Author: BotD Assistant

This November, join Boroughs of the Dead for a stroll into the dark, twisted criminal history of our city as we present two new true crime tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn. Gotham by Gaslight: A Victorian True Crime Tour takes us to the 19th century, a bloody and violent era when the city seethed with […]

Have you ever wondered how Edgar Allan Poe really died? What actually happened on that mysterious night in October, 1849? Was Poe a victim of “cooping”? Did he have an unknown disease? Or was it… something else? This October, get ready to quiz author Mark Dawidziak on the mysterious death of Edgar Allan Poe at our next book talk on October 8th at […]

During the month of September, Boroughs of the Dead is offering two tours in collaboration with the Merchant’s House Museum. In honor of Gertrude Tredwell’s birthday (September 17, 1840) you can visit the historic home before your Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village tour: just select the “Museum Tour” add-on at checkout to take a one-hour […]

Book now and save $5 off any regular ghost tour with promo code EARLYBIRD when you book by Labor Day! Did you know? 2024 marks the 400th anniversary of New Amsterdam / New York City (founded in 1624) and Boroughs of the Dead is marking the occasion with an epic series of walking tours designed to reflect […]

This summer, take 15% off regular Boroughs of the Dead ghost tours with our Spooky Summer Sale! Enjoy any of our Manhattan and Brooklyn ghost tours for only $30 through August 18th. No discount code needed! Tours include Forgotten Dark Histories of Lower Manhattan, The Ultimate Greenwich Village Ghost Tour, West Village Ghosts, and Haunted […]

Happy birthday to us! New York City’s favorite ghost tour company turns TEN years old this week! For the past decade, we’ve explored dark and hidden histories, medical and women’s history, the spectral, the occult, and other urban hauntings.  On October 7th, 2013, we started with two ghost tours of Greenwich Village and Lower Manhattan, and our all-time favorite, […]

In honor of the anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, which took place on March 25, 1911, we’re sharing a chapter from our new book. The following is an excerpt from A HAUNTED HISTORY OF INVISIBLE WOMEN by Leanna Renee Hieber and Andrea Janes, reprinted with permission from Kensington Books. Copyright 2022   Carnations in […]

Thank you for a great year! Our 2022 season has wrapped; we look forward to seeing you again in 2023! Check this space or sign up for our newsletter for info on future tours and events. Our new book A Haunted History of Invisible Women, from BotD founder Andrea Janes and guide Leanna Renee Hieber, […]

I’ve always been fond of ghost stories in the summertime. Some of my fondest childhood memories are of reading ghost story anthologies in my room on warm August nights, having convinced my grandma to buy me pulpy paperbacks with garish covers over the school break. Other rites of passage — staying up late, telling ghost […]