Haunted Boston Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour

Haunted Boston Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour is a two-and-a-half-hour evening pub walk from Nightly Spirits, booking from $36.16 per person at our August 2, 2026 check. The age rule is real: the listing states all guests must be 21 or over with valid ID, and its only booking band runs 21 to 99. A guide meets the group at The Last Hurrah, the bar inside the Omni Parker House at 60 School Street, and six stops are named. It is the longest of the four guided Boston ghost listings we track, its 4.6 from 161 Viator reviews shares the best rating of those four, and it was flagged likely to sell out on August 2, 2026. It is listed not wheelchair accessible.

What you will see

Six stops, all named by the listing, four of them flagged pass-by. The other two are one address: The Last Hurrah is the bar inside the Omni Parker House and the stated meeting point, and we hold no research on the bar beyond that. What the ticket covers was not captured, so check the inclusions before you pay.

King's Chapel Burying Ground dates to 1630 and is called Boston Proper's first, or oldest, burying place. Keep that qualifier: it is a claim about Boston Proper, not the whole modern city. The chapel and the burying ground are two different institutions with two different owners. In 1688 the Royal Governor, Andros, and the Council appropriated part of the ground's corner for the town's first Anglican church, after the congregation's own attempts to buy property had failed; the wooden chapel opened on 30 June 1688 and the granite building went up around it between 1749 and 1754. A 1985 survey counted 586 surviving markers against well over a thousand interments, and the crypt holds 21 tombs and roughly 150 people. The stones here have been moved too. William Dawes is very probably not buried here, the Isaac Johnson burial is tradition rather than record, and nobody should tell you Hawthorne built Hester Prynne out of Elizabeth Pain.

The Granary Burying Ground was established in 1660 as Boston Proper's third, not its oldest and not its first, and took its name in 1737 from a granary moved to the site Park Street Church now occupies. Roughly 2,345 markers stand over more than 5,000 burials, the stones were rearranged into rows, and so the stones do not mark the bodies. The Massacre dead went in at two funerals rather than one, four after the procession of 8 March 1770 and Patrick Carr later. Mother Goose is not buried here. Benjamin Franklin is not here, though his parents are. The severed-hands story about John Hancock has no documentary basis, and we print no tomb number for Samuel Adams. One thing to hold at arm's length: Nightly Spirits' own Granary material has Paul Revere seen riding the horse of 1775. Nothing in the record documents that, and we pass it on as the operator's claim rather than as fact.

Beacon Hill takes its name from a beacon that, by Historic New England's account, was never lit. The General Court ordered it in 1634 and a storm took it down in November 1789; Bulfinch's column of 1790 and 1791 followed in July 1811 as the summit was cut away, the hill losing roughly sixty feet between about 1807 and 1832. There is no beacon on Beacon Hill now, its earth did not fill the Back Bay, Louisa May Alcott did not die at 10 Louisburg Square, and the purple windows are neither decorative nor deliberate. Its most famous horror story is not its own either: Dr. George Parkman left 8 Walnut Street on 23 November 1849 and his remains were found on 30 November in Professor John White Webster's laboratory, at the Harvard Medical College on North Grove Street rather than on this hill. Webster was hanged on 30 August 1850.

Old City Hall is the Second Empire building of 1862 to 1865, and it served 38 mayors until 1969. Nothing above ground here is colonial. Boston Latin School was founded on 23 April 1635 and the town built the first schoolhouse beside the Scottow property in 1645, but that schoolhouse is not directly under the building, and Franklin was neither born on this site nor a graduate of the school. In 2015 city archaeologists cut four trenches in the courtyard, recovered 8,104 artifacts and concluded that the schoolmaster's house survives underground. No named spirit, dated sighting or documented incident attaches to Old City Hall, and we do not invent one.

The Omni Parker House, where the walk starts, opened on 8 October 1855, and Charlotte Cushman died in it on 18 February 1876. The 1855 building was demolished from November 1925 and the present hotel opened on 12 May 1927, which is why Dickens's room no longer exists and neither does the hotel he stayed in. He did not write A Christmas Carol here; that was London in 1843. Harvey Parker did not die in the hotel, Stephen King's "1408" was not based on room 303, and the Ho Chi Minh kitchen job is unverified. The best-provenanced ghost report attached to the building is not a guide's: Becca Hensley described an elevator delivering itself to the third floor, writing in the Austin American-Statesman in 2010. Cushman's death here is documented. The floor it happened on is not.

Who it suits

Adults with ID who want the bar frame around their ghost stories and can stand two and a half hours on Beacon Hill brick. It is the longest of the four guided Boston listings we track, the only one that is 21 and over, and the only one whose meeting point was captured at all: a named bar, indoors, which on a cold night matters.

• Not for under-21s. The listing states all guests must be 21 or over with valid ID and carries a single 21 to 99 band.
• Not for wheelchair users. It was marked not accessible at both our July 29 and July 31, 2026 checks. One guided Boston walk we track is flagged accessible; this is not it.
• Not a short, cheap overview. At 2 hours 30 minutes and $36.16 it is the longest of the four and second only to the trolley on price.

How it compares

This is the only pub-format ghost product in our Boston set and the only one of the four guided listings with a 21-and-over band; the two self-guided Boston products published no age band at all on July 31, 2026. Against Underground Boston Ghost Tours: Gravestones and Gunpowder ($26, one hour, 4.2 from 269 reviews, and the one Boston walk we track flagged wheelchair accessible), Boston's Haunted Historic Streets Walking Tour ($34, 1 hour 30 minutes, 4.6 from 190 reviews) and the Boston Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley Tour ($46.20, two hours seated, 4.4 from 2,570 reviews), this is the longest and the second priciest, and its 4.6 ties the ExperienceFirst walk for the best of the four. Those figures are from our August 2, 2026 check, and the denominator of four leaves out two self-guided Boston products we neither rate nor rank. Nightly Spirits also supplies the pub walks on our Savannah, Charleston, Chicago and San Antonio pages. Our Boston page has the rest of the city.

Questions people ask

Is this guided, or an app?

Guided. The listing carries no self-guided or private-tour marker, has a staffed meeting point and an ID check at the door, and Boston's self-guided ghost walks are separate listings.

How old do I have to be?

Twenty-one, with valid ID. The listing says so outright and carries a single band running 21 to 99.

Where does it start?

The Last Hurrah, the bar inside the Omni Parker House at 60 School Street. No end point is published, so ask where the walk finishes if you need to plan the ride home.

How long is it, and when does it run?

Two hours 30 minutes, in the evening per our July 29, 2026 facts pass. No clock start time is verified.

Is it wheelchair accessible?

No. It was marked not accessible at both our July 29 and July 31, 2026 checks. Accessibility varies listing by listing in Boston, so check each one rather than assuming a pattern.

Can I cancel, and will it sell out?

Free cancellation was flagged on August 2, 2026, and free to 24 hours out at our July 29 facts pass. It also carried a likely-to-sell-out flag that day, a live signal rather than a permanent attribute, so book early.