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The 7 Best Ghost Tours in Jerome AZ

Explore the haunted history behind the Most Wicked Town in the US by going on a ghost tour in Jerome, AZ.

Jerome is known for being the largest ghost town in America. The ghost town is full of history, from true crime to abandoned mines to the ghosts that linger through the historic buildings scattered around the town.

Why not stroll through Jerome’s most haunted places with a guide who knows everything about the dark history and spooky stories that fill the eerie atmosphere of one of the United States’ most haunted ghost towns?

Check out the list of the eight best ghost tours in Jerome and find the perfect one for you. So whether you want to visit all of the mines in town by bus, take a walking tour filled with haunted history or do a little ghost hunting, there is a tour for everyone.

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The 7 Best Ghost Tours in Jerome

Jerome ghost walk.

Have you ever wanted to go ghost hunting in one of the United States’ most famous ghost towns? Then, the Jerome Ghost Walk with Jerome Ghost Tours is the tour for you.

Visit Jerome’s most haunted locations alongside some of the best ghost-hunting equipment that will help you reach out to the spirits that remain at each site. In addition, each group will have one spirit box and EMF readers for every guest, so everyone will have a chance to speak to the ghosts that haunt Jerome.

Some haunted places visited on this Jerome Ghost Walk include the Haskins House, Sliding Jail and The Club House. So, what makes the Jerome Ghost Walk one of the best ghost tours in Jerome? Some of the haunted stories are straight from the archives of the Jerome Historical Society, so you know they are real accounts from history.

The tour guides are amazing and passionate and know Jerome’s history. You can feel how passionate they are about sharing the spooky and dark history surrounding the historic ghost town.

If you are interested in using more equipment, you can rent things like a Flir Thermal Image, Kinect SLS Camera or a Laser Motion Detector to make your ghost hunt even better.

Book here: Jerome Ghost Walk

What you need to know

• There is a maximum of 12 guests on this tour
• Book in advance so you don’t miss out because tours will book quickly!

Jerome Ghost Adventure: Shuttle Tour using Ghost Hunting Equipment

If you want to go on a small ghost tour in Jerome, I highly recommend the Jerome Ghost Adventure tour. The ghost tour takes you around Jerome, accompanied by a knowledgeable tour guide and ghost hunting equipment.

The tour visits the very haunted Jerome High School, Jerome Cemetery and various other sites in the town. If you want to learn a lot about the history of Jerome, I highly recommend the Jerome Ghost Adventure tour.

The tour guides are fun and give you an entertaining evening full of creepy tales and even the possibility for ghosts to contact you with all of the high-tech equipment you get to use throughout the tour.

Book here:  Jerome Ghost Adventure: Shuttle Tour using Ghost Hunting Equipment

• There is a maximum of 8 guests on this tour

Private Haunted History Shuttle Jerome, Az

Explore the haunted sites in Jerome by taking the Private Haunted History Shuttle Ghost Tour of Jerome . This is one of the best ghost tours in Jerome as it shuttles you from historical mine after mine.

Some sites you will visit include Phelps Dodge’s Great Open Pit, The Little Daisy Mine and the Gold King Mine and the Audrey Head Frame and Shaft.

You will see cool mining equipment, machines, and vehicles once used when Jerome was a booming mining town.

Book here:  Private Haunted History Shuttle Jerome, Az

• This is a private tour, so it is just you and your group!

Pandora’s Box Ghost Adventure 

Pandora’s Box Ghost Adventure is the ghost tour you should take if you like tales of true crime with paranormal stories.

You will spend two hours exploring Jerome’s haunted sites, including Haskin’s House, the Auditorium, the Sliding Jail and Old Jerome High School.

Many tours are lucky enough to receive intelligent answers to questions about ghost hunting equipment on Pandora’s Box Ghost Adventure tour.

I took the tour with Courtney, and she was such an amazing guide! She is a great storyteller, is loads of fun, and makes everyone feel included. Plus, she allows you to spend loads of time at each site to get the most ghost interaction with the spirits possible.

