Providence Ghost Tour

This tour was great, my first time in Providence and I really enjoyed seeing the town from a spooky view. Caught it on Halloween which was even better :) Our guide was very animated and knew her historical facts. I would recommend this tour to out of towners and anyone interested in paranormal activities ~ Stay scary

Fun and interesting, but a little disappointing. We didn’t actually get to go inside anywhere, just listened outside the building.

Had a great time! It was a beautiful summer night and was the perfect low key date night. The tour guide/​owner was so fun to listen to and very knowledgable. This was my first ghost tour and I have recommended it to a lot of people.

I’ve lived in RI for 34yrs and this was my first time on this tour. It was great!!! Our guide Alaura was fantastic. My husband and I learned a lot more about Providence and it’s history. I took a bunch of pictures and captured a few things. I will download them to the website. Some of my pictures mysteriously disappeared.
I want to take my daughter when she gets a little older.

You need a lot of imagination for this history walk around the East side of Providence. I kept an open mind, ready for some story to give me chills. I did not feel it. Our tour guide was a book of knowledge overfilled with stories. She talked about apparitions that has been seen in the past. We walked up and down hills on sidewalks that needed repair so be prepared. We had a group of at least 15 people show up. We were 3, so it is popular enough i’m just not sure if I would go again. I feel like it was a one time and done.

Boyfriend and I had a little downtime one night and were looking for something a little out of the ordinary to do. Prov Ghost Tour to the rescue!
If you’d like to enjoy a beautiful evening walk about the stunning historical college hill area of providence, with a charming guide to all things ghastly, this is the thing to do.
The tour spans about an hour and a half to two hours, and even a resident of the area may learn something new or see something exciting! If you’re lucky, a little something spooky may happen along the way, as it did for us. ;)
Photography is encouraged, as is linking to and hashtagging the ghost tour if you happen to catch any unexplained phenomena.
For the price, it was a very pleasant evening diversion. I might actually take the tour again some night!

It was a fun and informative walking tour. But our guide, bless her heart, kind of ruined it. The whole time she seemed out of breath and nervous in front of people. She was trying to recite a script from memory in this really awkward way. I think it would have been more effective if she had just been herself instead of the bad acting.

This was a fun tour. Erin was great and it was very interesting to hear all the stories.

It was a crisp Fall evening… the moon was striking… the bats were chirping… Perfect setting for a Ghost tour.
The tour guide, Erin was fun and lively. She took us around the East Side, showing and educating the group about places that had been known to have had paranormal activity.
We did not see any during our walk, but it was a great way to learn more about the history of Providence, some of its former residents and some of its old buildings and homes.

It pains me to only give this tour 2 stars as I’m usually a big fan of these types of things and love that they have one in my hometown, but it just wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. I have been on the one in Boston which included tour guides all dressed up, and people along the way who pop out and scare you, and I had a great time there. This tour is more of a historical tour of the East Side of Providence, with mentions of possible spooky and ghostly things that have gone on. While very interesting, the spooky factor just wasn’t there.

Cue «Thriller.»
This tour was one of the highlights of our recent trip through New England. And by «highlight» I mean a fun thing I remember, but in no way am I implying there are garish, bright lights. Nay. This tour is dark, spooky, creepy, icky, moody, morbid, annnnd fun.
We started at Prospect Terrace Park with some facts about poor Roger Williams and his unfortunate original burial place, then walked through some residential blocks and over to Brown’s campus. As a walking tour of historic Providence, I think this route was very good (and sometimes steep — work those glutes). We encountered a little traffic here and there, but really not much, which helped preserve the mood.

