Spellbound Tours

Great tour! We really felt we were on one of the most unique tours in Salem… and there are many to choose from!

The guide was entertaining, but we were a little disappointed with the stops on the tour. Having been on many ghost tours around the U.S., we were hoping for more historical buildings. The tour was ok.

Mike was a fantastic tour guide– he was extremely knowledgeable about the history of the spots we visited, and kept things interesting. He answered all of our questions happily, it felt like going on a walk with a cool friend. It really makes makes a difference when the guide is passionate about the subject matter! I can’t wait to go back. Highly recommend spellbound tours!!!

Dr. Vitka is very knowledgable and tells good so stories. I do not like ghost tours that are over the top with a bunch of rumors and false speculations. This is definitely not and you will learn a piece of Salem history with it!

Awesome tour! Overall, the tour was very insightful and went over much of the history and mysteries regarding the ghosts of Salem. Our guide and the stories were not too hokey or over the top which I was afraid of, and everyone in our tour group seemed to wonky themselves (minus the cold/​wind). If you’re going during the colder months definitely bundle up. It can get very windy and cold quickly.

Spellbound tours is definitely the best Salem walking tour to go with. Dr. Vitka is one of the best historical tour guides we have ever seen! He was incredibly knowledgeable on his facts and gave a fantastic presentation. This guy is quite the character, he was on point with everything he was talking about, and easily kept the attention of our group with other tour groups passing by us he by far was the best. Unlike the other guides we observed he didn’t need an obnoxious mic or superficial thrills to keep the group engaged. He just told us great stories about each location in his own theatrical way. Can’t recommend this activity enough! So much fun, entertaining and definitely worth the money!

We had a wonderful first time in Salem. the tour was educational and enjoyable. Would recommend highly. Great guide!

We took a Friday night tour with Aspen. The tour was very informative she had lots of great information. Definitely not scary or spooky at all if you would love a scare I would go somewhere else. Also, I showed her a paranormal picture that was taken 12 years ago in the burial grounds which she told me looked photoshopped needless to say I wasn’t happy.

This was so much fun! Dr. V is very knowledgeable but also quite the entertainer. He made sure everyone enjoyed the tour and you could tell he loved talking about Salem. His enthusiasm really made this so much fun!

Really fun and informative ghost tour. Our tour guide Aspen was very naturally engaging and funny. We really enjoyed her fun facts and deliverance of the ghastly history of Salem.

It was ok, a bit disappointed, thought it we would get to see some of the paranormal equipment used. Basically just a normal ghosty tour. Just not what we thought it was going to be.

Loved the tour guide and his approach to haunted Salem — he knows how to set the scene! Only disappointment was that I was under the impression we would be using paranormal equipment such as an EMF detector because that’s what the tour guide had said the day before the tour. Would recommend if you want an interesting night out. Don’t bring your kids though. Not sure why parents would bring their young children to something like this but you could tell it was too much for the poor kids… one even left the tour early lol.

This tour was excellent. This tour was recommended by family and we all went. It was a lot of fun! If you do a night tour do spellbound tour. Very interesting information by people who are experienced with the paranormal.

We spent lots of time researching tours and finally settled on spellbound. The 6pm tour was sold out (Halloween weekend), so we took the 8pm one. We had a lovely tour guide who obviously loved what she does and took pride in delivering the information and facts that their company had researched.
The tour itself took us about 1 ½ hours and we visited a number of locations. Voodoo, vampires, and ghosts… oh my! They delivered on all counts: voodoo with Reverend Parish’s slave, present day vampires (even at a local college and a couple on a previous tour), and of course, the many ghosts that you struggle to get some evidence of on camera phones and various other devices.
The only thing that sucked was the weather (which they obviously have no control over). It was a freezing, windy, and rainy night and these tours go rain or shine! Our guide did her best to keep us out of the elements (under overhangs, etc). Definitely a fun experience; it’s worth the $ 13 admission.

I booked this tour a month out after doing lots of research online and reviewing other tours. and let me tell you, there are a LOT of different tours being sold at various shops and kiosks around town so I’m glad I didn’t have to make a decision on the spot.
Granted we went on the busiest weekend in Salem so the size of the group was pretty big, so big in fact that we got split up into 2 groups and luckily we were with Mike’s group. No offense to the woman who was in charge of the other group, perhaps she was just as good, but I bought the ticket based on Mike’s reviews and reputation and would have been disappointed if we weren’t in his group. This is the only Salem night tour I’ve been on so I really can’t compare it to any others, but I can say that I was very impressed by Mike’s performance. In my opinion it was just the right blend of factual history and a contemporary supernatural element. After all the reason I did a NIGHT TOUR in SALEM was to get spooked. Nothing was over the top scary, and in my opinion perfectly fine for kids of the appropriate age to hear about ghosts and vampires etc. Mike didn’t seem like he was simply reciting a script; his conviction and enthusiasm for the subject matter is really what made this a great experience. and his delivery was both authoritative and eerie. Top notch. As a side note, during the tour we passed at least 5 or 6 other tours in progress, and once I overheard another one of the tour guides mid-​speech at one of the stops, and by comparison it was very canned and monotone.
As for shooing away bystanders, I sort of agree that while it’s unfortunate that the tour was interrupted at times because of it, and that it might be a little uncomfortable for some to witness, I more strongly agree that since I PAID for this tour, why should others get it for FREE? It is a business after all.

