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San Francisco Ghosts: A Nob Hill and Union Square Walk Through Gold Rush Greed and Earthquake-Era Hauntings
333 Post St, San Francisco, CA 94108
Research updated August 2026
Age
All ages for the ghost tours; 21+ for the pub crawl
Cost
$
San Francisco Ghosts Gold and Ghouls Tour from about $30 per person; San Francisco Ghosts Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl also from about $30. Pricing per Viator listings of the operator's tours.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of about 1 mile through San Francisco's Nob Hill and Union Square districts.
Equipment
Photos OK
Nob Hill Historic District · 1906 San Francisco Earthquake and Fire · Barbary Coast (Gold Rush-era waterfront district)
US Ghost Adventures operates its San Francisco program under the on-page brand 'San Francisco Ghosts.' The flagship product, San Francisco Ghost Tours: Gold and Ghouls, is a roughly 1-hour, 1-mile walking tour through the Nob Hill and Union Square districts, independently listed and reviewed on TripAdvisor ('San Francisco Ghosts By US Ghost Adventures') and Viator, corroborating that the tour actually operates. The company also runs Gold, Greed, and Gunslingers: Forging San Francisco, a separate walk through the historic Barbary Coast waterfront district; the Vintage Murder and Mystery True Crime Tour of San Francisco, covering historic scandals; and the 21-and-up San Francisco Ghosts Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl.
The Nob Hill route covers the Fairmont Hotel and the Pacific-Union Club, both among the small number of Nob Hill buildings to survive the 1906 San Francisco earthquake and fire, which killed more than 3,000 people.
Sources
The operator describes the Fairmont Hotel as a magnet for displaced spirits after surviving the 1906 earthquake, with staff and guests reporting encounters attributed to visiting ghosts. The Pacific-Union Club, an exclusive Nob Hill mansion that also survived the earthquake and fire, is described as carrying reports the operator calls more shocking than the disaster itself. The Sutter Building is framed around reports from custodial staff and security guards. The route also references the reported apparition of firefighter Dennis T. Sullivan, badly injured battling the 1906 fire, and a reported 'Wandering Bride' apparition in 19th-century wedding dress.
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.
Notable Entities
US Ghost Adventures' main San Francisco walking tour, branded 'San Francisco Ghosts,' through the Nob Hill and Union Square districts. Covers the Fairmont Hotel and the Pacific-Union Club, both among the few Nob Hill buildings to survive the 1906 earthquake and fire. About 1 hour, roughly 1 mile. Runs nightly, year-round, starting around 8 PM.
A walking tour through the historic Barbary Coast district, San Francisco's notorious Gold Rush-era waterfront zone, pairing documented vice-district history with reported hauntings.
An investigative true-crime walking tour covering historic San Francisco scandals and infamous figures, including the Roscoe 'Fatty' Arbuckle case.
A 21-and-up haunted pub crawl through San Francisco bars, pairing ghost stories with drink stops. From about $30 per person.
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Featured stop in the operator's haunted-locations preview; one of the few Nob Hill buildings to survive the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Featured stop; also survived the 1906 earthquake and fire.
Named stop; operator describes it as once the largest medical building in the world. No corpus match found.
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