Ghosts of New York

I did the Edgar Allen Poe tour in the West Village on Sat. and we had Russell as our guide. The tour was great! Learned a lot, some of which I had heard about but a lot of things I never knew about. It is about an hour and a half long and requires some walking but mainly around NYU area so it was not bad at all.
Russell was wonderful. We could not have asked for a better guide. He was extremely friendly and personable and funny as well. He knows his stuff and everything about the tour and you can tell he is very professional and serious about his work. He even dressed up in a period look suite and hat which was great.
Highly recommend to anyone. Great fun and you learn quite a bit as well.

My friends and I were on the Edgar Allen Poe tour led by Prudence Holmes and loved it! She was very knowledgable, funny and entertaining. Great way to learn about historic information in NYC around Washington square park. Fun activity to do with friends and/​or family around Halloween

Had a great time on Russell’s Multicultural Ghosts of the Lower East Side tour. He was really knowledgable both about the area’s spirits, history and religion. From haunted synagogues to spooky hotels, it was a really fun night. Definitely recommended!

We really enjoyed the tour with Prudence Holmes. She was so informative and exciting. Her stories were funny and kept us wanting to hear more. The tour started in the west village and took us on a waking adventure all around Washington square park. There was not a dull moment and prudence is an incredible actress. We are looking forward to our next tour with her

Amazing tour with prudence write Holmes. Her stories kept us entertained and the tour was incredible. I can’t wait until my next tour with the company. It was informative, fun, and a unique way to spend a Friday night with friends

Just loved, loved, loved the tour with Amada. She was so informative, fun, and talented too. This was my third tour with her and can’t wait for the next. What can be better than a beautiful summer evening scouring the quaint eerie streets of NYC for a glimpse of a ghost or two? It is definitely a fun night out!

Me and my fiancé enjoyed the Greenwich Village ghost tour. Our tour guide was Amada Anderson. She really made the tour fun and enjoyable. We saw a ton of historic landmarks and learned a lot in the process. We loved seeing Mark Twains home. The tour was 2 hours long filled with a ton of great facts and interesting facts about the area. We’ll definitely be going on more tours with Ghosts of New York. Amada is wonderful.

Two of us did the Edgar Allen Poe and His Ghostly Neighbors tour on a Friday evening. The tour was excellent. We learned a lot about the local ghosts of Greenwich Village and some of the local history. Certainly entertaining, whether you’re a believer or not. Our guide, Armada, did a wonderful job! JB

We loved this tour! Our guide, Russell, was knowledgable and funny, providing us with many anecdotes and true tales. It was not a super long walking tour and the hour and a half flew by. It was nice to see the area at night on foot through a historian’s eyes. I would very much recommend this tour to others!

Excellent tour! The tour guide, Karen, was well spoken and knowledgable. I still remember the majority of information that was given. She took us to several spots and even recited Edgar Allan’s Poe, The Raven. This is my favorite tour. I walked on west 4^th so many times and didn’t know the history of the streets, the park, and buildings. It’s a must do tour.

My daughter and I went on the Greenwich village tour and loved it! The guide was knowledgable, charismatic, and funny. It was obvious that he has a geat love of the city and its history. The only unpleassent ortion was the weather — it was bitter cold by then end. I would definitely reccomend these tours to others, especially in armer month.

We did the Edgar Allen Poe walking tour with Annie. She was very informative and you can tell that she has a passion for the history of the city and it’s ghosts. It was a cold night, but I didn’t feel it for the whole 90 minutes because the tour was so interesting and we kept moving. I would recommend the tour! Thank you, Annie and Dr. Phil!

My least favorite ghost tour experience of all time. We did the Edgar Allen Poe walking tour. I cannot remember our guide’s name, but she was pleasant enough… and cheesy enough. The first stop is Edgar Allen Poe’s home that he lived in for about a year. Apparently «The Raven» was written here — cool. If you look inside, you can see about four stairs and part of a banister that has been walled off. Upon looking in she goes «Can you see his ghost floating up the stairs?» Uh… what stairs — they’ve been walled off. But whatever.
It didn’t seem like she had a lot of her specific facts straight. We had another know-​it-​all in the group that kept correcting her to the point that I began to feel bad for her. When we got to the Brown Building she kept saying things to scare us like, «can you hear them? Can you hear the screams of the girls jumping to their deaths? I can see the bodies now… lined up on the street splattered about.» We had to turn our backs to to keep from laughing.
Overall, the tour was pretty boring, cheesy, and what was suppose to be a 90 minute tour ended up being exactly an hour. Definitely not work $ 20. You could also tell the group as a whole wasn’t very amused.

