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Savannah Terrors: Historic District Ghost Walks, a Late-Night Tour, and a Boos-and-Booze Pub Crawl
Oglethorpe Square, 127 Abercorn St, Savannah, GA 31401
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages for the main ghost tour and late-night tour; 21+ for the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl
Cost
$$
Sinister Sins & Shadows: A Savannah Ghost Tour runs about $28.50 per person for the roughly 2-hour walk, per TripAdvisor's product listing; the operator's own site directs guests to book online for current pricing.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved historic-district sidewalks and squares in downtown Savannah, meeting at Oglethorpe Square near the Owens-Thomas House.
Equipment
Photos OK
Savannah Historic District · Oglethorpe Square
US Ghost Adventures runs its Savannah program under the brand Savannah Terrors, offering a main ghost-walk product, an extended late-night version, and a haunted pub crawl, all meeting at or near Oglethorpe Square, 127 Abercorn St, adjacent to the Owens-Thomas House.
Savannah's historic district dates to General James Oglethorpe's 1733 founding of the colony and grew as a strategic port city; the operator's marketing frames the district's documented 19th-century yellow fever epidemics, Civil War-era occupation, and the era's slavery-era history as backdrop for the reported hauntings covered on the tour route.
Sources
The operator's route narrative describes Colonial Park Cemetery as a site where Union soldiers under General Sherman allegedly altered gravestones during the Civil War, and reports sightings of yellow-fever-era apparitions bleeding from the eyes at nearby Oglethorpe Square. At the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, the operator attributes reported piano-playing and window-gazing to Eleanor 'Nelly' Gordon, the Girl Scouts founder's mother, who lived and reportedly died in the home.
The Owens-Thomas House is described in the operator's marketing through its documented history of slavery, an 1820 fire, the Civil War, and yellow fever, with restorationist James Arthur Williams's reported encounter with an apparition there. Foley House Inn is tied by the operator to a story about a body concealed within the building's walls; Kehoe House is described as haunted by the spirits of children who died there; and 17Hundred90 Inn and Restaurant is cited by the operator as a popular ghost-hunting destination associated with the spirit of a woman named Anne Powell. Savannah Theatre, one of the country's oldest, is described by the operator as harboring an unnamed presence that unsettles performers.
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.
The main Savannah Terrors walking tour, meeting at Oglethorpe Square, 127 Abercorn St, near the Owens-Thomas House. Covers Colonial Park Cemetery, the Juliette Gordon Low Birthplace, and other historic-district landmarks. About 2 hours, small-group format capped around 20 guests, roughly $28.50 per person. Held daily, rain or shine.
An extended late-night version of the Savannah Terrors walking tour, described by the operator as journeying deeper into the historic district after dark.
Also marketed as the Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl, a roughly 2-hour crawl through Savannah's historic-district bars, paired with ghost stories.
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Featured stop; operator's marketing ties Civil War-era Union troop activity to the site.
Featured stop, identified by USGA as the site where Juliette Gordon Low's mother Nelly Gordon reportedly still plays piano; matches the Girl Scouts founder's childhood home on East Oglethorpe Avenue (distinct from the Andrew Low House, where Juliette Gordon Low founded the Girl Scouts as an adult).
Featured stop; operator's marketing references the site's history including slavery, an 1820 fire, the Civil War, and yellow fever.
Stop referenced in the operator's route narrative near Chippewa Square.
Stop referenced in the operator's route narrative, now operating as a bed and breakfast.
Stop referenced in the operator's route narrative as a ghost-hunter destination.
Stop referenced in the operator's route narrative as one of the oldest theaters in the country.
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