Savannah Terrors

Savannah Terrors is the Savannah brand of US Ghost Adventures, a company that runs ghost tours under local names in cities around the country. It runs three walks a night: an evening ghost tour that welcomes kids and even pets, a late-night walk into the city’s darker stories, and a 21-and-over haunted pub crawl. Every…

Tours

The evening walk, Sinister Sins & Shadows, is the one for families. Its route takes in the Owens-Thomas House and the Davenport House, which the company says is famous for a ghost cat and the ghost of a little girl. It also stops at the 17Hundred90 Inn, where the company tells of a heartbroken young woman named Anne Powell in Room 204, and at the Kehoe House. An extended version adds Columbia Square. There, the company says, you might meet Lochlann, a former servant with “a special attachment to the fountain.”

Shadows of Midnight, the late walk, goes darker. It passes the Sorrel-Weed House, where the company tells of a little girl on the fourth floor and an eight-foot shadow man in the basement, and Colonial Park Cemetery and its Hanging Tree. It also tells the stories of the Mercer Williams House and 432 Abercorn Street, which the company calls a “cursed 1869 home.”

The pub crawl, Spirits & Spirits, tells the ghost stories of old bars over a drink. Its stops include the 17Hundred90 and The DeSoto. The company says every story it tells “is rooted in real history,” and that its founder came to history and storytelling through his military service. It doesn’t say when the Savannah tours began or name its guides.