Horrifying Halloween GHOST History Tour, Old Town, Alexandria VA, Oct 31!

Saturday, October 31st, 2026 at 4:00 PM
398 Wilkes St., Alexandria, VA 22314Alexandria, VA

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Horrifying Halloween History GHOST Tour of Old Town, Alexandria Virginia, Saturday, October 31!!

Ye Olde Town Alexandria--filled with scores of centuries-old houses and the scene of wars, murders, and fatal accidents--is one of the most haunted places in America. And one of the most historic, being the hometown of George Washington, Robert E. Lee, civil rights leaders, Admiral "Bull" Halsey, and more.

On Halloween Night, take a horrifying stroll to visit the city’s many terrifying real-world sites of the supernatural!

When: October 31, 4 pm!

Where: MEET at the haunted tunnel, 398 Wilkes St, Alexandria, VA 22314. Corner of South Royal St.

Length: About 2 hours

Our most scary itinerary will select from:

• Ghosts from a doomed Navy voyage

• The headless sailor of King Street.

• The unsolved antebellum murder, and the murdered man’s actual mysterious ghost!

• Ghosts from a doomed Army voyage

• The bizarre plan to revive George Washington from the dead!

• Scary visits to locales of our published murder mystery!

• A shocking mortuary from olden days

• The smallest park in the nation.

• The smallest house in the nation.

• The unknown tomb of the Unknown Soldier

• The untimely death of the Mysterious Woman

• Apparitions along the Underground Railroad

• The screaming ghost of the Cat Devil

• The mysteriously disappearing house

• The mysteriously disappearing spy

• The mysteriously disappearing presidential ballroom

• Confederate graves and Union surgeons

• A real-life pirate

• The house of a notorious blackmailer & seductress

• Washington's terrible final hours

• The warring ghosts of the War Between the States

• High spirits: Old Town's hard-drinking Irish of yore

• The lovely bride who was killed on her wedding day

And more!

Your host is an ex-Tonight Show writer, & former White House speechwriter.

The Host's murder mystery set in Alexandria!:

THE OLD TOWN HORROR: Murder and Theft in America's Most Historic Locale by Edward P Moser, Paperback | Barnes & Noble® (barnesandnoble.com)

His forthcoming book on the wild history of Alexandria's sister city of Georgetown!:

Georgetown on the Potomac - McFarland

Our Top-Ranked TripAdvisor Reviews!

https://www.tripadvisor.com/Attraction_Review-g28970-d12791843-Reviews-Lafayette_Square_Tour_of_Scandal_Assassination_Intrigue-Washington_DC_District_of.html

Meet next to the ghostly tunnel. 398 Wilkes St, Alexandria, VA 22314. Corner of South Royal St.

Join us on this horrifying history tour!!

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