Hunt for Ghosts on Foot Across Savannah's Darkest Squares
A local guide hands you a working EMF meter, then walks the dark squares and stops at the cemetery fence.
At the southwest corner of Madison Square, beside the March to the Sea marker, a guide hands you a K2 EMF meter and shows you how to read it. The lights on that meter are yours to watch for the next two hours.
Fifteen tickets go out for each night, and the walk starts promptly at 9:00 PM. Check in before that. Saint John's Episcopal Church faces the corner, which makes the spot easy to find once the light goes.
The operator keeps the group small on purpose. One guide takes it, and the narration is live. A single departure goes out each night, with no second walk to fall back on.
Savannah Ghostwalker Tour and Ghost HuntTwo hours on foot from Madison Square, nightly at 9:00 PM. Ages 16 and up, K2 EMF meter included.www.viator.comYou Get the Meter at Check-In
A K2 EMF meter reads electromagnetic field strength and shows it on a row of colored lights. The guides hand them out at check-in and explain how to hold one before the group moves off.
Use of the meters and the instruction that comes with them are both part of the ticket. What the lights do after that is up to the night. Walkers describe readings coming often along the route, and one wrote in October 2025 that the meters "reacted to a lot of locations for me."
The Cemetery Stays Behind Its Gate
The route runs from Madison Square to Colonial Park Cemetery, then on through Lafayette, Chippewa, Wright, and Oglethorpe squares. Wright is the one the operator calls the hanging square, though historians who have worked through the colonial records find no gallows recorded there.
Colonial Park's gates shut at 8:00 PM from March through November and at 5:00 PM the rest of the year, an hour or more before this walk reaches them. Entry inside the cemetery, the historic homes, and the museums is not part of the ticket. The burial ground is read from outside its ironwork, and the houses are pointed at from the sidewalk.
One Guide Each Night, Patrick or Gene
Patrick and Gene split the nights between them, and the operator calls both licensed city tour guides. Patrick dates his own first ghost walks here to 1995.
The operator states there are no theatrics, no pre-recorded stories, and no filler music on this route. Walkers back that up, describing narration that stays with documented history and marks the legends as legends. The narration is live from the first square to the last. Tips sit outside the ticket price, and the guides accept them.
Sixteen and Over, and No Restrooms on the Route
The minimum age is sixteen, and the operator marks it as a rule with no exceptions. Alcohol is not allowed on the walk. Neither are animals of any kind.
There are no public restrooms on the route, and once the walk starts it does not stop and wait. The operator asks for at least a moderate level of fitness, and does not recommend the tour for travelers who are pregnant, or who have spinal injuries, cardiovascular trouble, or difficulty walking. They walk rain or star shine, and only a severe weather alert stops the group going out. The guide makes that call on the square before the walk starts, and you get a phone call if it turns into a cancellation or a thirty-minute delay.
Check-in is the southwest corner of Madison Square, 332 Bull Street, beside the March to the Sea marker. Drivers are pointed to the Liberty Street garage at 401 West Liberty Street, five minutes' walk from the square. Tickets are mobile or paper, one per booking, and all sales are final with no refund for a cancellation.
The walk ends where it started, back in Madison Square, close to 11:00 PM, with Bull Street and the lit squares between you and wherever you are staying.