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Asbury Park Ghosts' Boardwalk Walk Past the Berkeley Hotel, Paramount Theatre, and the SS Morro Castle Memorial
1401 Ocean Ave, Asbury Park, NJ 07712
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Pricing set by US Ghost Adventures and shown at booking; check usghostadventures.com/asbury-park-ghost-tour for current rates. Ask about the bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations.
Access
Wheelchair OK
About one mile of paved Asbury Park boardwalk and downtown sidewalks, starting at the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel.
Equipment
Photos OK
Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel (1920s) · Asbury Park Convention Hall and Paramount Theatre (1929-1930) · SS Morro Castle disaster (1934)
US Ghost Adventures runs guided ghost walks in more than 250 U.S. cities; in Asbury Park the program is marketed as Asbury Park Ghosts, listed on Tripadvisor as the Asbury Ghost Tour and described there as covering 'the eerie Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel' through 'the haunting SS Morro Castle Disaster Memorial.' The Shoreline Shadows tour meets at the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, 1401 Ocean Avenue, and covers about one mile of Asbury Park's boardwalk and downtown in roughly an hour, with an extended bonus tour also offered.
The route's stops are documented Asbury Park landmarks. The Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, an oceanfront hotel dating to the 1920s, has hosted generations of Jersey Shore visitors. The Asbury Park Convention Hall and Paramount Theatre, a connected 1929-1930 complex designed by Warren and Wetmore, remains an active event and performance venue on the boardwalk. The SS Morro Castle Disaster Memorial marks the 1934 fire aboard the cruise ship SS Morro Castle, which killed 137 passengers and crew as the burning vessel drifted ashore near Asbury Park's beach — a documented maritime disaster, not operator invention.
US Ghost Adventures guides are identifiable by branded shirts and lanterns; tours run nightly, rain or shine, year-round.
Sources
At the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, the operator ties reported apparitions in navy coats, disorienting stairways, and unmarked doors to the hotel's history hosting servicemembers during wartime. At the Paramount Theatre, the operator recounts the ghosts of two young girls said to linger on the balcony alongside a heartbroken actor whose 'final bow was a bit too real.' At the SS Morro Castle Disaster Memorial, the operator ties reported restless spirits along the shoreline to the real 1934 fire that killed the ship's captain and dozens of passengers and crew just offshore.
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 one-hour, one-mile nightly walking tour meeting at the front of the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, 1401 Ocean Ave. The route covers the Berkeley Oceanfront Hotel, the Paramount Theatre, and the SS Morro Castle Disaster Memorial. An extended bonus tour to additional haunted locations is also offered.
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Tour meeting point and featured stop, tied by the operator to wartime-era history.
Featured stop, tied by the operator to reported child apparitions on the balcony.
Featured stop, tied by the operator to the 1934 shipboard fire disaster.
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