Cursed in Chattanooga Haunted Walking Tour is a 90-minute downtown night walk from Ghost City Tours of Chattanooga, booking from $34.99 per person at our August 3, 2026 check, when it carried 4.4 from 95 Viator reviews. It runs 13 March to 28 November 2026 and not outside that window: after 28 November it is closed for the season rather than sold out. Seven entries are named on the itinerary, the most of the four Chattanooga ghost tours bookable at our check, inside about four downtown blocks. All of them are private property or working businesses, so this is a sidewalk walk. The booking form posts one adult band starting at 16 and the listing states no age rule, so we print no threshold; confirm at booking.
| Detail | What the listing shows |
|---|---|
| From price | $34.99 per person (checked August 3, 2026), the dearest of the four Chattanooga ghost tours bookable at that check |
| Duration | 1 hour 30 minutes (checked August 3, 2026) |
| Season | Posted departure window March 13 to November 28, 2026 (checked August 3, 2026). Outside it the tour is closed for the season, not sold out. No 2027 window was posted. |
| When | Night. A 9:00 pm start was listed at our July 29, 2026 check and our August 1, 2026 pull returned no start times, so that time is single-sourced. Take the departure from the booking page. |
| Stops named | Seven, in listing order: Miller Plaza Pavilion, The Read House Hotel Downtown, Mountain City Club, Fischer Evans Jewelers, Cherry Street Tavern, The Double Cola Company, and the corner of Cherry Street and East 4th Street (checked August 1, 2026). No pass-by flags were recorded for any Chattanooga listing, so pass-by status is unknown rather than ruled out. |
| Ages | The booking form posts one band, adult 16 to 100 (checked August 1, 2026), and our July 29, 2026 additional-information check found no age line at all, only a note that most travelers can participate. The product's own booking address still carries older age wording the live title has dropped, so the sources do not agree; we print no threshold, and you should confirm at booking. |
| Group size | Posted maximum of 30 travelers (checked August 1, 2026) |
| Meeting point | The corner of E M L King Boulevard and Market Street, which the listing gives as Miller Park Plaza; the pavilion stands in Miller Plaza (checked August 1, 2026) |
| Accessibility | Not wheelchair accessible (checked August 1, 2026). Stroller access was not captured, so we print none. |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation flagged at our August 3, 2026 check, and free up to 24 hours in advance at our July 29, 2026 check. Confirmation at the time of booking. |
| Rating | 4.4 from 95 Viator reviews (checked August 3, 2026), the lowest rating of the four bookable Chattanooga ghost tours |
| Included | Not captured on the listing data we verified, so we print none |
| Operator | Ghost City Tours of Chattanooga, a multi-city operator. We do not run this tour. |
What you will see
Seven entries inside roughly four downtown blocks. Six are real places, researched below; the seventh, the corner of Cherry Street and East 4th Street, is a bare intersection with nothing attached to it. Everything on the route is private property or a working business, and the hours make that concrete: Miller Plaza closes to the public at 3 p.m., the Mountain City Club is members-only, and the jeweller shuts at 5:30 p.m. on weekdays. The operator's own tour page names only four stops, including a Former Lee House that is not on the booking listing at all; we publish the listing's seven and do not add it.
Miller Plaza, at 850 Market Street, is a privately owned park run by River City Company, opened in 1988 on two sources: the Downtown Chattanooga Historic District nomination and John Shearer's 2017 account. The enclosed Waterhouse Pavilion stands in its southwest corner at M.L. King Boulevard and Market Street, the corner the listing names as the meeting point. The listing writes it as Miller Park Plaza, which mashes two places together: Miller Park is the block south, city-owned and older at 1976, and its name honours attorney Burkett Miller's parents rather than Burkett Miller himself.
The Read House Hotel is the anchor, and the one stop no other Chattanooga listing names. Thomas Crutchfield built the Crutchfield House here in 1847-48. It burned on the evening of Friday 20 September 1867, and the wire dispatch filed that night reports "several narrow escapes, but no lives were lost." What followed is not built on those ashes: the Crutchfield House was razed after the war for a three-story office building, which Dr. Read bought unfinished and converted, and the first Read House opened on 1 January 1872. The present ten-story hotel, by Martin Roche of Holabird and Roche at a cost of $2,500,000, opened on 4 July 1926 and was listed on the National Register in 1976, reference 76001780; the nomination calls it Georgian Revival, not Beaux-Arts. The historic tower reopened in October 2018 after a $27 million renovation, 141 renovated rooms out of 242.
