Independence National Historical Park · Old City Philadelphia
Ghost City Tours operates ghost walking tours in dozens of U.S. cities, with Philadelphia among its programs advertised as running since 2012. In Philadelphia the company runs three separately ticketed products: the family-friendly Ghosts of Philadelphia Tour, which meets at City Tavern Restaurant; the adults-only Founding Phantoms Ghost Tour, which meets at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier in Washington Square and is billed as an unfiltered look at the era's betrayal, madness, and murder; and the 21-and-up Philadelphia Haunted Pub Crawl through four colonial-era taverns near Old City.
Each walking tour's own product page lists a small set of "featured" stops along its route, explicitly noting that not all stops are guaranteed on every night. Independence Hall appears on both the Founding Phantoms Ghost Tour and the Ghosts of Philadelphia Tour. The operator separately maintains a sitewide directory of 13 places it describes as haunted in Philadelphia; that directory is presented independently of any specific tour's stated route and is not treated here as a tour stop list.
All three Philadelphia products run nightly, rain or shine, and cover roughly 1 mile of Old City walking; the two walking tours operate seasonally, March through November.
Sources
- https://ghostcitytours.com/philadelphia/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/philadelphia/founding-phantoms-ghost-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/philadelphia/ghost-of-philadelphia-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/philadelphia/haunted-pub-crawl/
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsFeelings of Being Watched
Each Philadelphia walking tour is built around a different register of the operator's stated material. The Founding Phantoms Ghost Tour opens at Independence Hall, continues to Carpenters' Hall and the First Bank of the United States, and ends at Washington Square, which the operator describes as built atop a mass grave holding yellow fever victims, Revolutionary War soldiers, and executed criminals. The Ghosts of Philadelphia Tour covers the same Independence Hall from a family-friendly angle, alongside the Alexander Hamilton House, City Tavern, and the Bishop White House, framed around the founding fathers the operator says "may never have left the city."
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.
