Downtown Fort Myers Historic District · Operated by US Ghost Adventures under the Fort Myers Ghosts brand
US Ghost Adventures is a national operator of city ghost-walking tours; its Fort Myers program markets under the Fort Myers Ghosts name. The tour meets nightly at the Fire Dance Sculpture, 2000 W First St., and covers roughly a mile of downtown sidewalks in about an hour, staying entirely outdoors and never entering privately-owned buildings.
The route draws on documented downtown Fort Myers history, including the city's founding-era Gonzalez family (associated with The Veranda), the early-20th-century construction boom along McGregor Boulevard, and Lee County's first death-penalty trial, held at the Old Lee County Courthouse. The operator's site also references the Koreshan Unity settlement and reported human remains uncovered during 1913 downtown construction as background to the area's reputation.
Independent listings for the tour appear on TripAdvisor and travel-review sites, corroborating that the program operates nightly under the Fort Myers Ghosts brand.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/fort-myers-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g34230-d27993825-Ft_Myers_Ghosts_Tour_by_US_Ghost_Adventures-Fort_Myers_Florida.html
ApparitionsUnexplained FootstepsFlickering Lights
The core route covers three stops framed by the operator as Fort Myers's most haunted: The Veranda, where staff report footsteps and wine lists flying off tables, attributed to the Gonzalez family who once owned the building; the Old Lee County Courthouse, where the operator ties apparitions in the upper windows to two men executed after the county's first death-sentence trial; and the First National Bank Building, where the operator attributes footsteps to a former owner.
The operator's extended-tour material covers Ford's Garage, where flickering lights and blackouts are attributed to a former staff member (with rumored Al Capone-era ties), Burroughs Home & Gardens, where a former resident is said to still occupy the mansion, and Fort Myers City Hall, tied to the operator's account of 19th-century killer Edgar J. Watson. The operator's broader material also references reported drownings along the Caloosahatchee River near Centennial Park and the historic Koreshan Unity settlement.
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 tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
