The Ultimate Greenwich Village Ghost Tour

Bring your curiosity, morbid fascinations, and love of NYC history

This 2-hour walking tour presents our favorite Greenwich Village ghost stories, all handpicked by our guides. (Think of it as our Staff Picks!) This tour is ideal for history lovers and spooky people alike, and for anyone seeking a classic Greenwich Village ghost tour.

Washington Square is the beating heart at the center of Greenwich Village, and this tour focuses on its immediate environs and areas nearby: the site of the former Potter’s Field in the park itself, Washington Arch and the “Hangman’s Elm,” the Edgar Allan Poe house, the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory, the “House of Death,” and more. Our guides will share their favorite unforgettable, stranger-than-fiction histories and ghostly tales with you at each notoriously haunted location.

We’ll delve into the history behind the hauntings as we situate these stories within the broader narrative of Greenwich Village. How do turbulent events create enduring local legends whose influence lingers long after living memory has faded? How do we reuse land in New York City, overwriting sacred spaces and places where tragedy occurred? Who gets to tell the stories of these places or determine how they are memorialized? Are the residual hauntings here simply the accumulated weight of all those lives and deaths? And what’s the difference between a ghost and a haunting, anyway? You’ll learn all of this and more, as we untangle the complex relationships between the troubling past and the spectral present.

Bring your curiosity, morbid fascinations, and love of NYC history… and decide for yourself whether these ghosts are simply tall tales, or if they reveal something more.

19th Century, Cemeteries, death and burial, Local Legends, Paranormal, true crime