Room 311 is what the tour trade comes for, and the hotel is the primary teller. Its website says the room is haunted by "the ghost of Annalisa Netherly", a guest it says was allegedly beheaded in the bathtub by a jealous lover in 1927, while its own history timeline says her husband found her with another man and "He slits her throat while she's bathing." Nobody telling the story has produced a record of her, and the hotel itself calls it legend. Two things we will not tell you: that guests sleep in the room where she died, since the 2018 renovation rebuilt every room in the tower down to the walls and whether today's Room 311 occupies the same ones is unresolved, and that Al Capone stayed there behind iron bars, which is unverified and sits badly beside a federal tax trial held in Chicago. The Civil War hospital story is thinner than it sounds too: what is contemporaneously documented is twenty smallpox cases at the Crutchfield House in late 1862, while the town was still Confederate-held, and Union forces did not occupy Chattanooga until 9 September 1863.
The other named businesses are quieter and better documented. The Mountain City Club is a private business club chartered in 1889, not the 1892 its own timeline opens with; it occupied 729 Chestnut Street from 1975 until the $9 million sale of that building closed in the week of 4 April 2024, and it settled into 216 W Eighth Street during 2024, so do not look for it at Eighth and Chestnut. Fischer Evans Jewelers was founded in 1869 under W.F. "Will" Fischer with his brother Lou, while the building at 801-03 Market Street dates to 1875 and is the historic district's earliest surviving resource. Those are two dates, not one. The street clock went up in 1883 as an advertisement, though a truck knocked its top off and it was still down as of March 2009, so check before taking a guide's word on it.
Cherry Street Tavern is the stop that gets aged up in the telling. The building at 719 Cherry Street is inventoried as a circa 1920 three-storey brick commercial building contributing to the historic district, and the nomination records no boarding house, store or speakeasy there. The business is new: the city beer board approved its permit on 21 January 2021, and its owners rebranded the former Mad Priest Coffee and Cocktails space. The Double Cola Company is a corporate address rather than a historic plant: Charles D. Little and Joe S. Foster founded the Good Grape Company in 1922, and the headquarters moved to Market Street downtown in 1999. The 1954 plant stood on Broad Street.
Who it suits
Older teenagers and adults who want named downtown buildings rather than a generic haunted walk, and who are content to see all of them from the sidewalk. Ninety minutes, about four blocks, in a group of up to thirty. It is also the walk to pick if the Read House is the reason you are booking, since no other Chattanooga listing names it.
- Skip it if you need wheelchair access. The listing is not marked accessible.
- Skip it if you want to go inside the Read House or any other stop; every one is private property or a working business.
- Skip it if you are visiting between 29 November and 12 March, when it does not run at all.
How it compares
Seven named entries is the most of the four Chattanooga ghost tours bookable at our August 3, 2026 check, against six for its sibling and none published at all by Murder and Mayhem. At $34.99 it is the dearest of the four: $5.00 above Chattanooga Ghosts and Legends at $29.99, $1.04 above the cemetery ghost hunt at $33.95, and $9.10 above Murder and Mayhem at $25.89. It is also the lowest rated at 4.4, where the other three sit at 4.6, on a base of 95 reviews out of the 691 the four carry between them. It shares its operator, cap of thirty and exact seasonal window with the family walk, the same route family pitched younger and $5.00 cheaper. Two more Chattanooga ghost listings we carry pages for, ChattaBOOga Ghost Hunt and the Ghost and Booze crawl, were out of stock at our August 2, 2026 check and are excluded from every count here. For the rest of the city, see haunted places in Chattanooga.
Questions people ask
When does it run?
13 March to 28 November 2026 is the posted departure window. Outside it the tour is closed for the season rather than sold out, and no 2027 window was posted at our August 3, 2026 check.
Is there a minimum age?
The booking form posts a single adult band starting at 16, and the listing states no age rule. The product's own web address still carries older adults-only wording that the live title has dropped, so the two sources disagree; check at booking rather than relying on a threshold, because we will not print one.
Where does it start?
The corner of E M L King Boulevard and Market Street, at the pavilion in Miller Plaza. The listing writes that corner as Miller Park Plaza, but Miller Park is a separate, city-owned block to the south.
Do you go inside the Read House?
The listing names the hotel as a stop and says nothing about entering it, and every stop on the route is private property or a working business. Assume a sidewalk view.
Is it accessible, and how big is the group?
It is not listed wheelchair accessible, and stroller access was not captured on the data we verified. The group is capped at thirty, and cancellation is free up to 24 hours ahead.
