Concord Massachusetts is the site of the “shot heard round the world,” and the home of American transcendentalism and some of the most well-known American literature. A town rich in such revolutionary and inspiring history is certain to have secrets, is it not?
Join us on our tour through the historic New England landscape of downtown Concord as we traverse burial grounds, haunted locations, and sites of sinister and dark activity as we delve into the lesser told mysteries and tales of Concord’s storied past. Tales of missing heads, famous authors fishing for human corpses, curious funeral practices, cold-blooded murder, and missing travelers will be told along the streets of Concord.
Paranormal encounters are in no shortage in our picturesque New England community as ghosts are told to have been wandering the sites and streets of Concord for hundreds of years and ghostly encounters keep coming. This two-hour outdoor walking tour will bring folks to the sites and burials as relate to Concord’s dark and mysterious past and true supernatural encounters.
This tour is a blend of history and mystery. The tour will meet just behind the Visitor’s Center on the far end of the Parking Lot at the bridge leading to Chamberlin Park. Parking is available in the lot or in public street parking of Concord.
If you love a cemetery tour but prefer to skip the haunted history, this late-afternoon cemetery stroll is for you! Visitors will be guided through the notable Sleepy Hollow Cemetery and some of the most well-known burials, interesting grave sites, and inspirational stories of the people of Concord through the last two centuries.
From powerful women to well-known sculptors, Civil War soldiers to generational abolitionists, and to the gravesites of four of the most well-known authors (Thoreau, Emerson, Alcott & Hawthorne) in American history, guests will hear the true stories of the fascinating lives that made Concord a place never to be forgotten. The hallowed grounds of Sleepy Hollow are home to real-life legends whose memory is kept alive by all those who visit.
Wide Awake in Sleepy Hollow is a two-hour walking tour and requires the ability to walk up small staircases and a steep incline to Author’s Ridge. Please wear comfortable walking shoes. Guests will meet their guide at the far entrance in the older “New Hill” section that connects to Sleepy Hollow. Street Parking or public lots are just a block down the road in historic Concord.
The Downtown Concord Ghost & True Crime Tour (haunted history) is offered at 7:00pm Friday through Sunday plus select weeknights during October!
The Wide Awake in Sleepy Hollow Cemetery Tour (no haunted history) is offered late afternoons at 4:00pm from Friday through Sunday. Look for additional Thursday tours added in October!
Tour Tickets:
Tickets for all tours are $30 per person; October tours are $35.
Buy Tickets in Advance HERE.
New England native, historian, and sensitive to the other side, Courtney McInvale Reardon and her team equal in knowledge and spirituality, take you by lantern light on the tour of your choice where they will answer all of these questions and more.
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