Gallatin Public Square / Sumner County Courthouse · Gallatin Commercial Historic District
Ghosts of Gallatin grew out of Allen Sircy's Southern Ghost Stories: Ghosts of Gallatin book series (with a second volume co-written with Chelsie Sircy), and expanded into its current walking-tour format in 2021. Sircy leads the tour alongside local historian Eli Geery, covering about a dozen sites around Gallatin's Public Square in downtown Sumner County. The tour has been covered by local outlets including Sumner County Source and Main Street Media of Tennessee, and donates a portion of ticket sales to the Sumner County Museum and Historic Downtown Gallatin.
The tour meets in front of the Sumner County Courthouse on the Public Square. A separate, unaffiliated national chain operator, US Ghost Adventures, also runs a Gallatin program (Gallatin Ghosts, `tennessee/us-ghost-adventures-gallatin`) meeting at 155 E Main St, an address on the opposite face of the same courthouse building; the two tours are run by different companies with different guides, pricing, and booking, and should not be confused despite the shared courthouse landmark.
Sources
- http://ghostsofgallatin.com/
- https://sumnercountysource.com/ghosts-of-gallatin-haunted-tour-announces-spring-dates/
- https://mainstreetmediatn.com/articles/cce-print/ghosts-of-gallatin-haunted-tour-welcomes-visitors/?pubid=gallatinnews
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g55061-d29010133-Reviews-Ghosts_Of_Gallatin_Haunted_Tour-Gallatin_Sumner_County_Tennessee.html
ApparitionsFolklore / LegendUnexplained Occurrences
The tour is billed by its operator and local press coverage as featuring stories of "manifestations, murder, mayhem or a mischievous mannequin" tied to specific stops around the Gallatin square, drawn from Sircy's published book series and expanded with photographs from past tours. Individual stop names beyond the meeting point were not independently confirmed for this listing.
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.
Media Appearances
- Sumner County Source
- Main Street Media of Tennessee