Miami has it all, and want’s yours too. Miami Haunts shows you the awful truth.
See the smiling face of Florida, but watch out for its teeth, Miami Haunts will walk you through the dark side of the Sunshine State’s largest city.
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The Magic City has some dark spells to cast, walk with the ghosts of South Beach on our nightly Miami Haunts walking tours.
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Unlock The Darkest Secrets Of South Beach
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. You don’t have to visit during Halloween to experience the ghosts of South Beach.
Florida is the front line in the battle between the USA, Cuba, and South America. The secret spy war of the cold war was waged on the doorstep of America. Think of all the CIA spooks, Colombian cartels, hitmen, serial killers, and the dregs of society this city has a nasty habit of attracting – that’s who you might see on your tour of Miami.
A melting pot of nationalities, religions, and greed, South Florida has quickly become one of the nation’s most haunted spots. When you book a tour with Miami Haunts, we provide you with a spooky, fun, and entertaining night full of mysterious phenomena and historical tales. Brought to you by the passionate local guides that will knock your socks off with an entertaining, yet ghoulish, and historical tour.
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You’re about to hear about the ghosts of notorious gangsters, mysterious Cuban refugees, and Hollywood royalty – to name a few, as we tour some of the most haunted mansions, hotels, and parks of South Beach. Places like the infamous Versace Mansion, now known as Villa Casa Casuarina, where you’ll learn about its tragic past even before Gianni Versace was shot there, in one of the most iconic murders of South Beach.
Explore a faux Spanish Mediterranean villa that was once the home of poets, artists, and actors during the height of Prohibition. Once a social hub for Al Capone, you might meet one of the many ghosts of Al Capone’s reign of terror in Miami.
Go VIP With An Exclusive Extended Tour
If you choose to delve even deeper into haunted Miami by taking the extended tour, you will see a Diner with a spooky history that has been rumored to host more than its fair share of phantoms and demons. You’ll venture into the art deco era and possibly spot not one but two specters in a renovated boutique cinema. Rumor has it; this historic site is home to a pair of avenging poltergeists that battle for everyone’s attention in a most bizarre ectoplasmic turf war.
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.
Join the Miami Haunts walking Ghost Tour and dare to be scared!
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Join us for a journey that takes you far deeper into South Beach’s vibrant art deco district. Our nightly tours will take you on a journey filled with an abundance of corruption, executions, violent attacks, serial killers, mass murders, gruesome deaths, and an endless array of spooky stories full of an unspeakable evil.
Be sure to purchase tickets well in advance via the links above, as tours book up fast.
Lummus Park: 1160 Ocean Drive (coast side).
Our ghost tour is accessible to everyone and pet friendly. The terrain is mostly flat but there may be some cobblestone or grassy areas to explore.
You do NOT need to print out tickets. Just bring your ID and show up!
Your standard tour is one mile long. Starting at Lummus Park, you will visit eight different haunted locations along your journey down Oceans Drive and Washington Avenue. Book an extended tour to enjoy four additional locations, adding 0.45 miles to the distance of the tour.
60 minutes of horrific truths and captivating exploration through the infamous streets of South Beach.
Add another 30 minutes with an extended tour for an experience you’ll be sure to remember for years to come.
Tours are available nightly. Click on the ‘Buy Now’ link where you will be directed to select an available date and time that you wish to book your tour. Choose the option available of your choice! Then, you will be prompted to fill out your details to confirm your booking.
Please arrive at least ten minutes early and you will want to allow plenty of time for parking/drop-off/walking to the tour location.
Admission for Miami Haunts ghost tours must be purchased in advance. The best part about our tour: you don’t have to print your tickets or worry about cellphone passes. It’s Miami, so we put you on “The List”.
There is metered parking along Ocean Drive, but availability is variable.
Alternatively, there are several ramps around 13th Street and Collins Avenue, including the Miami municipal parking ramp at 121, 13th Street, Miami Beach, FL
7 Reasons to Book Ghost Tour with Miami Haunts
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.
We’ll walk through the vibrant promenade of Española Way, home to more ghosts than you might think, including the enemies of Al Capone, who would hide out in the bars and clubs of Española Way while the heat was too hot in Chicago.
What You Can Expect On Your Hauntingly Good Tour
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.
Experience the Glitz and Glamour of Miami
Not only will you get all the surprises, haunts, and laughs – you might even rub elbows with the ghosts of Hollywood royalty. Visit the places that once hosted some of the most fearsome mobsters in the world. You might even come across cryptic coded messages on the walls of historic buildings – only decipher them if you dare to read their deadly message!
7 facts about the Miami Haunts Walking Tour
- Walking Ghost Tours nightly, click for times. Duration 60 or 90 minutes.
- All Ages Welcome!
- One mile for the standard tour, 1.3 miles for the extended tour.
- Accessible to all, flat and easy walking with amazing scenery
- We reveal why Miami has always had a sway over the Nation’s subconscious.
- Explore up 8 or 12 haunted locations – more than most tours!
- Discover why the state was built on the corpses of valiant countrymen, overrun by mobsters, and how Miami became one of the most haunted cities in the United States.
