Downtown Portsmouth Historic District · Point of Graves Burial Ground (dating to the late 1600s) · Portsmouth Music Hall (19th-century theater)
US Ghost Adventures runs guided ghost walks in more than 250 U.S. cities; in Portsmouth, New Hampshire, the operator's own tour copy uses both 'Portsmouth Ghosts' and 'Portsmouth Haunts' for the local program. The flagship walking tour meets outside the Langdon House at 143 Pleasant St and covers about one mile of downtown Portsmouth in roughly an hour, with an extended bonus tour also offered.
The route's three anchor stops are documented Portsmouth landmarks. The Sheafe Street Inn is a historic building with a past as a boarding house catering to sailors. Point of Graves Burial Ground, dating to the late 1600s, is among New Hampshire's oldest common burial grounds and is also covered on the unrelated, independently operated New England Curiosities tours. The Portsmouth Music Hall, a 19th-century theater, sits on ground the operator describes as a former almshouse and prison site. Third-party aggregator Wanderlog lists 'Portsmouth Haunts: Ghost Tours and Haunted Pub Crawls' at this same Langdon House address with its own review record, corroborating that the program operates as a local attraction.
US Ghost Adventures guides are identifiable by branded shirts and lanterns; tours run nightly, rain or shine, year-round.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/portsmouth-ghost-tour/
- https://wanderlog.com/place/details/14610780/portsmouth-haunts-ghost-tours-and-haunted-pub-crawls
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At the Sheafe Street Inn, the operator describes reported mischief attributed to a sailor or former guest, including kitchen utensils said to go missing and a figure locals call 'the Horseman.' At Point of Graves Burial Ground, the operator recounts the Vaughan family tomb and a reported hidden crypt, alongside general folklore tied to the burial ground's centuries of interments.
At the Portsmouth Music Hall, the operator's account centers on the site's earlier history as an almshouse intended to shelter the vulnerable and later a prison, framing reported figures and shadows in the building's corridors as tied to that institutional past. The operator's broader Portsmouth copy also references the John Paul Jones House, the Chase House, Hotel Portsmouth, and the Old South Street Cemetery (where the operator recounts the 1768 hanging of Ruth Blay) as additional haunted locations, but frames these as background material rather than the guided route's three named stops.
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.
