Asheville's Murders and Ghosts, Starting Behind the Masonic Temple
A guide walks downtown Asheville after dark, stopping where the city keeps its murder, suicide and ghost stories.
This is Haunted Asheville's Classic Walking Tour, run by the company author Joshua P. Warren created and owns. The listing sells one departure, 8:00 PM, and when checked on October 14, 2026, its calendar showed every night open for the coming weeks. The operator puts the route at about 1.5 miles over two hours, starting in the alley behind the Asheville Masonic Temple.
The booking covers a local guide and nothing else: tips are extra and there is no hotel pickup.
Expect city history in the same breath as the ghosts. Several reviewers single out the city history the guides fold into the stories.
Tickets on the listing are USD 26.95 for anyone 15 and over and USD 14.95 for ages 14 and under, and every booking needs one adult. Booked here, the walk refunds in full if cancelled at least 24 hours before the start. Inside 24 hours, nothing comes back. The operator sells its own tickets as final, so that 24-hour window belongs to this booking.
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The listing names five story stops. On Pack Square, the guide's story of an Asheville mayor's suicide and the bull's-eye on the sidewalk below the Jackson Building. At the Battery Park Hotel, the murder of Helen Clevenger and the red haze said to return to her window on the anniversary. At the Basilica of St. Lawrence, the architect entombed inside the church he designed. Outside Thomas Wolfe's boyhood home, a five-minute stop for the stories of the author and his brother; the listing marks it as no admission. And, by the listing's account, a spot where troops rallied before the Civil War's Battle of Asheville.
Expect the set list to vary by guide: reviewers have noticed stories missing that they expected to hear.
How long each story runs is the guide's call on the night.
A Big Crowd, One Microphone and Downtown's Hills
Plan on company. Travelers on this listing have counted anywhere from about twenty people to more than sixty on a single walk, and one 2025 reviewer described more than a hundred. The guide wears a microphone. Some reviewers heard every word; others at the back of a large group did not, so stay near the front.
Downtown Asheville is not flat. The listing asks for a moderate level of fitness, advises comfortable walking shoes and does not recommend the walk for anyone with heart trouble, and reviewers describe uphill stretches and declines. There is no restroom stop along the way, so use one before you meet.
The listing also ticks its wheelchair- and stroller-accessible boxes. The operator's own site says nothing about access, so anyone using a wheelchair should ask the operator about the hills before booking.
Rain, Dogs and Children
The operator says the walk runs in rain or snow and is called off only for extremely heavy snow. Reviewers describe going out in drizzle and rain, with the guide steering the group under shelter between stories, so dress for the forecast.
The operator's tour page says dogs are welcome on the walk; the listing itself mentions only service animals.
The operator also calls the walk family-friendly, and minors stay with an adult the whole time. One 2026 reviewer put the content this way: "Funny stories, some a little grotesque if your kids are squeamish but not too bad." Two other reviewers found that children chatting through the stories made the guide hard to hear.
What the Alley Asks of You
There are no printed tickets. The operator asks you to give your name to the guide in the alley, and its tour page asks guests not to walk into the Masonic Temple on their own, since private functions may be under way inside.
Gratuities are not included. Reviewers suggest bringing water to sip, since the walk runs a full two hours.
📍 Meet in the alley behind the Asheville Masonic Temple at 80 Broadway, ten minutes before 8:00 PM, and enter the alley from the HomeTrust Bank side of the street. The operator points drivers to paid parking at HomeTrust Bank on Woodfin Street, beside the temple, and the walk ends back in the same alley.
By then it is close to ten, and Broadway looks different than it did two hours earlier.