Nashville Ghost Tours | Nashville Traveler

Lantern-lit walking tours through downtown's darker back-history, run by AmeriGhost since 2003 — the city's first locally owned ghost tour operator. Ninety minutes of Victorian-costumed storytelling past the Ryman, the Capitol, and Printer's Alley.

AmeriGhost opened Nashville Ghost Tours in 2003, making it the first locally owned and operated ghost tour company in the city, and it's kept the same lantern-and-Victorian-costume format for two decades running. The pitch isn't jump-scares — it's local history told through its unresolved, unsettling corners: duels, epidemics, murders, and the more haunted corners of buildings visitors already recognize from the daytime version of a Nashville trip.

The core walking tour is a comfortably paced 90 minutes through downtown landmarks including the Ryman Auditorium, the Tennessee State Capitol, President Polk's Tomb, and Printer's Alley, with guides weaving documented history in with the ghost stories rather than treating them as separate tracks. For a different pace, the Nashville Hearse Tour swaps walking for a 60-minute ride in a 10-passenger converted hearse past sites like Union Station and the city's oldest cemetery, and the Haunted Tavern Tour turns the format into a bar crawl with trivia and prizes mixed into the storytelling.

These sell out regularly, especially around Halloween, so advance booking matters more than it would for a daytime museum tour. It's a solid fit for visitors who've already hit the honky-tonks and want an evening activity that's genuinely about the city rather than generic haunted-house theatrics — and for locals, a way to hear the version of downtown's history that doesn't make it onto the historical markers.