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Pasadena Ghosts' Old Town Walk Past Castle Green, the Playhouse, and the Underground Catacombs
100 N Garfield Ave, Pasadena, CA 91101
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages for Purgatory Phantoms; 21+ for the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl
Cost
$$
Pricing set by US Ghost Adventures and shown at booking; check usghostadventures.com/pasadena-ghost-tour for current rates.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Outdoor walking tours of Old Town Pasadena along and near Route 66.
Equipment
Photos OK
Castle Green (1899, National Register of Historic Places) · Pasadena Playhouse (1917, California State Theater) · Old Pasadena Historic District
US Ghost Adventures runs guided ghost walks in more than 250 U.S. cities; in Pasadena the program is marketed as Pasadena Ghosts, with two products: the all-ages Purgatory Phantoms walking tour and the 21-and-up Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl, both covering Old Town Pasadena near historic Route 66.
The route's anchor stops are documented Old Town Pasadena landmarks. Castle Green, built in 1899 as part of the Hotel Green resort complex, is a National Register-listed apartment building whose upper floors once operated as a health resort marketed toward tuberculosis patients seeking a warmer, drier climate. The Pasadena Playhouse, a 1917-founded theatre and California's official State Theater, remains an active performing-arts venue. The Bunker Experience occupies the former underground vault of the Union Savings Bank in Old Pasadena, now run as a themed escape-room and event space beneath the neighborhood's 19th-century commercial district.
US Ghost Adventures guides are identifiable by branded shirts and lanterns; tours run nightly, rain or shine, year-round.
Sources
At Castle Green, the operator frames reported apparitions of tuberculosis patients, anxious children, and a man said to have been impaled as tied to the building's former use as a health resort. At the Pasadena Playhouse, the operator recounts a former owner reportedly still overseeing the theatre's productions from his office nearly seventy years after his death. At The Bunker Experience, the operator ties reported hauntings to the site's history as a bank vault and to stories of the underground passageways beneath Old Town Pasadena, including accounts of bank robbers said to have died trapped inside.
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 through Old Town Pasadena, covering Castle Green, the Pasadena Playhouse, and The Bunker Experience (the former Union Savings Bank vault beneath Old Town's streets). Rated 5.0 stars on Tripadvisor.
A 21-and-up crawl through Old Town Pasadena's reportedly haunted bars, pairing local ghost lore with stops at the neighborhood's nightlife spots.
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Featured stop, tied by the operator to the building's history as a tuberculosis sanitarium.
Featured stop, tied by the operator to a former owner said to still oversee the theatre.
Featured stop, tied by the operator to the Pasadena catacombs beneath Old Town.
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