Find out why Miami isn’t only a hot spot for beachgoers, but is one of the most haunted coastal cities in the United States. Join us as we reveal some of Miami’s shocking hidden history and the hauntings that persist to frighten unsuspecting guests and residents alike. Do you have what it takes to join us for a tour?
Discover the city’s bizarre and haunted history on a Miami ghost tour, and witness a chronology baked in mystery, murder, suspense, and tragedy. Swipe away the mask of this picture-perfect locale and see the tragic history hiding behind its false face.
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LUISA FERNANDA BARRIGA MALAGON
Jaime was excellent!
A very smart guy with so much knowledge!
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Lian Alvarez
Gustavo was an amazing tour guide he made it super fun and interesting with all the stories! Definitely recommend it!
A place of glitz and glamour with a rich past, Miami’s history is also checkered with some of the most gruesome tales around. South Beach might be less than 150 years old, but the seedy characters it attracts and the implausible stories that happened in Miami will take hold of you and haunt you for a lifetime.
Miami Haunts takes you to some of the most haunted mansions, hotels, and parks of South Beach. Discover a spooky and entertaining night full of mysterious phenomena and historical tales deep in the heart of Miami.
Casa Casuarina
You may not be familiar with the name Casa Casuarina. But you may know it from its original name: the Versace Mansion. That’s right, the lavish palace where fashion mogul Gianni Versace lived, worked, and eventually met his tragic fate is right in the heart of Miami. Casa Casuarina was designed with many trap doors and secret passageways, not by Gianni’s design but by the original architect, Alden Freeman. Some say you can hear the former residents of the casa shuffling through passageways in the walls and overhead while you sleep.
Betsy Hotel
The historic Betsy Hotel on Ocean Drive represents Maimi’s first golden era: the 1920s and ’30s. An architectural jewel and namesake of American heroine Betsy Ross, the hotel is also the site of some unique historical activity. The Betsy has figured in almost every war effort since its foundation. It serves as a strategic naval and military base, given its access to the Gulf. But those historical events give it an eerie atmosphere, too – some say you can hear the marching footsteps of soldiers ringing through the halls at night.
Tide’s Hotel
The Diva of South Beach, The Tide’s Hotel, is a 1936 Art Deco Hotel that played a vital role in the CIA’s fight against communism in the 1960s. Secretive and controversial experiments involving narcotics and hallucinogenic were carried out on psyhic medium’s inside the hotel during a 13-day stand off between Americans and communist forces in Cuba. These experiments tore a hole between our dimension and the next. Monstorous apparitions and waking nightmares of rotting corpses tormented unlucky tourists of staying at the hotel for ten years after the incident.
What to Expect on Your Miami Ghost Tour
Uncover the multitude of haunted locations the Pink and The Blue has hidden in its underbelly. Walk down neon-soaked streets and sun-baked pavements across South Beach and uncover evidence of its many ghostly visitors. A melting pot of nationalities, religions, and greed, South Florida has quickly become one of the nation’s most haunted spots. With Miami Haunts, hear authentic accounts of a region whose contemporary history began with Henry Flagler’s ambition and somehow, over time, transformed into a town where anything goes.
Journey through a city where unending local feuds and an international cold war caused untold suffering, manipulation, and countless lives to be lost. The ghosts of guilty gangsters, patriotic soldiers, sinister spies, and unfortunate innocents are chained to the streets where they are destined to roam.
Miami Haunts aims to give you an off-the-beaten-track adventure because we want you to have a unique experience in Miami. This guided tour fans the flames that will make you challenge your assumptions, face your darkest fears and put your skepticism to the test. Why? Because we give you the best of the most historically rich Miami lore and urban legends.
Book our Miami Ghost Tour and dare to be scared!
Discover the Horrors that Haunt Miami
Learn about the glamour of the Art Deco era and possibly spot not one but two specters in a renovated boutique cinema.
Visit hotels that served as barracks for soldiers whose violent occupation left a mark that cursed many of those locations.
Discover the secrets of Miami in the ’80s and ’90s as the city slid into bloody street-level warfare at the hands of Pablo Escobar’s cronies.
Check out a faux Spanish Mediterranean villa that was once a social hub for Al Capone, now haunted by his victims.
Take a walk past the infamous Versace Mansion, the deadly location of Versace’s murder and the home of his ghost.
Why You Should Book Your Miami Ghost Tour Tonight!
We’ll Give You A History-Based Ghost Tour Experience
In Miami, fact is stranger than fiction. On this tour, you’ll be immersed in the authentic historical facts and stories that make up “haunted Miami.” Our professional tour guides lead you on a wild adventure into the unsettling historical truth and macabre reality of the fiesta town known as South Beach, Miami.
We’ll pass the Tides Hotel, base camp for the espionage war against Cuba, where Americas best spies fought the Communists in an increasingly bizarre and desperate war played out on the beaches of Miami.
You’re About To Embark On One Unforgettable Night
Your walking tour with Miami Haunts will bring you face to face with some of the most haunted hot spots in South Beach. The unresting city of Miami is full of demons, ghosts, and monsters that haunt this tiny region. Perhaps you’ll lay eyes on the scariest ghosts and creatures lurking behind the palm trees and neon hues.
The mysterious spirits that haunt the Villa Casa Casuarina no one has seen them directly, but everyone from Joel Freeman, the wealthy treasurer of Standard Oil, who built the original mansion to Gianni Versace and the current owners have felt the presence and seen its monstrous effects.
Because You Can Break Out Your Walking Shoes
Get out into the nightlife of Miami and give your dancing shoes a rest while you take one amazing walking tour of the city. You will experience eight different locations on the mile-long standard tour. Add the extended tour at checkout for VIP access to four additional haunted locations with fascinating and scary tales from the past.
You will receive 60 or 90 minutes of engaging, captivating exploration of Miami that you’ll remember for years to come. Your ghost tour is a fast-paced look at Miami’s dark history full of crime, passion, and tragedy. Your tour guide is a local expert in the field and will keep you hooked from your very first moment to your last. Miami is a city of extremes; everything happens to its maximum here. From crime to nightlife, to displays of wealth and excess.
The Betsy Ross hotel, like South Beach, has had a fast and rough ride from a luxury hotel, to a military R&R base, overrun by soldiers. It then became a safety net hotel for those down on their luck during the great depression and has seen more than its fair share of suicides, leaving many spirits to wander the rooms and cause mischief at night in the hotel corridors.
You’re looking for a Different Kind of Tour
Your experienced, local guides have a passion for telling the stories of their city, with unique insight and original tales, they bring the spirit of South Beach to life as no other tour can. You would have to live here for years to get the same insight into this town that you will get on the Miami Haunts tour.
With a pretty veneer and so much for the visitor to do South Beach is one of the best cities in which to take a haunted walking tour. Behind its glittering facade of glamourous beaches and VIP guest experiences, you will find a bizarre, sometimes savage town, with so many stories of pain and misery that have left unhappy ghosts and ghouls behind.
Tour Meeting Location: Miami Beach Art Deco at Lummus Park, across from The Clevelander at 1001 Ocean Drive, coast side.
Tour Times: 8:00 PM
Tour Length: 1 Hour
Ghost tours are held nightly, rain or shine!
