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A Candlelight Walking Tour Through Penn Square and Downtown Lancaster, PA
Penn Square (Soldiers and Sailors Monument), King and Queen Streets, Lancaster, PA 17603
Research updated August 2026
Age
Under 18 must be accompanied by an adult
Cost
$$
$28 per person; $18 for ages 4-12. All tickets sold in advance online or by phone; non-refundable.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of downtown Lancaster's Penn Square area and adjoining streets.
Equipment
Photos OK
Penn Square and Lancaster Central Market, downtown Lancaster · Fulton Opera House (mid-19th-century theater) · Ghost Tour of Philadelphia / Ghost Tour of Lancaster (operating since 1995)
Lancaster is one of Pennsylvania's oldest inland cities, with a downtown historic core centered on Penn Square, the Soldiers and Sailors Monument, the Lancaster Central Market (one of the country's oldest continuously operating farmers' markets), and the Fulton Opera House, a mid-19th-century theater. Ghost Tour of Lancaster, part of the same operation as the long-running Ghost Tour of Philadelphia, runs its walking tour through this downtown core, drawing on the operator's companion book, Ghost Stories of Lancaster, PA.
The broader Ghost Tour company has operated since 1995 and has been featured in Fodor's, Lonely Planet, and Moon Travel Guides, among other outlets.
Sources
The operator's marketing references a figure it calls the 'Walking Tombstone' and 'otherworldly vigils, fatal curses, and star-crossed lovers' spanning 300 years of Lancaster's history, alongside reported phantoms at the Fulton Opera House and a heartbroken spirit said to linger on Duke Street.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, describing what the tour covers, not an independently verified claim by HauntBound.
Media Appearances
A walking tour departing from the Soldiers and Sailors Monument in Penn Square, at King and Queen Streets, covering downtown Lancaster sites including Central Market, the old jail, the Fulton Opera House, and Duke Street, spanning 300 years of the city's history.
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Meeting and departure point, at King and Queen Streets.
Named stop referenced in the tour's route.
Named stop; operator markets reported 'phantoms of the Opera House.'
Named stop referenced in the tour's route; no independent HauntBound venue page exists for this specific site.
Named stop; operator references a reported heartbroken spirit on this street.
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