Book here:  Pandora’s Box Ghost Adventure 

Spirit Shuttle: Sightseeing Tour in Jerome, Az

Take one of the best ghost tours in Jerome with the Spirit Shuttle Sightseeing Tour . The tour is both a history and ghost tour that includes the use of ghost hunting equipment.

The tour takes you on a stroll through Jerome’s historic buildings, which include some abandoned sites that were once a mining town turned ghost town.

If you want to take a family-friendly ghost tour in Jerome, this is the tour for you. While the stories can be full of horror and debauchery, if kids are present, the spooky tales are less intense and not too risqué so that everyone can enjoy Jerome’s haunted history.

Book here:  Spirit Shuttle: Sightseeing Tour in Jerome, Az

Main Street Ghost Adventure: Walking Tour in Jerome with Ghost Hunting Equipment

Do you want to explore Jerome’s ghastly history? Then, join the Main Street Ghost Adventure Walking Tour . This small group tour is fantastic, and the guides are enthusiastic and engaging.

The tour takes you to places like the Sliding Jail, and you will pass by the Jerome Artists Cooperative and Spook Hall! (which is actually called Lawrence Memorial Hall, but that’s less spooky.) You will learn not only about the dark history in Jerome’s past but also the people and personalities that made the town what it was.

Book here:  Main Street Ghost Adventure: Walking Tour in Jerome with Ghost Hunting Equipment

• There is a maximum of 14 guests on this tour

Private Ghost Adventure Jerome, Az

If you want to take a ghost tour in Jerome without the group setting of most ghost tours, you should go on the Private Ghost Tour Adventure of Jerome .

The tour is just you and your guide as they take you to the best haunted sites in Jerome, including abandoned mines and former neighbourhoods.

Not only will you learn about all of Jerome’s haunted history, but you will be given ghost hunting equipment so you can try to reach out to any spirits that want to communicate with you throughout Jerome.

Book here:  Private Ghost Adventure Jerome, Az

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Home of the Gold King Mine and Ghost Town, Jerome Az!

Are you looking for something to do with the entire family while visiting Jerome Arizona? 

Our Gold King Mine Family would like to take this opportunity to welcome you to our humble place. 

Stroll around, see what our little spot on Perkinsville road has to offer.  We look forward to your visit!

It has been said that mining is the reason Jerome exists on the side of Cleopatra Hill.  You can gaze down into the old Audrey Headframe shaft on your way to the Douglas Mansion, also known as the Jerome State Park.  But, if you want to get a look at the structures, equipment and vehicles that were used in those early mining days, you and your family are encouraged to visit us at the Gold King Mine & Ghost Town!

You and your family can explore the grounds of the Gold King Mine and step back in time.  Don’t forget your camera!

We no longer are allowing backpacks into the Ghost Town. If you are a professional location scout or a professional photographer or videographer with camera equipment case, please check with staff on duty in the Gift Shop for special permission or follow the link to view our policy and/or send us a message.  The Gold King Mine & Ghost Town appreciates your cooperation!

We are hoping you have plans of visiting the Historic Town of Jerome Arizona with your family and are hopeful that you will come on up the hill, swing by and spend a glorious day at the Gold King Mine and Ghost Town!  We’re less than a mile away from the visitor parking area and the Jerome Fire Department building.  The road is paved all of the way to our location.

We hope to see you soon!

The Gold King Mine & Ghost Town

We invite you to visit the Gold King Mine and Ghost Town while visiting Jerome Arizona.  The history here is rich and there are stories to be told.  It all began in 1890 . . .

When they dug a 1270 foot mine shaft, (you can still visit it today) searching for copper, they struck GOLD!  The location was only 1 mile north of the mining town, Jerome, but they became their own mining camp called “Haynes”.  In 1901 , the population was 30!  They even had their own post office from 1908 – 1922.

Or course, the gold ran out and the mine was closed.  Years later, 91 years later to be exact, the area was rediscovered by Terry & Don Robertson.  The year was 1981 and Dons’ dream was to share with the world some of the most unique and important icons of the industrial revolution.

