1.5 hours Austin: Downtown Austin Haunted History Tour
Uncover Austin's haunted history on this evening small-group walking tour while learning about Austin from storyteller-guides narrating macabre city history.
this tour $24
$10 $220
Austin, Texas · 4.0/5 from 28 reviews
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$24cheapest in Austin
4.5average rating
67verified reviews
$30national median
What the tour includes
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Highlights
- Explore Austin's most historic and haunted bars and pubs
- Enjoy a lovely stroll, a lot of history, and spooky stories
- Uncover some terrifying tales of Austin's Old West days
- Hear about The Driskill Hotel, and of Buffalo Billiards
Included
- Guide
How a Austin ghost tour works
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Pick your night
Ghost tours run after dark and the good ones sell out on weekends. Check the widget above for what is actually running while you are in Austin.
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Book with free cancellation
Most of these can be cancelled up to 24 hours before, so booking early costs nothing and holding out costs you the good guide.
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Turn up where they say
This one meets at Outside of the Fairmont on the corner of Red River Street and 2nd Street.
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Wear the right shoes
You will be walking on old, uneven, badly lit ground for an hour or more. It is the advice every operator gives and most visitors ignore.
On the tour
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this tour $34.99
$10 $220
- $24Austin: Downtown Austin Haunted History Tour
$29.99Austin: Family-Friendly Ghosts of Austin Tour
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The Austin shortlist, compared
Priced against the $30 national median across 208 ghost tours.
| Best valueAustin: Haunted Pub Crawl Walking Tour | Austin: Downtown Austin Haunted History Tour | Austin: Family-Friendly Ghosts of Austin Tour | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Price | $34.99 | $24 | $29.99 |
| Against the category | typical | budget | typical |
| Rating | 4.0 (28) | 4.5 (36) | 5.0 (3) |
| Operator | Ghost City Tours | Walking Tours of Austin | Ghost City Tours |
| Check dates | See this one | See this one |
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1.5 hours 1.5 hours Austin: Family-Friendly Ghosts of Austin Tour
Learn all about Austin's haunted history and what caused the hauntings on a tour designed to be entertaining for anyone aged 5–100.
this tour $29.99
$10 $220
The 1885 murders
An unsolved murder case from 1885
Austin's ghost material is real criminal history, and it predates Jack the Ripper.
The 1884-85 murders
Austin had a series of unsolved killings in 1884 and 1885 that predate the Whitechapel murders by three years and have never been solved. That case is the substance behind most Austin ghost walks, and it is documented criminal history rather than folklore.
The buildings are younger than the East Coast
Austin is not Charleston. The Driskill opened in 1886 and the Capitol was finished two years later, so expect late-nineteenth-century material rather than colonial. The stories are no thinner for it; they are simply nearer.
Sixth Street with a frame
The haunted pub crawl here is a night out on a famous bar strip with a historical excuse, which is fine as long as you book it as that. Several of the buildings are genuinely period, which gives it more claim than most.
What a night here actually costs
Austin's 3 bookable tours start at $24 and run to $34.99, against a national ghost-tour median of $30 measured across 208 products. That entry price sits below the category 25th percentile of $25, which makes it genuinely cheap for a ghost tour rather than simply cheap. The distinction matters: a low price in a thin market usually means one operator with nobody to compete against, not a bargain. With 3 products the field is small but real - enough to choose between, not enough for competition to have weeded much out. Read the review counts rather than assuming. We feature it on price and review depth rather than on quoted reviews - GetYourGuide has not surfaced review prose for this product, and we would rather say so than show you another tour's reviews under its name.
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Austin: Haunted Pub Crawl Walking Tour — rated 4.0 by 28 verified guests, from $34.99. Free cancellation.
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How much is a Austin ghost tour?
Austin tours run from $24, against a national ghost-tour median of $30 across 208 products. The strip on each card shows exactly where that price sits in the category.
Which Austin ghost tour is best?
We feature Austin: Haunted Pub Crawl Walking Tour because it carries the strongest combination of price and review depth — 4.0 from 28 verified reviews. The comparison table above puts it against the next two so you can disagree with us on the evidence.
Are Austin ghost tours family friendly?
Read each listing: some are explicitly 21+ because they are bar crawls, and those say so in their inclusions. The walking history tours are generally fine for older children, though the point of them is atmosphere after dark.
Can I cancel?
Most of these carry free cancellation up to 24 hours before the tour, which means booking early costs nothing and waiting costs you the better guide. The widget above shows the terms for the date you pick.
Is there more on haunted places in austin?
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