Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire (1911) · Washington Square Park
Ghost City Tours operates ghost walking tours in dozens of U.S. cities. In Greenwich Village, part of Manhattan, the company runs two separately ticketed products, both beginning near Washington Square Park: Whispers of the Village, an all-ages walk covering the park's history as a former potter's field and the neighborhood's literary past, and The Wicked Village Tour, an adults-only walk that stands at the site of the March 25, 1911 Triangle Shirtwaist Factory fire — a documented disaster in which 146 garment workers, most of them immigrant women and girls, died after factory doors were found locked and a fire escape collapsed — before continuing to the potter's field beneath Washington Square Park and a West 10th Street townhouse the operator calls the House of Death.
Neither product page discloses a specific meeting address; both state the exact location is "provided at booking." The operator separately maintains a short sitewide directory of 4 places it describes as haunted in Greenwich Village — 14 West 10th Street, Cherry Lane Theatre, Electric Lady Studios, and Washington Square Park — and the individual tour pages narrate visits to three of these same landmarks directly in their own route descriptions.
Both Greenwich Village products run nightly, rain or shine, and cover roughly 1.1 miles of neighborhood walking.
Sources
- https://ghostcitytours.com/greenwich-village/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/greenwich-village/whispers-village-ghost-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/greenwich-village/wicked-village-tour/
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsFeelings of Being Watched
The Wicked Village Tour's central stop is the Brown Building, the historic Triangle Shirtwaist Factory site, where the operator states the tour recounts the March 1911 fire and "stands where it happened" rather than relying on a plaque. The tour continues to Washington Square Park, which the operator describes as built over a colonial-era potter's field holding an estimated 20,000 burials, and to the West 10th Street house it calls the House of Death, which the operator ties to multiple reported deaths over the building's history. Whispers of the Village covers the same Washington Square Park from a family-friendly angle, alongside the park's centuries-old hanging elm and the streets where Edgar Allan Poe lived while in New York.
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 paranormal claim.
