Downtown Los Angeles Ghost Tours: Haunted History Walks

Explore Downtown LA’s darker history, from forgotten crime scenes to shadowy streets. These are the hauntings tied to the city’s earliest days on our Downtown Los Angeles ghost tours.

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Long before Hollywood, Downtown Los Angeles was a place of corruption, violence, and desperation. The city’s oldest streets are filled with stories that never faded with time. On our Downtown Los Angeles ghost tours, you’ll hear the city’s haunted history through researched accounts and documented events. American Ghost Walks provides guided walking tours that focus on the true stories connected to the streets, buildings, and crimes that defined LA’s dark and mysterious past.

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Learn more about the site of one of the most significant crimes of a generation, the Manson Family Murders of Sharon Tate and her friends. From $99 per person. Select Fridays at 8pm.

Ghost Tours in Downtown Los Angeles

Step away from the spotlight and into the city’s original core. These guided walking tours reveal a side of Los Angeles shaped by crime, corruption, and unexplained encounters, told with historical depth and local context.

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Hollywood Boulevard Ghost Walk

Walk the darker side of the Dream Factory on this guided ghost tour along Hollywood Boulevard. Explore iconic landmarks while uncovering true stories of tragic starlets, infamous schemers, and unexplained encounters tied to Hollywood’s rise and excess.


  • 2-hour walking tour
  • Great for those 10+ who enjoy history and the paranormal
  • Nightly at 7:00 PM
  • $35 per person + tax

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    I wish I remembered what my tour guides name was on 2/1 at 2pm but she was awesome. Very open to questions about places not on the on the tour. Lots of personal insights. I've lived off Hollywood Blvd for about an decade when I was younger but we did this tour for our teenage kids birthday and it was amazing, she loved it. Got to learn so much old history of Hollywood with tons of creepy ghost stories. Lots of details, can't go on enough about it. It was a full two hours. Lots of walking, get to hear about creepy details of all the local sights. Have your walking shoes and maybe a bottle of water because this is a complete tour. I'll totally recommend for visiting relatives.

    Joe D.

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    I had a wonderful time on this ghost tour. Our tour guide was very knowledgeable, funny, and paid special attention to detail regarding all the sites we visited. I would highly recommend this ghost tour to locals and tourists alike. I liked how it was 3 hours long and was very comprehensive.

    Brenden Donnelly

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    Had a great time on the tour! Heather was awesome! Learned a lot about Los Angeles and the history behind the hauntings.

    Rose Baugh

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Save up to 25% when you book one of our tours with a trip to the Hollywood Medieval Torture Museum (click on the photo to check it out!)

Medieval Torture Museum plus American Ghost Walks
Medieval Torture Museum plus American Ghost Walks

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