Our guide, whose name escapes me (but who is in David R.‘s photo) was very good. She knew her stuff and provided a lot of information but wasn’t hurried, and, importantly, wasn’t cheesy. I say this in part because we did a second ghost tour in another New England city and that guide was super corny, bless her heart.
Providence is a city with a higher ghost-​per-​capita rate than average, apparently. The tour capitalizes on this, and is full of legit sites with a variety of scaaawee stories — creepy happenings, mysteries, unexplained accidents, unhappy souls, hauntings, etc. We definitely got our money’s worth and would recommend it. Especially in the fall, when it gets darker earlier.
[Vincent Price laugh]

Sometimes when you’re on vacation, it’s tough to find evening activities besides eating and drinking. The Providence Ghost Tour was a great «local flavor» option that sure beat sitting in the hotel room watching TV. The $ 15 online ticket price seems quite fair for a 90-​minute tour, and besides the tales of murder, mystery, and mayhem, it’s a great way to see one of the most architecturally and historically interesting portions of the city.
In late September, our 7pm tour was starting just after sunset, affording awesome views from Prospect Terrace Park. Thus it was quite dark for most of the tour, but the neighborhood was still bustling with pedestrian and vehicle traffic, which undermined the desired spooky atmosphere. It would be much cooler if the tour could start at 9 or 10… or midnight? I would be totally game for that, but I suppose that it might not be feasible.
We didn’t detect any spirits on our tour, but the stories were quite enjoyable and sometimes chilling; plus we learned a lot about the city and the university to boot. Oh, and at the beginning, the guide taught us the hierarchy of spirits – orbs, apparitions, spectres, and poltergeists. You never know when knowledge like that might come in handy, like writing a term paper on Scooby-​Doo or some such.

My daughter and signed up for the Providence Ghost Tour and really weren’t sure what to expect. We had a great time and were impressed with our experience. I’d highly recommend this to tourists visiting Providence or locals who want something unique to do.
Our tour guide, Susan, was knowledgeable, friendly, and entertaining. She lead us on a walking tour of buildings in old Providence that are known to be active paranormally. During the tour, she told stories of strange phenomenon that have occurred in those places, the history behind the stories and background on the residents that lived (or died) there. The walking tour lasted about an hour and a half. Wear comfortable shoes — you’ll be climbing a lot of hills and walking on uneven pavement.
Quite unexpectedly, my DSLR caught some vey compelling blue orb-​like images that defied logical explanation. I’ve taken over 10,000 images on this camera and never had anything strange like that happen. I’m not a believer or a non-​believer, but I can’t explain what showed up on my camera. Even the tour guide was impressed with them!
At $ 15 for an hour and a half, it was a terrific value for a historical walking tour– even if you don’t capture any cool images like I did. Some of the members in our group had used a Groupon to save even more.

Fun! Three of us went on the Providence Ghost Tour last night and it was a pretty good time. We walked all over the gorgeous east side of town, enjoyed the cool evening breeze (that was unexpected, after night after night of 85 degree misery. Think twice about a summer ghost walk — it’s HOT out there) and learned some of the history of Providence. This tour felt a lot more like a history tour than a ghost walk, however, I think mostly because some of the other guests steered the conversation in that direction and our guide was knowledgable enough to veer off on non-​ghostly tangents.
I was disappointed that our guide was a «skeptic», mostly because it meant she refused to talk about any ghosts other than those on our tour. I asked about the RI haunted house that the recent movie The Conjuring is about and she flatly said, «We can only discuss the ghosts on our tour, that have been verified by the tour owners.» I get that the company wants to retain a good reputation in the ghost-​hunting community (…um…assuming there is one) but I was hoping to hear a little more about the other house, considering it’s currently a RI ghostly claim to fame. I attribute her unwillingness to stray from the script more to her own disbelief in ghosts than a company concern.
This was a fun night and a great way to hang out with friends and visit downtown. Buy the tickets online for a discount and bring some bugspray if you’re taking a summer tour.

went last night on our «date night»; at first we were worried we were the only one’s that had signed up, but there were plenty of other couples. Awesome way to spend a week night, only $ 15 pp and well spent. tour guide was entertaining and knowledgeable.

