Salem ghost tours

A guided walk is $24 to $50 for one adult, and half of them are $30 or less. Day trips from Boston, which include the transport, run from $120. Every price on this site is a "from" price for one adult ticket.

In October, yes — Salem draws over a million visitors that month and the walks sell out. The rest of the year a day or two is usually enough. Every walk we list cancels free up to 24 hours ahead, so booking early costs nothing.

They are storytelling walks, not haunted houses: a guide, the streets and the documented cases. The ones that lean hardest on fear are the late walks that hand out detection gear.

Yes. The Witch Trials Memorial, the Charter Street Burying Point beside it and Proctor’s Ledge are free and open without a guide. What a walk adds is someone who can tell you what you are looking at.

Every operator in our table says the walk runs rain or shine. Heavy weather is refunded by the partner rather than by the guide on the night.

By weight of evidence, History and Hauntings: 4.82 from 821 reviews, two hours, from $36 — more people have rated it than any other walk here. If the price matters more, Voodoo, Vampires, and Ghosts rates higher still at 4.85, over 224 reviews, and costs $25.

Not among the walks. Every guided ghost and witch-trial tour here stays on the street and looks at the houses from outside. What is indoors is the broom-making workshop, the costume photo session and the tarot reading, and the Witch House, which is a museum you enter on its own ticket.

Three of the thirty-four. The haunted pub crawl is adults only and asks for ID, the true-crime walk is set at thirteen and over, and the tarot-reading tour is for adults. Every other tour in the table takes children.