White Oak Flats Cemetery · Downtown Gatlinburg Historic District · Great Smoky Mountains gateway town
Ghost City Tours operates ghost walking tours in dozens of U.S. cities, with Gatlinburg among its programs advertised as running since 2012. Two of the three Gatlinburg products, the Ghosts of Gatlinburg Tour and the Grave Intentions Ghost Tour, meet on the front sidewalk of St. Mary's Catholic Church at 304 Airport Rd. The Gatlinburg Haunted Pub Crawl meets separately at the Martha Jane Ogle Cabin, 526 Parkway.
The company's site frames its Gatlinburg program around the town's pioneer settlement history, centered on White Oak Flats Cemetery, Gatlinburg's oldest cemetery, and the Gatlinburg Inn, a downtown lodging property operating since 1937. The 16+ Grave Intentions Ghost Tour covers the same core sites in more detail and adds the Edgewater Hotel and the site of the modern Courtyard Marriott.
Sources
- https://ghostcitytours.com/gatlinburg/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/gatlinburg/ghosts-gatlinburg-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/gatlinburg/grave-intentions-ghost-tour/
- https://ghostcitytours.com/gatlinburg/haunted-pub-crawl/
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsFeelings of Being Watched
The Ghosts of Gatlinburg Tour opens at the Gatlinburg Inn, which the operator describes as continuing to operate with both living and spectral staff, and continues to White Oak Flats Cemetery, the old Art School building, and the Space Needle observation tower. The Grave Intentions Ghost Tour covers the same cemetery and inn in more detail and adds the Edgewater Hotel and the site of the Courtyard Marriott, which the operator's page connects to the real 1990s murders of Melissa Hill and Troy Valentine on land that predates the current hotel.
The operator's marketing describes the adults-only tour as also touching on Cherokee folklore associated with the surrounding mountains, without naming specific stops tied to that material.
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.
