Downtown Macon Historic District · Mercer University campus · Operated by US Ghost Adventures under the Macon Ghosts brand
US Ghost Adventures is a national operator of city ghost-walking tours; its Macon program markets under the Macon Ghosts name. The tour meets nightly outside the Grand Opera House, 651 Mulberry St., and covers roughly a mile of downtown Macon sidewalks in about an hour, staying entirely outdoors and never entering privately-owned buildings.
The route draws on documented Macon history, including the 1859-built Hay House mansion, and on the well-documented case of Anjette Lyles, a Macon restaurateur convicted of poisoning four family members in the early 1950s, whose former restaurant site now houses La Bella Morelia. An extended segment covers the Mercer University campus, including Boone Hall.
Independent listings for the tour appear on Explore Georgia's official tourism site and Trustpilot, corroborating that the program operates nightly.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/macon-ghost-tour/
- https://exploregeorgia.org/macon/entertainment/tours/macon-ghosts
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsPlayful Poltergeist Activity
The core route covers the Hay House, an 1859 mansion where the operator attributes door-slamming and other activity to generations of former residents; Ocmulgee Brewpub, where the operator names a playful resident spirit, 'Vincent'; and the Douglass Theatre, where the operator ties a high staff-turnover reputation to former owner Charles Douglass.
The extended-tour segment covers the Grand Opera House, the tour's meeting point, where the operator describes a specter watching from the mezzanine; the Mercer University campus, including Boone Hall, the Kappa Alpha fraternity house, and the School of Law building, tied to unspecified student and faculty-era stories; and La Bella Morelia, built on the site of the former restaurant of Anjette Lyles, a Macon woman documented to have been convicted of poisoning four family members in the early 1950s.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing beyond the separately documented Anjette Lyles case; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific paranormal claim.
Notable Entities
Anjette Lyles (documented Macon restaurateur convicted of poisoning four family members, early 1950s)
