Downtown Buffalo Historic District · Old Erie County Hall · Ellicott Square Building
US Ghost Adventures, a multi-city ghost-tour chain, operates its Buffalo program under the local consumer brand 'Buffalo Ghosts,' with the specific tour marketed as the Buried Below Buffalo Ghost Tour. Tours meet nightly at Five Flags Park, 5 N Division St, and cover about a mile of downtown Buffalo on foot over roughly an hour.
The route covers the Old Erie County Hall, a 19th-century civic building on grounds with a documented history tied to the War of 1812 and the 1901 assassination of President William McKinley in Buffalo; the Rand Building, once the city's tallest building; the Ellicott Square Building, a historic downtown office building; and the Town Ballroom, a music venue that formerly operated as the Town Casino, a mid-20th-century gambling destination.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/buffalo-ghost-tour/
- https://www.getyourguide.com/buffalo-l32259/buffalo-buried-below-ghost-tour-t1043009/
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsCold Spots
According to US Ghost Adventures' own tour material, the Old Erie County Hall grounds are tied to the 1825 hanging of the Thayer brothers, executed for the murder of money lender John Love, with the operator describing witnesses who report hearing the brothers' final cries. At the Rand Building, the operator attributes reported cold spots and apparitions on the upper floors to a carpenter named Henry, said to have died on the site before the building's construction. The Town Ballroom's reported hauntings are tied by the operator to its history as the Town Casino, a mid-20th-century gambling venue, with the operator describing a residual haunting said to replay a violent card-game dispute in the basement.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing 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.
