Membership
One neighborhood, or all of them
Basic opens one walk. Investigators get every published walk.
The Green-Wood landmark tour →
Haunted Brooklyn,
Brooklyn Paranormal Society presents
Haunted Brooklyn,
on foot
Self-guided ghost walks through Brooklyn. Documented history, local legends, and a route on your phone. From $10/month on Patreon.
- 5 neighborhoods
- 36 stops
- Cancel anytime
- No app needed
- Every stop sourced
- Fact and folklore, never blended
- Runs in your phone's browser
- Cancel whenever, on Patreon
Pick your walk
Which Brooklyn are you standing in?
Each neighborhood is its own walk, an hour or two on foot. Basic opens one of them. Investigators get all of them, plus every new stop as it lands.
Green-Wood Cemetery
Fifteen famous graves and landmarks, a battlefield, a mass grave and a catacomb: Brooklyn's great Victorian cemetery, on foot.
See this walkDUMBO & Vinegar Hill
A ferry, a warehouse, a bridge that frightened a crowd to death, and a cemetery the Navy never quite emptied.
See this walkBrooklyn Heights
A theater fire, a church that hid secrets, a hotel that vanished, and a captain at the railing.
See this walkFort Greene & Clinton Hill
A brick through the window in 1878, a Gold Coast mansion, a church called the Temple of Abolition, and the bay where thousands of prisoners died.
See this walkWilliamsburg & Greenpoint
A murdered bell ringer, a hospital left to the rumors, a pool said to be haunted by a little girl, and an ironclad built in three months.
See this walkPark Slope & Prospect Park
A Gothic mansion with a séance story.
Hear when this walk opensFlatbush & Kings Theatre
A movie palace that went dark for decades.
Hear when this walk opensConey Island
The boardwalk after the crowds go home.
Hear when this walk opensExplore the walk
Green-Wood Cemetery: The Landmark Tour
Fifteen famous graves and landmarks, a battlefield, a mass grave and a catacomb: Brooklyn's great Victorian cemetery, on foot.
15 stops
The Main Gate
Victorian New York paid to be buried behind this gate, and half a million people a year came just to walk through it.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
The Brooklyn Theatre Fire Lot
The obelisk over 103 people nobody could name, the end of the story that began on Cadman Plaza.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
The Catacombs and the Chapel
Thirty vaults under a hill, locked behind iron gates, built for people who could not afford a mausoleum.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
DeWitt Clinton
The governor whose reburial turned a new cemetery into the place everyone wanted to be buried.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Louis Comfort Tiffany
The man who made light into art lies under a plain stone, in a cemetery full of his studio's work.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Horace Greeley
He lost the presidency, buried his wife, and died inside a month. Then President Grant came to his funeral.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
The Arctic Monument
A carved ship sinking in marble, over a banker who lost six members of his family at once.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Bill the Butcher
The gang boss Gangs of New York borrowed, who was buried by thousands and then left without a marker for nearly 150 years.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Samuel F. B. Morse
The man who sent "What hath God wrought" down a wire rests under a three-sided monument.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Boss Tweed
Green-Wood banned people who died in jail. It made an exception for the man who stole millions from New York.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Charlotte Canda
A seventeen-year-old designed her own tomb, a runaway carriage ended her life, and her fiancé is buried nearby, not beside her.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Battle Hill: Minerva and the Soldiers' Monument
Brooklyn's highest ground, a war the cemetery was built on top of, and a bronze Minerva waving at the Statue of Liberty.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Leonard Bernstein
The composer of West Side Story rests beside his wife, under a stone with no epitaph.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Jean-Michel Basquiat
The Brooklyn-born artist who died at 27 lies on a quiet avenue, and fans keep coming with pennies and empty frames.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Henry Ward Beecher
The preacher of Plymouth Church, a scandal he never admitted, and the woman at the center of it buried in the same cemetery.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Your proof
The passport
Stamp each stop when you reach it. Finish a walk and you've earned a certificate. Your stamps stay on this device.
Investigators
The Investigator desk
Help decide where we walk next, and tell us about a haunt we've missed. If it holds up, it becomes a stop with your name on it.
How proposals work
Nothing goes up sight unseen. We research every proposal ourselves, and we can feature about one a month, so not every pitch becomes a stop. We'll pass on places that are private or unsafe, and on stories we can't source. Anything we do feature gets the same record-and-legend treatment as every other stop, with sources linked. Read the editorial policy.
Before you go
How the walks work
- 1
Follow the route
Each walk is a loop of public streets. Read a stop when you reach it, then follow the directions to the next one.
- 2
Record or legend?
Every stop has two sides: what the record says and what the stories say. We keep them separate, and if we couldn't find a source, we tell you.
- 3
Collect the stamps
Stamp each stop to fill your passport. Finish a walk and you get a certificate to keep, or to brag with.
Stay in the loop
Hear about new stops first
We add a stop or two every month, and a new neighborhood every so often. Leave your email and we'll tell you when something opens. Just that, and you can leave any time.
Good to know
Questions
How does paying work?
Walks come with a monthly Patreon membership. Join there, come back here, tap "Log in with Patreon", and your walk opens up. Patreon bills you every month until you cancel, and you can cancel any time. Your access follows whatever Patreon says about your membership.
Which membership should I pick?
Only here for one neighborhood? Basic opens the walk of your choice, and you can swap it once every 30 days. Investigators get every walk and every new stop, and can pitch us a haunt to research and feature, with credit. You can upgrade on Patreon whenever you like.
How do I cancel?
On Patreon, under your memberships, any time. Memberships renew monthly, so if you only came for one walk, cancel when you finish it. The details are on the cancellation and refunds page.
Can my group share one membership?
Friends or family walking together can share one phone. Anyone who wants their own login needs their own membership, and please don't pass your login (or the walks) around beyond your group. See the terms.
Do I need to download an app?
No. This page is the tour. It runs in any phone browser, and you can add it to your home screen.
Does it work without a signal?
Mostly. Once you've opened a walk you own, its stories are saved on that phone, so they still read with no bars, and stamping works too. Only the map and live directions need a connection.
Do I go inside any buildings?
No. Every stop is seen from a public street, park or path. Several are private homes or active building sites, so stay on the sidewalk, keep your voice down, and never knock or go in. Green-Wood is the one exception: it's a working cemetery, open to visitors during posted hours. Follow its rules (no pets, bikes or drones, no climbing on monuments, stay on the paths) and be out before the gates close.
Where do the stories come from?
The history comes from the sources linked at each stop. The hauntings come from local legend and from visitor-submitted listings on HauntedPlaces.org, and we label those unverified. Where a place has no ghost story we can source, we say so instead of making one up.
Is it safe at night?
Mostly. Most stops are on busy, lit streets, but the last stops of the DUMBO & Vinegar Hill walk and parts of Williamsburg & Greenpoint get quiet, so do those in daylight. Green-Wood is a daytime walk, since the gates close. Use normal city sense and watch the traffic. The stories are just as good either way.
Does walk mode track me?
No. Walk mode reads your location on your phone, only to tell you when you've reached a stop. It never gets sent to us.