Why Savannah Feels Haunted, Told Square by Square After Dark
A 90-minute night walk from Johnson Square to Wright Square, built on one local operator's answer to why the city feels haunted.
Skin and Bones Ghost Tours calls itself locally owned and operated, and its pitch opens with a question: why is Savannah so haunted? Its answer is a list. The 1820 yellow fever outbreak, the 1779 Siege of Savannah, the Civil War, fire and sickness, root magic, and a city it says was built on top of its own dead.
The walk leaves at 8:30 PM every night and runs about 90 minutes, on a loop of eight stops that starts on Johnson Square, reaches Wright Square last and then walks back to where it began. The guide comes with the ticket. Drinks do not.
Tickets go through the card below. The booking page sells one ticket type, for travelers 18 and over, and takes up to 15 people on a single booking. Same-day bookings close at 6:30 PM.
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Johnson Square comes first. The booking page ties it to public hangings, to the spirit of General Nathanael Greene, and to a girl in a white dress, often identified as Little Gracie, said to skip among the oaks at night. Broughton Street follows for the Marshall House, which the listing describes as a Civil War hospital and yellow fever infirmary, naming rooms 214, 314 and 414 as the most active.
Colonial Park Cemetery is next, with ten minutes on the itinerary. The city describes it as about six acres and Savannah's main public burial ground from 1750 to 1853. The city's posted hours open the cemetery to pedestrians until 8:00 PM at the latest, and only until 5:00 PM from November through March, before this walk even sets out. Plan on taking in that stop from outside the gates.
Lafayette and Madison Squares, Where the Houses Carry the Stories
Lafayette Square holds two very different stops. The Cathedral of St. John the Baptist gets four minutes, and the listing says plainly that there are no ghost stories there, only history and a photo. The Hamilton-Turner Inn on the same square gets ten. The listing dates the house to 1873 and passes on reports of phantom cigar smoke and billiard balls heard rolling, along with the local lore that its French Gothic look inspired Disney's Haunted Mansion.
Madison Square follows for the Sorrel-Weed House, a landmark the listing bills as one of the most haunted locations in America.
Chippewa and Wright Squares, Then Back to the Start
The last two squares sit on Bull Street. Chippewa Square brings the historic Savannah Theatre and the chills and unexplained sounds the listing attaches to it. Wright Square closes the loop with Alice Riley, the Irish servant the listing says was hanged in 1735 and is often seen searching for her baby. The listing also counts the restless spirit of Chief Tomochichi among the square's legends. From there the group heads back north along Bull Street to Johnson Square.
A traveler who lives in Savannah wrote in March 2026 that it was “a lot of new haunted history I haven’t heard before.” Another wrote that after the tour the group was invited to leave an anonymous audio recording of their own experiences for the operator's website.
What the Booking Page Promises, and What It Leaves Open
The listing's terms are blunt: all sales are final, and a cancellation earns no refund. It does mark the walk as one the operator can call off in bad weather.
- One ticket type, for ages 18 and over, with up to 15 people on a single booking
- A licensed guide is included; alcoholic drinks are not
- The listing allows service animals, and the operator's homepage calls the tour dog friendly
The listing also marks the route wheelchair accessible on all surfaces and says small children can ride in a stroller, a line that sits oddly beside an adults-only ticket. The operator's own checkout asks whether anyone in the group uses a wheelchair, adding that it wants to know in advance to plan accordingly. The booking form behind the card has a special requirements box, and that is the place to say so before paying for a ticket that cannot be refunded.
📍 Meet outside 22 Bull Street, the Bank of America on the northeast corner of Johnson Square. The listing notes that the bank itself is closed at the 8:30 PM meeting time; look for the group on the corner. The operator asks guests to arrive on time, if not a few minutes early.
As of October 24, 2026, the booking calendar lists the 8:30 PM walk every day, and the operator's own calendar has a departure on every night of November and December. Ninety minutes after setting out, the group is back under the oaks of Johnson Square.