Est. 1753 · Carlyle House (1753), Revolutionary- and Civil War-era hospital use · Gadsby's Tavern (18th century), hosted George Washington and other early American figures · Wilkes Street Tunnel (1850s), Civil War-era railway terminus
US Ghost Adventures markets its Alexandria program as "Alexandria Ghosts"/"Alexandria Terrors," with three bookable products. The flagship Phantoms of the Potomac walking tour meets at the Stabler-Leadbeater Apothecary Museum, 301 King Street, and covers Carlyle House, Gadsby's Tavern, and the Wilkes Street Tunnel. A longer Ultimate Dead of Night tour meets separately at the Ice Well, 138 N Royal St, and covers 8-11 stops nightly at 10 PM. A separate Spirits and Spirits Haunted Pub Crawl runs through Old Town's historic bars.
Carlyle House and Gadsby's Tavern are both real, well-documented 18th-century Alexandria landmarks; Carlyle House served as a Revolutionary- and Civil War-era hospital, and Gadsby's Tavern hosted George Washington and other early American figures. The Wilkes Street Tunnel, built in the 1850s, served as a Civil War-era railway terminus.
A dedicated TripAdvisor product listing for Phantoms of the Potomac, with independent reviews current through 2026, and a separate operator company review page on TripAdvisor corroborate that the Alexandria Ghosts program is actively operating. This is a separate US Ghost Adventures chain program, distinct from the corpus's existing Ghost City Tours Alexandria and Nightly Spirits Alexandria entries, which are unrelated operators.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/alexandria-ghost-tour/
- https://alexandriaghosts.com/alexandria-ghost-tour/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/AttractionProductReview-g30226-d23757028-Phantoms_of_the_Potomac_Old_Town_Alexandria_Ghost_Tour-Alexandria_Virginia.html
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g30226-d23753255-Reviews-Alexandria_Ghosts_By_US_Ghost_Adventures-Alexandria_Virginia.html
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsReported Hauntings
The operator ties reported distress and apparitions at Carlyle House to its use as a hospital during periods of war, describing visitors who reportedly "jumped out of windows" to escape the suffering inside. At Gadsby's Tavern, the operator centers its material on the Female Stranger, an unidentified young woman who died at the tavern around 1816 and whose grave in St. Paul's Cemetery bears no name — a genuinely documented historical mystery, not the operator's invention. The operator separately describes "the Burning Bride," tied to a figure it names Laura Schafer, and a reported presence at the Wilkes Street Tunnel connected to unsolved cold-case murders and the tunnel's Civil War-era railway history.
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 tours cover, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
Notable Entities
The Female Stranger
