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A Downtown Nashville Haunted Pub Crawl from Freebird, Past the Hermitage Hotel and Ryman Auditorium
150 2nd Ave N, Nashville, TN 37201
Research updated August 2026
Age
21+ for the Nashville Haunted Booze and Boos Tour®; 18+ for Nightmares and Nightcaps; All Ages for the Nashville Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk
Cost
$$
Nashville Haunted Booze and Boos Tour® (21+) from $29.95; Nashville Nightmares and Nightcaps (18+) from $27.50; Nashville Spooktacular All-Ages Ghost Walk from $25; private group versions of all three run $300-$350. Pricing per Nightly Spirits' Nashville booking pages.
Access
Wheelchair OK
An outdoor walking tour of just under a mile through historic Downtown Nashville on paved city sidewalks, beginning and ending at Freebird, 150 2nd Ave N.
Equipment
Photos OK
Downtown Nashville Historic District · 2nd Avenue North Historic District
Nightly Spirits operates ghost walking tours and haunted pub crawls in roughly twenty U.S. cities. Its Nashville program is unusual among the cities in this bundle for publicly selling all three core products online: the 21-and-up Haunted Booze and Boos Tour, the 18-and-up Nightmares and Nightcaps, and the all-ages Spooktacular Ghost Walk. The Booze and Boos Tour begins and ends at Freebird, a bar at 150 2nd Avenue North, running Thursday through Sunday nights. The operator's own page names the Hermitage Hotel and the Ryman Auditorium among the route's haunted landmarks.
This corpus's existing Congress Inn entry independently cites Nightly Spirits, alongside FrightFind and TennesseeHauntedHouses, as a source repeating Nashville haunted-hotel lore, corroborating the operator's active presence in the city. Tripadvisor and Yelp reviews describe a currently operating program with a recent (2026) cancellation complaint alongside generally positive guide reviews.
Sources
Nightly Spirits' Nashville page names the Hermitage Hotel and the Ryman Auditorium as haunted locations covered by its tours, framed alongside general references to notorious back alleys and Music City's live-music venues. The operator states it does not guarantee a specific route or number of bars from night to night.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing material, not documented history independently verified for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
A 2.5-hour, 21-and-up ghost tour and pub crawl beginning and ending at Freebird on 2nd Avenue North, taking guests through notorious back alleys and two to three haunted bars in historic buildings. Tickets from $29.95; the operator's best-selling Nashville product. Runs nightly Thursday through Sunday.
A 1.5-hour, 18-and-up walking tour through historic Downtown Nashville that begins at a haunted bar, with optional beverage purchases along the way. Tickets from $27.50; publicly bookable in Nashville (unlike some other Nightly Spirits cities, where this product is private-only).
A 1.5-hour, all-ages walking tour of Downtown Nashville and Music City covering reported hauntings without the bar stops of the Booze and Boos Tour. Tickets from $25.
Private-group versions of the Booze and Boos Tour, Nightmares and Nightcaps, and Spooktacular Ghost Walk, run $300-$350 for the group and booked directly by email. The operator states private bookings cannot be guaranteed more than one month in advance.
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Named as a haunted location on Nightly Spirits' Nashville tour page.
Named as a haunted location on Nightly Spirits' Nashville tour page.
Meeting point (start and end) for the Nashville Haunted Booze and Boos Tour.
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Charleston, SC
Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running public and private programs in about 20 U.S. cities, including a Historic Downtown Charleston route with a kid-friendly pirate-themed option. The company has been recognized as a top-rated U.S. ghost tour by USA Today in multiple years.
Denver, CO
Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running a Denver program centered on LoDo, meeting at Celtic on Market and covering Denver Union Station and the Oxford Hotel; a second South Broadway route is currently private-booking-only.
Alexandria, VA
Nightly Spirits is a multi-city ghost-tour and haunted-pub-crawl operator running public and private programs in about 20 U.S. cities, including a Colonial-era Old Town Alexandria route since at least 2020. The company has been recognized as a top-rated U.S. ghost tour by USA Today in multiple years.