Washington Square Park (former potter's field and epidemic burial ground) · House of Death, 14 West 10th Street · Chumley's, 86 Bedford Street (Prohibition-era speakeasy)
US Ghost Adventures operates its New York program under the on-page brand 'New York Ghosts.' The flagship product, the New York City Chilling Nightmares & Necromancy Ghost Tour, meets at the Washington Square Arch and runs nightly from 7 PM, about 90 minutes, visiting roughly 10 Greenwich Village locations. Independent coverage, including a first-person account on the blog 'What Is Hey Bails Doing?' and Viator/TripAdvisor listings describing guides in US Ghost Adventures shirts meeting at the arch, corroborates that the tour actually operates. The company separately runs the 21-and-up NYC Ghosts Boos and Booze Haunted Pub Crawl.
The route covers Washington Square Park, built atop a former potter's field and epidemic burial ground holding more than 20,000 yellow fever and cholera victims; the House of Death at 14 West 10th Street, long associated with reports of Mark Twain's ghost; and Chumley's, a former Prohibition-era speakeasy at 86 Bedford Street.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/new-york-ghost-tour/
- https://whatisheybailsdoing.com/exploring-haunted-greenwich-village-my-nyc-ghost-tour-experience-with-us-ghost-adventures/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attractions-g60763-Activities-c42-t226-New_York_City_New_York.html
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsCoughing SoundsObjects Going Missing
The operator describes Washington Square Park as the resting place for more than 20,000 people who died of yellow fever and cholera, buried with little regard during epidemics, and recounts reported sightings of 'sickly apparitions' at the site. At the House of Death, the operator describes nearly a century of reported sightings of Mark Twain's ghost on the stairwell, alongside claims of 21 other spirits in the building. The operator also describes reported hauntings at the Emma Lazarus House, tied to the poet's death from Hodgkin lymphoma, and at the Thomas Paine House/Marie's Crisis Cafe site, including reports of missing papers and unexplained activity attributed to Paine.
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.
Notable Entities
Mark Twain (reported apparition, House of Death)Emma Lazarus (reported apparition, Emma Lazarus House)
