A decade of coverage: a national Travel Channel special, statewide broadcast segments, and the local papers of record in all three of our towns. Here is the file, every clipping linked to the source.
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The Anchor · National Television
Travel Channel came to Flagstaff. We were in the episode.
When The Dead Files built a two-part special around haunted Flagstaff, the crew turned to the people who walk these streets every night.
📺 Season 14 · Episode 12
✦ Featured · The Dead Files
Special Investigation: The Haunting of Flagstaff
Travel Channel · Aired April 2, 2022 · A two-part special investigation of haunted Flagstaff. Freaky Foot Tours contributed to the episode.
"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
National and statewide television, year after year
Discovery's Ghost Adventures came to Flagstaff in 2023, Phoenix's Arizona's Family has come back twice in two years, and NAU's newsroom walks the tour most Octobers. Sustained coverage, not a one-time mention.
National · EarnedGhost Adventures · Discovery
Fear in Flagstaff
Co-founder Susan Johnson was interviewed for the episode. It pairs with The Dead Files (2022) as the company's second national television credit.
Statewide · EarnedArizona's Family · 3TV / CBS 5 Phoenix
Flagstaff Haunted Tours put a spooky twist on local history
Mason Carroll's segment on the tours, with Nick on how it started: his mom "always wanted there to be a year-round ghost tour in Flagstaff. So in 2015, I was like let's make it, why not".
Partner Feature · SponsoredArizona's Family x Discover Flagstaff
Freaky Foot Tours offers thrills and chills in Flagstaff
A partner feature produced with Discover Flagstaff, the city's official destination marketing organization. Labeled here as sponsored content, because it is.
Susan Johnson, Co-founderAuthor · Historian · Columnist
The Columnist Credential
The person who researches these tours writes the town's history column.
Every week, co-founder Susan Johnson writes the "Flagstaff History" column for the Arizona Daily Sun, Flagstaff's paper of record. The stories on our tours come from the same desk.
✓Also carried by the Navajo-Hopi Observer, whose author bio notes she "has written two books for the History Press, Haunted Flagstaff and Flagstaff's Walkup Family Murders, and, with her son Nick, manages Freaky Foot Tours." Read a column.
✓Published author, three titles. Haunted Flagstaff, Wicked Flagstaff and The Walkup Family Murders, all from The History Press.
✓On national TV as the expert. She shared the Walkup story on Travel Channel's The Dead Files in 2022.
📕 Haunted Flagstaff📗 The Walkup Family Murders📘 Wicked Flagstaff
Expanding their spookiness: Freaky Foot Tours Flagstaff offers up new tour of city's Southside
Cody Bashore's feature confirms the Best of Flagstaff 2023 win and the company's locally owned status. The Southside route now lives on as a private tour.
The earliest interview in the file: co-founder Susan Johnson joins host Diane Student for a long-form episode on Flagstaff's haunted history, from the public library on down. From the episode notes: "Susan Johnson of Freaky Flagstaff Foottours joins me to share".
Not our words. These are the official destination organizations of Flagstaff and Tucson, quoted verbatim and linked to the source.
"Flagstaff's original ghost tour since 2015. 1,000+ five-star reviews. Voted Best of Flagstaff 2023, 2024, and 2025."
Discover Flagstaffflagstaffarizona.org, the city's official destination marketing organizationView the listing
Discover Flagstaff · Route 66 Centennial
The official centennial listing describes Freaky Foot Tours as "Flagstaff's trusted storyteller since 2015" and confirms the tour "is made possible with partial funding provided by the Historic Route 66 Association of Arizona."
"Echoes of the Past: Tucson's Haunted History with Sully McGinnis of Freaky Foot Tours" describes the company's "historically grounded ghost tours, blending factual research with spine-tingling storytelling".
Co-founder Susan Johnson was interviewed for the Discovery episode, aired June 21, 2023. The episode's cast list includes the company's historian and author.
Interviews with the founders are available: Nick Jones on the business and the tours, Susan Johnson on the history and the research. We answer press inquiries quickly and we bring receipts.
Media Inquiriesinfo@freakyfoottours.comOr call or text (928) 224-0518. Filming and photography on tour routes can usually be arranged with a few days' notice.
