Alexandria Haunted Old Town Self Guided Ghost Tour
- 1h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
You play a ghost hunter on your first night in the job, and Old Town Alexandria is your patch. The Questo app runs the hunt from your phone. It sends you down King Street and into the brick lanes around it, where ten ghosts are waiting to be caught. Each of them died with something unfinished, and each comes with a puzzle: dating a senator's evidence folders, sorting a professor's artifacts by civilization, deciding the order a burning hotel should have been emptied in. Every ghost you catch gives up a clue about the one spirit that has been lying from the start. The characters are fictional, made up for the game. The route is pure Old Town: the Torpedo Factory, Carlyle House, Gadsby's Tavern, Christ Church and the Potomac waterfront. It's about 1.4 miles and takes around 90 minutes. Play whenever you like, day or night, on your own or with a group of up to 30. If you get stuck, hints are one tap away, and real people answer support messages around the clock.
Inclusions
What's included
- Full availability: Every day of the year.
- Flexibility: start, take a break and continue at your own pace.
- Access to the self-guided city exploration game in the Questo app
What's not
- Live game master or physical guide
- Private transportation
- Meals
Itinerary
The hunt opens at the foot of King Street, on the Potomac waterfront. Once the app has you connected, it checks you have the sight with a strange ring of numbers. Then it leads you to the Torpedo Factory, where a bride poisoned three days before her wedding left a handwritten note with a few letters inked in red.
Up on Cameron Street, between Market Square and the old Carlyle House, you'll study a doctor's blood chart from the 1952 flu outbreak. Dr. Webb went three days without sleep, mixed up a girl's blood type and never forgave himself. Once you've found the right type, his ghost can rest.
Back on King Street, steps from the old Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary, you'll go through an actor's script line by line. Jonathan Rivers died under a falling spotlight on the opening night of Midnight's Edge, and the numbers buried in his last speech are what set him free.
Around the corner from Gadsby's Tavern, you'll piece together the case a senator never finished. Five evidence folders, each dated only against another, give you the year that matters. Margaret Chen died racing through the rain after a fake call about her daughter.
On North Washington Street, across from Christ Church, a third-grade teacher is still marking registers. For three years after a pupil went missing, Sarah Martinez kept adding a child who didn't exist. You'll compare her class lists to work out who the real boy was.
Two ghosts wait between King Street and the Lyceum. You'll spot the fakes among an antique dealer's treasures, then deal with a librarian who fell from her ladder after midnight and left a closet locked. Something inside has been knocking ever since, and the key is hidden in one of her books.
The last three ghosts are the toughest. You'll sort a murdered professor's artifacts by civilization and date, figure out who should have been the last guest out of a burning hotel, and finish at the Athenaeum on Prince Street, near the church of a priest who vanished in 1984. People say his organ still plays when nobody's there.
The case closes back by the river. You'll lay out the ten clue cards your ghosts have handed over and apply the one rule that matters: the Evil One is the ghost who lied. If you pick right, the Oracle destroys it and Old Town is quiet again.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Know before you go
- Meeting point
- The game starts at the foot of King Street. After booking, we'll message you a code and activation link. Activate with your own email, then log in to the Questo app with that email. No message? Open the Questo app, tap "Bought a quest somewhere else?" and enter your booking reference number.
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Operated by
- Questo
- Service animals allowed
- Public transportation options are available nearby
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Suitable for all physical fitness levels
- A charged smartphone with internet is required to play the game in the Questo app
- Comfortable walking shoes are recommended
How it compares in USA, outside the cities
- Its from-price is 89% below the median of the 2274 experiences we list in USA, outside the cities.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- The operator lists free cancellation on it.
Special offers in USA, outside the cities
Was/now prices come from the operator, never from us.
