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Boulder Ghosts: Bones, Burials, & Ballads Walking Tour
700 Walnut St, Boulder, CO 80302
Research updated August 2026
Age
All ages
Cost
$$
Verify current pricing on the operator's booking page; a bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations and EMF-meter rentals are also offered.
Access
Wheelchair OK
About 1 mile of paved downtown Boulder sidewalks near Pearl Street, starting at 700 Walnut St.
Equipment
Photos OK
Boulder Gold Rush-era founding, 1858 · Pearl Street Historic District · Hotel Boulderado, opened 1909
Boulder was founded in 1858 during the Colorado Gold Rush, and its downtown Pearl Street corridor retains much of its 19th- and early-20th-century architecture. The Arnett-Fullen House, an 1877 Gothic Revival home, is a well-known local landmark sometimes called the 'gingerbread house' for its ornamentation. Hotel Boulderado opened in 1909 as the city's first luxury hotel. The Boulder Theater, built in 1906 and rebuilt in its current Art Deco form in 1936, remains an active performance venue.
US Ghost Adventures is a multi-city ghost-walk operator described on its own materials as USMC disabled-combat-veteran-owned. Independent listings for the Boulder program appear on TripAdvisor, describing the same route and named stops as the operator's own site.
Sources
At the Arnett-Fullen House, the operator describes a ghostly little girl reported to linger near the property. At Hotel Boulderado, the operator recounts a couple whose romantic stay ended in tragedy, and a music teacher the operator names as Miss 'Honey Bee,' said to still be heard on the hotel's fifth floor. At the Boulder Theater, the operator describes a former manager, named by the operator as George Paper, whose fondness for the stage is said to continue in reports of flickering lights and other mischief.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history verified independently 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 of downtown Boulder near the Pearl Street Mall, meeting at 700 Walnut St. The one-hour, roughly one-mile route covers the Arnett-Fullen House, Hotel Boulderado, and the Boulder Theater. Guests need only bring ID; no printed ticket is required. A bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations is available by request.
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Named stop; Boulder's Gothic Revival 'gingerbread house,' known for its appearance in Marlys Millhiser's novel The Mirror. The operator ties it to a reported ghostly little girl. No confirmed corpus match found for this venue (distinct from the Arnett-Montgomery House).
Named stop; Boulder's first luxury hotel, which the operator ties to reported guest-related hauntings.
Named stop; the operator ties the venue to a former manager the operator names as George Paper.
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