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A nightly, year-round US Ghost Adventures walking tour through downtown Fargo, weaving documented history with hauntings at the 400 Building, the Fargo Theatre, and Broadway Square.
400 Broadway North, Fargo, ND 58102
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Ticketed walking tour; see the operator's site for current pricing. Advance reservations required.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Roughly one mile of downtown sidewalks; the tour stays entirely outdoors.
Equipment
Photos OK
Downtown Fargo heritage and ghost walking tour · Operated by US Ghost Adventures · Listed on the official North Dakota tourism guide · Nightly, year-round, roughly one mile and one hour
The 'Forgotten Frost & Forbidden Footsteps of Fargo Ghost Tour' is run by US Ghost Adventures, a national operator of city ghost-walking tours. The Fargo tour is listed on the official North Dakota Travel and Tourism guide and on the company's own site, both of which describe it as a downtown walking experience that pairs the city's documented past with its haunting reputation.
The route covers roughly one mile and takes about an hour. According to the operator and the tourism listing, the meeting point is 400 Broadway in downtown Fargo, and the tour operates nightly and year-round with advance reservations. The walk stays entirely outdoors.
The stops described in the listings include the 400 Building Apartments, an early-twentieth-century downtown structure; the Fargo Theatre, the restored 1926 Art Deco movie palace on Broadway; and Broadway Square, a public gathering space in the heart of the commercial district. The guides use these locations to tell the area's history of early commerce, nightlife, and the events behind its ghost stories.
Because the tour is a third-party storytelling product rather than a single fixed site, its value is in the curated route and narration. The individual buildings on the route, such as the Fargo Theatre, have their own separate histories and access.
Sources
The tour is built around the haunting reputations of its individual stops. The 400 Building Apartments, described in the listings as an early-twentieth-century structure, is associated with long-standing reports of unexplained activity by residents and visitors. The Fargo Theatre, a 1926 Art Deco landmark, carries decades of backstage and after-hours lore, including reports of children seen near the lobby and footsteps near the projection booth.
Broadway Square and the surrounding blocks anchor the tour's stories about Fargo's early commercial and nightlife district, where the guides connect documented history to the area's ghost accounts. Because the tour is narrated and the route is fixed, the specific stories told can vary by guide and season.
None of the reported phenomena is independently verified. The tour presents them as local lore attached to real buildings, and the company frames the experience as history-forward storytelling rather than a paranormal investigation. Visitors interested in the underlying buildings can also visit several of them, such as the Fargo Theatre, on their own.
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A guided walking tour of about one hour over roughly one mile of downtown Fargo, run by US Ghost Adventures. The route pairs documented local history with haunting accounts at stops including the 400 Building Apartments, the Fargo Theatre, and Broadway Square. The tour stays outdoors; advance reservations are required and the meeting point is 400 Broadway.
Every HauntBound history is researched from documented sources. We clearly separate verified historical fact from paranormal folklore.
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