Haunted San Francisco Ghost Tour
The City After Dark
SF’s Best Haunted Walking Tour
Special! $25 tickets with promo code GHOST25
Haunted SF is our 1.25 hour ghost walk through Union Square streets and hotel lobbies. This tour is family friendly and not too scary.
Our 5 Star Rated walking tour is a macabre and murderous tour through the streets of downtown San Francisco.
Not “just a ghost tour,” this night tour includes tales of unexplained deaths, scandalous murders, ruthless cult leaders, the old red light district, famed spirits, serial killers, assassins, the Black Plague, and much more.
NEW! For fans of real ghost hunting, join the Paranormal Investigation Tour. You will get exclusive access to known haunted buildings and use ghost hunting tools. Click here to book Paranormal Investigation.
Haunted Ghost Tour Details
- Tours start between 6:30 – 9:30 pm – This is a night time walking tour. See our schedule to find a time that works for you tonight. Please arrive 10 minutes early to meet your guide.
- Tour Duration – The tour is 1.25 to 1.5 hours. Total walking distance is about .6 miles at a leisurely pace on a flat route. We can accommodate wheelchairs, but no service animals. Please notify your guide if you’d like special assistance.
- Professional Guides – You will be led by one of our three professional guides. Our dedicated guides have been conducting haunted walking tours for over 4 years and are rated 5 stars on Yelp, Google and TripAdvisor. Learn more about Rainey, Lisa and Wes below.
- Family Fun – While the tour does have some disturbing details and creepy history, it is considered a family-friendly night activity that’s a ghoulish good time for all.
- Haunted History – We hope you don’t mind getting the chills. The haunted history lesson you’ll get is a well-researched tour through true crimes and hauntings that took place on the very streets we’ll walk.
- Haunted Locations – Visit mysterious and ghostly places in San Francisco, where residual ghost impressions are felt, poltergeists heard, and after death after consciousnesses are witnessed. For true ghost hunters looking for real hauntings, we recommend Paranormal Investigation, which will explore known haunted spaces.
- Ghost Sightings – No guarantees, but this tour has been known to stir up spirits and invite apparitions. We’ve had guests report strange sensations, hear shrill sounds, and document unexplainable images in photographs from the tour.
Booking Details
- Meets at Union Square – Exact location and directions will be provided to you upon confirmation of your booking.
- Reservations are required – Must book online – Our Haunted Ghost Walking Tour is our most popular tour and regularly sells out. Guarantee yourself a spot by booking online today. We are not able to accommodate walk ups.
- Tickets – $27
There isn’t a dull moment on our 1.25-1.5 hr walking tour. We dig deep into the darkest and most mysterious aspects of San Francisco and its haunted past.
- St. Francis Hotel, nefarious Hollywood deaths
- The “suicide alley” of 1911
- Stories of disturbed cemeteries and forgotten graves
- Glide Memorial Church, connected to cult leader Jim Jones
- Site of Tessie Wall’s notorious brothel
- Stories of the 1899 Bubonic Plague
- Site of haunted underground speakeasies
Rainey is a full-time drag performer, known about town as his alter ego, Mary Vice. As Mary, she is spotted onstage regularly at Aunt Charlie’s, The Stud and other historic haunts. She hosts weekly revues, and has won numerous awards for her show-stopping performances. A Philadelphia transplant with an interest in all things ghostly and an eye for vampy glamour, Rainey feels right at home on the Haunted SF and Paranormal Investigation tours.
Lisa Frankenstein is a drag performer with a background in theater and clown. As a member of the cartoon couture clown ensemble Fou Fou Ha, she has performed in Las Vegas, Vancouver, and beyond. When not on stage at the Stud in drag, she can be found listening to creepy podcasts and researching ghost stories.
“Wild” Wes Leslie is a songwriter, tropical bartender, and almost-local, with a long family history in the Bay. He writes “bedroom soul” music under his name Wes Leslie which you can find on Spotify and his website. He has spent time backpacking through much of the world, including a year living in Madrid, Spain, where he dreamt up this walking tour company. Follow him on IG @wes.leslie
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