Downtown Las Vegas / Fremont Street area · The Mob Museum (former federal courthouse)
Ghost City Tours, which has operated since 2012, runs ghost walking tours in dozens of U.S. cities, including Las Vegas. In Las Vegas the company runs two separately ticketed products: the family-friendly Ghosts of Las Vegas Tour, open to all ages, and the Shadows of Sin City Ghost Tour, which the operator markets as Las Vegas' only adults-only ghost tour and sets a minimum age of 16, with one stop inside a downtown casino that requires guests to be 21 to enter.
Both tours are built around downtown Las Vegas' mob-era history rather than the Strip, walking guests past Binion's Hotel and Casino, the Cortez Hotel & Casino, and Las Vegas Academy of Arts, with the Mob Museum — a former federal courthouse — as a shared meeting-point landmark. The company's own site states its guides narrate from public sidewalks and exteriors rather than accessing private interiors, with the Shadows of Sin City Ghost Tour's casino stop as the one exception.
Meeting points differ by tour: the Ghosts of Las Vegas Tour starts at 300 Stewart Ave, and the Shadows of Sin City Ghost Tour starts at 206 North 3rd Street, both described by the operator as across the street from the Mob Museum.
Sources
- https://ghostcitytours.com/las-vegas/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/las-vegas/ghost-las-vegas-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/las-vegas/shadow-sin-city-ghost-tour/
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsFeelings of Being Watched
Both Las Vegas tours draw from the same cluster of the operator's stated material, framed differently by tour. The Ghosts of Las Vegas Tour opens at the Mob Museum, which the operator describes as a former federal courthouse where mobster spirits still roam the halls, and continues to Binion's Hotel and Casino, where the operator reports phantom poker players and the haunted legacy of old Las Vegas. The Shadows of Sin City Ghost Tour covers the same four stops with a different emphasis, opening at Binion's and framed by the operator around the mob's grip on early Las Vegas and the bloodshed it says paved the city's rise.
Both tours continue to Las Vegas Academy of Arts, which the operator's material describes as haunted by the spirit of a teacher referred to as Mr. Petre along with spirits of child laborers from the Industrial Revolution era, and to the Cortez Hotel & Casino, which the operator ties to Bugsy Siegel's operations and describes shadowy figures in 1940s attire and whispered conversations about illegal deals.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history verified independently for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
