The Haunted Galena Tour Company

02/14/2025

Join us at the Haunted Galena Conference and experience this beautiful 1855 hotel!

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We host 55 Victorian-Style guest rooms all named for historic figures that have stayed in or around the hotel. You can stay in Ulysses S. Grant's room, Abraham Lincoln's room, or Susan B. Anthony's room. Come and enjoy our historic elegance!

02/12/2025

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It's Our Most Haunted Event of the Year! Join us at the historic DeSoto House Hotel April 4-6, 2025

01/13/2025

Join us! We’re just dying to share our tales 👻

The haunted hotel is filled with ghost stories & history once again! Join The Haunted Galena Tour Company for select Saturday shows through March to hear of infamous murders, tragedies, and hauntings while enjoying drinks and appetizers!

For more information and tickets visit : https://www.hauntedgalenatourcompany.com/murder-mayhem-indoor-show

12/31/2024

Thank you to everyone who helps us keep doing what we love! We hope you all have the happiest new year🥂

Wow, what a GREAT year it was! Between reopening our play Will O’ The Wisp to having our busiest seasons yet, we couldn’t feel more appreciative for everyone who has supported us in making it all so special.

We’ve got so many fun things planned for 2025. We can’t wait to see you all in the new year! 🥂

12/31/2024

We loved having Amanda R. Woomer at our Haunted Conference this past spring! We’re keeping our fingers crossed she’ll bring herself & The Traveling Museum of Memento Mori to our conference again (looking at you 2026!)

Another year has come and gone in what feels like the blink of an eye… Here are 12 photos for 12 months and 12 highlights of 2024:

1. Vending at The Merry Shelley’s Valentine’s Day market and releasing my first Pocket-Sized Terrors (third one is coming Valentine’s Day 2025!).
2. The release of The Feminine Macabre Volume VI.
3. Presenting one of the highest attending lectures at North Park Branch Library: The Spiritualists & The Suffragists for Women’s History Month.
4. Bringing The Traveling Museum of Memento Mori to The Haunted Galena Conference.
5. Actually getting to hang out with Troy Taylor in Galena.
6. Getting dinner with Your Best Halloween Ever and Spooky Little Halloween at the Lemp Mansion.
7. Lecturing on the sexuality of vampires (or as everyone called it, “the sexy vampire talk”) at Haunted America.
8. Connecting with some of the ladies of TFM.
9. Attending my first out of state Oddities & Curiosities Expo.
10. The publication of my first traditionally published book with Visible Ink Press.
11. Getting to introduce Cemetery Man and Messiah of Evil for Silk Screams at The Screening Room.
12. Getting to lecture at Forest Lawn Cemetery not once but twice… truly a dream come true.

Thank you to everyone who supported me on my journey as a writer and lecturer this year… I’ve already got a few events scheduled for 2025 as well as (at least) four books planned for next year. Happy New Year!

12/07/2024

Tickets for our fourth annual Haunted Galena Conference April 4-6, 2025 are NOW LIVE!! 👻 Cool vendors, excellent speaker presentations, interesting panels, spooky events, haunted investigations, a wickedly fun time!

We are a small intimate conference, so tickets are very limited; get them while they last and join in on the haunts!

Join us April 4th - April 6th, 2025 in Galena, Illinois, one of the oldest and most haunted small towns in the Midwest, for our fourth annual Haunted Galena Conference!

11/28/2024

Happy Thanksgiving!! 🖤🦃🍁🍂 With our busiest time of the year just wrapped up, we want to express a belated thank you to everyone who has supported us this year.

Between our tours and the shop, it has been a year of changes and new things. Exciting changes that really have just been adding fuel to the fire. We feel so grateful to everyone who has supported us for years or even just found us now!

We’re so so so thankful. We hope everyone has a lovely Thanksgiving! 🖤🖤

07/07/2024

I really miss matches....Remember when you would go to a restaurant or bar and they gave you matches? Well - we've got matches! Stop by and take a look!

Celebrate Summerween with these Universal Monsters matchbooks! 🏕️💀🩸🎃💚 Guaranteed to light campfires and candelabras.

Stop by to check them out, we’re open daily for the summer!

04/16/2024

Our amazing friend Wend O'Lynn-this Friday at DeSoto House Hotel! Come get your spooky music on! She’s the best!

04/15/2024

We LOVE this book-written and illustrated by Amanda R. Woomer, Spook-Eats!! Not going to the conference? Stop by A Darkness Lovely on Saturday to find out how you can get a copy of this adorable and one of a kind book!! (And maybe even meet the author herself!!!)

04/13/2024

LAST CHANCE!!! WE HAVE 4 TICKETS LEFT and 1 hotel room remaining at the DeSoto House Hotel!!! Looking to get your ghost on next weekend? FRIDAY APRIL 19-SATURDAY APRIL 20th!! Tickets and information at hauntedgalena.com

Join us for our third annual HAUNTED GALENA CONFERENCE as we once again take over the haunted DeSoto House Hotel. This year offers some new speakers and authors, investigations, and after hours events. We are featuring some of the best Authors and Paranormal Researchers in the field. Get up close and personal at this conference of hauntings, the paranormal, the unexplained, and the curious. This year we are excited to again offer a Sunday tour of Galena's historic Greenwood Cemetery, where you can walk with the spirits. This is a small, intimate conference so tickets are limited.

02/29/2024

We just got done performing our play, “Will-O’-The-Wisp” about a Galena miner and now we are talking about the ghosts in the mines!!!

The Amityville Horror House & Ghosts in Galena's Mines, Positively ParanormalShare this video: https://youtu.be/mJc9pD2YwxoTime Stamps:0:00 - Intro0:58 - Pos...

01/08/2024

Join us for our first show of 2024!!! This Saturday, January 13, 2024. We are excited to present our "Murder and Mayhem in a Mining Town" at the haunted DeSoto House Hotel Hear of infamous murders, tragedies, and hauntings that have lingered throughout Galena's darkest history! Enjoy free appetizers and a cash bar! Doors open at 7:30. Show starts at 8 PM. Tickets at hauntedgalena.com

12/09/2023

TONIGHT 4-7 PM!!! Get your picture with Krampus at A Darkness Lovely…IF YOU DARE!!!

Come join the fun during Living Windows and Luminaria!!!

11/28/2023

Have you always wanted to do a paranormal investigation in Galena? Join us and the Transcendent Paranormal Society at the Haunted Galena Conference! Tickets on sale now! Hauntedgalenaconference.com

11/25/2023

Happy Small Business Saturday! Looking for something to do? Join our small business on a Spirits and Spirits tour! Today 4 PM. Info at

Take a 90 minute walking ghost tour of Galena, IL. Classic storytelling, haunting tales, beautiful setting!