One Mile of Downtown St. Louis Ghost Stories, After Dark
A guide with a lantern covers six downtown landmarks in an hour, with the documented history kept separate from the legend.
Downtown St. Louis empties out after the office towers close, and the civic core around Market and Chestnut Streets turns into a run of lit stone facades with almost no one standing in front of them. The hour-long walk run by St. Louis Ghosts moves through that corridor on foot.
The whole route covers about a mile, and every building on it stays locked. The tour works from the sidewalk, which keeps the walking short and the stops close together.
The listing runs 60 minutes as a fixed duration and caps a shared group at 35 people. Booking is per person, an adult has to be on the reservation, and the listing prices every traveller in one age band regardless of age. The ticket price covers all fees and taxes. Bookings close three hours before departure, and the operator confirms them manually.
Cancelling 24 hours or more ahead of the start time returns the full amount. Inside that window, nothing comes back.
St Louis Ghost Tours: Sinister Sins & Shadows Ghost TourSixty fixed minutes on foot through downtown St. Louis with a live English-speaking guide from St. Louis Ghosts. All fees and taxes included.www.viator.comWhat the Route Takes In
The published itinerary names six stops. The walk starts at the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum on Chestnut Street, then works through the civic blocks: the Stifel Theatre on Market Street, Washington Square Park behind City Hall, Kaufman Park, the Campbell House Museum on Locust Street, and the St. Louis Union Station headhouse.
Every stop is read from the sidewalk. The operator states that private buildings are off limits.
Two of these keep full public schedules. The Stifel runs a concert calendar and Union Station operates as a hotel. The group takes both in from outside while they are still in use.
Where the Stories Come From
The listing describes what it sells as documented accounts of historic hauntings and intensely researched true stories. That phrasing sets the expectation. The route leans on addresses that carry real records.
The Campbell House at 1508 Locust Street is a preserved nineteenth-century townhouse that operates as a museum today. Washington Square Park holds two monuments the itinerary names by date, a General Grant statue it puts at 1888 and a Pierre Laclède statue it puts at 1909. One of those two dates does not survive checking. The Grant bronze was unveiled in 1888. The Laclède figure was commissioned for the 1909 centennial of the city's incorporation, finished in 1912, and not unveiled until 1914. Buildings and dates can be looked up. The hauntings attached to them are the tour's own material, and keeping those two layers apart is most of what separates this format from a staged scare.
The Walk Itself
One mile, 60 minutes, on city sidewalks after dark. The listing ticks wheelchair accessible and says all areas and surfaces are wheelchair accessible. The operator's own FAQ says not all of its tours are wheelchair accessible, and asks you to contact it first to confirm the one you want is. Treat the listing tick as unconfirmed for this route.
The same listing wants a moderate level of physical fitness and flags the walk as unsuitable for travelers with poor cardiovascular health. The operator puts it differently: about a mile at a relaxed pace, with frequent stops along the way. The stroller, service animal and nearby transit ticks sit in the same listing group as the wheelchair one, and the operator's own pages do not mention any of them.
Tours run rain or shine and year round, and the operator says it gets in touch if one is called off. Food and drink sit outside the ticket, and no private transport is attached to the booking.
Finding the Group
The meeting point is the Soldiers Memorial Military Museum at 1315 Chestnut Street. The listing sells a single departure a night, at 8pm, and its calendar carries no blacked-out dates. The operator asks groups to gather on the north side of the monument, facing the City Library.
Your guide wears a US Ghost Adventures shirt and carries a lantern. Tickets are accepted on a phone or on paper, one per booking, and you show the voucher to the guide at the start.
Tours run in English with a live guide. One booking holds up to 30 people, and the shared group tops out at 35.
The tour carried 98 traveller reviews at a 4.5 average when this page was written in October 2026.
📍 The Soldiers Memorial Military Museum takes up the block at 1315 Chestnut Street in downtown St. Louis, with the City Library across the street to the north. Arrive a few minutes early and look for the lantern on the north steps.