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Charleston Pirate Tours Tour Charleston with award-winning guides! Appearances on NBC Today Show, Travel Channel, PBS, NPR, Explore the Golden Age of Piracy during our daytime tours.
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we also offer the Charleston History Highlights Tour. Join us in the evening for a Ghost & Pirate Tour. We also offer Charleston's only Children’s Tour and Daytime Ghost Tour. In addition to our regularly scheduled tours, we can customize private tours covering any aspect of Charleston history for groups from 2 to 200. Need entertainment at your venue? We provide entertaining storytelling sessio

ns and lectures. From corporate dinners & community events to museums and schools, Eric has entertained thousands across the southeast with his dynamic presentations. We can also customize our Children’s Treasure Hunt for your location.

01/22/2025

Our ship's not going anywhere today.

01/19/2025

We're on BlueSky now: https://bsky.app/profile/charlestonpirate.bsky.social

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01/01/2025

May your new year be filled with treasure!

12/24/2024

Merry Christmas and Happy Hanukkah!

12/01/2024

Still need to buy some gifts? Our gift cards are good for all of our tours. You just choose the amount, and they don't expire! https://www.charlestonpiratetour.com/

11/28/2024

Find the parrots!

Happy Thanksgiving!

11/26/2024

Easy holiday shopping!
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11/11/2024

Thank you to all of the veterans!

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10/01/2024

We want to generate a little buzz for our new tour, Charleston Eccentricities, so we are offering free tickets for this Saturday at 10am. Tickets are limited.

Just call 843-442-7299.

09/20/2024

Check us out in this week's Charleston Scene in the Post & Courier. Plus, you can test your pirate history knowledge with a quiz.

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Ahoy all ye mateys and scallywags, today is talk like a pirate day. Test your local history of the comings and goings of notorious pirates on Charleston's shores, or ye'll

09/12/2024

Just found this picture that was sent to us a couple of years ago. The little boy was on a 5th grade field trip tour with us. His mom later took this picture in Philadelphia Alley. Do you see the person behind the boy? There was no one else in the alley!

We have 3 videos on our website about ghosts in Philadelphia Alley. Watch them and decide which ghost you think this is!

The Whistling Doctor: https://www.charlestonpiratetour.com/post/ghost-of-the-whistling-doctor-in-philadelphia-alley

The Mysterious Caller: https://www.charlestonpiratetour.com/post/mysterious-caller

Ghost Joins Tour: https://www.charlestonpiratetour.com/post/another-ghost-in-philadelphia-alley

09/07/2024

We've got a new tour for you: Charleston Eccentricities! Charleston has some bizarre history that would fit nicely in a Believe It or Not museum! Did an alligator really rain down on the city? We had one priest baptize a bear and another resign because he believed that he’d been cursed by a witch. Which president’s widow lived in Charleston and had the police chief deliver confiscated liquor for her parties during Prohibition? This covers covers all kinds of weird history.

https://www.charlestonpiratetour.com/charlestoneccentricities

08/09/2024

Snowy egret baby! White Point Gardens.

08/08/2024

Charleston is open and ready to welcome visitors! Debbie brought a lot of rain and a couple of tornados in outlying areas, but we're all good.

08/01/2024

The woman for whom Black Beard named his flagship (Queen Anne's Revenge) died on this date in 1714. Before he became a pirate, Black Beard sailed as a licensed privateer for Queen Anne.

Anne's reign saw the union of England and Scotland and created the single sovereign state known as Great Britain. Anne was succeeded by George I, the first of the Hanover kings. George remained unpopular throughout his reign for a number of reasons... one being the fact that he never learned to speak English!

Address

79 Cumberland Street
Charleston, SC
29401

Opening Hours

Monday	9am - 9pm
Tuesday	9am - 9pm
Wednesday	9am - 9pm
Thursday	9am - 9pm
Friday	9am - 9pm
Saturday	9am - 9pm
Sunday	9am - 9pm

Website

https://www.charlestonpiratetour.com/

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Videos

Flashback to a video about one of the Dock Street Theatre ghosts.

Here's a fun story you'll on the Children's Treasure Hunt Tour!

Forget about the companies that are trying to copy our Pirate & Ghost Tour. Book with us and find out why we get accolades from national media like the Today Show, U.S. News & World Report, and the Travel Channel... just to name a few. Here's one of the stories you might hear.

A blast from the past! Bloopers from our 2020 video series. By the way, you can check out all of the videos on our Facebook video page. We've got Charleston history, pirate history, ghost stories, and even Sabrina's red rice receipt!

Barbecue for dinner tonight!

Eric is much more than a pirate and tour guide...he also smokes a mean pork butt!

Sgt. Jasper and the South Carolina Flag

Thank you to everyone who's watched our daily videos. This one will be the last for a few days. We re-open Sunday for tours! We're still going to post videos, but it will be weekly instead of daily. If you've enjoyed our videos, please consider reviewing us on TripAdvisor. Yes, you can actaully review our virtual tours. Reviews would help us generate some business, and, as it looks like it will be very slow for tour companies for the foreseeable future, we can use all the help that we can get. Here's the review link: https://www.tripadvisor.com/UserReviewEdit-g54171-d2076029-Charleston_Pirate_Tours-Charleston_South_Carolina.html Now... on with the show! Ever wonder why South Carolina is called the Palmetto State and why there's a palmetto tree and crescent on our state flag. As Eric explains in today's virtual tour, it all goes back to the Battle of Sullivan's Island.

Trumbull's Revenge

Be careful what you wish for when you're dealing with an angry artist. City of Charleston leaders found that out the hard way when they turned down a painting they commissioned and told the painter he had to do another one.

The Cutest Ghost in Charleston

While one of the ghosts at Poogan's Porch may disagree, we believe this ghost on the USS Yorktown is even cuter!

Haunted Inn

Turn down service at this Charleston bed & Breakfast comes with chocolate and a ghost! The Battery Inn Carriage House is closed now for renovations, but will re-open under new ownership as 20 South Battery. We can only hope that the construction work doesn't disturb (or anger!) the permanent guests.

Stranger on the Beach

Today's virtual tour takes us to Sullivan's Island, where, if you take a stroll on the beach, and you may just run into the ghost of a famous writer!

Fort Moultrie: From Revolution to World Wars

Today's virtual tour takes you to Fort Moultrie on Sullivan's Island. Fort Moultrie has played a role in coastal defense from the Revolution through WWII. It's now a National Historic Park that you can visit!

The Gray Man

Hurricane season begins in just days. What better time to meet the Gray Man, a lowcountry storm legend.

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Our Story

Join award-winning guides & their parrots on a walk through the city. Explore the Golden Age of Piracy during our daytime tours. Join us in the evening for a Ghost & Pirate Tour. or We also offer Charleston's only Children’s Tour and a Daytime Ghost & History Tour. In addition to our regularly scheduled tours, we can customize private tours covering any aspect of Charleston history for groups from 2 to 200. Need entertainment at your venue? We provide entertaining storytelling sessions and lectures. From corporate dinners & community events to museums and schools, Eric and Sabrina have entertained thousands across the southeast with dynamic presentations. We can also customize our Children’s Treasure Hunt for your location.