The Best Ghost Tours in Savannah: Ranked and Compared

Savannah takes its ghosts seriously — and every single one of its tour companies will tell you this is one of America's most haunted cities. They're probably right — USA Today, Travel Channel, and Travel + Leisure have all said as much — but with eight credible operators working the same twenty-two squares, the question isn't whether to take a ghost tour. It's which one.

We've walked the category end to end. Every operator below sits in The Local Savannah's verified tours directory with its official site, and our Savannah tours overview covers the full tour scene — trolleys, riverboats, walking history, the works. This guide does one job: rank the ghost tours so you can match the night to the scare you actually want.

These are our picks, our order, our reasoning — opinions built on what each tour actually offers, not on anyone's ad budget. Here's how eight very different kinds of haunted stack up.

8. Graveface Museum — the Oddball

Start with the strangest. Graveface Museum sits at Factor's Walk, down where the River Street guide ends, and it's less a ghost tour than a museum of true crime, cults, UFOs, and vintage pinball. The nighttime offering is a 2.5-hour paranormal tour through the collection. If your group contains a skeptic, a true-crime podcast addict, and someone who just wants to play pinball, this is the one that keeps everyone happy — but it's the least traditional pick here, which is exactly why it ranks last on a pure ghost-tour list.

7. Hearse Ghost Tours — the Ride

You tour Savannah's haunted streets inside actual converted funeral hearses — vehicles that spent over fifteen years in real service before their second careers. It's been featured on Travel Channel and HGTV, and the novelty is genuinely unbeatable. It ranks seventh because the vehicle is the show: if the hearse gimmick grabs you, nothing else will do, and if it doesn't, the storytelling isn't the reason you'd book.

6. Sixth Sense — the Original

Sixth Sense is Savannah's original ghost tour company, running uncensored tours since 1995 — real murder, voodoo, and hauntings over a two-hour tour, no watering down. There's history in that kind of longevity, and the uncensored framing is the draw. It sits sixth only because the category has gotten more inventive since 1995; the stories haven't changed, but the competition has.

5. Nightly Spirits — the Pub Crawl

Nightly Spirits was voted Best Ghost Tour by USA Today, and its format is a 2.5-hour crawl through three to four haunted bars and taverns, ghost stories between stops. It's the best ghost tour for people whose primary goal is a drink in a haunted room — and it pairs naturally with our happy hour guide if the crawl becomes the whole night. The storytelling shares the stage with the stops, which is exactly what it promises.

4. Cobblestone Tours — the Literary Walk

Cobblestone runs candlelit walking tours that start at haunted pubs — Moon River Brewing among them — and the company was founded by James Caskey, the author of Haunted Savannah. That's a real pedigree: the stories come from someone who wrote the book on them, literally. The candlelit format is the most romantic version of a ghost tour in the city, which makes it the pick for date night and the reason it's a top-five finisher.

3. Ghosts & Gravestones — the Trolley

The "Trolley of the Doomed" is a 75-minute nighttime ride with costumed grave-digger guides and — the clincher — exclusive nighttime access to two haunted historic buildings you can't wander into any other way. The trolley format means no walking, the theatrics are turned up, and the exclusive access is the kind of thing a ranked list has to respect. Best pick for families with teens and anyone who wants the full production.

2. Ghost City Tours — the Research

Ghost City builds every story from historical research — no fabricated legends — and runs the deepest age-range lineup in the city: the family-friendly Grave Tales, the 16+ Beyond Good and Evil and Dead of Night, and a 21+ haunted pub crawl. If you want your chills with receipts — names, dates, documented events — this is the strongest storytelling operation in the category, with a genuine tour for every age in your group. It's our runner-up, and for history-first travelers it's the actual winner.

1. Sorrel Weed House — the Investigation

The top spot goes to the tour that changes what a ghost tour is. The Sorrel Weed House — one of the most active paranormal locations in America, with features on Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures to its name — hands you real ghost-hunting equipment, EMF detectors and thermal cameras, and puts you inside a late-night paranormal investigation. You're not listening to stories; you're hunting the thing yourself, in a house with a documented reputation. It's the most expensive-sounding night on this list and the most hands-on by a mile. If you do one ghost tour in Savannah, do this one.

The short version: haunted-house investigator → Sorrel Weed. History with your hauntings → Ghost City. No walking, full theatrics → Ghosts & Gravestones. Date night by candlelight → Cobblestone. Drinks with your spirits → Nightly Spirits. The uncensored original → Sixth Sense. The novelty ride → Hearse. The weird wildcard → Graveface.

Making the Night of It

A ghost tour is the anchor of a good Savannah evening, not the whole thing. Build the rest with the things to do guide's night section, catch live music after with the live music guide, eat first via the restaurants guide. And if you're staying in a haunted inn — several in the B&B guide have their own ghost stories — the where-to-stay guide ranks the city's hotels and inns by area. For every bookable tour in the city, the tours hub is the full directory.