Downtown Long Beach Historic District · The Pike amusement zone · Operated by US Ghost Adventures under the Long Beach Ghosts brand
US Ghost Adventures is a national operator of city ghost-walking tours; its Long Beach program markets under the Long Beach Ghosts name. The tour meets nightly outside the Casa Bonita Apartments, a former hotel at 229 W 6th St., and covers roughly a mile of downtown Long Beach sidewalks in about an hour, staying entirely outdoors and never entering privately-owned buildings.
The route draws on downtown Long Beach's history, including the Pike, a historic beachfront amusement zone whose 1970s-era demolition uncovered the mummified remains of Elmer McCurdy, an Old West train robber killed in 1911, misidentified for decades as a wax mannequin prop.
The operator's broader marketing material for the area also references the RMS Queen Mary, permanently docked in Long Beach Harbor, though the Queen Mary is not part of this downtown walking route and is covered separately elsewhere in this corpus where applicable.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/long-beach-ghost-tour/
- https://www.inthegreatwide.com/post/long-beach-ghost-tour
Unexplained NoisesSwinging LampsFeelings of Being Watched
The core route covers the Casa Bonita Apartments, a former hotel where residents report unexplained noises from the basement laundry room and swinging lamps; the Pike Outlets, built on the site of the former Pike amusement park, where the operator recounts the 1976 on-set discovery, during filming of The Six Million Dollar Man, that a prop mannequin was actually the mummified corpse of Elmer McCurdy; and The 4th Horsemen, a horror-themed pizzeria the operator describes as part of the route's atmosphere.
The operator's broader material for the area references Igor's Alley near the East Village Arts District as a former occultist meeting place, along with background lore tied to the RMS Queen Mary and Sunnyside Cemetery that is not presented as part of the walking route itself.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing 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. The Elmer McCurdy discovery at the Pike is separately documented in period press coverage independent of the operator.
Notable Entities
Elmer McCurdy (documented Old West outlaw, 1911, whose mummified remains were found at the Pike in the 1970s)
