Haunted Hometowns Ghost Tours

Definitely recommend. It’s a easy fun walking tour. Grab the discount on groupon. Come in to Naperville and enjoy dinner and then take a leisurely walk and learn some haunted history. It’s nothing to make your heart stop in fear. But it’s definitely creepy and you learn a lot. Fun date night. We had small children who even found it interesting. 5 stars for the host

I could write a long review, but Susan B. pretty much nailed it. The tour guide (Tony) was a nice guy, he knew a lot about the places we visited, but it was really, really slow and it was hard to hear him between the Naperville traffic and the 45 people on the tour. That’s way too many people — an ideal guided tour should have less than 15 in my opinion, but obviously this makes them more money.
It was a cold night, and we got to Quigley’s at 7:45 per the instructions. Too bad people kept trickling to check in and we didn’t actually start the tour until 8:30. Standing in the cold for 45 minutes is a bad way to start. The second or third stop we stayed for about a half hour as Tony spent it «talking» to a spirit with the help of a really interested kid and 40 adults just standing around, getting impatient.
Overall we weren’t happy with it. Cool idea, bad execution.

So this tour was being rated on the other Naperville ghost tour Unilocal page and my husband and I were super confused. We were in between the other tour with Kevin and this tour (with Tony) but decided on this one because of a family friend who had done both and recommended this one, and we were very happy that this is the tour we chose! The tour was about two hours long and we went to I think 6 different locations. The thing that I really enjoyed was that Tony was super interesting to listen to and had so much history about Naperville hauntings. The first house we went to he brought out a scanner and was talking to the ghost asking him questions and he was responding. So if that’s not enough to get you to do this tour then idk what is! There were also other things that Tony brought out to interact with the ghosts which were also really cool. Definitely check this tour out if you’re looking for something fun to do this Halloween!

I came on this tour last Saturday night with my husband. We saw a discount deal (I think it was $ 20 for the both of us), and thought it would be fun to use the voucher a couple weeks before Halloween.
Overall, I’d say the tour was fun. Our guide was very knowledgeable of local history and local ghost lore, that’s for sure. It was interesting walking through the old, historic neighborhood with houses dating to the 1860s. We made a bunch of stops including Quigley’s Irish Pub, Ss Peter and Paul school, the Naperville train station, Kroehler Manufacturing Factory (now lofts), a few private residences, and North Central College buildings Seybert Hall and Pfeiffer Hall. We were outside the whole time, never venturing into any of the buildings. It would have been cool to go inside some of the places, but I understood why that wasn’t possible.
The EMF machines were a fun touch, but they weren’t anything too special. Mine only went off twice — once where there was an electronic dog fence, and the other time when we were on a street corner near a light. They were neat, and were the reason I thought this tour would be so cool, but in the end, they weren’t that great.
Our tour guide was a great story-​teller, which was basically what this tour was. He told a bunch of old ghost stories, based on some events that happened in the area. It was entertaining, and he did keep my attention the whole time. I’m not too sure anyone encountered any ghosts on the tour, but I did think it was a fun way to spend a couple hours on a Saturday night.

Chris, our tourguide, was great! Had a ton of knowledge, told the stories with great enthusiasm and was able to hold our attention the entire time. The kids loved the weeping bride and train wreck stories. It’s a great way to see another side of the downtown. Would recommend to everyone!

I think there should be a stronger emphasis on «historic» rather than «ghost» when it comes to the Historic Ghost Tours of Naperville.
Had a groupon, like 95% of the group, that needed to be used. The weather is getting cooler and we are creeping towards fall so it was a perfect time to partake in a ghost tour. I just wish it was more of an actual ghost tour. You know, spooky stories about the locations… a good story-teller…anything.
We were told to met outside Quigly’s Pub at 8 pm. We scarfed down half of our dinner and rushed over to only stand around for 30 mins. After 30 mins (now 8:30), the guide showed up and finally started checking people in and handing out EMF ghost meters. I don’t think the actual tour started until 8:45.
The guide that we got seemed like a really nice guy, he just wasn’t the best story-​teller. He seemed to focus too much on insignificant tidbits rather than talking about spooky happenings at each location. At times, it almost seemed like the story was being made up right on the spot. Also, he was very heavy on the history of places. It seemed the history was more the focal point than anything related to supernatural activity.
Also, the group was way too big. I understand they offered a groupon so I’m sure the demand was up (if you put it on groupon, they will come). We were able to get squeezed in on the Saturday night tour and I found out that they normally have 50 people. Since they opened up a few spots, the tour was now 50+, give or take a few. In my opinion, 50 people is far too large for a guided tour. To be honest, a few people left halfway through. People were talking, making jokes, drinking beer/​being loud obnoxious. It is really hard to captivate the attention of 50+ people, never mind doing it for 2 hours. I hate to say it, but I was pretty bored the whole time.
The EMF ghost meters were cool but considering your cell phone would set them off, I’m not sure how accurate they were at detecting «energy from spirits».
Overall, I wasn’t that impressed. We were actually more spooked walking back to our car alone at night than we were at any point of the tour.