Savannah is considered one of the most haunted cities in America. Whether you're out to have some fun, or to study the facts, a Haunted Savannah Ghost Tour package with a room at an authentic Savannah historic inn is a fun and popular excursion. All of our haunted Savannah packages include Ghost Tours through the historic district, featuring local legends, and stories of ghosts and house hauntings.

The Foley House Inn has a prominent part in the ghost stories of Savannah. In the late 1800's Mrs. Foley, then a widow, started taking in boarders to help pay her bills. One of those boarders, a wealthy exporter doing business in Savannah, disappeared in the middle of the night and was never heard from again. In 1987 during a renovation of the Foley House, human remains were found in a wall. Although the remains were never identified, legend has it that they were the
bones of Mrs. Foley's boarder who may have been murdered for his money. Today we call this man "Wally" (because he was found in a wall) and the staff often hears stories of a man in a top hat walking around in the garden in the late evening.

The city of Savannah is literally built on its dead. Cemeteries were built on the edge of the settlement and as the colony grew into a port city, the cemeteries were absorbed and homes and businesses were built on former burial sites.

Savannah has a graceful elegance complete with historic charm, friendly residents, succulent southern comfort food and warm Georgia weather. But peer behind the curtains of Spanish moss dripping from any stately live oak and you'll find a veritable ghost town, whether on the slanted sidewalks framing the Gothic Revival architecture, the hallways of this haunted bed-and- breakfast, or in Savannah's spirited cemetery.

Visitors to Georgia's oldest city often stroll the storied streets on their own time, but many join guided tours to Savannah's haunted spots. Of the city's 6.5 million annual tourists, more than half of those who take walking tours take a haunted ghost tour. Some say the city's violent past, whether as a Revolutionary War battleground or a Civil War capture of General Sherman, contribute to its eerie aura. So much so, in act, that the city's "unofficial saying" is that it was built on the dead.

Ghost & Legends of Savannah Walking Tours are led by the city's longtime locals, guiding you through the ins and outs of Savannah's oldest tales of terror, offering insight into the people and places that give Savannah its "spectral past," such as the Hutchinson Island's buried bodies and Savannah voodoo.

You can take a nightly ghost tour in a converted hearse for a truly grisly tour where you will pass through cemeteries and hear tales of the beautiful and historic homes of Savannah like the Mercer House. First owned by musician Johnny Mercer's family, and gained notoriety after being featured as the murder scene in the book and film versions of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." A Savannah antique dealer named Jim Williams took up residence at the house after
the Mercers left. Williams, who was known for hosting lavish parties, ended up being tried for murder four times. After his death, witnesses claimed to have seen lights and festivities going on inside the mansion.