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Concord Ghosts Presents A Sleepy Hollow Requiem Walking Tour
Concord, MA 01742
Research updated August 2026
Age
All ages
Cost
$$
Priced from $32 per person per the operator's GetYourGuide listing; simply bring an ID, no printed ticket required.
Access
Limited Access
About 1 mile of downtown Concord sidewalks and historic district pathways.
Equipment
Photos OK
Concord Town Center Historic District · Battle Road / Old North Bridge area · Concord's literary history (Hawthorne, Emerson, Thoreau, Alcott)
Concord Ghosts is a city-specific program of US Ghost Adventures (USGA), a multi-city ghost-tour chain. The Concord tour, marketed as A Sleepy Hollow Requiem: Concord Ghost Tour, meets outside the Concord Town Lot and runs nightly year-round as a roughly 1-mile, 1-hour walking tour of Concord's historic district. Independent listings for the tour appear on Tripadvisor and the Massachusetts Office of Travel & Tourism's visitma.com business directory, corroborating that the program operates in Concord.
The route is built around real Concord landmarks: Concord's Colonial Inn (an 18th-century inn on Monument Square used as a makeshift hospital during the Revolutionary War era), the Old Hill Burying Ground (one of Concord's oldest cemeteries), and the Old Manse (the historic house near the Old North Bridge associated with Ralph Waldo Emerson and Nathaniel Hawthorne). The operator does not enter private buildings; guests view exteriors from the street.
Sources
According to the operator, Concord's Colonial Inn holds the spirits of Revolutionary War-era medics and soldiers from its time as a makeshift hospital and morgue. At the Old Hill Burying Ground, the operator describes a recurring figure said to unsettle visitors who approach at dusk. At the Old Manse, the operator's narrative centers on the ghosts of household staff and, by the operator's own account, an enslaved person held by an early clergyman resident of the house -- material the operator pairs with reports tracing back to Nathaniel Hawthorne's own writings about the property.
All of this reflects the tour operator's own marketing and storytelling, not documented history independently verified for this listing. It is included here strictly as a description of the tour's advertised content, not as an endorsement of any specific haunting claim. Given the described slaveholding history at the Old Manse, this material is treated with the corpus's dignity-first standard: history-first framing, no invented paranormal embellishment beyond what the operator states.
A 1-hour, roughly 1-mile walking tour meeting outside the Concord Town Lot, Concord, MA 01742. The route covers Concord's Colonial Inn, the Old Hill Burying Ground, and the Old Manse, framed around the town's Revolutionary War dead and literary ghost lore. Runs nightly; an extended add-on tour to additional haunted locations is offered on request.
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Featured stop on A Sleepy Hollow Requiem: Concord Ghost Tour; the operator frames it around its use as a makeshift Revolutionary War hospital and morgue.
Stop on the tour; operator material describes a recurring figure among the graves. Not to be confused with the unrelated 'Old Hill Cemetery' in Newburyport, MA, which is a different site already in the corpus.
Stop on the tour; operator material covers the house's literary history (Hawthorne, Emerson) alongside its ghost lore.
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