Today, the property is filled with vintage transportation: over 180 cars, trucks & motorcycles, including Studebaker’s and Harley’s.  There is mining equipment, historic buildings and a Stamp Mill that was used for crushing the ore.  You will also find a working sawmill and Blacksmith shop with gold panning and a petting zoo for the kids!

We’re happy you’ve found our little spot on the world wide web and hope you can visit in person.  In the meantime, browse around a bit, drop us a line or just view some fun video’s.

The photographic opportunities are endless. Plan on spending at least a few hours if you enjoy photography! Studebakers Harley Davidsons Working Sawmill Old Trucks Old Tools Fire Trucks

For the Guys: Let’s face it, we’re intrigued and enjoy different stuff! Check out our Man Cave areas! To See: Looking for rusty parts, old tools or a Blacksmith shop? We’ve got ’em. How about a working sawmill? A converted school bus flat track racer that Don Robertson built? Maybe you just wish to walk our grounds and see how many trucks on our property that you recognize!

For the Kids: We have a menagerie on our property and opportunities to find GOLD! Most children love small animals. We have several areas to explore where your children can interact with our “Pets”. A petting farm that houses goats with chickens, roosters and of course baby chicks in season. We also offer gold panning! Try your luck at our Sluice!

The Gold King Mine & Ghost Town is Proud to be a Member of;

The Jerome Chamber of Commerce , the Cottonwood Chamber of Commerce and the Sedona Chamber Tourism & Visitors Association . (When clicking a link above, A new browser window will open.  We don’t want to see you go!}

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ABOUT GHOST TOWN TOURS, LLC

Ghost Town Tours is  Jerome, AZ’ s only locally owned and operated tour company. We are a mission driven company which sets standards for our employees to provide the best possible tour-experience for those visiting Jerome. We truly enjoy presenting Jerome and sharing her history and many mysteries.

We Pride ourselves on:

• Educating Jerome’s guests through fun & entertaining experiences
• Supporting our employees health and happiness
• Conducting tours with respect for the current and previous residents and businesses of Jerome
• Offering volunteerism and community outreach to maintain Jerome as one of the “ Coolest Small Towns in America!”

We look forward to meeting you and showing you some of the secrets of Jerome!

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In Transit: Notes from the Underground

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Spend some time in one of Moscow’s finest museums.

Subterranean commuting might not be anyone’s idea of a good time, but even in a city packing the war-games treasures and priceless bejeweled eggs of the Kremlin Armoury and the colossal Soviet pavilions of the VDNKh , the Metro holds up as one of Moscow’s finest museums. Just avoid rush hour.

The Metro is stunning and provides an unrivaled insight into the city’s psyche, past and present, but it also happens to be the best way to get around. Moscow has Uber, and the Russian version called Yandex Taxi , but also some nasty traffic. Metro trains come around every 90 seconds or so, at a more than 99 percent on-time rate. It’s also reasonably priced, with a single ride at 55 cents (and cheaper in bulk). From history to tickets to rules — official and not — here’s what you need to know to get started.

A Brief Introduction Buying Tickets Know Before You Go (Down) Rules An Easy Tour

A Brief Introduction

Moscow’s Metro was a long time coming. Plans for rapid transit to relieve the city’s beleaguered tram system date back to the Imperial era, but a couple of wars and a revolution held up its development. Stalin revived it as part of his grand plan to modernize the Soviet Union in the 1920s and 30s. The first lines and tunnels were constructed with help from engineers from the London Underground, although Stalin’s secret police decided that they had learned too much about Moscow’s layout and had them arrested on espionage charges and deported.

The beauty of its stations (if not its trains) is well-documented, and certainly no accident. In its illustrious first phases and particularly after the Second World War, the greatest architects of Soviet era were recruited to create gleaming temples celebrating the Revolution, the USSR, and the war triumph. No two stations are exactly alike, and each of the classic showpieces has a theme. There are world-famous shrines to Futurist architecture, a celebration of electricity, tributes to individuals and regions of the former Soviet Union. Each marble slab, mosaic tile, or light fixture was placed with intent, all in service to a station’s aesthetic; each element, f rom the smallest brass ear of corn to a large blood-spattered sword on a World War II mural, is an essential part of the whole.

