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Ghost towns of the American South and New England

Tom Albright

Writes New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, St. Augustine, Salem and Gettysburg, the ghost tours page and the US ghost tour ranking.

Published work

8 signed pages across 3 sections, biggest first.

Cities 6

CharlestonCharleston's churchyards lock in the afternoon, so most ghost walks tell their stories at the gate. Three tours get you inside after dark. Here's which ten are worth an evening, ranked.Read
GettysburgThe battlefield closes at sunset, so Gettysburg's ghost tours work the town. Two get you inside a house after dark for $20 (€17.90). Ten night tours ranked, and the park rules that shape them.Read
New OrleansNew Orleans does ghost tours better than almost anywhere. The top walk is adults-only and rated 5.0, the cheapest good one is $21 (€18.80), and one bus actually takes you inside a cemetery after dark.Read
SalemSalem's night tours are all on foot and mostly on Essex Street. The top one is a 4.9-rated ghost walk for $28 (€25). In October, book weeks out, read the refund rules and take the train.Read
SavannahSavannah's best night tours are walks through the squares. The top two tie at 7.6, the best value is a $20 (€17.90) walk at 7 p.m., and the haunted pub crawls work because you can carry a cup.Read
St. AugustineSt. Augustine's ghost walks are cheap and plentiful, but the cemeteries stay locked. Ten night tours ranked, two sunset boats, and what changes when Nights of Lights starts on November 21.Read

Rankings 1

The best ghost tours in the USFifteen ghost tours from six towns, ranked by Night Score. New Orleans, Savannah, Salem and Charleston each fill three spots; only three tours get you through a locked door after dark.Read

Tour types 1

Ghost toursA $20 (€17.90) Ripper walk tops 107 scored ghost tours. The ones worth your night get you through a locked gate after dark; the duds are big groups telling stories on a street corner in daylight.Read

About Tom

Tom writes the places where the ghost walk is the main event. New Orleans, Savannah, Charleston, St. Augustine, Salem and Gettysburg. He also writes ghost tours, the biggest type on the site at 107 of 340 tours, and the best ghost tours in the US, led by a New Orleans true-crime walk at 7.8.

His beat is full of claims. Every town has a "most haunted" somewhere on a flyer, and Tom's pages say whose claim it is. What he cares about is plainer: which walks get you through a gate that's locked at night, which ones are fine for a ten-year-old, and which are a bar crawl wearing a cape.

Tom is an editorial persona. The research, the sourcing and the arithmetic behind these pages are real; the privacy page explains how our bylines work.