Downtown Orlando historic core · Orange County Regional History Center (former 1927 Orange County Courthouse) · Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando's oldest operating cemetery
American Ghost Adventures describes itself as locally owned and operated, with founder and lead investigator Ting Rappa having pursued paranormal research for more than two decades. The company markets itself as Central Florida's longest-running ghost tour agency and states it has been consistently ranked among TripAdvisor's top 10 ghost tours in the world, with more than 2,000 five-star reviews. Its guides and cases have appeared on Travel Channel and Hulu paranormal programming, including The Dead Files, Haunted Hospitals, Paranormal 911, Mysteries at the Museum, and Repossessed.
The Orlando program is the company's flagship, running eight separate products through the city's historic downtown core: a 2-Hour Investigation and Epic 4-Hour Investigation, a True Crimes Investigation, a Haunted Pub Crawl, a Walking History Tour, an Orlando Art Walks daytime tour, plus two products at fixed landmarks: a Museum Investigation at the Orange County Regional History Center (the former 1927 Orange County Courthouse) and a Cemetery Investigation at Greenwood Cemetery, Orlando's oldest operating burial ground.
Orlando's downtown ghost-tour market includes at least two other independently operated companies: US Ghost Adventures, a national multi-city chain that runs its own Orlando program (branded Orlando Haunts) meeting at the Convergence Sculpture on N Magnolia Avenue, and AmeriGhost Tours, a separate four-city chain whose Orlando tour meets near N Magnolia Avenue and E Central Boulevard. American Ghost Adventures is independently owned, books through its own website and FareHarbor account, and carries no branding tie to either company.
Sources
- https://www.americanghostadventures.com/orlando.htm
- https://www.clickorlando.com/news/2012/11/01/tour-former-orlando-brothel-hosts-3-spirits/
- https://mynews13.com/fl/orlando/florida-on-a-tankful/2025/04/16/american-ghost-adventures-show-guests-how-to-uncover-the-paranormal-in-central-florida
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The operator markets its investigations as research-driven rather than staged, stating guests may encounter real-life shadow figures, moving objects, or other unexplained activity using provided paranormal equipment inside "some of the most haunted buildings in Downtown Orlando." The company's own site does not name most of the specific stops on its downtown walking routes beyond its two fixed-venue products.
At the Museum Investigation, guests investigate inside the Orange County Regional History Center, the former 1927 Orange County Courthouse, alongside its historical artifacts. At the Cemetery Investigation, founder Ting Rappa and her team lead guests through Greenwood Cemetery, described in a 2025 Spectrum News feature as a favorite location for the company's paranormal investigations, including in the cemetery's children's section.
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.
Media Appearances
- The Dead Files (Travel Channel)
- Repossessed (Hulu)
- Haunted Hospitals (Travel Channel)
- Paranormal 911 (Travel Channel)
- Mysteries at the Museum (Travel Channel)
- Spectrum News 13
- Click Orlando