Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour

Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour is a two-hour guided evening walk through Savannah's historic district, run by 6th Sense World and booking from $36 per person at our July 30, 2026 check. The operator markets it as an adults-only tour, but the listing's own adult age band starts at 16, so read the band rather than the label. The itinerary names six places, among them the Mercer Williams House, Forsyth Park, Taylor Square and 432 Abercorn Street, and flags every one of them as a pass-by, so this is street-level storytelling rather than a tour that goes indoors. The listing marks it wheelchair accessible and says it operates in all weather. It suits adults who want two hours of darker material with the record attached.

What you will see

The Mercer Williams House at 429 Bull Street carries the best documented story on the route. Construction began in 1860 to a design by the New York architect John S. Norris for General Hugh W. Mercer, stopped for the Civil War, and was finished about 1868 by the next owner, John Randolph Wilder, and nobody of the Mercer name ever lived in it (Wikipedia). The antiques dealer Jim Williams bought it from the Savannah Shriners in 1969 for $55,000. On May 2, 1981 he shot and killed Danny Lewis Hansford, 21, in the study (Wikipedia). Four trials followed, the only time in Georgia history one person has been tried four times for the same crime; Williams was acquitted in May 1989 and died in the house on January 14, 1990 (Wikipedia). The tour passes the house; the museum runs its own ground-floor tour and the upper floors are a private residence.

432 Abercorn Street is marketed as Savannah's most haunted house, and it is where the record is emptiest. It was built for Benjamin J. Wilson, an Irish immigrant and Civil War veteran, and dated to 1867 by its restoration architects. It stood largely vacant from 1987 for about three decades, which explains the photographs the legend travels with, and its restoration won a 2021 Historic Savannah Foundation award (Ward Architecture). The story told about Wilson, that he tied a daughter to a chair at the front window until she died and then shot himself, fails 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, a different Savannah operator, prints the correction on its own page: 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 1950s or 1960s triple murder, an attempted purchase by Anton LaVey and a vanished art student, has no newspaper, police or court record behind it. It is a private home, so read about it rather than calling on it.

Taylor Square was laid out in 1851 and dedicated to John C. Calhoun, its creation recorded in the Savannah Daily Republican of March 21, 1851 (Wikipedia). The ground appears in records as a burial ground for Black Savannahians, a strangers' burial ground and a potter's field. In 1855 the remains of two enslaved people recorded as Emily and Rinah were removed to Laurel Grove Cemetery and the Massie Common School House went up on the south side; in 2004 utility workers uncovered a skull outside the Massie Heritage Interpretation Center. The premise here is documented rather than invented, though radar work under a National Park Service grant did not show mass graves still present, and the body counts that circulate for this square have nothing behind them. The name changed in two steps: council voted on November 10, 2022 to remove Calhoun's name over his defense of slavery, the square went about nine months with no name at all, and in August 2023 council named it for Susie King Taylor (WTOC), who was born into slavery in Liberty County in 1848, served with the 33rd United States Colored Troops and published her memoir in 1902 (Documenting the American South).

The listing also names Forsyth Park, the historic district in general, and Clary's Cafe, where the operator says the group meets. We carry no documented history for Forsyth Park, so we make no claim about it here. Every entry is flagged as a pass-by, which means sidewalks and squares rather than doorways, and no admission appears on the listing. And 432 Abercorn Street faces Taylor Square, so the two arrive together: the burial ground under the square is documented, the murders attached to the house facing it are not, and the first is no evidence for the second.

Who it suits

Two hours on foot in the evening, an adult band starting at 16 and no child rate: this is an adults' walk rather than a family outing, and a fuller evening than the 90-minute standard. Only one of the twelve Savannah listings we checked runs longer, and this one is marked wheelchair accessible.

• Skip it if anyone in your party is under 16. The listing shows no child or infant band.
• Skip it if you want to go inside. Every stop is flagged as a pass-by, and the Mercer Williams House museum runs its ground-floor tour separately.
• Skip it if you want equipment in hand. No inclusions were captured at our check.
• Skip it if you want a shorter walk. Six of the twelve listings we checked run under two hours.
• Ask the operator first if someone is over 80. Of the nine Savannah age bands we banked, only this one stops at 80.

How it compares

Savannah's ghost-tour field is crowded, and this listing competes on length and access rather than on rating. Savannah History and Haunts Candlelit Ghost Walking Tour is $39 for 90 minutes and pairs the top rating in the twelve Savannah listings we checked, 4.9, with the largest sample in that set, 3,445. 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 only one in that set flagged as likely to sell out.

Haunted Savannah Booze and Boos Ghost Walking Tour is the only one of those twelve that runs longer, three hours for $39.92, but it is 21 and over and not wheelchair accessible. At $36 this walk sits inside a $30 to $42.80 band, and its case is the length, the wheelchair marking and a floor of 16 rather than 21. Its weakness is the rating: five of the twelve rate higher than its 4.7 and one ties it. 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 $36 per person at our July 30, 2026 check, for two hours. Prices move, so confirm the rate on the booking page.

Is it really adults only?

The operator markets it that way, but the listing's own adult age band runs 16 to 80 and there is no child or infant band. Sixteen is the floor; the label is not the threshold.

Where does it meet, and can I turn up on the night?

Outside Clary's Cafe, per the operator, and advance reservations are required, so it is not a walk-up. No street address was captured at our check, so take it from the booking page.

Does the tour go inside the Mercer Williams House?

No. Every entry on this itinerary is flagged as a pass-by. The house museum runs its own ground-floor tour, and the upper floors are a private residence.

Is the 432 Abercorn Street story true?

No. Benjamin Wilson died in Colorado in 1896 of natural causes, and both of his daughters grew up and married. Ghost City Tours, which sells the legend elsewhere in the city, prints that correction on its own page. It is a private home, so read about it rather than calling on it.

Why is it Taylor Square and not Calhoun Square?

Savannah City Council voted on November 10, 2022 to remove John C. Calhoun's name over his defense of slavery, and in August 2023 named the square for Susie King Taylor. Some tour copy still says Calhoun Square; Taylor Square is current.