Tours Of Jerome

My friends and I decided to take the 6:30PM Saturday night tour and JP was very knowledgeable and friendly. You really learn a lot of history of not only Jerome, but the surrounding cities of Clarkdale and Cottonwood. During dusk hours, JP informed you of the history of the smelting on the hills, what houses were below you in the cities and surrounding areas. You continue to walk around the town and learn about the brothels of yesteryear, the history of buildings and alley ways, and also explore some of the hotels. We were lucky with experiencing an orb at the Mile High Inn. Several tour group members had EMF readers that went off near a mirror and another member filmed on her cell phone while this was happening. After several minutes, the meters stopped ringing and the member reviewed her video and we call saw an orb moving, zipping up and down on her cell phone video. It was quite interesting and fun!
Just heads up— keep cell phone and EMF readers AWAY from each other or the reader will ring constantly and give a false positive. Also bring water with you (you can buy a bottle from JP inside the check-​in room for $ 1 but JP also said he wouldn’t mind if tour group members run in for a «drink» at the bar and he’d wait outside a few.) For the evening tour, grab a flashlight (provided at checkin along with EMF reader) regardless if you or someone else in the group has one. Jerome is full of potholes, uneven stairs and it’s just plain dark, so be sure to grab it! Also – LOTS of walking, up/​down high incline of the roads, walking on uneven pathways and roads are full of potholes. Also expect to walk several flights of stairs, either inside buildings and outside. I can’t express this more– wear very comfortable shoes and expect to walk at least a mile or so (per my Fitbit, we walked nearly a mile on the 2.5 hour tour, and Jerome is a very small town.) Also bring a light jacket to wear. It was a bit chilly for late April and a breeze kicked in and several people were chilly. Shops are also closed so it’s not like you can run into a store for the convenience and buy one. Being from Phoenix, we are used to this but hard to grasp in the small town, shops are closed early. The 6:30−9pm tour is long so be sure to eat before or have a good snack afterwards as you really build up an appetite. My friends and I wanted to grab a late dinner but most places close at before 9PM so we were almost stuck eating granola bars in our room but Haunted Hamburger graciously took us in near closing (8:56PM) and we got our order to go. So just a heads up!
Per JP, if the Jerome Grand Hotel’s «NO VACANCY» sign is lit, he cannot take his tour group inside the hotel due to space, and not being able to actually view the rooms with the history. We stayed there and I know if it is not busy, the front desk clerk is extremely nice and will tell you stories and if not busy, show you a few things and literature near the desk.
My friends and I had a great time with JP and highly suggest this tour due to the fact it gets you around town and you get to experience so much more history of Jerome.

Just curious if this place still does business since they don’t return phone calls or emails?

We had a great time out on the classic haunted tour. We did only go into one building but the amount history and stories was a lot of fun. There was some activity that was very creepy. I really enjoyed that the guide let us sort of wander and experiment. Don’t expect plates flying off the wall or grand tours of the hotels and have an open mind.

My husband and I are «healthy skeptics» we were hoping to hear some really great ghost stories while getting some history and tour of Jerome. We were hoping to have one of those moments that stopped your heart or made you a believer, but that didn’t happen on the tour. We were hoping for some «hot ghost action» since it was Friday the 13^th, but the ghosts didn’t deliver. But that we do not blame our guide for!
We had a fun group of two other couples plus our tour guide. I don’t think any of us were hardcore believers but we were all hoping to get a little freaked out. They provided little EMF readers and flashlights and we provided the laughter.
We really enjoyed the walking tour and a few stories and history that was shared. We saw things and got some history that we wouldn’t have gotten otherwise. We possible even captured an orb on camera. The guide was happy to answer questions and provide history when questioned and we were able to get a really good history tour in the process.
We were hoping for more ghost stories, or stories of amazing wild west showdowns and those were lacking. Additionally, we were really hoping that we would be taken into some of the building (especially the supposedly haunted ones), but we only went into one and it was very limited.
The tour could definitely benefit from more ghost stories! Tell us some stories and make our skin crawl!

Throw your money out the window of a moving car and call it a ghost and that is about as good as it gets. We walked around town with playschool monitors and flashlights while our «guide» talked non stop about nothing and took pictures of «orbs» with her camera! I highly recommend you do not do this!!!

I would not recommend this tour at all, it’s not even close to being worth the money. We paid $ 76 to basically stand around and play with these little EMF readers in a park. We went into only ONE building that wasn’t even a building, more of a loft type deal with a little room at the top. Our guide was extremely boring and talked really slow… I’m pretty sure she was on something. All she talked about were orbs, orbs, orbs and took pictures. She maybe told two or three stories the whole time and it was all really dull. About an hour and a half into the tour, a couple decided to dip out and we seen it as the perfect opportunity to do so as well. That left her with only one group left to finish off the last thirty minutes. I know it might have been rude but we already wasted so much time and money on something we could have seen ourselves and there are plaques to read, which is basically what she did. I wanted to get it over with and get back to our hotel and relax.

Really enjoyed this ghost tour, one of the best I’ve done. Got great orb pics and the towns history was freaky. Defiantly recommend this tour!

Extremely PAINFUL tour! Stay away from this scam. We were told prior to booking our ghost walk that the tour included experiencing haunted mines and hotels. We met our «medium» at their office and proceeded to walk down the street. Our guide literally read the plaques on exteriors of buildings. We could barely understand her as she talked very slow and muddled. The stories were painfully boring. The tour spent half an hour in a park talking about a small child presence; unfortunately, the story was very boring. Don’t waste your money on this tour. Take your tablet and google ghosts of Jerome while you walk about this small town. The money you save will pay for the tablet if you don’t have one already. BTW, never set foot in a hotel or close to a mine. WASTE OF TIME & MONEY!

Kind of a 2.5 star experience. The tour is a fair amount of history and story telling with a handful of spots where you can try out your ghost monitors. Nothing they can do about the traffic or the weather but it’s mostly a visit to potentially arbitrary spots with stories. I guess that could be said of most haunted tours though.
Go but have realistic expectations of what you are getting into — a modified historic tour with a ghost emphasis, of sorts. Our guide was Dave and he put on a good presentation and, as with all activities like this, you’re only going to get back what you put in so try to have a sense of humor about it.

We paid a lot of money for a 2-​hour ghost walk, expecting to hear lots of cool stories about hauntings in the Arizona’s original ghost town. Instead, we got a guide who was extremely boring, talked very slowly and had almost nothing interesting to say. She kept telling us where «orbs» had been captured in pictures by other people — to the point where we started calling it the orb tour. We spent like 20 minutes standing around a park without a single story! it was very dull and disappointing, and I would not recommend it to anyone. Waste of money.

Reckless Rick was our guide and he was so knowledgeable with the history of Jerome and it’s inhabitants. He took us all over the downtown Jerome and told stories from the past — true stories not just legends. We all had flashlights and EMF detectors that they provide (and cameras of our own). Our group got some readings inside the old Conner Hotel. Rick got the keys for one of the rooms and not only did he tell us stories about the hotel and that particular room but we got to experience our own EMF detectors going crazy in there. It was a fun time if you are in Jerome and looking for a fun adventure!