly all year round. We offer an 8pm tour called the Original Haunted Savannah Tour and a 10pm tour called the Spirits and Scoundrels Ghost Tour ( formerly the Midnight Voodoo Tour). What sets us apart is our dedication to our customers. We strive to make sure everyone is having a great time on our tours, skeptics and believers. We also were the first tour in Savannah to show real video, picture and audio evidence on our ghost tours. We are always researching new information and locations to keep our tours fresh and up to date.

Ghost City Tours of Savannah Georgia

On our Savannah Ghost Tours, you’ll walk through some of the most beautifully creepy locations you can imagine. Ghost City Tours will take you and your family on a ghostly adventure through the beautiful streets of Savannah Georgia. We’ll visit haunted and historic homes, hidden cemeteries and many of Savannah’s secret, haunted locations.

You’ll feel the rush of adrenaline as you explore some of the most haunted places in America.

Ghost City Tours is Savannah’s most popular tour company when people want to learn more about the ghosts and hauntings that occur in Savannah. Ghost City Tours offers more Savannah Ghost Tours than any other tour company in Savannah Georgia. We offer all ages ghost tours as well as adults only ghost tours. Our ghost tours are rated 4.7 stars by past guests on TripAdvisor.

All of the tours of Savannah’s ghosts and haunted locations have been carefully researched to ensure that you’ll get the facts. You won’t hear made up stories about zombies eating babies in a graveyard while taking one of our ghost walks.

We offer four spine-tingling Savannah Ghost Tours, each visiting the locations in Savannah where ghosts are most often seen and felt.

Savannah Ghost Tours at their best! Blue Orb Tours was original Savannah tour company to offer an uncensored, 18 and older tour, Blue Orb is a premium Savannah pleasure and was voted Destinations Guide “Best Savannah Ghost Tour” 2012, was named one of the Top 13 Ghost Tours in the World by Conde Naste Traveler, one of the Top 10 Ghost Tours in the World by Trip Advisor and ‘fan voted’ one of the Top 10 Ghost Tours in The United States by USA Today Reader Poll.

Reservations Required. 912-665-4258. Blue Orb offers several tours but our flagship is the “Uncensored Adults Only Tour”. It is 18 and older only and the inspiration for the book “Savannah Shadows: Tales from the Midnight Zombie Tour”.

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Voted The Best Ghost Tour in LA by Los Angeles Magazine!

Join RIP the Undertaker as he gathers bodies when the sun goes down… When Hollywood’s dark side comes to LIFE! Follow his flickering candle as he leads the brave souls on foot down the Notorious Walk of Fame… and INFAMY!

RIP The Undertaker will recount 100 Tragedy-Filled years that allow mourners to pay their respects at Horrific Haunting Grounds, Creepy Crime Scenes and Foreboding Famous Landmarks. Not every Hollywood Story has a happy ending and sometimes greater fame is achieved in DEATH… than in life.

RIP The Undertaker will reveal the scary sights, spooky sounds and stinky smells that define the Tantalizing Tarnished Star that is Tinseltown. The 2-Hour Walking Tour covers a 1-mile bloody trail.

Each guest on this intimate tour will have their headset to hear to make sure you don’t miss a word of The Undertaker’s tales.

Kindly dress in black to mourn the dead.

Dearly Departed Tours has been featured on Ghost Adventures, The History Channel’s Haunted History, and the Syfy channel’s Haunted Collector. We’ve also been featured in the books Haunted Hollywood and Ghosts of Hollywood I, II and III.

Los Angeles (aka The City of Angels) was a perfect inspiration for the City of Dark Angels concept.   With a jagged past, Los Angeles became a beacon for the Deadly Sins as the main cause of death.  Gangster activity, cults, and high hopes in a city of dreamers that often times couldn’t handle the consequences that the film industry of Hollywood painted onto them.  Lust, Greed, Envy, Wrath, Pride, Sloth, and Gluttony.  And somehow Las Vegas ended up with the title, “The city of Sin”!  If they only knew it started here.  Join us on a journey through Hollywood as we take you on a haunted stroll by the hot spots of Hollywood’s Golden Era, where you’ll hear some spooky stories and learn about our great history along with hauntings of Howard Hughes, Marilyn Monroe, other stars on the Blvd, and sadly some innocent victims as well.  Along the way, you will learn about ghosts, spirits, poltergeists and other unseen entities as well as paranormal investigating and the equipment used on the shows you see.

Consider this more of a “Paranormal-099” class in ghost hunts!  This will be your chance to get some fresh air on a ghost walk, take some photos, investigate some EVP’s and learn a little about the dark side with a guide who is experienced in investigating and talking to spirits!  Would you believe when a group recently asked a spirit what pet did they own, “Beagle” was the first response by a young child!  The spirit world can be both heaven and hell for some lost souls.  Maybe they enjoy not being seen and watching the world evolve, while yet afraid to cross over. This is just one explanation of many.  We’ll never really know until we hit that moment or have an experience ourselves.  Until then, put on your walking shoes, open your mind and enjoy our tour in place of your scheduled programming or typical night out.  It will sure leave many discussions thereafter and maybe even interest you in furthering your experience with investigations when you go out of town!

