Haunted Tombstone Ghost Tours

Schedule a Bird Cage Theatre Ghost Tour

The Bird Cage Theatre is well known as one of the most haunted Tombstone areas. You can tour the inside As A Museum>

There are two types of ghost tours, both only suitable for those 12 and older - too intense for young children. They take you through this historic building which has been featured on Ghost Adventures, Ghost Lab, and TAPS Ghost Hunters.

We've taken the Adult Tour. Some strange things happened! Maybe reflective of a haunted Tombstone experience. I'm still a little skeptical.

There were a few mysterious light flashes, and some hauntingly scary knocks. Technical meters are used to sense ghosts. One lit up a little! A woman became so scared she and her husband had to leave!

Dare You Enter the Tunnel to a Morgue!

We haven't yet tried their Ghost Tour. But they've had great feedback for their authentic haunted Tombstone Ghost Tour. After all, it's held next door - in the Watt & Tarbell building - the old city morgue!

Can you get much more authentically ghostly than that?? I'd suspect that would be a really haunted Tombstone environment. We plan to get to it for sure!

They have nightly one-hour tours, customized for parents with younger kids, or for older kids and adults. Contact them for full details.

Their location is at 521 East Allen Street - which is their shop, next door to the old Watt & Tarbell Undertaker's morgue! Get to them on the South side of Allen, between 5th & 6th Streets.

In Front of the House - We Heard Voices Overnight, but nobody was there!

When we retired we found the house we wanted to purchase in Tombstone. We knew we wanted to be in walking distance to town - yet not right in the middle of all the action. We knew the basic type of house we liked.

One day on a trip to Tombstone, we just happened upon The One! Called the realtor - and before we even thought it would happen - it was ours!

A fixer-upper, we started working on it. The original part of the house was built in 1946. There were 2 or 3 additions added on. It needed quite a bit of work - but we could make it ours, and preserve some original features that made it a Tombstone original!

After we completed much of the work, one night we were asleep in our master bedroom. About 5 in the morning I woke up and went into the master bathroom, which is ensuite. When I returned to the bedroom I saw a red flashing light outside the window, which looks out onto the street out front. I also heard voices out there - like a number of people talking.

I thought maybe there was an ambulance or police car out front. That there was something happening outside, a neighbor had called the cops or EMT. I walked into the Dining Room to look out the window where I could see better. And there was absolutely nothing going on! I was surprised, but I just went back to sleep.

In the morning, Bill said he had awakened early in the morning & heard voices outside - but just went back to sleep. I told him my experience. We both knew that it had to be spirits of the past!

Then we thought about the date. It was actually late October - not the anniversary of the Gunfight at the OK Corral. It was actually about 3 days before that!

We found out that the house sits above the site of the California Mine. Every area in the town of Tombstone, plus the hills of Tombstone, was a mine site. We don't know, of course, what residual spirits triggered that weird event.

All of a sudden, our friend Bob, along with a few others, saw the cue ball zoom down and hit the other balls! They were amazed! They had never seen anything like that happen before in there.

I know there are stories, though, of other haunted Tombstone occurrences in many areas of town. Such as within the walls of the Crystal Palace! Within some of the motels in town, such as the former Budget motel (Now it's called the Tombstone Motel), which has a historic Old Adobe section. Within the walls of what now is Big Nose Kates! 

And the infamous Brunckow Cabin and mine!

The stairway down to The Shaft - Where You'll Find the Swamper's Room & Mine Tunnel

When you enter Big Nose Kate's - take a look at their menu. You should read the story they have there. It talks a bit about their history. You know their origins - the Saloon hasn't been there since the 1880s, after all. It was there in the beginning as the Grand Hotel. It certainly was grand! And sadly in the calamitous Fire of 1882, it burned to the ground - with very little left.

One thing their menu story does tell you, is the story about "The Swamper" - a guy who lived below the Grand. He may have had some mining experience, doing the job of A Swamper - which would seem reasonable. But he lived in the basement, because he was the Grand's janitor - so the story goes. It was there he also had dug a connection to the mine tunnels, which are beneath the surface of the town. In doing so, he secretly collected his own silver stash.

This "Legend of the Swamper" [key word here: "legend"] doesn't go into his demise. But it does state no one knows what became of his hoard of silver - was it spent, or was it buried within the ruins of the burnt-out Grand Hotel? What they do know, is there have been sightings of ghostly figures in Big Nose Kate's Saloon.