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Akron Ghosts' Downtown Walk Past the Civic Theatre and a Former Speakeasy
388 S Main St, Akron, OH 44311
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Pricing set by US Ghost Adventures and shown at booking; check usghostadventures.com/akron-ghost-tour for current rates. Ask about the bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations.
Access
Wheelchair OK
About one mile of paved downtown Akron sidewalks, starting at the Greater Akron Chamber building.
Equipment
Photos OK
Akron Civic Theatre (1929, National Register of Historic Places) · Downtown Akron Historic District
US Ghost Adventures runs guided ghost walks in more than 250 U.S. cities; in Akron the program is marketed as Akron Ghosts, sold as the Ashes of Akron: Voices from the Void Ghost Tour and listed both on Tripadvisor and on the Greater Akron Chamber's official visitor site, visitakron-summit.org. The tour meets at the Greater Akron Chamber building on South Main Street and covers about one mile of downtown Akron in roughly an hour, with an extended bonus tour also offered.
The route's confirmed corpus stops are downtown Akron landmarks. The Akron Civic Theatre, a 1929 movie palace built in an atmospheric Moorish style by John Eberson, remains an active performing-arts venue and a National Register-listed building. Perfect Pour occupies a downtown Akron space documented as a former Prohibition-era speakeasy. The Akron Beacon Journal Publishing building, longtime home of the city's daily newspaper, is also named by the operator as a route stop but does not have an independent corpus entry under that name as of this listing.
US Ghost Adventures guides are identifiable by branded shirts and lanterns; tours run nightly, rain or shine, year-round.
Sources
At the Akron Beacon Journal Publishing building, the operator ties a reported white-haired figure to the site's decades as a working newsroom. At the Akron Civic Theatre, the operator describes multiple resident spirits, including wandering figures and a former employee said to keep watch over the theatre from the afterlife. At Perfect Pour, the operator ties a disgruntled, loudly present spirit to the building's earlier life as an illegal Prohibition-era speakeasy.
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 in front of the Greater Akron Chamber, 388 S Main St #205. The route covers the former Akron Beacon Journal Publishing building, the Akron Civic Theatre, and Perfect Pour, a former speakeasy. An extended bonus tour to additional haunted locations is also offered.
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Featured stop with a dedicated operator subpage; no corpus match found under this name in Ohio.
Featured stop, tied by the operator to a former employee said to still watch over the theatre. NOTE: the corpus also holds a second file, the-akron-civic-theatre.json, describing the same Akron, OH venue — flagged as a likely un-merged duplicate pair, not part of this bundle's assigned consolidation.
Featured stop, tied by the operator to a disgruntled former Prohibition-era patron.
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