Haunted Footsteps Ghost & Paranormal Salem Tour

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Duration:1 hours 30 minutes (approx.)
Location: Salem, Massachusetts

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Experience Salem's macabre past on this 1.5-hour walking tour. During your lantern lit stroll, follow your professional and engaging guide down the haunted streets, past ghostly buildings and a chilling cemetery. Listen to authentic tales or murder and accidental death as well as paranormal stories on this thrilling tour of Salem! (This tour does NOT discuss the 1692 Witchcraft Trials; take our other tour for witchcraft history).

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1. Salem Historical Tours & Haunted Footsteps Ghost Tour
Meet your professional and entertaining guide, who will light the way for your hauntingly historic walking tour of Salem. Follow them into the night to begin your 1.5-hour walking tour. With the light from the lantern, make your way through Salem's streets. Through your guide's storytelling, dark humor, and captivating tales, learn about the paranormal activity in this infamous town. You will visit as many of these locations as time allows, hearing stories of Visit documented hauntings, accidental death and murder.
2. Ropes Mansion and Garden
Enter the backyard of the Ropes Mansion that is replete with paranormal activity and includes stories of several people who died in the house. There have been many sightings in the colonial revival garden so take many pictures and maybe you catch an anomaly.
3. Old Burying Point Cemetery
You will get to see the oldest cemetery in Salem which is one of the oldest in the country. You will hear tales of paranormal activity in the cemetery and the buildings around it. Many anomalies have been seen in our cemetery.
4. John Ward House
The John Ward house is where accused witches were examined in 1692 when the home was across the street from the jail. It has since been relocated to the grounds of the Peabody Essex Museum, but the activity is still there.
5. Witch House
The Witch House is the home of Judge Jonathan Corwin, who was one of the key judges during the 1692 Witchcraft Trials. There is a lot of paranormal activity there that has been captured by our guests. Eight of Corwin's children died in the home and the employees who run the home constantly report weird happenings in the home.
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Enter the alleyway behind the restaurant and hear about an incredible murder that happened in the 1830s involving a love triangle between a sea captain, sailor and indentured servant. Sightings of the servant, aka Blue Lady, continue to be seen today by guests of the restaurant and the waitstaff.
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The Merchant Hotel stands on the grounds of where the home of 1692 Witchcraft Trials sheriff George Corwin lived. There are stories that Corwin tortured people in the basement. He died in the home from a heart attack or brain aneurysm. Various reports have surfaced over the years of strange occurrences at the brick structure. Let our guide regale you with them and explain the reason why this may be happening. (we do not go in this house).
8. Gardner Pingree House
The Gardner Pingree House was built in 1804 and had a sensational murder there in 1830 involving a complicated conspiracy to get the money of Captain Joseph White. The plan unravelled as the co-conspirators turned on each other resulting in a suicide and the execution of two men.

ADDITIONAL INFO

• Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
• Service animals allowed
• Public transportation options are available nearby
• Suitable for all physical fitness levels
• Children must be accompanied by an adult
• Operates in all weather conditions, please dress appropriately
• Tour times vary by season. Available tour times reflected during checkout. Please plan to arrive 15-20 minutes prior to your tour. Check in at Salem Historical Tours Office at 8 Central Street, Salem, MA.
• Traffic and parking in October can be very difficult. Give yourself extra time to get here and park no matter what your GPS is telling you. Check Salem.org for details on where to park.
• Our public walking tours can pose challenges for participants with mobility and accessibility concerns. Tours are 90 minutes long and about one mile in length. Each participant must be able to complete the one-mile tour within 90 minutes, providing for frequent stops to view sites and for information from the tour guide. As Salem is a historical city, there are narrow and uneven sidewalks, bricks, cobblestones, and stairs. During events and festivals (and particularly October), with crowds and street vendors, the streets can become difficult to navigate.

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Posted By : heathersG8008JZ
This was fantastic! We had Bob as our guide and he was outstanding - he was great at storytelling and knew his history and facts about Salem, it made the tour go by so quick! We were a group of 5 and we all really enjoyed it! Thank you Bob!!!
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Posted On : 2024-06-26 19:18:02

Posted By : K8355XRthomasb
There are many tours in the 2nd most haunted city in America but here’s how I know this one’s the best: they don’t oversell. We saw other groups…they were massive in size…and their tour guides were not in character. What do I mean? One, our group was smaller and more intimate and our tour guide was dressed in male Victorian garb, with a put on accent. It really added to the experience.
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Posted On : 2024-06-23 07:14:23

Posted By : Kayla_B
The older gentleman we had I think bob was not our vibe .. didn’t give good facts told his own personal “ghost stories” not impressed
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Posted On : 2024-06-19 20:10:43

Posted By : teresamb2023
The tour guide was very polite, professional and nice. However, he did not appear to know his material very well. We did get to see many things just not a lot of lore or history to go with it.
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Posted On : 2024-06-17 22:40:12

Posted By : R83OVheidir
Had a great history walk through Salem on our Haunted footsteps ghost tour. Our guide was great, he had great information and a great sense of humor!
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Posted On : 2024-06-05 13:20:59

Posted By : Carolyn_S
Enjoyed the tour. Learned a ton about Salem. Only thing I’d like better is a smaller group with adults only.
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Posted On : 2024-05-05 09:16:52

Posted By : Antonio_G
Allen was amazing!! After all of the years I’ve been going doing different tours, he was in the top 10! I would say that his knowledge of all of the homes was quite intriguing! I am very pleased with how this tour was conducted.
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Posted On : 2024-02-11 09:25:32

Posted By : Denise_P
Ellen was very knowledgeable about all the history of the places we visited and she made it very entertaining!
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Posted On : 2023-11-25 12:27:24

Posted By : Teressa_Z
Really good tour we enjoyed it very much. The walking was easy to do and we learned alot about the ghost of Salem.
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Posted On : 2023-11-13 14:13:31

Posted By : Travel498026
Really disappointing tour. Only had 1 night in Salem and booked this tour - what a waste. The guide’s storytelling skills were extremely lacking unfortunately. The info provided was very brief and factual, no ‘theatrics’ - it felt like a very short, informational lecture. We stopped at the sites for very short periods of time. At one stop, there was another group out front, so the guide had us stop 30 feet away, where he told the story. When done, we just continued on past the site - we didn’t even get to see it or pause for photos. The guide pushed on pretty quickly as well and the group fell behind more than once, and he never stopped to check if everyone was still with him. I have been on other ghost tours in Salem that stopped at a few of the same places, and heard really great spooky stories that I was excited to get a refresher on, assuming the info would be shared during the stops on this tour - but didn’t hear any of them again tonight. The stories were often vague as well, things like ‘spirits have been spotted here,’ when I was was already familiar with some f the places, and knew there were some good stories to tell that just weren’t shared on this tour. At one point we passed by a different tour, where the guide was in costume and telling scary ghost stories with a ton of energy and suspense, and interacting with his group - and multiple people in our group mumbled ‘I wish we were on THAT tour instead…’ - a sentiment I share.
I felt the guide was knowledgeable and prepared, but to be a ghost tour guide there is a whole other very important part of the job - hosting and performing, interacting with the guests and delivering the stories in an interesting and engaging way - this did not happen tonight. I hate to say it, but I was bored.
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Posted On : 2023-11-12 22:42:39