Savannah's Ghost City Dead of Night Walking Night Tour is a 90-minute guided night walk run by Ghost City Tours, a multi-city brand that also runs tours in New Orleans, Charleston and Philadelphia. It books from $34.99 per person at our July 30, 2026 check, runs after dark and takes up to 30 people. The listing sets a minimum age of 16 years and is marked wheelchair accessible. It names six stops: Johnson Square, Colonial Park Cemetery, the Marshall House, 432 Abercorn Street, the Sorrel-Weed House and Wright Square. It suits visitors who want the standard Savannah circuit at the low end of the price band and would rather know which stories survive checking.
| Detail | What the listing shows |
|---|---|
| From price | $34.99 per person (checked July 30, 2026) |
| Duration | 1 hour 30 minutes |
| When it runs | Night. No clock time verified. |
| Minimum age | 16 years, per the listing. No child rate. |
| Group size | Up to 30 people |
| Accessibility | Marked wheelchair accessible. Moderate fitness level. |
| Meeting point | No meeting point verified. Confirm when you book. |
| Cancellation | Free cancellation up to 24 hours before |
| Rating | 4.4 from 2,556 Viator reviews, third-largest sample of the twelve Savannah listings checked |
| Operator | Ghost City Tours. We do not run this tour. |
What you will see
432 Abercorn Street is the stop this route is built around and the one where the record is emptiest. The house was built for Benjamin J. Wilson, an Irish immigrant and Civil War veteran, and dated by its restoration architects to 1867 (Ward Architecture). The house is marketed on a story about him that the record contradicts at every point. He died on February 15, 1896 at Colorado Springs, Colorado, of natural causes, and both daughters, Carrie Wilson Tye and Mary Dell Wilson Potts, grew up and married (Savannah First-Timer's Guide). Ghost City Tours, which runs this tour, prints the correction on its own page about the house: Wilson "did not commit suicide at 432 Abercorn" and "passed away peacefully in 1896, in the state of Colorado." The rest of the legend, a triple murder in the house, an attempted purchase by Anton LaVey and a vanished art student, has no newspaper, police or court record behind it.
The Sorrel-Weed House at 6 West Harris Street was completed in 1840 for the shipping merchant Francis Sorrel, and in 1954 became one of the first two properties in Georgia designated a State Landmark (Georgia Historical Society). Most Savannah ghost tours tell you Matilda Sorrel went out an upper window of this house. She did, in March 1860, but not in this building: Sorrel had sold it to Henry D. Weed for $23,000 in June 1859 and moved next door to 12 West Harris Street, where a letter by Charles C. Jones, Jr., dated March 7, 1860, places her fall, "next door to the house which was the family mansion for so many years" (Savannah First-Timer's Guide). The day is disputed, so March 1860 is as far as the record goes, and no document names the enslaved woman the story calls Molly.
Colonial Park Cemetery is the oldest burial ground in the city that survives intact and is open to the public. It closed to burials on July 1, 1853 and took its last official interment, an eight-year-old, on April 19, 1861 (Jefferson Hall). Union troops occupied Savannah on December 24, 1864 and camped here, but Hall's reading of the vandalism record puts most of the damage on local hands over more than a century, not on Sherman's men. The burial records do not establish a mass grave of 700 yellow fever victims, and there was no dueling ground on the south side: that land was the City Pound, an animal impound lot set up in April 1810. What is real is the arithmetic, 13,345 registered Savannah deaths between 1803 and 1853 against fewer than 700 headstones still standing.
The Marshall House at 123 East Broughton Street opened in 1851 and served as a yellow fever hospital, then as a Union Army hospital in the winter of 1864 to 1865 (The Marshall House). The bones said to have come up under the floorboards in the 1998 to 1999 restoration, and called amputated limbs from that hospital, are the part every tour tells and nobody has sourced. The hotel's own history page lists artifacts and no human remains, and the Savannah First-Timer's Guide writer, who printed the story herself, reported "I haven't found any newspaper clippings to support it" (Savannah First-Timer's Guide). Frozen ground, the usual explanation, is not a December condition on the Georgia coast. Johnson Square, marked off on February 9, 1733, was the first of Savannah's squares and holds Nathanael Greene, lost for 115 years before his 1902 reinterment there (Georgia Historical Society). Wright Square is sold as the hanging square for Alice Riley, hanged in January 1735 and the first woman executed in Georgia, but no courthouse stood in that ward until 1736, so the site of that execution is unknown (Jefferson Hall on Alice Riley), and the moss that will not grow there is a maintenance decision the City took across eleven squares north of Oglethorpe Avenue, not a curse (Hall on tour-guide lore).
Who it suits
Ninety minutes on foot after dark, a 16-year floor and a group that can reach 30: this is a listening walk, not a small-group outing. It suits people who want the famous addresses with the documented history attached.
- Skip it if anyone in your party is under 16. The listing shows no child rate.
- Skip it if you want a small group. Savannah Ghostwalker and the Booze and Boos crawl cap at 16.
- Skip it if you want equipment in hand. Nothing on this listing includes ghost-hunting gear.
- Weigh the rating first. Seven of the twelve Savannah listings we checked rate higher than this 4.4.
How it compares
Savannah's ghost-tour field is crowded. Savannah History and Haunts Candlelit Ghost Walking Tour costs $39 for the same 90 minutes and pairs the top rating in the twelve Savannah listings we checked, 4.9, with the largest review count in that set, 3,445, plus the same 30-person cap and a floor of 13. Genteel and Bard's Savannah Dark History and Ghost Encounter Walking Tour is $35 for 1 hour 50 minutes, rates 4.8 across 1,700, caps at 22, takes children from 8, and was the one listing in that set flagged as likely to sell out.
Savannah Ghostwalker Tour and Ghost Hunt is $35 for 90 minutes and built around a hunt, but it is non-refundable and not wheelchair accessible. The Dead of Night case is price and access: $34.99, the lowest of those four though by a single cent, free cancellation up to 24 hours, and wheelchair access. Its weakness is the rating. For the wider field, see Savannah ghost tours compared and our roundup of Savannah ghost tours.
Questions people ask
How much is it and how long?
From $34.99 per person at our July 30, 2026 check, for 1 hour 30 minutes. Confirm the rate on the booking page.
What time does it start?
It runs at night. No clock departure time was verified at our check, so take it from the booking page.
How old do you have to be?
The listing states a minimum age of 16 years and shows no child rate.
Is the 432 Abercorn Street story true?
No. Benjamin Wilson died in Colorado in 1896 of natural causes, and both daughters grew up and married. Ghost City Tours prints that correction on its own page. It is a private home, so read about it rather than calling on it.
Did Matilda Sorrel die in the Sorrel-Weed House?
No. Sorrel sold the house to Henry D. Weed in June 1859, and the family was living next door at 12 West Harris Street when she died in March 1860.
