Boston Downtown Historic District · Freedom Trail vicinity
Ghosts & Gravestones is presented by Historic Tours of America, the same company behind Old Town Trolley Tours, Ghost Town Trolley, and related branded attractions in multiple U.S. cities. In Boston, the brand runs two distinct products rather than one tour. The Ghosts & Gravestones Tour is a 90-minute trolley tour departing from the Marriott Long Wharf Hotel; it is guided by a costumed gravedigger character and rotates between two of three historic downtown burying grounds — Copp's Hill, Granary, and King's Chapel — on each run. The Ghosts & Gravestones Nightwalk is a separate 90-minute walking-only tour departing from the Boston Massacre Memorial Site at the Old State House, covering roughly one mile of downtown on foot.
Both products are rated PG-13 by the operator and are booked separately through the Ghosts & Gravestones Boston ticketing site. Old Town Trolley Tours of Boston, a related but distinct sightseeing product from the same parent company, also offers day-and-night package tickets that bundle general trolley sightseeing with the Ghosts & Gravestones Trolley Tour.
Sources
- https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston
- https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/ghost-tour-tickets
- https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/ghost-walking-tour-tickets
- https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/haunted-guide
- https://www.ghostsandgravestones.com/boston/ghost-tour-trolley-package
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsResidual Hauntings
The Ghosts & Gravestones Trolley Tour's own page describes King's Chapel Burying Ground, the oldest burying ground in downtown Boston, as home to a charnel house of disturbed remains and a 19th-century black-market body-trading scandal the operator attributes to a man named Ephraim Littlefield, plus a reported haunting tied to the Strangers Tomb. The tour also narrates the streets where the Boston Strangler is said to have prowled and recounts stories the operator describes as the Omni Parker House's more unusual long-term guests. The Nightwalk covers the same Omni Parker House alongside the historical 1849 murder of George Parkman by Harvard professor John White Webster and a reported haunting tied to a cursed ship's figurehead from the Maritana.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, describing what each tour covers rather than an independently verified account of any location's history.
