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Mystic's Original Award-Winning Ghost Tour Company, Meeting at Liberty Pole Square Since 2013
Liberty Pole Square (Holmes St & East Main St / Route 1), Mystic, CT 06355
Research updated September 2026
Age
Not specified by operator
Cost
$
$30 per person most months, $35 in October, per the operator's site.
Access
Wheelchair OK
A roughly 1-hour, 45-minute walking tour of under a mile through downtown Mystic, crossing the Mystic River Bascule Bridge. Meets at Liberty Pole Square.
Equipment
Photos OK
Liberty Pole Square, downtown Mystic · Mystic River Bascule Bridge · Whitehall Burial Ground
Seaside Shadows Haunted History Tours was founded in 2013 by historian and author Courtney McInvale, whose 2014 book Haunted Mystic underpins the company's research-driven approach. The company has won a USA Today Best of 2024 Ghost Tour award, a 2025 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice Award, and Best of New England and Best of Connecticut ghost-tour honors, and has since expanded to Westerly, Rhode Island.
The flagship Downtown Mystic Ghost Tour meets at Liberty Pole Square, a historic public square at the junction of Holmes Street and East Main Street (Route 1) in downtown Mystic, and covers under a mile on foot, crossing the Mystic River Bascule Bridge, over roughly 1 hour 45 minutes. A companion graveyard tour meets separately at Whitehall Burial Ground on Hendel Street. A separate, unaffiliated program in the same town, US Ghost Adventures Mystic, meets at the Mystic & Noank Library on Library St. and is run by a different national chain operator; the two should not be confused.
Sources
The operator's marketing describes the tour as covering "the true, gruesome and historic past of Mystic" alongside reported paranormal encounters at haunted downtown locations, crossing the Mystic River Bascule Bridge between both sides of the river. A companion tour departs from Whitehall Burial Ground for cemetery-specific stories.
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.
Media Appearances
A roughly 1-hour, 45-minute walking tour of under a mile through downtown Mystic, crossing the Mystic River Bascule Bridge, covering the true, gruesome, and historic past of Mystic alongside reported paranormal encounters at haunted locations along the route. Meets at Liberty Pole Square. $30 per person ($35 in October).
A companion tour meeting at Whitehall Burial Ground on Hendel Street in Mystic, covering the cemetery's history and reported activity.
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Route stop; the tour crosses the bridge between both sides of the Mystic River. No corroborating corpus entry found (also referenced, unattributed to any corpus page, on US Ghost Adventures' separate Mystic program).
Meeting point for the operator's companion graveyard tour, on Hendel Street in Mystic. No corroborating corpus entry found.
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