Haunted Footsteps Best Ghost & Paranormal Salem Tour
Overview
Available languages
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‘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.
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.
Options
9:00pm Tour
1.5-hour Haunted History of Salem Walking Tour departing at 9:00pm.
8:00pm Tour
1.5-hour Haunted History of Salem Walking Tour departing at 8:00pm.
7:00 PM
6:00pm Tour
1.5-hour Haunted History of Salem Walking Tour departing at 6:00pm.
Reviews
430 reviews
Total reviews and rating from Viator & Tripadvisor
The tour was amazing. We...
Heather R,
Oct 15, 2025
- Viator
5.00The tour was amazing. We were able to explore areas of Salem that we never would have ventured to on our own. Our tour guide was so fun and entertaining while also sharing the history of Salem and its haunting.
Fun but others seem better
Kim W,
Oct 13, 2025
- Viator
3.00The tour itself was nice and the tour guide Glenn was great. In all honesty I wouldn’t recommend it and if someone wanted to do a ghost tour I’d recommend any other. Those groups looked like they were having more fun. I also wasn’t a fan of the guy who gave us our stickers at check in because something went wrong with purchasing through Viator that he didn’t have my group on his list and after I showed him the confirmation he was annoyed we were a group of 5 and made it seem like a problem we gave him our service to go on this tour. He had an attitude with Viator “always doing this to them” and even was talking to another worker about how our group of 5 had tickets and we aren’t even on his list. It just gave an uneasy feeling at first almost like our group was a problem to him.
Our tour guide Scott was...
Michelle H,
Oct 12, 2025
- Viator
5.00Our tour guide Scott was amazing!! He was very insightful and his enthusiasm while telling the stories really caught our attention. We would definitely give him 5 stars!!!!!
The horror was the guide
Crystal H,
Oct 12, 2025
- Viator
1.00Alan was not very well spoken, his story telling skills were non existent and overall it was a waste of time and money. The company clearly doesn’t train and or monitor their guides.
Haunted tour
Angela S,
Oct 11, 2025
- Viator
5.00This was a great tour! Fun and informative! I would definitely go again. Our tour guide was awesome and made it unique!
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