Uptown Charlotte Historic District · Old Settlers' Cemetery (1776-1884)
US Ghost Adventures runs city-branded ghost walks in dozens of U.S. cities under local names; in Charlotte the program is marketed as Queen City Ghosts, with the flagship walk sold under the title Curses, Crimson, & Corsets: Charlotte's Candlelight Ghost Tours. The tour meets at The Dunhill Hotel and covers about a mile of uptown Charlotte on foot over roughly an hour, without entering privately owned buildings.
The route draws on Charlotte's 18th- and 19th-century civic history, touching on the Art Deco-era Barringer Hotel, the Queen Anne-style McNinch House, Old Settlers' Cemetery (the city's oldest burial ground, operating 1776-1884), and the historic Carolina Theatre. The operator's own site states its stories are drawn from historic reports, local folklore, and recorded sources.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/charlotte-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g49022-d21052010-Reviews-Queen_City_Ghosts_By_US_Ghost_Adventures-Charlotte_North_Carolina.html
- https://www.viator.com/tours/Charlotte/Queen-City-Ghost-Tour/d5284-272030P1
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The operator's material centers on Old Settlers' Cemetery, which it ties to the reported spirit of a historical figure it names as having killed his wife and been seen playing pranks around town; McNinch House Restaurant, a former home the operator connects to a reported former headmistress; the Barringer Hotel, a former luxury hotel the operator ties to an unsolved-murder narrative; the Carolina Theatre, where the operator describes a resident ghost nicknamed "Fred"; and The Dunhill Hotel, the tour's meeting point, which the operator connects to an unidentified man found in the building decades ago.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative 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, including the named-perpetrator claim tied to Old Settlers' Cemetery.