The Metro is a monument to the Soviet propaganda project it was intended to be when it opened in 1935 with the slogan “Building a Palace for the People”. It brought the grand interiors of Imperial Russia to ordinary Muscovites, celebrated the Soviet Union’s past achievements while promising its citizens a bright Soviet future, and of course, it was a show-piece for the world to witness the might and sophistication of life in the Soviet Union.

It may be a museum, but it’s no relic. U p to nine million people use it daily, more than the London Underground and New York Subway combined. (Along with, at one time, about 20 stray dogs that learned to commute on the Metro.)

In its 80+ year history, the Metro has expanded in phases and fits and starts, in step with the fortunes of Moscow and Russia. Now, partly in preparation for the World Cup 2018, it’s also modernizing. New trains allow passengers to walk the entire length of the train without having to change carriages. The system is becoming more visitor-friendly. (There are helpful stickers on the floor marking out the best selfie spots .) But there’s a price to modernity: it’s phasing out one of its beloved institutions, the escalator attendants. Often they are middle-aged or elderly women—“ escalator grandmas ” in news accounts—who have held the post for decades, sitting in their tiny kiosks, scolding commuters for bad escalator etiquette or even bad posture, or telling jokes . They are slated to be replaced, when at all, by members of the escalator maintenance staff.

For all its achievements, the Metro lags behind Moscow’s above-ground growth, as Russia’s capital sprawls ever outwards, generating some of the world’s worst traffic jams . But since 2011, the Metro has been in the middle of an ambitious and long-overdue enlargement; 60 new stations are opening by 2020. If all goes to plan, the 2011-2020 period will have brought 125 miles of new tracks and over 100 new stations — a 40 percent increase — the fastest and largest expansion phase in any period in the Metro’s history.

Facts: 14 lines Opening hours: 5 a.m-1 a.m. Rush hour(s): 8-10 a.m, 4-8 p.m. Single ride: 55₽ (about 85 cents) Wi-Fi network-wide

Buying Tickets

• Ticket machines have a button to switch to English.
• You can buy specific numbers of rides: 1, 2, 5, 11, 20, or 60. Hold up fingers to show how many rides you want to buy.
• There is also a 90-minute ticket , which gets you 1 trip on the metro plus an unlimited number of transfers on other transport (bus, tram, etc) within 90 minutes.
• Or, you can buy day tickets with unlimited rides: one day (218₽/ US$4), three days (415₽/US$7) or seven days (830₽/US$15). Check the rates here to stay up-to-date.
• If you’re going to be using the Metro regularly over a few days, it’s worth getting a Troika card , a contactless, refillable card you can use on all public transport. Using the Metro is cheaper with one of these: a single ride is 36₽, not 55₽. Buy them and refill them in the Metro stations, and they’re valid for 5 years, so you can keep it for next time. Or, if you have a lot of cash left on it when you leave, you can get it refunded at the Metro Service Centers at Ulitsa 1905 Goda, 25 or at Staraya Basmannaya 20, Building 1.
• You can also buy silicone bracelets and keychains with built-in transport chips that you can use as a Troika card. (A Moscow Metro Fitbit!) So far, you can only get these at the Pushkinskaya metro station Live Helpdesk and souvenir shops in the Mayakovskaya and Trubnaya metro stations. The fare is the same as for the Troika card.
• You can also use Apple Pay and Samsung Pay.

Rules, spoken and unspoken

No smoking, no drinking, no filming, no littering. Photography is allowed, although it used to be banned.

Stand to the right on the escalator. Break this rule and you risk the wrath of the legendary escalator attendants. (No shenanigans on the escalators in general.)

Get out of the way. Find an empty corner to hide in when you get off a train and need to stare at your phone. Watch out getting out of the train in general; when your train doors open, people tend to appear from nowhere or from behind ornate marble columns, walking full-speed.

Always offer your seat to elderly ladies (what are you, a monster?).

An Easy Tour

This is no Metro Marathon ( 199 stations in 20 hours ). It’s an easy tour, taking in most—though not all—of the notable stations, the bulk of it going clockwise along the Circle line, with a couple of short detours. These stations are within minutes of one another, and the whole tour should take about 1-2 hours.

