Est. 2015 · Flagstaff, Arizona
The story behind the tours.
Founded in 2015 with less than $150. Mother and son owned. Five generations of Arizona roots. Ten years and 30,000+ guests later, the mission is the same: keep local stories alive and lift as many local businesses and artists as possible.
The Founding · 2015
A mother, a son, and less than $150
Flagstaff, 2015. Susan Johnson had spent more than thirty years in this town, an author and researcher with a filing cabinet full of stories nobody else was telling. Her son Nick Jones knew how to run things. Together they started Freaky Foot Tours with less than $150. No investors. No franchise playbook. Just the research and a lantern.
Ten years later the company is still theirs. Flagstaff is home base. Tucson and Prescott joined the family. More than 30,000 guests have walked with us, and the stories still come first.
We are family-owned and woman-owned together. A mother and son with five generations of Arizona roots behind them. When you book with us, the money stays in the towns whose stories you came to hear.
By the Numbers
- Founded in Flagstaff
- 2015
- The entire startup budget
- <$150
- Guests guided since
- 30,000+
- Arizona towns: Flagstaff, Tucson, Prescott
- 3
- Generations of Arizona roots
- 5
- Verified reviews cross-platform
- 1,500+
The Mission
Freaky Foot Tours has never been about promoting itself. The mission is to keep local stories alive and lift as many local businesses and artists as possible through storytelling, fundraisers, promotions, and events.
How a Tour Gets Built
No scripts. No recordings. Just research.
Every story on every tour comes from Susan's original research. Court records. Newspaper archives. The kind of digging that ends up in published books, because in her case it did, three times.
Our guides do not recite scripts. They internalize that research and enhance it with their own personality, which is why every tour is slightly different. Same true stories. A different telling every night.
National Television · 2022
Travel Channel's The Dead Files came to Flagstaff
When the show built a special investigation around haunted Flagstaff, the crew turned to the people who walk these streets every night. Nick underwent paranormal testing on camera. Susan told the Walkup story on air. "The Haunting of Flagstaff" aired April 2, 2022.
Freaky Foot Tours owner Nick Jones undergoes some paranormal testing and local author Susan Johnson shares the story of the 1937 Walkup family murders.Arizona Daily Sun / Flag Live, Bree Burkitt, March 28, 2022 · Read the article
The Trophy Shelf
Awards we did not give ourselves
Voted, ranked or filmed by somebody else. The full clipping file lives on the press page.
Home base, downtown Flagstaff
120 N San Francisco St Unit J, Flagstaff, AZ 86001. It is also the physical home of The Wild Below and our Weird & Wild West merch line. Tours do not meet here: your ticket has your meeting point.
Keep Going
The rest of the story
Three Towns, One Family
Ten years in. The stories keep walking.
Ghost tours, history walks, mural tours and the Route 66 centennial walk across Flagstaff, Tucson and Prescott. Pick your town and we will handle the rest.