It’s one thing when you explore a city’s history, but it’s quite another when the history explores you back. Ghost tours have become colorful activities for groups, emphasizing each city’s background and “haunting” characters while making everyone wonder what’s really out there in the dark.
Nashville Ghost Tours scares up two types of tours: a walking tour by lantern light past some of the city’s most storied icons, including the Ryman Auditorium and the Tennessee State Capitol, and a tour of local pubs and bars, which delves into the grisly, titillating past of this music mecca.
Backbeat Tours takes guests through the eerie side of Beale Street and beyond with Haunted Memphis, including the old Voodoo Fields, plus a few of the city’s most paranormally active sites, such as Ernestine & Hazel’s, a former brothel, and the Orpheum Theatre, which has been reportedly haunted since the 1920s by a little girl named Mary.
If you want to seek out the ghosts yourself instead of just hearing the stories, check out Chattanooga Ghost Tours, which offers a ghost hunt through a cemetery and the campus at University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. Participants will have the latest gear for detecting paranormal activity, including EMF detectors, a field recorder, air temperature devices for locating cold spots and the new Ovilus X, a highly sensitive piece of equipment that supposedly allows ghosts and other entities to speak to investigators. The regular ghost tour through downtown Chattanooga was voted one of the top 10 ghost tours in the U.S. by TripAdvisor, and folks on the tour can even use some of the professional paranormal-hunting equipment on the tour if desired.