Start at Mayakovskaya Metro station , at the corner of Tverskaya and Garden Ring,  Triumfalnaya Square, Moskva, Russia, 125047.

1. Mayakovskaya.  Named for Russian Futurist Movement poet Vladimir Mayakovsky and an attempt to bring to life the future he imagined in his poems. (The Futurist Movement, natch, was all about a rejecting the past and celebrating all things speed, industry, modern machines, youth, modernity.) The result: an Art Deco masterpiece that won the National Grand Prix for architecture at the New York World’s Fair in 1939. It’s all smooth, rounded shine and light, and gentle arches supported by columns of dark pink marble and stainless aircraft steel. Each of its 34 ceiling niches has a mosaic. During World War II, the station was used as an air-raid shelter and, at one point, a bunker for Stalin. He gave a subdued but rousing speech here in Nov. 6, 1941 as the Nazis bombed the city above.

Take the 3/Green line one station to:

2. Belorusskaya. Opened in 1952, named after the connected Belarussky Rail Terminal, which runs trains between Moscow and Belarus. This is a light marble affair with a white, cake-like ceiling, lined with Belorussian patterns and 12 Florentine ceiling mosaics depicting life in Belarussia when it was built.

Transfer onto the 1/Brown line. Then, one stop (clockwise) t o:

3. Novoslobodskaya.  This station was designed around the stained-glass panels, which were made in Latvia, because Alexey Dushkin, the Soviet starchitect who dreamed it up (and also designed Mayakovskaya station) couldn’t find the glass and craft locally. The stained glass is the same used for Riga’s Cathedral, and the panels feature plants, flowers, members of the Soviet intelligentsia (musician, artist, architect) and geometric shapes.

Go two stops east on the 1/Circle line to:

4. Komsomolskaya. Named after the Komsomol, or the Young Communist League, this might just be peak Stalin Metro style. Underneath the hub for three regional railways, it was intended to be a grand gateway to Moscow and is today its busiest station. It has chandeliers; a yellow ceiling with Baroque embellishments; and in the main hall, a colossal red star overlaid on golden, shimmering tiles. Designer Alexey Shchusev designed it as an homage to the speech Stalin gave at Red Square on Nov. 7, 1941, in which he invoked Russia’s illustrious military leaders as a pep talk to Soviet soldiers through the first catastrophic year of the war.   The station’s eight large mosaics are of the leaders referenced in the speech, such as Alexander Nevsky, a 13th-century prince and military commander who bested German and Swedish invading armies.

One more stop clockwise to Kurskaya station,  and change onto the 3/Blue  line, and go one stop to:

5. Baumanskaya.   Opened in 1944. Named for the Bolshevik Revolutionary Nikolai Bauman , whose monument and namesake district are aboveground here. Though he seemed like a nasty piece of work (he apparently once publicly mocked a woman he had impregnated, who later hung herself), he became a Revolutionary martyr when he was killed in 1905 in a skirmish with a monarchist, who hit him on the head with part of a steel pipe. The station is in Art Deco style with atmospherically dim lighting, and a series of bronze sculptures of soldiers and homefront heroes during the War. At one end, there is a large mosaic portrait of Lenin.

Stay on that train direction one more east to:

6. Elektrozavodskaya. As you may have guessed from the name, this station is the Metro’s tribute to all thing electrical, built in 1944 and named after a nearby lightbulb factory. It has marble bas-relief sculptures of important figures in electrical engineering, and others illustrating the Soviet Union’s war-time struggles at home. The ceiling’s recurring rows of circular lamps give the station’s main tunnel a comforting glow, and a pleasing visual effect.

Double back two stops to Kurskaya station , and change back to the 1/Circle line. Sit tight for six stations to:

7. Kiyevskaya. This was the last station on the Circle line to be built, in 1954, completed under Nikita Khrushchev’ s guidance, as a tribute to his homeland, Ukraine. Its three large station halls feature images celebrating Ukraine’s contributions to the Soviet Union and Russo-Ukrainian unity, depicting musicians, textile-working, soldiers, farmers. (One hall has frescoes, one mosaics, and the third murals.) Shortly after it was completed, Khrushchev condemned the architectural excesses and unnecessary luxury of the Stalin era, which ushered in an epoch of more austere Metro stations. According to the legend at least, he timed the policy in part to ensure no Metro station built after could outshine Kiyevskaya.

