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A Decade-Plus Walking Tour of Downtown New Braunfels' Haunted History
129 S Seguin Ave, New Braunfels, TX 78130
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages for the walking tour; the haunted pub crawl is 21+
Cost
$
Pricing through the operator's own booking site; a separate once-monthly haunted pub crawl is also offered.
Access
Wheelchair OK
A roughly 1.5-mile outdoor walking tour through downtown New Braunfels.
Equipment
Photos OK
Downtown New Braunfels historic district · New Braunfels German settlement (1845)
Anita Carrera, a lifelong ghost-tour enthusiast and local educator, started New Braunfels Ghost Tours with her husband Rick in 2013 after a disappointing tour experience in nearby San Antonio. Drawing on local archives and library research, Carrera built a roughly 1.5-mile walking route through downtown New Braunfels, a Hill Country city settled by German immigrants in 1845. The tour has run for over a decade and has been covered repeatedly by the New Braunfels Herald-Zeitung and Texas Hill Country magazine.
Sources
The downtown walking tour covers the Prince Solms Inn, Comal County Courthouse, the Brauntex Theatre, the Phoenix Saloon (tied to a reported historic fight death and the Johanna Gruene haunting), and ends at the Faust Hotel, one of the tour's most frequently cited stops.
This is the tour operator's own marketing and storytelling 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.
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A 90-minute, roughly 1.5-mile walking tour of downtown New Braunfels led by longtime local guide Anita Carrera, covering the Prince Solms Inn, Comal County Courthouse, the Brauntex Theatre, the Phoenix Saloon, and the Faust Hotel. Saturday nights, starting 8pm in front of Naegelin's Bakery, ending at the Faust Hotel.
A once-monthly, 21-and-up haunted pub crawl through downtown New Braunfels bars, paired with the operator's local ghost stories.
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Named stop; the tour covers the Krause fight death, a reported suicide, and the Johanna Gruene haunting.
Named stop on the downtown walking route.
Ending stop on the downtown walking route.
Named stop on the downtown walking route; no corpus match found for this New Braunfels inn.
Named stop on the downtown walking route; no corpus match found for this building.
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