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An annual walking-and-bus ghost tour run by a Salem-area paranormal society, departing from The Engine House in Pennsville and built from the group's own years of local investigations.
106 N Hook Road, Pennsville, NJ 08070
Research updated June 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$
Approximately $37 per person for the public tour; a wristband earns a discount at The Engine House afterward. Check the operator's page for current dates and pricing.
Access
Limited Access
Mixed walking and bus tour visiting historic sites, cemeteries, and buildings; some uneven ground and stairs at stops.
Equipment
Photos OK
Run by a Salem-area paranormal investigation group (JUMPS) · Built from the group's own documented local investigations · Covers some of the oldest settled territory in New Jersey
Salem County is one of the oldest settled parts of New Jersey, with a colonial-era courthouse, eighteenth-century houses, and church burial grounds that predate the Revolution. The Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society, a local investigation group, has spent years documenting and investigating sites across the county. Its public ghost tour grew out of that work.
The tour departs from The Engine House in Pennsville, at 106 N Hook Road. Listed public tours run in the evening, roughly 7 p.m. to 10 p.m., and cost about $37 per person; a wristband from the tour earns a discount at The Engine House afterward. Demand is real — listed October dates have sold out in advance — and the group also runs private tours through an online registration form and a seasonal 'Spirits in Bloom' bus tour.
The stops are drawn from JUMPS's own investigation archive rather than invented for the tour. Documented sites in that archive include the Old Salem County Courthouse, Johnson Hall, Barrett's Plantation, and various Salem-area cemeteries and historic residences. The emphasis is on the history of each site and the group's investigation findings, which sets the tour apart from purely theatrical haunted attractions.
The tour is one of a small number of organized ghost tours operating in the southern part of the state and is regularly included in regional roundups of New Jersey ghost tours.
Sources
The Salem County Ghost Tour is, in effect, a guided walk through the cases the Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society has built over its years of local work. Each stop comes with the site's documented history and the group's own reported findings — the kinds of accounts paranormal investigators describe: cold spots, unexplained sounds, recorded responses, and figures reported by visitors and staff.
The lineup draws on Salem County's age. The Old Salem County Courthouse is among the oldest active courthouses in the country; Johnson Hall and Barrett's Plantation are eighteenth-century buildings; the route also takes in old burial grounds. The tour's framing keeps the history in front of the folklore, with the investigation accounts presented as what the group reports rather than as proven fact.
Because the route and the specific sites can change from year to year, the phenomena described on any given tour depend on that season's lineup. The operator's page and regional ghost-tour roundups are the current sources for dates, stops, and what investigators have reported at each location.
A roughly three-hour evening tour (7 p.m. to 10 p.m. on listed dates) led by the Jersey Unique Minds Paranormal Society, departing from The Engine House in Pennsville. The route draws on the group's own investigations across Salem County — sites such as the Old Salem County Courthouse, Johnson Hall, area cemeteries, and other documented local locations. A separate seasonal 'Spirits in Bloom' bus tour is also offered.
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