Change to the 3/Blue line and go one stop west.

8. Park Pobedy. This is the deepest station on the Metro, with one of the world’s longest escalators, at 413 feet. If you stand still, the escalator ride to the surface takes about three minutes .) Opened in 2003 at Victory Park, the station celebrates two of Russia’s great military victories. Each end has a mural by Georgian artist Zurab Tsereteli, who also designed the “ Good Defeats Evil ” statue at the UN headquarters in New York. One mural depicts the Russian generals’ victory over the French in 1812 and the other, the German surrender of 1945. The latter is particularly striking; equal parts dramatic, triumphant, and gruesome. To the side, Red Army soldiers trample Nazi flags, and if you look closely there’s some blood spatter among the detail. Still, the biggest impressions here are the marble shine of the chessboard floor pattern and the pleasingly geometric effect if you view from one end to the other.

Keep going one more stop west to:

9. Slavyansky Bulvar.  One of the Metro’s youngest stations, it opened in 2008. With far higher ceilings than many other stations—which tend to have covered central tunnels on the platforms—it has an “open-air” feel (or as close to it as you can get, one hundred feet under). It’s an homage to French architect Hector Guimard, he of the Art Nouveau entrances for the Paris M é tro, and that’s precisely what this looks like: A Moscow homage to the Paris M é tro, with an additional forest theme. A Cyrillic twist on Guimard’s Metro-style lettering over the benches, furnished with t rees and branch motifs, including creeping vines as towering lamp-posts.

Stay on the 3/Blue line and double back four stations to:

10. Arbatskaya. Its first iteration, Arbatskaya-Smolenskaya station, was damaged by German bombs in 1941. It was rebuilt in 1953, and designed to double as a bomb shelter in the event of nuclear war, although unusually for stations built in the post-war phase, this one doesn’t have a war theme. It may also be one of the system’s most elegant: Baroque, but toned down a little, with red marble floors and white ceilings with gilded bronze c handeliers.

Jump back on the 3/Blue line  in the same direction and take it one more stop:

11. Ploshchad Revolyutsii (Revolution Square). Opened in 1938, and serving Red Square and the Kremlin . Its renowned central hall has marble columns flanked by 76 bronze statues of Soviet heroes: soldiers, students, farmers, athletes, writers, parents. Some of these statues’ appendages have a yellow sheen from decades of Moscow’s commuters rubbing them for good luck. Among the most popular for a superstitious walk-by rub: the snout of a frontier guard’s dog, a soldier’s gun (where the touch of millions of human hands have tapered the gun barrel into a fine, pointy blade), a baby’s foot, and a woman’s knee. (A brass rooster also sports the telltale gold sheen, though I am told that rubbing the rooster is thought to bring bad luck. )

Now take the escalator up, and get some fresh air.

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• Entrance Fees (Unless Specified)

Redemption Info

You can board the bus at any stop and voucher can be exchanged directly with the driver. Printed vouchers required for this tour and are accepted at all stops. You will receive a ticket in exchange for your voucher, which you must keep until the expiry date/ tour. Please check your ticket to know when it expires. After exchanging your voucher for a ticket, your voucher will no longer be valid. In loss of voucher/ticket, company is not liable for any refund. Book Now! You can use your ticket any day within 12 months.

Know Before You Go

Wheelchair Access, Heating Please note that face masks must be worn on board the bus. Orange Route is temporarily suspended   

Operational Details: Walking Tour

• Daily at 10:45 a.m.
• Duration: 2 hours 30 minutes
• Meeting point: next to the monument to Saints Cyril and Methodius (Kitay-Gorod metro station)

Capital River Boat Tour

• May - October: from 11:30am to 6:30pm (Subject to change)
• Duration: 60 minutes
• Departure Point: Zaryadye Park Pier

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