The Research Desk · Flagstaff, Tucson & Prescott
Research-first ghost stories, true crime and Arizona history from the team that walks these streets every night. Every name checked, every date verified, every legend traced back to the record.
Summer 1937, Flagstaff. The heaviest story we tell, and the one we tell most carefully. Local author Susan Johnson researched the Walkup case for years and shared it on Travel Channel's The Dead Files in 2022. Here is the story, from the record, with respect.
Railroads, lumber, a movie palace and a mountain town growing up fast. The century that built the streets our tours walk today.
The shelf we actually pull from. Twelve books worth your nightstand, chosen by a team that includes the author of one of them.
From the Hassayampa Inn in Prescott to the Hotel Monte Vista in Flagstaff, five historic hotels where the front desk is not the only thing keeping watch.
The lanterns, the route, the hotels and the one question every guest asks at Wheeler Park. A first-timer's honest walkthrough.
Prescott was Arizona's first territorial capital, and one full day there covers Courthouse Plaza, Whiskey Row and more history per block than most states manage.
Arizona's night skies have a reputation, and so do its old mining towns. Where the state's strangest reports and its oldest ghost stories overlap.
Short accounts from all three of our towns: a theater in Tucson, a hotel hallway in Flagstaff and a saloon that never quite closes in Prescott.
Tonight, 7 PM, Downtown
Every tale on this page has a street address. Join a small group tonight in Flagstaff, Tucson or Prescott and hear the rest from a guide who lives there.
