River City Haunted is dedicated to preserving a history rarely told.

A new dark history and ghost tour

Spirits and Streetlamps takes you through the dark side of a unique period of downtown Richmond where vice and corruption ruled the city streets. Featuring the murder of Thalhimer's beloved son, the ghosts of the National stage, and the murder mystery of a Broad Street watering hole. River City Haunted brings the archives back to life in a vivid way.

Your guide will meet you in front of Centenary United Methodist Church at 7pm

What Makes River City Haunted Different?

Anyone can do a 90 minute walking ghost tour. River City Haunted strives for stand out events

Dark Waters

Our first tour launched in October 2024, a ghost tour on kayaks down the James River and Kanawha Canal in Richmond, in partnership with locally based RVA Paddlesports. Kayaking down the canal in the dark of night as the fog rose from the water made this tour extra scary. This was the first tour of its kind to the city, and the first season was completely sold out, with more dates continually added to keep up with demand. Dark Waters tickets are exclusively sold on https://rvapaddlesports.com/ in the fall season.

Ghosts of Gayton

River City Haunted was the first presenter to Richmond on the topic of the hauntings of the Tuckahoe area of the West End. The true tragic history of repeated death and legal troubles in the coal mines of Western Henrico, combined with this part of town being developed into a residential suburban area in the 1970s, has resulted in a mass haunting over a 12 mile area of the West End. Ghosts of Gayton is part history lecture and part first person eyewitness testimonies of the paranormal. Semi regular shows at Gayton Library 10600 Gayton Rd, Richmond, VA 23238

Returning for 2026, Sordid Shockoe tells an unheard perspective on the dark side of Shockoe Slip. Featuring the Southern Railway wreck of the #11, the burning of the Lexington Hotel, the drownings at the Richmond city dock and more

We will meet on the corner of 12th and Cary in front of the Omni Hotel