The Fog of San Francisco hides a multitude of sins, sinners, and spirits, walk through the mists with SF Ghosts.

Welcome to San Francisco – Home of the first brownstone west of the Mississippi, and the Wandering Bride of Powell Street. Find out what other darkness hides behind San Francisco’s high society reputation with our ghostly walking tour.

Here are 4 reasons why you should book SF Ghosts over any other tourist attraction!

• You want to know the real story of San Francisco

  The stories we have don’t appear on any of the Clamper plaques around the city, and certainly not in any guidebook. Each stop on our 8 or 12 location tours gives you a vivid and memorable look into the real story of San Francisco. Unvarnished, and unleashed, San Francisco has many ghosts in its closet. Like the Fairmont Hotel, one of the few structures still standing after the 1909 earthquake, subsequent tragic accidents gave rise to rumors of a curse, one the original builders, the Fair sisters even come back occasionally to check how their hotel is doing.

  Other stories you will hear will bring alive the complex and evocative real history of San Francisco, the bay area. We even researched stories from further afield in Northern California, some of which we could not include in the SF Ghosts walking tour, so we included them in our ghost stories blog, for your enjoyment.

• You only have a short time in the city.

  Our standard tour is around an hour-long, the stories come thick and fast as you take our one-mile route around San Francisco’s Nob Hill and Union Square neighborhoods. The stories of the people who make up the living breathing history of this amazing city bring it alive. We will show you not only the history of the city but the living remains of that history; its ghosts.

  If you are looking for an activity just after dinner, and before the city comes alive at night, our hour-long ghost tour can help you get the most out of your short time in San Francisco.

  More fun than any museum and you get more up close and personal than any tour bus. Our expert local guides will show you a side of San Francisco that not many locals get to see. Which is another reason we often have people who have lived here all their lives join the tour, they can add additional facts and stories to the tour, but even locals always end up learning something about their City by the Bay.

• You are a sceptic of the Supernatural.

  Our tours happen in the twilight hours, click on the book now button to see the exact tour times. Darkness is falling, and the spirits are just waking up. We have had many people on the tour experience an unusual chill, not related to the rolling in of Karl the fog, that’s right, it has a name, and even a Twitter account!  Tour guests even have seen glimpses of the occasional ghoul. We don’t guarantee this and wouldn’t even expect a sighting to change the mind of a hardened skeptic, but we have expanded the horizons of a few people over the years. We would welcome the chance to expand your receptivity to the supernatural.

  Perhaps you will become one of the many people who have seen the Wandering Bride of California Street. She has a very mysterious story, we know some details, an arranged marriage to her wealthy father’s business partner’s son, a disappearance on the night of her presentation to society. And mysteriously the discovery of her body in Montana years after her disappearance…

• You want something the whole family will enjoy

  Everyone can learn something about San Francisco and be entertained at the same time. We want the whole family to enjoy SF ghosts, and make sure the stories are not so scary as to cost a night of sleep, but they will be remembered for years to come.

  We believe a good story is the best souvenir, and we have 8 to 12 stories for you that are made even more memorable by standing on the exact spots where the remarkable events from history happened.  You don’t get the same experience from the seat of a bus whizzing by these places.

  A walking tour is the only way to be able to reach out and touch the stones of the Sutter building and run your hands over the bizarre Mayan designs. They include the World Tree symbol, a traditional sign of a connection between the world of the living and the dead. The building has recorded a lot of unexplained happenings over the years. The story about how these designs came to be on a building constructed in the 1920s to house medical professionals came to have a set of symbols from a long-dead civilization thousands of miles away is a fascinating one.

  Join us to find out more, and be thoroughly entertained on the haunted streets of San Francisco.