Downtown Sioux Falls Historic District · Old Courthouse Museum · Orpheum Theatre
US Ghost Adventures, a multi-city ghost-tour operator, runs its Sioux Falls program under the consumer-facing name Sioux Falls Spirits. The nightly, hour-long walking tour meets outside the Old Courthouse Museum at 200 W 6th Street and covers about a mile of downtown Sioux Falls, including the Old Courthouse Museum itself, the historic Orpheum Theatre, and the Washington Pavilion arts and events center. The operator's site notes a bonus extended tour to additional haunted locations is available on request.
The tour's true-crime segment references a 1970s violent incident at Gitchie Manitou State Preserve, just outside the city in the Sioux Falls area, framed by the operator as part of the region's darker history rather than a Sioux Falls city-limits event.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/sioux-falls-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g54805-d33269107-Reviews-Sioux_Falls_Ghost_Tour_Shadow_Sinister_Sins_Scandal-Sioux_Falls_South_Dakota.html
- https://www.getyourguide.com/sioux-falls-l99018/sioux-falls-ghost-tour-shadow-sinister-sins-scandal-t1032320/
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The operator's page describes the Old Courthouse Museum as home to phantoms tied to its staircase and clock tower, the Orpheum Theatre as haunted by a resident spirit nicknamed 'Larry,' and the Washington Pavilion as the site of a reported apparition in its elevator. Additional narration outside the core stop list touches on the Pettigrew Museum and St. Joseph Cathedral, and recounts a violent incident from the 1970s associated with Gitchie Manitou State Preserve, outside city limits.
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 tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