We decided to take this tour while visiting and it was a lot of fun. While we didn’t have a paranormal experience, the tour guide was entertaining and knowledgable. The sites we visited had interesting histories attached to them, and we visited sites that we likely wouldn’t have encountered on our own. My only complaint would be that after being given suggestions by the guide to take photos, there wasn’t enough time to do so before the tour proceeded. It’s a night tour and with the amount of flashes going off, it negatively impacts your photograph with all of the extraneous interference… unless that is the point and hoped to be seen as paranormal evidence…

We pre-​registered for this tour months in advance online before our trip to MA. We bought the package tickets which included tickets to the museum, tour and vampire tour.
When we met the tour guide we found out that there was no longer a museum. The tour guide was understanding and gave us a cash refund for the museum part on the spot.
The tour guide was informative and kept it interesting. We stopped at some key points around Salem. She gave us a lot of additional info on sites and history that we did not know. All in all I feel we made a good choice. Another plus was there was less than ten in our group vs the 30 + that were in the other company tours.

I decided to go onto this tour.
Overall I have to say I enjoyed it. However, after paying 13.00 a ticket I would assume that some of that money could go towards getting new ones instead of reusing the ones from previous tours. (It’s called VistaPrint, get some of the free business cards and just pay the shipping.)
My tour guide, Jackie, was very witty and funny. She took us to key points around Salem and told us some interesting haunts about the places. The tour was fast paced and lots of facts. It wasn’t drown out where the guide would just talk and talk and talk and talk… You get the point.
If anyone wants to really want to go onto a tour where your guide just talks, go onto the one where the guides husband goes with her and has to wear ear muffs because he can’t even stand her voice. (And NO you don’t see that with Spellbound Tours.)

I have reviewed my trip to Salem, MA on another website and friends suggested I put them on Unilocal,so not to disappoint, I am putting some of them here.
When we came to Salem for Halloween, we were only there to do Halloween, we decided, screw the historic stuff, we could do that any other time of the year. We did 31 haunted houses, 2 night walking tours on the same night (nice for comparing), a boat tour and countless little side trips and food excursions.
The advantage of the walking tours side by side was being able to see the difference in quality. The Spellbound tour was our first one, and it was $ 13 per person. It was great, out guide had a great personality and had the groups attention the whole time and he was able to keep things moving and lively. I don’t think anybody going on these tours really expects to see any horror shows, yet I see in reviews people are disappointed they weren’t smacked in the head by a vampire bat. The guide weaved in the witch stories, as well as the stories about the history of the people of the town, such as the streets in the Monopoly game and the history of the Parker brothers.
Now, fast forward to our next walking tour that was included in our Hysteria Pass combo ticket, $ 13, which made the tour really cheap. We were in the last group to go out. The guide on that tour was snippy and told us no pictures at all, which was totally opposite of spellbound, the guide would stop so everyone could take pictures. I’d spend the money and take this tour.

Ghosts AND Vampires? DAYUM! Most tours just do the ghosts.. I don’t think I’ve ever been on a Vamp tour, I gotta get in on this!
I’ve done a ton of Salem ghost tours, and I don’t go to hear the story of Giles Cory (though I know we’ll hear it anyway), I go for the other stuff that they do.. . the stuff that sets them apart from the other guys down the street.
Yeah, you’ll go by the site of the old prison, you’ll be told «that’s where the old guy was pressed to death», «this church [by the mall] is super haunted because part of it is build over old graves that now stand in front)» although interestingly enough you’ll hear slightly different version in each tour. But I digress.
Ok, the upsides:
The Vampire ending was really interesting, though not really tied into salem the way I was expecting.
A trip to a graveyard I’d never been to including some interesting grave robbing stories.
The historically accurate street names
The «see that Ben And Jerry’s that’s where the original courthouse where everyone was tried once stood» types of tour stops. I really thought it gave a great idea of how the town was once set up and an eerie feeling knowing that I was standing where a condemned witch was once paraded towards the gallows.
The downsides:
A sadly strange tour route that retraced itself at one point
A lot of stories about how several years ago this guy saw this thing and this woman tasted an apple (why do people NEVER experience this stuff on my tour.. or even a week ago?)
A quick rant about skeptics (personally, I think while looking at pictures supposedly of paranormal phenomenon skepticism should be the defacto response, otherwise those specks of dust on your lens turn into ghastly orbs.. a story you will undoubtedly tell everyone and eventually embarrass yourself)
All in all it was, not the best I’ve been on, not the worst. I learned quite a bit, had fun, and it made enough of an impression that I remembered to Unilocal it.