A Milwaukee Cigar Bar Runs Hour-Long Ghost Tours of Itself
A guided hour of ghost stories told floor by floor inside a working Milwaukee cigar bar. You check in at the bar, and the hour puts you back there.
The address is a bar, the meeting point is a bar, and the thing you are touring is also the bar.
Shakers runs an hour-long guided tour of its own building and then returns you to the counter you checked in at. The tour never leaves the building. That is the whole shape of it, so put away the picture of a sidewalk and a lantern.
Departures are guided and run in English. You check in with the host at the bar, who points you to where the group gathers, and the guide takes it from there.
Shakers Original Historical Ghost TourSixty minutes, guided in English, through three floors of Shakers Cigar Bar at 422 S. 2nd Street. Drink and merchandise discounts are listed as included. Shared departures cap at twenty.www.viator.comWhat the Hour Covers
Sixty minutes, fixed. The itinerary carries exactly one stop, and that stop is the building: the guide moves the group through three floors and spends all but a minute of the hour inside.
What fills the time is the house's own material. Worn floors, antique furnishings, old photographs, stained glass, the upper rooms where guests have reported things they could not place. The operator describes it as part history tour, part paranormal experience.
Shared departures cap at twenty people. Twenty is also the ceiling on a single booking, so a group that size can take a whole departure to itself.
It Is a Working Cigar Bar
The hour runs inside a bar that is open and serving, which changes both what the room feels like and what you do when the tour lets out.
Drink discounts come with the tour, and so do merchandise discounts. Those two are what the booking lists as included. Everything else is ordinary bar pricing.
The back bar is the part of the room that does the most work. Carved wood, pressed tin overhead, stained glass behind the bottles. You are standing in front of it before the tour starts, and you are back in front of it when the hour ends.
The 1894 Building and the Capone Line
The bar dates its building to 1894 and tells its Prohibition years as a speakeasy. An old building in this part of Milwaukee is an easy claim to credit, and the room backs it up.
The bigger claim is Al Capone. The operator's description opens by calling the place a former Capone-owned speakeasy, and that is the version the tour is built on. That ownership claim comes from the house, not from a public record this page can point you to.
Both things sit together without much trouble. The building is genuinely old. The Capone line is the bar's own telling, and it is the spine of the hour you are paying for.
Who Can Book It
The booking age bands start at ten. Ten to seventeen books as youth, eighteen and over as adult. There is no upper age band to worry about.
The listing rates the tour suitable for all physical fitness levels, and the route covers three floors of the building.
Booking stays open until the start time itself and confirmation is instant, so there is no cutoff window to plan around. Tickets are issued to mobile, one per booking.
📍 422 S. 2nd Street, Milwaukee. Check in with the host at the bar, who will point you to where the group gathers. The tour ends where it started.
- Sixty minutes, fixed, guided in English
- Shared departures, capped at twenty
- Drink and merchandise discounts included
- Public transit runs nearby
The hour ends at the bar you walked into. Leave some evening for what comes after it.