Shadows of Shockoe Ghost Tour
- 1h 30m
- Free cancellation up to 24h before
- Guided in English
- Instant confirmation
Highlights
Your Ghost Host will guide you on a fascinating exploration of Shockoe Bottom, the oldest and most haunted neighborhood in Richmond, where over 400 years of history have produced an ample share of those caught between this world and the next. Your Guide will share with you the history of the neighborhood, and how it relates to the tales of the mysterious and tragic things that have led to numerous reports of paranormal activity along the tour route.
Inclusions
What's included
- Professional guide
What's not
- Gratuities
Itinerary
Meet your Ghost Guide outside Richbrau Brewing Company, to depart on your tour of Historic Shockoe Bottom. The tour will include tales outside a number of local landmarks.
From outside the Poe Museum, travelers will see the Old Stone House, Richmond’s oldest standing residence. Although Edgar Allan Poe never lived in the building, the museum preserves and interprets his Richmond legacy. Your guide will share the site’s history and the eerie stories associated with it. This tour remains outdoors and does not include museum admission or interior access.
Pause outside Masons’ Hall, built between 1785 and 1787 and recognized as the nation’s oldest building constructed for Masonic purposes and continuously used for them. Your guide will discuss the hall’s place in early Richmond history, its Masonic associations, and the eerie stories connected with the property. This is an exterior stop; the tour does not enter the building.
Pause outside one of Richmond’s oldest surviving houses, built in the late 1780s for prominent court clerk Adam Craig. Your guide will discuss the property’s early Richmond history, its connections to Edgar Allan Poe through Craig’s daughter Jane Stith Stanard, and the eerie stories associated with the house. This is an exterior stop; the tour does not enter the building.
Pause outside the historic building now occupied by Shockoe Artspace. Originally used as a tobacco warehouse, the building was later repurposed as a military hospital during the Civil War. Your guide will discuss its place in Shockoe Bottom’s commercial and wartime history, along with the eerie stories associated with the property. This is an exterior stop; the tour does not enter the gallery.
Pause near Main Street Station, a landmark of Richmond’s long railroad history. Your guide will share eerie stories tied to the city’s railroad legacy and the surrounding area. This is an exterior stop; the tour does not enter the station.
Pause at the historic 17th Street Market, one of America’s oldest public marketplaces and a center of commerce and community in Shockoe Bottom for centuries. Your guide will share stories from the market’s long and sometimes eerie past, along with the history of the surrounding neighborhood. This is an outdoor public space.
Cancellation
Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the experience starts, for a full refund.
Reviews
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Know before you go
- Meeting point
- Outside the Richbrau Brewing Company
- Pickup
- Everyone meets at the starting point; there is no pickup.
- Ticket type
- Mobile or paper ticket accepted
- Group size
- Up to 20 travellers
- Operated by
- Haunts of Richmond
- Wheelchair accessible
- Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
- Service animals allowed
- Transportation options are wheelchair accessible
- All areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible
- Not recommended for travelers with poor cardiovascular health
- Travelers should have at least a moderate level of physical fitness
- Children must be accompanied by an adult
How it compares in Richmond
- Its from-price is close to the median of the 55 experiences we list in Richmond.
- Its length is typical for the group.
- By number of reviews it ranks 9 of 55.
- 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.
