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Richmond Ghosts: Shockoe Bottom's Civil War Hauntings, a Pub Crawl, and a Hollywood Cemetery Tour
Alley beside Havana '59, 16 N 17th St, Richmond, VA 23219
Research updated August 2026
Age
All Ages
Cost
$$
Exact per-ticket pricing is not published on the operator's Richmond page at time of research; booking is via rvaghosts.com or usghostadventures.com for current rates.
Access
Wheelchair OK
Paved Shockoe Bottom streets in Richmond; the standard route covers 8 stops, the extended version 12, described by the operator as easy, accessible walking.
Equipment
Photos OK
Shockoe Bottom Historic District · Richmond Civil War history
US Ghost Adventures runs its Richmond program under the brand Richmond Ghosts, meeting nightly in the alley beside Havana '59, 16 N 17th St, in Richmond's Shockoe Bottom. Shockoe Bottom was Richmond's original commercial district and, before the Civil War, one of the largest domestic slave-trading centers in the United States; it was also the site of numerous makeshift Confederate field hospitals during the war.
The operator's marketing frames this documented history, including the Civil War's toll on the city and the history of American slavery centered on Shockoe Bottom, as backdrop for the reported hauntings covered on the tour route.
Sources
The operator's route narrative describes the Church Hill Tunnel as the site of a documented 1925 collapse that killed workers on a train, most of whom were never recovered, with reported sightings of laborers still searching for a way out. At the Edgar Allan Poe Museum, the operator ties reported hauntings to furniture said to have belonged to Poe, with visitors reportedly sensing his continued presence among the collection. Mason's Hall, built in 1785 in Shockoe Bottom, is described by the operator through the rattling of keys attributed to an original caretaker, framed alongside the building's Freemason history.
The operator's narrative also references Lumpkin's Jail as a Shockoe Bottom site tied to the history of enslaved people in Richmond, and Hollywood Cemetery as the subject of its own separately bookable tour covering the cemetery's notable occupants and Civil War history.
All of this is the tour operator's own marketing and narrative material, not documented history verified independently for this listing; it is included here as a description of what the tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
A walking tour meeting in the alley beside Havana '59, 16 N 17th St, in Shockoe Bottom. The standard route covers 8 stops in about an hour; an extended 90-minute version covers 12 stops. Includes the Church Hill Tunnel, Edgar Allan Poe Museum, and Mason's Hall. Runs nightly at 8pm, rain or shine.
A pub crawl through Shockoe Bottom's historic bars, paired with ghost stories.
A guided tour of Hollywood Cemetery covering notable occupants and the site's Civil War history and reported hauntings.
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Featured stop; operator's marketing references the tunnel's 1873 construction deaths and its 1925 collapse on a work train.
Featured stop; operator's marketing ties reported hauntings to furniture once belonging to Poe.
Featured stop, built 1785 in Shockoe Bottom; matches the corpus entry for Mason's Hall by address and construction date.
Referenced in the operator's route narrative as a Shockoe Bottom site tied to the history of American slavery; see the linked venue file for its documented history.
Site of the separately bookable Hollywood Cemetery Tour: Richmond Lore and Civil War.
Featured stop; the operator's route covers 19th-century inhabitants, the Civil War spy network, and the adjacent African Burying Ground.
Featured stop on the operator's Carytown walking-tour segment.
Featured stop on the Shockoe Bottom segment, tied to the McNaught/Denoon building history.
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