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
Brooklyn Heights After Dark
A theater fire, a church that hid secrets, a hotel that vanished, and a captain at the railing.
5 stops
The Brooklyn Theatre Fire
On a December night in 1876 a gaslit stage lamp set a performance on fire, and at least 278 people died.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Brooklyn Borough Hall
A city that vanished into a bigger one left its city hall behind, and a fire took its crown.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
Plymouth Church
The church that hid people in plain sight, and the scandal that split a borough.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
The Hotel St. George
Once the biggest hotel in New York. Most of it is gone, and the ghost story is the missing part.
The full history, legends and directions are included with membership.
The Promenade
End the walk where an old sea captain is said to still watch the harbor.
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.