Haunted Footsteps Best Ghost & Paranormal Salem Tour
Overview
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1 hour 30 minutes
Mobile ticket
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).
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 can be very difficult and October is much worse with "LA Level" traffic. Give yourself extra time to get here and park no matter what your GPS is telling you. Check our website for details on where to park and options to get here..
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.
Cancellation Policy
For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.
What To Expect
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.
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.
What‘s Included
Analytics on any ghost photos you may get
Guide will dress in a costume
All ghost and paranormal stories are exclusive to Salem Historical Tours.
We do not go in any buildings so admission is not included nor necessary
Local, professional and certified local guide
Gratuities
Hotel Pick-Up and Drop-Off
There's no food or drink offered, but snacks, soda and water are available for sale.
Options
6:00pm Tour
1.5-hour Haunted History of Salem Walking Tour departing at 6:00pm.
3:00 PM
7:00 PM
5:00 PM
8:00pm Tour
1.5-hour Haunted History of Salem Walking Tour departing at 8:00pm.
9:00pm Tour
1.5-hour Haunted History of Salem Walking Tour departing at 9:00pm.
Reviews
443 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
Great tour guide
isabellejP7822HL,,Dec 16, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our tour guide was Bob and he was very funny! He knew a lot about Salem and its ghost history and he threw in anecdotes about his own ghostly experiences. He was a great story teller and added sound and light effects during the tour. He had several pictures to show us from previous ghost tours and encouraged us to take our own.
Excellent and fun ghost walk!
dandG9693SZ,,Nov 15, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00My wife and I attended the ghost walk and it was wonderful! Our tour guide was great. She told excellent stories and really engaged with us. The atmosphere was very welcoming and we got to see some great sites. She recommended some great places to check out afterwards for food and for drinks. We had a great experience.
Just okay.
981kierstens,,Nov 9, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
3.00Spots were not as interesting as anticipated. Stories seemed unrelated to the tour theme. More personal than Salam related.
Nice walk!
Lisa M,,Nov 7, 2025
- Review from Viator
3.00Nice lady! Beautiful shop! Happy to see a lot of the sights that we will be visit again next day to go in!
Ghost tour
garysZ1887SR,,Nov 6, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00Our tour guide was very informative, energetic and provided additional historic information. I would recommend this tour.
Interesting ghost tour!
847b rbarad,,Nov 4, 2025
- Review from Tripadvisor
5.00A fun and interesting afternoon/night. The guide took us through areas and houses of Salem telling us about their ghost stories. I recommend taking the tour when it is already dark, as it makes the atmosphere of the tour.
Salem ghost tour
Andrea T,,Nov 2, 2025
- Review from Viator
3.00With Salem’s rich history and all of the exciting stories there must be to tell, our guide seemed to focus on 2 or 3 historical figures and just kept repeating basically the same stories. I have been on ghost tours in many American cities and this one just wasn’t as fun or interactive as the others. I will definitely try another tour if I return so see what we missed on this one.
Great tour!! Learned so much!!
Michele L,,Oct 26, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00Worth the haunt!! Great experience and well detailed by our tour guide. I loved how he knew his haunted stories and truly brought our all of the characters in the tour. We took so many pictures and looking forward to see what we may have caught in the photos. Even a orb.
It was such a great tour!...
Olivia C,,Oct 26, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00It was such a great tour! Great stories! It hit some major spots in Salem that we hadn’t been to yet!
Fun and creepy.
Thomas H,,Oct 25, 2025
- Review from Viator
5.00A really fun tour. We went to several locations and heard stories that really made my skin crawl. The locations were very creepy.
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