Fort Caspar (reconstructed 1860s military post) · Downtown Casper's Prohibition-era Wonder Bar (former Mint Bar) · Casper Rail Trail and the historic Rialto Building
US Ghost Adventures, a multi-city ghost-tour chain, operates its Casper program under the local consumer brand 'Casper Ghosts' (also used as 'Casper Haunts' in the operator's own copy), with the specific tour marketed as 'Wind River Wraiths: Chilling Casper Ghost Tour.' Tours meet nightly outside Lou Taubert Ranch Outfitters, 125 E 2nd St, and cover about a mile of downtown Casper on foot over roughly an hour.
The route covers the Wonder Bar, formerly the Mint Bar, a Prohibition-era watering hole the operator says drew visitors from President Eisenhower to members of Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch; the Rialto building, a historic downtown theater and soda fountain; the Odd Fellows Building, tied to a reported 1902 jailbreak shooting involving a sheriff and his killer; and Fort Caspar Museum, a reconstructed 1860s military post turned regional history museum. The narration situates these stops within Casper's history as Wyoming's second-largest city, founded near the Oregon and Mormon Trail crossing at the Platte River.
Sources
- https://usghostadventures.com/casper-ghost-tour/
- https://www.getyourguide.com/casper-wyoming-l93506/wind-river-wraiths-chilling-casper-ghost-tour-t1100800/
- https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g60437-d33310606-Reviews-Wind_River_Wraiths_Chilling_Casper_Ghost_Tour-Casper_Wyoming.html
ApparitionsUnexplained SoundsPhantom Smells
According to US Ghost Adventures' own tour material, the Wonder Bar's reported haunting centers on Joe Lowndes, an outlaw the operator ties to Butch Cassidy's Wild Bunch, said to still patrol the bar. The Rialto building's reported activity includes a phantom projector reel and the spirit of a former owner who died on the premises. The Odd Fellows Building's reported haunting stems from a 1902 winter jailbreak that ended with the deaths of Sheriff W.C. Ricker and his killer, Charles Woodard, both described as bound together in the afterlife at the scene. Fort Caspar Museum's reported activity includes a child spirit and a presence the operator describes as chastising a former museum association president over a checkers game.
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 tour covers, not as an endorsement of any specific claim.
