Adults Only The Dead Do Not Forget Richmond Ghost Tour
- 1h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Richmond has rebuilt itself many times, but some stories refuse to stay buried. The Dead Don’t Forget is a 90-minute adults-only ghost walking tour through Shockoe Bottom, designed for guests ages 16 and older who want a deeper look at the city’s darker history. This tour also explores local paranormal traditions tied to Shockoe Bottom, including reports of footsteps, voices, shadowy figures, uneasy sensations, and stories that remain attached to places where the past was never fully resolved. This is an outdoor walking tour, and guests do not enter museums, stations, buildings, or tour stops. The Dead Don’t Forget is not built around cheap scares or invented legends. It uses Richmond’s real history and reported hauntings to examine what remains when a city builds over painful ground, softens uncomfortable stories, and tries to move forward without fully remembering who was left behind.
Inclusions
What's included
- Stories of slavery, imprisonment, war, violence, loss, forgotten graves, and reported hauntings
- Dark haunted history, local legends, and Richmond ghost stories
- 90-minute adults-only ghost walking tour of Richmond
- Visits to historic exterior locations throughout Shockoe Bottom and downtown Richmond
- Professional Ghost City Tours Ambassador
What's not
- Food and drinks
- Transportation to and from the meeting location
- Hotel pickup and drop-off
- Gratuities
- Admission or entry into tour stops
Itinerary
Begin at the Reconciliation Triangle Statue, a memorial connecting Richmond with Liverpool, England, and Benin in West Africa through the history of the slave trade. This stop introduces the central theme of the tour: reconciliation is not the same as forgetting. Guests will hear how Richmond’s role in slavery, sale, separation, and forced movement shaped Shockoe Bottom and left stories that still demand recognition.
This stop brings together two of Shockoe Bottom’s most powerful and painful histories. The Richmond African Burial Ground was once a burial place for free and enslaved Black residents before being neglected and nearly erased from public memory. Nearby stood Lumpkin’s Jail, known as the Devil’s Half Acre, where enslaved men, women, and children were confined before sale. Guests will hear how burial, confinement, memory, and erasure became part of Richmond’s haunted landscape.
17th Street Market was one of Richmond’s busiest commercial spaces, filled with vendors, wagons, animals, travelers, taverns, gambling, vice, and violence. This stop explores how everyday trade, dangerous nightlife, and the larger economy of Shockoe Bottom existed alongside the buying and selling of enslaved people. Guests will hear why old market districts often collect stories of lingering footsteps, voices, unexplained smells, and shadows after the crowds are gone.
The former Libby Prison site marks one of the Civil War’s most notorious military prisons. Union officers were confined in a warehouse never designed to hold them, facing hunger, cold, illness, uncertainty, and the slow loss of hope. Guests will hear about the suffering inside the prison, the famous 1864 tunnel escape, and how the building eventually disappeared while the memory of what happened there remained much harder to remove.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Meet at the Reconciliation Triangle Statue, located at 1486 E. Main Street at the corner of East Main and North 15th Streets. Please gather in the public plaza beside the statue.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 30 travellers
- Operated by
- Ghost City Tours Richmond
- Wheelchair accessible
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
How it compares in Richmond
- Its from-price is 17% above the median of the 55 experiences we list in Richmond.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
About Richmond
Richmond is the capital of Virginia, a historic city on the James River with a Jefferson-designed Capitol, Civil War history and whitewater in town.
Richmond is the capital of Virginia, set at the falls of the James River where the coastal plain meets the Piedmont. Thomas Jefferson designed the State Capitol, which was modelled on a Roman temple in France and completed in the 1780s. St John's Church on Church Hill is where Patrick Henry made his speech of 1775 demanding liberty or death. Richmond was the capital of the Confederacy during the American Civil War, and its museums and battlefields tell that history.
Top-ranked sights in Richmond: Carytown, The Poe Museum, White House of the Confederacy.