I’m not sure what all the bad reviews are about, but we LOVED this tour. Maybe the low expectations helped, but I’ve been on dozens of ghost tours around the country, and none were overtly better… then again none were really scary either…
Tour started with a beautiful view of providence, and walked through all the most architecturally and otherwise amazing parts of the city, and talked about ghosts. That’s what we wanted, and that’s what we got.
Tour guide was delightfully hokey and made the tour a blast. Will definitely repeat any time people come to visit.

Went last night with my husband on the tour…
I learned a lot about my new city’s history & was thrilled to see where HP Lovecraft lived & Edgar Allan Poe’s mistress too!
We had a knowledgeable tour guide & she was wonderful!
Think I was the only one out of our group of 7 that took over 100 photos (I lagged behind now & then & had to hustle to catch up to the group as they walked off) but I’m glad I did.
I got some of the finest photos I’ve caught… TONS of orbs & the places with what seemed to be the creepiest stories, well they just GLOWED in my shots!
I was disappointed with the fact that our guide’s «meter» of some sort broke & she didn’t have it with her, AND the fact that the last big hill we climbed I could hardly make it all the way up!
Just wish it was a bit scarier, too… not too sure if it’s really for kids, so why not make it a little richer with the creep factor?
Other than that… it was a good night, an hour & a half of entertainment for $ 15 a person… what can be better than that?

I’m kind of sad to be giving Providence Ghost Tour two stars. I really don’t want to, but I was seriously hoping to be way more spooked than I was. I had high expectations, and I was a bit let down. Chalk it up to slightly misleading advertising. This would have been better billed as a historic tour of Providence’s sordid past, or something like that.
The tour, led by Dylan — an animated young college chap — was certainly interesting, informative and entertaining… ok, and some of the buildings were a little creepy. I didn’t see any orbs, apparitions, specters or poltergeists though, and I heard better storytelling on the lantern ghost tour in Colonial Williamsburg.
You begin in Prospect Terrace Park and head towards Brown University’s quad (where you learn the interesting past behind several of Brown’s buildings), down along Benefit Street, up the scary Meeting Street hill and back to the park. There are certainly sites that I would like to visit in the daytime when they are open and I can go inside.
I also felt that the size of this tour was prohibitive. It might be time to grow the operation, offer more scattered tour times and cap the number of people on each tour to a dozen or so. A more intimate tour may lend more to a paranormal experience.
I was happy with the value since i purchased a Living Social deal for the tour. I am not trying to deter people from going by any means, because it was interesting. Just go into it expecting the History channel rather than Ghost Hunters on the Discovery channel.

Went on a Ghost Tour Halloween Weekend. Our Guides were Erin and Dillion. They took us around Prospect Terrace Park/​College Hill area showing the group areas of historical value and possibly of paranormal prominence.
Both took turns telling us about each location. They were very informed about each event and location including what may have caused the possible haunting and stories of such paranormal events. They kept everyone entertained, happy and delightfully spooked. Being it was around Halloween they also provided candy treats for all.
Whether you are a paranormal buff, a history junkie or just want to have a good night in Providence doing something different Providence Ghost tours is a worthwhile experience. Highly Recommended.

My roommate and I bought groupons for this tour when we first moved to Providence. Seemed like a good way to get to know our new city. The tour was pretty crowded (probably due to the influx of groupon holders). We went on a walk around Benefit street and up to Brown. It was pretty interesting, but seemed like more history than ghosty. The only paranormal type stuff was when the tour guide showed us that he was carrying a K2 (some sort of signal receiver that supposedly picked up on paranormal energy). Kind of cheesy, but it was a good value at $ 10 a tour.
Why only 2 stars? I’m grading it in relation to the other ghost tours in the area. Yes, I have been on 4 ghost tours in New England (Providence, Boston, Plymouth, and Salem). Providence probably ranks 3^rd out of the 4.