Merchant’s House Museum Collaboration A Special Edition of Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village August 20, 2024 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 […]
Fall Tours Are Here for 2024! Book by Labor Day to Save with Promo Code EARLYBIRD July 31, 2024 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 […]
Spooky Summer Sale Take 15% off all regular ghost tours June 11, 2024 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 […]
Roosevelt Island tour | Nellie Bly birthday edition! February 28, 2024 On May 5, 2024, in honor of her birthday, we’re offering a special “Nellie Bly” edition of our Roosevelt Island tour! Nellie Bly was born on this day in 1864, making this year the 160th anniversary of her birth. Intrepid reporter Nellie Bly shocked the world when she went undercover to report on the conditions at […]
South Street Seaport Ghost Tour Ghosts of the Seaport, a phantasmagoria of nautical ghosts, vengeful spirits, pirates, and other waterfront phantoms. February 19, 2024 THE CITY’S ONLY SEAPORT GHOST TOUR This is the city’s only South Street Seaport ghost tour, and the first to focus specifically on the spectral and supernatural side of the seaport. Nautical lore is filled with ghost stories and sailor superstitions, and we’re so excited to finally have an appropriately haunted walking tour of this […]
Mortimer and the Witches Walking Tour Mortimer and the Witches Walking Tour January 17, 2024 This walking tour, released in conjunction with a book written by our very our tour guide Marie Carter, Mortimer and the Witches, takes us through the bustling and elegant historically-rich streets of Union Square, Stuyvesant Square, and Gramercy Park. Mortimer Thomson, the journalist who wrote under the pseudonym, Q.K. Phlander Doesticks, P.B. went undercover in 1857 […]
Love and Death: A Ghost Tour for Valentine’s Day January 9, 2024 Nothing goes better together than love and death! And what could be more romantic than a stroll on a winter’s eve as you listen to ghost stories and strange tales of NYC’s haunting history with Boroughs of the Dead? On this 90-minute walking tour you’ll hear thrilling tales of dark romance, including a brokenhearted spinster […]
Boroughs of the Dead celebrates our 10th anniversary! October 3, 2023 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, […]
Industrial Monsters Ghosts of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory March 24, 2023 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 […]