Institutions such as reformatories, asylums, mental hospitals, and even certain penitentiaries, are designed and brought into existence with the intention of providing a way for people to be rehabilitated. Methods are unconventional, even draconian at times, but none are constructed to be torture chambers. With such confined and closed quarters, pent up energy marries with violence and a supernatural impression is forever imprinted. Just minutes north of Mansfield, Ohio lies one of the most violently haunted places in the United States today, the Ohio State Reformatory.

Haunted Ohio State Reformatory

The Ohio State Reformatory was constructed sometime all the way back in 1896, chiefly as an all-male juvenile reformatory. Standing three stories tall with room to spare, it was designed with a certain gothic, German-Romanesque castle style so much so that both the younger inmates there and the locals referred to it as “Dracula’s Castle”. The image of the abandoned reformatory was so iconic that it was partially refurbished and used as the prime filming location for the Academy Award-nominated Stephen King film, The Shawshank Redemption.

Over the decades the reformatory converted into a maximum security prison and found itself tending to an estimated 155,000 men in its lifespan. At times the reformatory was so crowded and in critical need of staff, that guards and wardens were known to live in extended parts of the property so as to provide round the clock service and attention. However, in December 1990, the prison wound up closing its doors for good after protests from local human rights campaigners. The State insisted in demolishing the site, but with Hollywood’s interest in filming a major motion picture there, the State abandoned the idea and allowed the property to stand. After Shawshank was filmed, the property was once again abandoned, and slowly paranormal groups looked to the site as a prime investigation hotspot.

The Ghosts of the Ohio State Reformatory

The most famous ghost in the reformatory is not that of an inmate, but actually a former warden’s late wife. Helen Glattke lived in the on-site warden’s apartment in 1949 with her husband, the warden Arthur Glattke. She mistakenly reached for a jewelry box and accidentally knocked a revolver off a shelf, which misfired, and subsequently killing her. Today, her spirit is said to be spotted all around the property and the association of smelling roses is associated with her as this was her favorite scent when she was alive.

The infamous “Hole” of the prison where prisoners served in solitary is well haunted. One inmate was brutally murdered by another in there and investigators today note the tiny room as having extreme cold spots, feelings of dread, and sense of being watched by something unseen.

The basement area is said to be haunted by the spirit of a juvenile who was beaten to death at the turn of the 20th Century, who is reported to have a somewhat malicious presence.

Frank Hanger was a notorious prison guard there during the 1940s and he was brutally murdered by an inmate. His ghostly apparition has been picked up in still photos taken by ghost hunters over the years. Many believe his spirit is quite active as visitors have reported feeling a forceful shove by unseen hands, as if Hanger is still doing his once former job.

Today the Ohio State Reformatory has been taken over by a group that has cleaned up the prison and regularly runs and hosts paranormal tours and events on-site. The Mansfield Reformatory Preservation Society has committed themselves to preserving and providing an incredibly rich historical experience for visitors to this famously haunted property.

The Real Bailey Mansion

This is the supposed “Bailey Mansion” that the photojournalist known by the pseudonym Seph Lawless shared in his book, ‘An American Horror Story.’ The photo of this building is said to be in Hartford, Connecticut, but there is zero information pointing to a home of this resemblance in Hartford or any evidence of a true story behind “The Bailey Mansion.” The mansion is said to be the inspiration for American Horror Story’s inaugural season “Murder House.”

Is there a Bailey House in Hartford, CT?

We searched high and low for the truth behind this Bailey Mansion photo, but all we could find was a single comment that pointed us to an address on Google Maps with a strikingly similar home in near exact decay. The big difference is that it’s in McKeesport, Pennsylvania.

You will find a lot of searches on other haunted websites that refer to “The Bailey House” which is located in Lowell, MI. This is not to be confused with the supposed Bailey Mansion in these photos nor the inspiration of Murder House.

Where is the Real Bailey Mansion?

The Bailey Mansion is actually at 545 Shaw Ave in McKeesport PA. The Maps details in the above photo is slightly inaccurate showing it as 536.

The real Bailey Mansion is located at 545 Shaw Ave McKeesport, Pennsylvania 15132 as far as we could find. Now we say that with a grain of salt, because the term “Bailey Mansion” may not even be the name of this home. But McKeesport would be the location of what everyone is calling the Bailey Mansion that supposedly inspired American Horror Story’s: Murder House. There is no mention of any haunted history at the McKeesport, PA location. However, if you want to see the place “people say” was the inspiration for the first American Horror Story season, your best bet would be 545 Shaw Ave McKeesport, Pennsylvania 15132 if the building is still standing. Here’s the Google Maps link just in case you are curious.

After all of this investigation around the actual location and story, we have to wonder if this was a clever PR stunt by American Horror Story that we missed or if it’s a legit mistake. Especially after all the hubbub with American Horror Story: Roanoke.

And to point out one more very important thing, there is absolutely no parking in front of that telephone pole!

Photo Credits: Seph Lawless & Google Maps