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Newport Ghosts: A Seaside Walking Tour Through Newport's Lighthouses, Mansions, and Colonial Past
32 Touro St #28, Newport, RI 02840
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Newport Ghosts: Seaside Hauntings and Hags Tour is $21 per person per the operator's site; an extended bonus tour to additional haunted locations is offered by request.
Access
Wheelchair OK
A roughly 1-mile outdoor walking tour of downtown Newport, starting at the Oliver Perry Monument in Eisenhower Park (Washington Square).
Equipment
Photos OK
Colonial Newport / Washington Square Historic District · Newport Gilded Age mansion era
US Ghost Adventures runs city-branded ghost walks in dozens of U.S. cities under local names; in Newport the program is marketed as Newport Ghosts. The tour meets at the Oliver Perry Monument in Eisenhower Park (Washington Square) and covers about a mile of downtown Newport on foot over roughly an hour, without entering privately owned buildings.
The route draws on Newport's status as one of colonial New England's oldest port towns, touching on its maritime and Revolutionary War history, its 17th- and 18th-century civic buildings, and its Gilded Age mansion era. The operator's own site states its stories are drawn from historic reports, local folklore, and recorded sources.
Sources
The operator's site frames Eisenhower Park, the tour's starting point, as the site of at least 42 public executions in colonial Newport. From there, the preview material highlights the Newport Tower ("The Stone Mill"), a stone structure of disputed origin that the operator says is linked to reports of voices and screams; the Old Colony House, a former Rhode Island statehouse the operator ties to reports of Revolutionary War-era hospital hauntings; and the White Horse Tavern, one of the oldest operating taverns in the country, which the operator markets around a reported 1702 ghost-testimony murder case.
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 1-hour, 1-mile walking tour of downtown Newport starting at the Oliver Perry Monument in Eisenhower Park, covering the city's lighthouses, colonial landmarks, and Gilded Age mansions with reported hauntings. Tickets are $21 per person, all ages. Runs nightly at 8 PM. A bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations is available by request.
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Tour meeting point at the Oliver Perry Monument; the operator's material identifies the park as the site of at least 42 public executions.
Preview stop; the operator's tour page links to a dedicated Old Colony House page.
Preview stop; the operator's tour page links to a dedicated White Horse Tavern page.
Preview stop with a dedicated operator subpage; no corpus match found under this name.
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