Boroughs of the Dead

12/16/2024

And….. that’s a wrap! Happy holidays, and we’ll see you in 2025! Thank you for a great season and remember to tell some ghosts stories by your fireside this Christmas Eve 🎄👻

12/05/2024

December 6th is Krampusnacht!

To learn more spooky stories of the winter season, take our Ghosts of Christmas Past tour!

11/20/2024

Our holiday gift to you: 25% off "Ghosts of Christmas Past" tours with code YULE25!

11/01/2024

Dia de los Mu***os, Brooklyn, 2024.

11/01/2024

Eerie incidents include encounters with apparitions.

10/31/2024

What we have left in the tank. Happy Halloween!

10/30/2024

Balm (in Gilead) for the soul of the lone ghost tour operator in NYC who won't lie to you about Poe's ghost haunting... everywhere.

Dear friends,

This is really beginning to annoy me! Much more than what that scoundrel Rufus Griswold did to me!

Without my consent I've become the patron saint of Halloween but please stop saying my ghost is haunting various places all over the east coast!

I'm quite settled now in my grave and see no need for my ghost to come back for the sole purpose of generating attendance in various graveyards, taverns, hotels, museums ad nauseam!

My spirit does not haunt Fells Point especially That Horse place! It wasn't even a tavern in 1849 the year that I died!

I don't wander the Westminster Hall & Burying Ground either! But I will concede it is a nice quiet burial ground! I enjoyed walking the grounds when I lived in Baltimore and now where I rest forevermore.

I want my works to haunt you! I applied great effort in being the best writer and poet I could be despite poverty, illness, incredible stress and while my darling sissy was dying a long painful death of consumption! It was a cruel world when I was alive but remember me with a kind heart.

So enjoy Halloween but keep my spirit in the grave and not traipsing around numerous historic and commercial sites!

If you must include me in your Halloween thrills stay with the characters in my stories! Celebrate my works but keep my ghost out of it!

Respy yr. Ob. st

Edgar A. Poe

10/29/2024

This November, join Boroughs of the Dead for a stroll into the dark, twisted criminal history of our city as we present two new True Crime tours in Manhattan and Brooklyn.

“Gotham by Gaslight: A Victorian True Crime Tour” takes us to the 19th century, a bloody and violent era when the city seethed with murder, scandal and vice. On this 2-hour walking tour, we’ll examine four true crimes of Antebellum and Gilded Age New York – some of which remain unsolved to this day.

“Sin, Scandal and Blood in the Shadow of the Brooklyn Bridge” takes you to the sinister side of Brooklyn Heights and Dumbo.

Take a walk with Boroughs of the Dead to learn memorable tales of poison, su***de, dismembered corpses, bloodshed, homicide, riots, and scandal. These unsettling stories will lead us on a stroll past striking architecture in Brooklyn’s Historic District and take us down by the waterfront and the Brooklyn Bridge.

Tickets available now 🗡️🩸

10/28/2024

We're genuinely excited about this one! It'll be a thrill to talk about female fortune tellers at the NY Historic Society! You can sign up now on their website, it's free, and there should be a replay for those who, oh I don't know, have tickets to a BotD tour that night :)

🔮 Explore New York's fortune tellers: 19th-century women who earned their living by giving advice & warnings—purportedly from beyond the grave.

Moderator Jeanne Gutierrez brings together Andrea Janes, owner and founder of Boroughs of the Dead, and Marie Carter, author of Mortimer and the Witches: A Nineteenth-Century History of Fortune Tellers for stories of enterprising women—and the men who tried to erase them from time.

Join our free, virtual panel: https://bit.ly/3ZPLxfG

10/26/2024

FIVE tickets left for our FINAL West Village ghost tour of the season! Miss this now and you’ll have to wait until 2025 for the next one… don’t say we didn’t warn you 🪦

10/25/2024

Thank you to for this great article! 👻🎃🪦🖤

10/25/2024

Happy Trivia Friday! Can you identify this notoriously haunted Brooklyn location? We’ll drop a clue in our story ….

Leave your answer in the comments!

10/24/2024

When your customer gives you a picture they painted, it goes on main. 🖤👻🪦

10/23/2024

Thank you to for this great story! And we are totally open to fleshing out this list: is it missing one of *your* favorite haunted spots?

Our forever fave is Melrose Hall, but we feel like North Brooklyn kind of got left out here (sorry, you guys).

Let us know what you think in the comments 👻

10/22/2024

Tomorrow night! BotD founder .author and tour guide emeritus will get their Irish on with some spooky Samhain stories at the 🪦👻

Registration details in our story 🎟️

10/21/2024

A descendant of James Gordon Bennett Jr maybe? 🦉

10/18/2024

Happy Trivia Friday!

Here's a clue for this week's ghost: her "birthday" is this weekend! Do you know who she is?

Put your answer in the comments...

10/11/2024

Happy Trivia Friday!

Put your answer in the comments!