A private, after-dark walk through Savannah's most haunted taverns.
A private, after-dark walking tour that visits several of Savannah's atmospheric, reputedly haunted taverns.
Meet your guide at one of Savannah's atmospheric taverns, purchase a beverage, and set off on foot for a private, after-dark walking tour. Hear about Savannah's history of Civil War battles, murders, and fires, spy a number of historical landmarks, and visit several supposedly haunted pubs along the way.
A popular starting point — every Voyzo itinerary is fully customizable, so we'll shape the order and stops around your group.
Meet your guide at one of Savannah's atmospheric taverns; exact meeting point confirmed at booking.
Visit several of Savannah's own historic, reputedly haunted pubs.
Hear real accounts of the city's Civil War-era history woven through the walk.
Explore Savannah's gaslit historic streets after the sun goes down.
Back to your hotel, home, or the airport — whenever your day wraps up.
Every group size is covered — from an intimate private ride to large multi-coach groups.
Up to 6
A fast, private ride for couples, small families, or business travelers — plenty of luggage room and a smooth, quiet cabin.
Up to 14
Comfortable, air-conditioned seating for small and mid-size groups — our most popular option for families and friend groups traveling together.
Up to 56
Our largest single vehicle — a full-size luxury motorcoach for large groups, conventions, and corporate events that still want one private tour, one vehicle.
A private, after-dark walking tour that visits several of Savannah's atmospheric, reputedly haunted taverns. Meet your guide at one of Savannah's atmospheric taverns, purchase a beverage, and set off on foot for a private, after-dark walking tour. Hear about Savannah's history of Civil War battles, murders, and fires, spy a number of historical landmarks, and visit several supposedly haunted pubs along the way.
Savannah's reputation for haunted taverns is built on real, documented buildings as much as ghost stories. The Pirates' House, built as a tavern in 1753 near the Savannah River docks, catered to the sailors and merchants who worked the port and, according to long-standing local lore, to Caribbean pirates and even members of Blackbeard's crew. Tunnels really were dug beneath the property in its early days, running from the rum cellar to a nearby riverfront dock, originally for smuggling liquor and — as the stories go — for "shanghaiing" unconscious sailors onto outbound ships. The building's reputation was strong enough that Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have drawn on it while writing Treasure Island, using it as the setting for Captain Flint's death. After decades as a private residence, it was purchased and restored by the Savannah Gas Company in 1945 and reopened as a tearoom in 1953, gradually becoming the restaurant that still operates there today.
Another building with a genuinely violent past sits inside what's now Moon River Brewing Company. The structure began life as the City Hotel, built in 1821 by Charleston native Elazer Early as Savannah's first hotel and post office, popular enough with the city's elite that naturalist John James Audubon stayed there for more than six months. Real documented incidents followed: in 1832, Dr. Phillip Minis shot local resident James Stark inside the bar after a public feud, and in November 1860 a New York visitor named James Sinclair was dragged out by a mob and beaten nearly to death simply for being a Northerner on the eve of war. The hotel survived the Civil War but sat largely vacant for decades before a 1990s renovation turned it into today's brewery.
Walking tours like this one also move through Savannah's broader history after dark: the catastrophic Great Fire of January 1820, which destroyed roughly 500 buildings downtown, and the city's December 1864 surrender to Union forces under General Sherman, who chose to spare Savannah's architecture rather than burn it — a decision that's part of why so many of the buildings these ghost stories are attached to are still standing to be toured at all. As with any ghost-themed walk, the specific hauntings — glasses thrown by unseen hands, figures glimpsed on front steps — are told and widely believed as local legend rather than documented fact; Savannah's broader "most haunted city" branding traces to a 2003 designation that its own source organization has described as more honorary than scientific.
Every Voyzo tour is a starting point — tell us what you have in mind and we'll build it.