Ghost Tours

The tickets have VANISHED! All Columbus Landmarks Original Annual Ghost Tours feature spine-tingling tales and true historic horror stories have SOLD OUT.

10.28.12 TOUR UPDATE: We are cancelling today’s OSU Walking Tour and tonight’s Halloween Lantern Walking Tour due to weather. We apologize for the inconvenience. Your tickets will be refunded or you can apply them to a future tour, including our So You Think You Know Columbus? bus tours or Travel Back on Tuesdays wine & cheese events.

Gables & Gargoyles Bus Tours
Sorry, these tours are SOLD OUT.
Tuesday, Oct. 23; Wednesday, Oct. 24; Monday, Oct. 29; Tuesday, Oct. 30
6-9 p.m. Tour begins at Columbus Landmarks Foundation, 61 Jefferson Ave.

Enjoy spooky stories collected over 30 years on this traditional bus tour with favorites from the past along with new ghost stories acquired over the previous year. Tours may vary slightly from night to night as three locations are featured on each eerie tour as the spirit moves us. We believe that for many, a brick may just be a brick, but after a Columbus Landmarks tour, a brick with a story attached makes us care more about its future.

Haunted Historic Tavern Tours
Sorry, these tours are SOLD OUT.
Thursday, Oct. 18; Thursday, Nov. 1; Thursday, Nov. 8
6-9:30 p.m.

Tour begins at The Jury Room, 22 E. Mound St.
READ 9.29.12 Columbus Dispatch story about our tavern tours.

Sometimes a tavern tour is not just a tavern tour until you can call on a few spirits to join you—both the ethereal and the liquid kind.  Columbus taverns, saloons, and one-of-a-kind gathering places are blessed with the occasional appearing and disappearing patron. Weaving in these tales of lost souls who include former prominent citizens and ordinary Columbusites are true stories of forgotten burial grounds, part of the city repeatedly built over, reported murders, smoldering passions, and scandalous gossip (would you have it any other way?). Each night, three taverns will be featured, as we usually do, but the focus is also on the seldom-seen parts of the establishment. Though sites may vary slightly each of the nights, all stories of the taverns will be told. Reservations are required and tickets (like the patrons who frequent but no longer drink) vanish quickly.

When Spirits Roamed the Village
Sorry, these tours are SOLD OUT
Friday, Oct. 19; Friday, Oct. 26; Saturday, Oct. 27
6-9 p.m. Tour begins at Beck Street School, 387 E. Beck St.

Columbus Landmarks Foundation and German Village Society are pleased to debut a new walking tour appropriate to the season, featuring the stories and architecture of Columbus’s popular 19th century neighborhood.  Five locations and their stories will be featured—from the light-hearted tales of ghostly tea parties and the house that needs no dusting to the somber and true stories of the county poor house and a grief-stricken mother.  Included are additional tales of occasional poltergeists, creatures that didn’t appreciate a good rehabbing, and Halloween customs in the Village in the past.

Halloween Lantern Walking Tours
Sorry, these tours are SOLD OUT
Sunday, Oct. 21; Sunday, Oct. 28
6-9 p.m. Tour begins at Topiary Park Gatehouse, 480 E. Town St.

Our ever-popular lantern walking tours on the most beautiful 19th century street in the downtown and certainly in one of the most haunted neighborhoods – Town-Franklin. This is where it all began for Columbus Landmarks Foundation 30+ years ago—with a collection of never-solicited stories of pink ladies, unexplained events, tales of hauntings that were already a century old, the garlic cloves in the attic, and the law office secretary who stayed glued to the front door in case she had to bolt.  A chance to recapture the mystery of a fall evening with the crunch of autumn leaves, the promise of sweet treats, and the thrill of a story that makes even your own house seem haunted when you return home.  Meet at the Topiary Park’s Gate House on Town Street; parking available on East Town Street. Bring flashlight if possible or help carry one of our lanterns.