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Sacramento Ghosts — Shadows, Scandals & Secrets of Old Town Ghost Tour and 21+ Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl
1240 Front St, Sacramento, CA 95814
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages for Shadows, Scandals & Secrets; 21+ for the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl
Cost
$$
Shadows, Scandals & Secrets of Old Town Sacramento Ghost Tours listed from about $26 per person. Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl pricing per usghostadventures.com; drinks purchased separately at each stop.
Access
Wheelchair OK
About 1 mile of Old Sacramento's historic wooden boardwalks and cobblestone streets along the riverfront; exterior-only, no entry to private buildings on the ghost tour.
Equipment
Photos OK
Old Sacramento Historic District · Eagle Theatre (California's first theater, 1849) · California State Railroad Museum · Vernon-Brannan House (California Historical Landmark No. 604)
US Ghost Adventures, the multi-city ghost-tour network, operates two standardized Sacramento products under the local consumer brand 'Sacramento Ghosts.' Shadows, Scandals & Secrets of Old Town Sacramento Ghost Tours is a family-friendly, roughly 1-mile walking tour meeting nightly at Waterfront Park, 1240 Front St, covering the Delta King riverboat hotel, the 1849-built Eagle Theatre (California's first theater), the California State Railroad Museum, and the Sacramento History Museum, all within Old Sacramento's Gold Rush-era historic district.
The Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl is a separate 21-and-up product from the same Waterfront Park meeting point, moving guests through four stops over two hours: the Delta King, Fanny Ann's Saloon, the B.F. Hastings Bank Building — a Gold Rush-era Old Sacramento bank building — and the Vernon-Brannan House, a three-story 1853-54 building later operated as a hotel by Sam Brannan, widely regarded as California's first millionaire.
Sources
According to US Ghost Adventures' own tour material, the Delta King's reported hauntings are tied to the riverboat's decades of service, including a period during World War II, with the operator describing ghostly figures and voices reported by staff and guests. The Eagle Theatre's reported troubles are attributed by the operator to its difficult construction history amid material and labor shortages during the Gold Rush, alongside 'doomed actors' the operator says still linger.
At the pub-crawl stops, the operator ties Fanny Ann's Saloon to the reported spirit of a miner's widow still pacing the floor, the B.F. Hastings Bank Building to reports of long-departed bankers, and the Vernon-Brannan House — marketed as 'Brannan Manor' — to the rumored lingering presence of Sam Brannan himself.
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 tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
A 1-hour, roughly 1-mile walking tour meeting nightly at Waterfront Park, 1240 Front St, across from the Old Sacramento riverfront. The route covers the Delta King, the Eagle Theatre, the California State Railroad Museum, and the Sacramento History Museum, pairing Gold Rush-era history with reported hauntings. Listed from about $26 per person.
A 2-hour, 21-and-up haunted pub crawl starting at Waterfront Park, 1240 Front St, visiting four stops: the Delta King, Fanny Ann's Saloon, the B.F. Hastings Bank Building, and the Vernon-Brannan House. ID required; food and drinks purchased separately at each stop.
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Featured stop on both the ghost tour and the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl; a Sacramento River riverboat converted to a hotel-theater-restaurant.
Featured stop on Shadows, Scandals & Secrets; California's first theater.
Featured stop on Shadows, Scandals & Secrets per the operator's Viator listing.
Featured stop on the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl; a Gold Rush-era Old Sacramento bank building.
Featured stop on the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl, marketed by the operator as 'Brannan Manor'; a former hotel of Sam Brannan, California's first millionaire.
Featured stop on Shadows, Scandals & Secrets. No independently verified corpus match was found for this listing.
Featured stop on the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl. No independently verified corpus match was found for this listing.
Featured stop; the operator's route includes the Capitol exterior and historic wing.
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