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Wilmington Ghosts: Wraiths & Wicked Whispers Walking Tour Past Thalian Hall and the Cotton Exchange, Plus a Haunted Pub Crawl
310 Chestnut St, Wilmington, NC 28401
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages for the Wraiths & Wicked Whispers Wilmington Ghost Tour; 21+ for Wilmington's Spirits & Spirits Pub Crawl
Cost
$
Wraiths & Wicked Whispers: Wilmington Ghost Tour from $26 per adult, a roughly 1-mile, 1-hour walking tour. Wilmington's Spirits & Spirits Pub Crawl priced separately; drinks purchased separately. Pricing per the operator's booking pages and reseller listings.
Access
Wheelchair OK
A roughly 1-mile outdoor walking tour of historic downtown Wilmington, opening outside Historic Thalian Hall.
Equipment
Photos OK
Downtown Wilmington Historic District · Thalian Hall (1858) · The Cotton Exchange (riverfront commercial district)
US Ghost Adventures markets its Wilmington, NC program as Wilmington Ghosts, launching in the city in 2024 per local press coverage. The flagship Wraiths & Wicked Whispers: Wilmington Ghost Tour meets outside Historic Thalian Hall at 310 Chestnut St and covers roughly a mile of downtown historic-district sidewalks in about an hour, drawing on the port city's colonial, maritime, and Civil War-era history.
The company separately runs Wilmington's Spirits & Spirits Pub Crawl, a 21-and-up route through downtown taverns. The flagship tour is listed independently on TripAdvisor with visitor reviews corroborating regular operation.
Sources
The operator's route material frames Thalian Hall, a mid-19th-century theater, as a stop with reported backstage activity tied to its long performance history, and the Cotton Exchange, a former cotton-trading complex converted to shops along the riverfront, as carrying reports tied to its commercial and maritime past. The tour's marketing broadly references Wilmington's history of pirates, wartime conflict, and civil unrest as thematic backdrop for the route, without attributing specific claims to identified individuals.
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.
A nightly, all-ages, roughly 1-mile walking tour meeting outside Historic Thalian Hall, 310 Chestnut St. Guides wear US Ghost Adventures shirts and carry lanterns; the route covers Thalian Hall, the Cotton Exchange, Water Street, and the Wilmington Riverwalk. Tickets from $26 per adult. Runs nightly, rain or shine, year-round.
A 21-and-up haunted pub crawl through downtown Wilmington's historic taverns, combining ghost stories with stops at haunted bars; drinks purchased separately.
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Featured stop on the Wraiths & Wicked Whispers Wilmington Ghost Tour.
Featured stop on the Wraiths & Wicked Whispers Wilmington Ghost Tour.
Named stop on the Wraiths & Wicked Whispers Wilmington Ghost Tour, along Water Street.
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