Read House Hotel · Downtown Chattanooga Historic District · Tennessee Riverwalk
Ghost City Tours operates ghost walking tours in dozens of U.S. cities, with Chattanooga among its programs advertised as running since 2012. The two Chattanooga products meet at different downtown locations: the Cursed in Chattanooga Tour at East Martin Luther King Boulevard and Market Street, and the Ghosts of Chattanooga Tour at West Aquarium Way and Broad Street.
The company's site frames Chattanooga's history around its position at a river and rail crossroads and the Civil War campaigns fought in the surrounding hills — Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge. Both tours route through the Read House Hotel, a downtown property with roots to the 1840s rebuilt in 1926, and the Ghosts of Chattanooga Tour continues to the Hunter Museum of American Art, the Tennessee Riverwalk, and the tunnel network known as Underground Chattanooga.
Sources
- https://ghostcitytours.com/chattanooga/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/chattanooga/cursed-chattanooga-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/chattanooga/ghosts-chattanooga-tour/
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsFeelings of Being Watched
The Cursed in Chattanooga Tour opens at the Read House Hotel, which the operator's page ties to a violent death in Room 311, and continues to the former Lee House, Cherry Street Tavern, and Miller Plaza Pavilion, each carrying the operator's own account of reported activity. The Ghosts of Chattanooga Tour opens at the Hunter Museum of American Art, housed in a Gilded Age mansion, and continues along the Tennessee Riverwalk to the Read House Hotel and Underground Chattanooga, a network of tunnels beneath downtown that the operator describes as holding the spirits of Cherokee residents, Civil War soldiers, and Prohibition-era bootleggers.
The operator's broader Chattanooga marketing also discusses the Civil War dead of the Chickamauga, Lookout Mountain, and Missionary Ridge campaigns, and describes Ross's Landing as the city's departure point for the Trail of Tears, without tying either to a specific stop on either tour's route.
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.
