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Best Ghost Tours & Haunted History Walks Near Orlando, Kissimmee & St. Augustine
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items Central Florida is older and spookier than the theme parks let on. These are the best ghost tours, haunted history walks and paranormal experiences within a short drive of Orlando and Kissimmee, from downtown Orlando and Sanford to Cassadaga and St. ...
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The OG Orlando ghost tour, walking the old brick streets downtown with real ghost-hunting gear in hand. They also run pub crawls and tours of the haunted Greenwood Cemetery. Book the Friday night walk and grab a drink on Wall Street after.
American Ghost Adventures (Downtown Orlando)
The Trolley of the Doomed: a night ride through the nation's oldest city with stops inside the Old Jail and the Old Drug Store. Cheesy in the best way and easy on the feet. Two hours from Kissimmee, so plan an overnight.
Ghosts & Gravestones Tour St. Augustine
Featured on Ghost Hunters for a reason. The Dark of the Moon tour lets you climb the 219 steps after dark and poke around the keeper's house with EMF meters. The lighthouse's drowned-girls legend will stick with you on the drive home.
St. Augustine Lighthouse: Dark of the Moon Ghost Tour
The Psychic Capital of the World is an hour north of Kissimmee, and it's weird in the best way: a century-old spiritualist village with mediums, a hotel that's supposedly very haunted, and camp-run historic and orb-photography tours on weekends. Go w...
Cassadaga Spiritualist Camp: Historic & Haunted Tours
Historic downtown Sanford has more brick, more bars and more ghosts per block than anywhere else in Orlando's orbit. This walking tour mixes real local history with the creepy stuff, and it ends right by the breweries on First Street.
Sanford Ghost Tours
A one-hour, story-driven walk through downtown Orlando's darker past, from the old courthouse to Lake Eola. Less gadgets, more history, and a good pick if you've got out-of-town guests who want something besides Disney for a night.
Haunted Orlando Ghost Tour (US Ghost Adventures)
The adults-only option in St. Augustine: a haunted pub crawl through the old city's most haunted bars, plus real paranormal investigations with equipment inside private historic buildings. The pub crawl is the best bachelor-party idea I've got.
Ghost Augustine: Haunted Pub Crawl & Paranormal Investigations
Built in 1891 and used until the 1950s, complete with gallows and the original cells. The daytime tour with the costumed deputies is fun for kids; the after-dark version is a different animal. Go once in daylight, then come back at night.
The Old Jail (St. Augustine)
The classic lantern-lit walking tour of St. Augustine's old town, led by guides in period costume who actually know the history. Family-friendly, about 90 minutes, and it starts a block from the Plaza so you can grab dinner first.
A Ghostly Encounter Walking Tour (St. Augustine)
Orlando's 1880 city cemetery runs free Moonlight Walking Tours led by the sexton, and they are the best history lesson in town: founders, epidemics, the Sunland hospital kids. Tickets release online and vanish in minutes, so set a reminder.
Greenwood Cemetery Moonlight Walking Tour (Orlando)
Bring your own meter and you'll get way more out of any of these tours than sharing the guide's one unit. This K2-style kit lights up in the same way the ones on TV do, and it's a fun toy for the kids at a haunted hotel.
EMF Meter Ghost Hunting Kit
Quick, fun read that covers the legends behind half the stops on this list, from the St. Augustine lighthouse to Cassadaga. Read it in the car on the way up and you'll be the one telling the guide stories.
Haunted Florida: Ghosts & Strange Phenomena
The same radio-sweep box the TV ghost hunters use. Whether you believe or not, running one in an old St. Augustine inn at midnight is a memory your friends will talk about for years. Bring headphones.
P-SB7 Spirit Box (EVP Ghost Hunting)
If you're making St. Augustine an overnight, stay somewhere with its own ghost stories. This 1888 Moorish castle of a hotel is walking distance to every tour on this list, and the staff will happily tell you which floors get the reports.
Casa Monica Resort & Spa (Haunted Hotel Stay, St. Augustine)
The 350-year-old Spanish fort is where most St. Augustine ghost walks end, and the dungeon-room legends are the good stuff. Go inside during the day (cheap, and kids love the cannons) so the night tour stories land harder.
Castillo de San Marcos National Monument