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An annual after-dark walking tour of downtown Kingman, with costumed performers retelling the town's history and resident ghost stories.
4th St & E Andy Devine Ave, Kingman, AZ 86401
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$
Ticketed seasonal event; check the Beale Street Theater for current pricing
Access
Wheelchair OK
Flat downtown sidewalks and street crossings; roughly a one-hour walk
Equipment
Photos OK
Annual community-theater ghost walk produced by the Beale Street Theater · Showcases the historic core of downtown Kingman and its Route 66 buildings · Blends documented local history with present-day business-owner ghost stories
The Beale Street Theater, a nonprofit community theater housed in downtown Kingman, has run its Historic Ghost Walks as an annual Halloween-season tradition for years. The event grew out of the theater's role as a hub for local history and performance, and it now functions as both a fundraiser and a showcase of the downtown district's older buildings.
Each evening of the event, a guide leads ticketed groups along one of two alternating routes through the historic center of Kingman. Along the way, visitors encounter actors and other performers stationed at landmark buildings, who deliver short scenes and narrated stories. The material mixes documented town history with ghost stories, some of them contributed by present-day downtown business owners describing their own experiences.
One route runs from the corner of Fourth and Beale Streets south to Andy Devine Avenue, then through nearby streets before ending at the City Complex and the Beale Street Theater. A second route begins near a downtown gallery, loops through Beale, Fifth, Spring and Fourth Streets, and ends at the Odd Fellows Hall. Stops have included the Hotel Brunswick, the Hotel Beale, the ArtHub gallery and Diana's Cellar Door Wine Bar. Tours begin every thirty minutes from 7pm to 9pm and last about an hour, and each one closes with a group 'Thriller' dance finale. The walk is one piece of a broader slate of Kingman haunted-season programming that also includes the after-hours Haunted Powerhouse event at the Powerhouse Visitor Center.
Sources
The Ghost Walk is less a single haunting than a curated tour of downtown Kingman's collected ghost stories. The route deliberately strings together buildings with reputations of their own. At the Hotel Brunswick, the city's 1909 tufa-stone landmark, the tour draws on long-reported accounts of shadow figures and the spirit of a child. The walk also stages stories at the Hotel Beale, the vacant former hotel where character actor Andy Devine grew up, and at Diana's Cellar Door Wine Bar, set in a century-old Beale Street building.
What distinguishes the event is its sourcing: organizers and the local press have noted that the present-day ghost stories come in part from the downtown business owners themselves, who describe unexplained experiences in their own buildings. Performers dramatize those accounts alongside historical episodes from Kingman's railroad and Route 66 past. Because the stories are theatrical retellings gathered from many sites, the Ghost Walk is best understood as the connective tissue of Kingman's haunted reputation rather than a haunting fixed to one address.
A guided, roughly one-hour walking tour through downtown Kingman led by the Beale Street Theater. Two alternating routes pass landmarks including the Hotel Brunswick, Hotel Beale, ArtHub and Diana's Cellar Door, where actors and performers retell the community's history along with present-day ghost stories collected from local business owners. The walk ends in a 'Thriller' dance finale.
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