I would give this company zero stars if I could just based on their customer service.
I purchased two ghosts of new York 90 minute tour vouchers from groupon which clearly states any 90 minute tour. I tried to book by calling the Fake Dr. Phil and he just laughed at me and told me that he does not honor the groupon for all 90 minute tours but only the ones that he wants to and when he wants to and that I should just return the groupon and pay full price through his website. I hung up with him and returned the groupon vouchers. This has to be one of the rudest people in the haunted tour industry because I have gone on a few of these tours in NYC and never has anyone laughed and told me to return my groupon voucher before. I will never take any of his tours.

We did the Edgar Allan Poe tour and it was a lot of fun. Karen was a great tour guide, very knowledgeable and friendly. I definitely want to do more tours with them.

Karen was our tour guide and she was fabulous! We took the Edgar Allan Poe tour in Greenwich Village and it was a great time. Karen was very knowledgeable and personable. She had a ton of historical facts and dates memorized, but delivered it in a storytelling way not just reciting it. She was good about catering to both believers and skeptics, and answered all my questions. She even treated us to a verse of Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven at the end! Highly recommend this tour.

Just some disclaimers: this is a review for only the Edgar Allen Poe-​focused Greenwich Village tour. I’m not a ghost fanatic. I’m normally really skeptical of anything labeled as «paranormal.» I took my mom on the tour as a birthday present, since she loves ghost stories and went to school in the neighborhood.
The tour was surprisingly not stupid. It was so not stupid, I’m going to not recommend it to ghost fanatics and people who immediately believe any ghost story that they’re told because they like the scare. This tour wasn’t full of scare tactics and macrabe, obviously made-​up stories. It was historically informative and really well-​researched. No bullshit. Karen, as mentioned in other reviews, is fantastic and has got crazy knowledge.
And as mentioned before, she does disparage NYU a lot. My mom, an NYU alum, disparaged it right along with her. Because, let’s face it, NYU is a like destructive, greedy, vomit-​y, real estate-​obsessed infant.
Complaints: We didn’t go inside any of the supposedly haunted places, but I understand that it’s hard for a tour group to gain access to them. The tour could’ve been more expansive, but then I could have chosen to go on a longer tour. Last complaint: for a walking tour, it was awfully friendly to people who didn’t like walking. I would’ve been okay with walking to the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory building, rather than hearing about it from down the street.
Overall: yes. Go!

Actually this tour was the highlight of our NYC tour — a 12 yr. old
& his parents. Why? Expertly & professionally conducted, super rich in arcane historical facts, priceless anecdotes & a comfortable, friendly & intimate group… if you love stories, history, humor & NYC, TAKE THIS FANTASTIC TOUR… Todd, Eli & Will of Punta Gorda, FL.

I went on the Edgar Allan Poe and His Ghostly Neighbors of Greenwich Village tour with my fiancé. First off, Dr. Phil did not give the tour but just followed us while the tour guide gave the tour. I don’t know if this guy was new or not, but he was extremely repetitive. Some of the facts were interesting but the way they were presented made it extremely boring. The guide kept talking negatively about NYU, where my fiancé goes to school, which I found a bit obnoxious. Also, someone in the group realized that the guide had given some of the facts incorrectly. At one point, Dr. Phil stepped in to say some facts that the guide did not give. I was just hoping for the tour to end, and that is not a good sign.
I guess I would be willing to try it again with another guide.

My fiancé and I have gone on 2 ghost walking tours with Dr. Phil’s company called Ghosts of New York. Our first tour was about 2 years ago in the winter time in Grand Central Terminal. We left that tour wanting to do more.
On July 3, 2011, we went on the Peter Stuyvesant and His Ghostly Friends of the East Village tour led by one of Dr. Phil’s tour guides, Jamie. We walked around the East Village and found out many interesting and lesser-​known facts about famous luminaries– such as where Harry Houdini liked to hang out. The tour was an hour and a half; we walked approximately a mile total. It is for the young and old alike. We plan on going on more ghost walks around NYC.