Overview

This 1-hour trolley tour in Boston takes place after dark and focuses on the city’s haunted past and historic gravestones. Participants board the Trolley of the Doomed, guided by a performer portraying a seventeenth-century grave digger sentenced to eternal punishment. The trolley travels through Boston streets while the guide shares stories about ghostly encounters and eerie events connected to the city’s history. The tour includes two stops on foot at some of Boston’s oldest burial grounds, where the guide points out significant gravestones and discusses the people buried there. The guide also explains New England’s largest grave-looting scandal. During the tour, stories are told about notorious Boston figures such as a cursed privateer, a homicidal opera singer, the Boston Strangler, Jolly Jane - the nurse who killed over thirty patients - and Cotton Mather, whose writings influenced the Salem witch trials. The tour features theatrical elements and light special effects. It is conducted in English and is suitable for adults and teenagers interested in Boston’s darker history.

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• Free cancellation up to 24h before the activity, then 58% fee within 24h.

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