US Ghost Adventures Nashville

According to US Ghost Adventures, the Ryman Auditorium's reported hauntings extend beyond its origins as a Gospel tabernacle to a roster of musicians said to return and perform after hours, framed by the operator as tied to a 'musician's curse.' The Hermitage Hotel's reported activity is attributed to the echoes of a heated early-20th-century political debate that took place inside the hotel.

At Skull's Rainbow Room, the operator's narration centers on David 'Skull' Schulman, credited with reviving Printer's Alley's nightlife with liquor, burlesque, and comedy in the early 1900s before his death, which the operator frames as the source of the bar's reported haunting. Printer's Alley more broadly is described by the operator as having been the 'Gentleman's Quarter,' home to saloons, brothels, gambling dens, and burlesque shows, with reported dark energy tied to the violent death of a building's former owner. At Tootsie's Orchid Lounge, the operator attributes reported activity to the bar's founder, Tootsie Bess, said to make herself known after the bar's post-Bess decline and later revival.

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.