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Laguna Beach Ghosts' Lanterns & Laments Walking Tour
400 S Coast Hwy, Laguna Beach, CA 92651
Research updated August 2026
Age
All ages
Cost
$$
Pricing set by US Ghost Adventures and shown at booking; check usghostadventures.com/laguna-beach-ghost-tour for current rates.
Access
Wheelchair OK
About one mile of downtown Laguna Beach streets near the coastline.
Equipment
Photos OK
Hotel Laguna (Spanish-Revival architecture) · Laguna Beach Prohibition-era rumrunning history
US Ghost Adventures runs guided ghost walks in hundreds of U.S. cities; in Laguna Beach, California, the local-facing brand is Laguna Beach Ghosts. The Laguna Lanterns & Laments Ghost Tour meets at the green space between Hotel Laguna and Main Beach Playground and covers about one mile in roughly an hour, with an extended bonus tour also offered.
Laguna Beach's route material draws on the city's documented Prohibition-era history, when rumrunners and bootleggers operated along the Southern California coast, and on Hotel Laguna, a Spanish-Revival hotel that has hosted visitors since the early 20th century. The tour also covers the Witch House, a distinctive residence built in the 1920s.
US Ghost Adventures guides are identifiable by branded shirts and lanterns; tours run nightly, rain or shine, year-round.
Sources
At the Witch House, the operator's account centers on a reclusive sculptor who lived there in the 1940s and died under mysterious circumstances, her body reportedly undiscovered for weeks; the operator ties a later 1980s account of an attacked contractor and reported claw marks to the property. At Hotel Joaquin, the operator ties Room 7 to the legend of La Sombra Oscura. At Hotel Laguna, the operator describes the hotel's history hosting film-era visitors alongside a reported tragic spirit.
The operator's broader route material also references the Arch Beach Tavern, a former 1915 hotel now an apartment building, where the operator describes reported whispers, growls, and shadow figures, and a local high school theater said to be haunted by a former drama teacher.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
A nightly, all-ages walking tour covering about one mile in roughly an hour, with an extended bonus tour to additional haunted locations also offered. The route covers the Witch House, Hotel Joaquin, and Hotel Laguna. Meets at the green space between Hotel Laguna and Main Beach Playground.
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Featured stop and part of the meeting point; the operator's route material ties the Spanish-Revival hotel to a reported tragic spirit.
Featured stop; the operator's route material ties Room 7 to the legend of La Sombra Oscura.
Featured stop; the operator's route material ties the 1920s house to a reclusive sculptor who died there in the 1940s.
Referenced in the operator's route material, a former 1915 silent-film-era hotel now an apartment complex with reported hauntings.
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