A Lantern, a Glowing Globe and Downtown Orlando's Ghost Stories
Downtown Orlando's old blocks after dark, told by a guide with a lantern, starting from a sculpture lit from inside.
Global Convergence is easy to spot once you know to look for it: a globe of aluminum panels by Deedee Morrison at Central Boulevard and Magnolia Avenue, lit from inside with LEDs. The City of Orlando's public-art page describes the panels as printed with ocean colors and a school of shoal bass. It stands in front of the Orange County Regional History Center at 65 East Central Boulevard, and the listing places it across the street from the Orlando Public Library.
Your guide waits there in a black US Ghost Adventures T-shirt, carrying a lantern, for the 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 PM departures. The walk takes about an hour.
This listing is the standard one-hour walk. The operator's extended version, which adds half an hour, is not part of it. Everyone pays the same per-person rate, since the listing has one ticket type for ages zero to ninety-nine, and an adult has to make the booking.
Orlando Ghost Tour: Ominous Otherworld Ghosts & HauntingsWalking ghost tour of downtown Orlando from the Global Convergence sculpture · About 1 hour · 7:00, 8:00 and 9:00 PMwww.viator.comEvery Stop Is Seen From the Sidewalk
The booking listing names the stops: the Beacham on Orange Avenue, the Old Orlando Railroad Depot and Strand Hotel, the Cheyenne Saloon, the Nicholson-Colyer Building, the Kress Building, the Grand Bohemian Hotel, the Rogers Building and the Phoenix Building, with the route closing back at the globe. The operator's own Orlando page promises six or more locations and singles out the depot, the History Center and the Kress. Treat the exact order as the guide's call on the night.
US Ghost Adventures states that its ghost tours do not go inside buildings, so every story is told from the street. Two low ratings in 2025 complain that no buildings were entered.
The Grand Bohemian Now Goes by Hotel Beauden
One name on the listing is out of date. In September 2026 the Grand Bohemian on South Orange Avenue became Hotel Beauden, an Autograph Collection hotel. It is the same building at 325 South Orange Avenue; only the name changed.
On its Orlando page the operator calls the depot Church Street's 1889 train depot and former hotel site, the History Center Orlando's 1927 courthouse where Ted Bundy stood trial, and the Kress an Art Deco building it calls the former home of an eccentric owner, Edward Seymour. Those are the operator's descriptions, and two of them read differently elsewhere. The City of Orlando's landmark page says Henry Plant's brick depot was dedicated in January 1890. A January 2025 article by the History Center's collections registrar places Bundy's 1980 trial in the Orange County Courthouse Annex, which stood on what is now Heritage Square from 1960 to 1998, rather than in the 1927 building. The ghost stories attached to each building belong to the guide.
How Far You Walk and Who Can Come
The operator puts the walk at about a mile at a relaxed pace, with frequent stops, and asks for comfortable shoes. Reviewers have called it an easy walk, and one in December 2024 described it as flat. The listing is more cautious: it asks for at least a moderate level of fitness and does not recommend the tour for travelers with spinal injuries or poor cardiovascular health.
The listing also ticks wheelchair accessible and all surfaces wheelchair accessible. The operator's own FAQ answers more carefully: not all of its tours are wheelchair accessible, and it asks you to contact it to confirm before booking. Children are welcome. The operator's FAQ welcomes dogs too, as long as they do not disrupt the tour; the listing itself mentions only service animals.
Rain, Photos and the Refund Window
Tours run rain or shine, and the operator says it will contact you if one is cancelled. A reviewer in September 2024 had a storm cut the walk short. Photos are welcome along the way, the operator asks guests not to film video, and drinking is not permitted on its ghost tours. It also rents out EMF detectors; its FAQ does not list a price.
Booked through this listing, you can cancel at least 24 hours before the start for a full refund; inside 24 hours there is no refund. The operator's own site has separate cancellation terms, and the listing's rule is the one that covers this booking. Off-season groups can be tiny: two reviewers in 2026 were the only guests on their tour, and it ran anyway.
📍 Look for the sculpture, not a storefront. Reviewers who had trouble finding the start have missed the tour, so arrive 10 to 15 minutes early, as the listing asks, then follow the lantern into the old blocks.
As of October 21, 2026, the City of Orlando charges for downtown street parking Monday through Saturday from 8 a.m. to 8 p.m. and makes it free after 8 p.m. and all day Sunday, so a 7:00 PM start still means paying until 8. The city's Library Garage at 112 East Central Boulevard is open 24/7, and on nights with a large downtown event the city says its garage and lot rates can run $10 to $20. LYNX lists the LYMMO Orange and Grapefruit lines, which stop at History Center/Library, as running until 8:25 PM, so that bus will have stopped by the time the 8:00 or 9:00 PM walk ends.