About This Ghost Tour Comparison Site
A short, quotable rundown of who runs this site, what it lists and how it treats the numbers. Ratings, review counts and durations match each tour's own booking page.
Why This Guide Exists
bostonghost.tours compares the after-dark side of Boston, Massachusetts so visitors can pick the right night out without opening a dozen tabs. Nine tours sit in the comparison at any time: five walking ghost tours, one trolley ride and three haunted pub crawls, each shown with its rating, review count, duration and operator. The site does not operate a single tour. There is no booking form here and no money changes hands; reservations happen on the live listing, and the commercial arrangement behind this site is set out at /disclosure/.
Folklore, Not Fact
The history underneath these tours is not invented. Boston's colonial-era streets and burying grounds are real and documented, and guides lead you past places with genuine pasts: the Freedom Trail, Beacon Hill, the North End, and graveyards that date to the colonial era. The ghost stories themselves belong to each operator's tour narrative, and this site treats them as claims rather than established fact. So are Boston ghost stories real? The streets and the graveyards are documented; the hauntings are the storytellers' craft.
Where The Numbers Come From
Every price on this site is a from-price per person, and it moves with the season and the options you pick, so the live booking page always wins. Ratings and review totals are copied exactly as published, never rounded up or down. When a listing withholds a price, no figure is invented here; the listing is the reference. A walk with 12 reviews shows 12, and the 2,645 behind the Ghosts and Gravestones trolley appear in full, because trimming big counts or padding small ones would mislead either way.
How We Handle Numbers
Think of this site as a comparison desk, not a travel diary. Nobody behind it claims to have taken every haunted walk in the city, and no tour here is described from firsthand experience. The practical details you care about, things like duration, operator, cancellation terms and current price, come straight from each tour's live booking page, because those figures move with the season. Background on the Freedom Trail, the North End and the old burying grounds is checked against official city sources rather than tour marketing copy. No operator pays for a better rank or kinder wording.
Three Ways To Chase Ghosts
- Walking ghost tours (5 listings): on-foot routes, most lasting 1 to 1.5 hours, covering ground like Boston Common, Beacon Hill and colonial-era graveyards. Operators include US Ghost Adventures, Ghost City Tours, Tours by Foot and ExperienceFirst, and nearly all allow free cancellation.
- Ghost trolley (1 listing): the Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley Tour, a 2-hour ride from Historic Tours of America, one of the companies behind Boston's earliest formal haunted tours. Free cancellation applies.
- Haunted pub crawls (3 listings): stops at Boston's historic bars and taverns, run by US Ghost Adventures, Ghost City Tours and Nightly Spirits, with runs of 2 to 2.5 hours where stated. Most carry free cancellation.
Numbers Behind The Tours
Review volume varies a lot across the lineup. The Ghosts and Gravestones Trolley Tour leads with a 4.5 rating drawn from 2,645 reviews, while two walks, Haunted Streets and Haunted Boston Common & Beacon Hill, hold perfect 5 ratings on smaller review bases. Walking tours make up five of the nine listings, the trolley runs 2 hours, and the pub crawls stretch from 2 to 2.5 hours. Free cancellation appears on almost every tour card. Because prices shift with dates and group options, each card links to the live listing for the current figure (see Tour Prices).
The full lineup in one file: llms.txt. Our comparison method: about page.