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By Ghost City Tours Williamsburg
Free cancellation available
Price is €26 per adult
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Features

  • Free cancellation available
  • 1h 30m
  • Mobile voucher
  • Instant confirmation

Overview

  • Inspired by the nightly patrols once made by Williamsburg’s watchmen, this 90-minute experience follows the streets they would have walked while the rest of the town slept. Along the way, your Ghost City Tours Ambassador will share stories of old courthouses, churchyards, colonial homes, revolutionary tension, forgotten patients, guarded gunpowder, and jail cells that were never meant to be comfortable.

    Guests will hear haunted history connected to the Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse, Bruton Parish Church, George Wythe House, Peyton Randolph House, Public Hospital Museum, Magazine Green, and Public Gaol. Each stop connects real Williamsburg history with the legends and reported hauntings that followed.

    Perfect for families, history lovers, and curious travellers, this tour offers an atmospheric look at one of America’s most historic towns after dark — without relying on jump scares, staged effects, or over-the-top ghost stories.

Activity location

  • Colonial Williamsburg Capitol Building
    • W Duke of Gloucester St,, Cool
    • 23185, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • 101 W Duke of Gloucester St
    • 101 West Duke of Gloucester Street
    • 23185, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

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Williamsburg Ghost Tour Colonial Haunts and Haunted History

  • Activity duration is 1 hour and 30 minutes1h 30m
    1h 30m
  • English
Language options: English
Starting time: 19:00
Price details
€25.80 x 1 Adult€25.80
Total
Price is €25.80

What's included, what's not

  • Inclusions
    Visits to historic locations throughout Williamsburg
  • Inclusions
    90-minute all ages ghost walking tour of Williamsburg
  • Inclusions
    Haunted history, true crime, and local legends
  • Inclusions
    Professional Ghost City Tours Ambassador
  • Exclusions
    Food and drinks
  • Exclusions
    Transport to and from the meeting location
  • Exclusions
    Hotel pickup and drop-off
  • Exclusions
    Service charge
  • Exclusions
    Admission or entry into tour stops

Know before you book

    • Wheelchair accessible
    • Infants and small children can ride in a pram or stroller
    • Service animals allowed
    • Public transport options are available nearby
    • Suitable for all physical fitness levels
    • In accordance with EU regulations about consumer rights, activities services are not subject to the right of withdrawal. Supplier cancellation policy will apply.
    • This activity is provided by a professional trader (a party acting within their trade, business or profession).

Activity itinerary

Colonial Williamsburg Capitol Building

  • 15m
Begin at the Colonial Williamsburg Courthouse, the centre of law and order in a town that became much quieter after dark. Guests will hear how the courthouse handled disputes, debts, licences, and criminal accusations, while later reports describe movement in empty rooms, shifting doors, and the uneasy feeling that someone has passed just behind you.

Bruton Parish Episcopal Church

  • 15m
Bruton Parish Church has stood at the heart of Williamsburg for more than three centuries, marking baptisms, weddings, funerals, and burials for generations of residents. This stop explores the churchyard’s worn stones, colonial history, and local legends of the Grey Lady, soft footsteps, and the feeling that some visitors never fully left the grounds.

Peyton Randolph House

  • 15m
The Peyton Randolph House is one of Williamsburg’s most famous haunted residences, known for a long list of reported encounters. Guests will hear stories of footsteps overhead, children running across upper floors, and a woman seen standing in an upstairs window before fading back into the darkness.

The Public Gaol

  • 15m
The Public Gaol served as Williamsburg’s jail for more than a century, holding thieves, debtors, counterfeiters, pirates, prisoners of war, and people awaiting trial. This final stop shares stories of harsh confinement, heavy footsteps in empty corridors, slamming doors, cold spots, and faces said to appear in windows after dark.

Location

Activity location

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    Colonial Williamsburg Capitol Building
    • W Duke of Gloucester St,, Cool
    • 23185, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

Meeting/Redemption Point

  • PEOPLEPEOPLE
    101 W Duke of Gloucester St
    • 101 West Duke of Gloucester Street
    • 23185, Williamsburg, Virginia, United States

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