Took @boroughsofthedead.bsky.social Witches of Wall Street tour with its 13 stops (including Trinity Church with the blood red window), in an unintentional group of 13, on Walpurgis Night, and learned it’s always better to have the witches on your side…and a solid prenup

It's that time of year again: Ghosts of the Titanic is happening April 11 - 18. boroughsofthedead.com/tours/ghosts...

Women's history + ghosts = boroughsofthedead.com/tours/ghostl...

Ghosts of the tenement: a satirical cartoon from a 1901 edition of 'Puck'. #PhantomsFriday #Victorian #satire #illustration #artsky

Allegedly, 'A Visit to the Haunted Chamber' by William Frederick Yeames (1869) depicts Anne Boleyn's bedroom in Hever Castle. #art #PhantomsFriday

You can read the latest blog 'Dread, Shadows, and the Stories We Tell Ourselves… ' over on the website www.podpage.com/haunted-hist...

We're BACK for 2026 with "Love & Death: A Ghost Tour for Valentine's Day!" Tragedy! Passion! Historic hotties! Tickets on sale now! It's all happening... boroughsofthedead.com/tours/love-d...

18 years ago I made a Ghoul Log while working at Fangoria, enjoy! m.youtube.com/watch?v=VL1I...

We're closed for the holidays! See in in 2026... first up, our Valentine's Day tour, Love & Death! Hope to see you then... boroughsofthedead.com/tours/love-d...

Join us for our FINAL event of 2025! "Haunted Histories for Yuletide" co-presented with @morbidanatomy.bsky.social. Authors Andrea Janes and @leannareneehieber.bsky.social share some of their favorite spooky, Gothic tales of the season. Register here: www.morbidanatomy.org/events-ticke...

Good morning! AI is being force-fed to you by a handful of billionaires who will lose a bunch of money if they fail to convince you that you need it. You do not need it 🫶

Holiday Hot Take Number 2: The Brits are wrong. But only because, as a Christmas film scholar, my honest hot take is that you don't get to tell someone else what constitutes a Christmas film for them. If it's part of your Christmas tradition, it's a Christmas film.

Ghosts of Christmas Past is New York City's original Haunted Holiday walking tour and you can buy tickets on our website, right here: boroughsofthedead.com/tours/ghosts...

Are ghosts open source?

What's a traveler looking for recommendations to do these days? 90% of AI suggestions are non-existent, out of date, or inaccurate. You can't count on TripAdvisor, as they only push places that pay top commissions. There's almost no traditional media left. So where do folks go for real information?

Did women ruin the workplace? No! Did I personally ruin my own weekend writing about the cynical fuckery that led to the New York Times asking that question? I sure did! Huge thanks to @moiradonegan.bsky.social for lending her expertise and insight to my ranting

We working class ghosts (and guides) are feeling hopeful about NYC today. High fives to our fellow gig workers, underpaid adjuncts, underemployed historians, and artists-working-three-jobs this morning.

"I detest the expression “horror film.” I make films on the supernatural and I make them because I believe it." – Jacques Tourneur

For National Cat Day, my favorite kitty-Hollywood connection: 152 black cats (and their owners) auditioning for the title role in a film adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Black Cat” (LIFE magazine, 1961).

A Lifelong Upper West Sider says: "I was excited by the prospect of an UWS ghost tour, but also apprehensive that it might just be a rehash of history and stories that I already know. I was pleasantly surprised to also learn many new spooky things about my neighborhood." This is HUGE praise.

Oh I love everything about this

"I DON'T NEED YOU TO FUCKING REWRITE WHAT I'VE JUST WRITTEN!"

This morning’s hype anthem

A few years ago a neighbor left Boo Buckets on everyone's doormat with the cutesy "You've been BOOed!" note and the response, unanimously, was "WTF is this shit?" So glad we live in NYC, where we trick or treat in bodegas like normal people.

On a totally unrelated note, I spent my weekend leading Victorian cemetery tours. What a fun way to learn about unvaccinated children! You can count up all their tiny gravestones!

Deeply moved by some of our recent customer reviews. Really! Don't laugh! When you pour your soul into something and it is appreciated, it's an otherworldly feeling. Thank you to everyone who has supported and is still supporting our very small, very heartfelt business.

Clémentine Dondey Fortune Teller Studying a Book of Necromancy (Devineresse étudiant un livre de nécromancie), 1847

Tonight! With Untapped Cities: www.untappedcities.com/americas-mos...

Fun fact: Dan Aykroyd, the Fox sisters, and I were all born in Ontario, Canada. What does it all mean!? Who knows, but why don't you spend 12 hours listening to my new audiobook to see if you can detect my Canadian accent? www.barnesandnoble.com/w/americas-m...

If it's a Tuesday, some great books are being published. Buy or borrow a good book today.

I genuinely love being quoted in the @satevepost.bsky.social about this... also, should I bring back my Gotham by Gaslight tour this year?

You really won't want to miss these stories of haunted Brooklyn mummies. Head on over to our Substack or be eternally cursed!

Fun fact: we have a Substack now substack.com/@boroughsoft...

Only a few tickets remain for our Witches of Old New York tour on Sunday, September 28th 🔮 Conjure your tickets up here: boroughsofthedead.com/tours/witche...

Nautical horror, ghost ships, drowning, death, rats everywhere.... in other words, a fun Friday night in New York. Ghosts of the Seaport tour. Tickets on sale now: boroughsofthedead.com/tours/ghosts...

The purpose of AI is to destroy any consensus of history, example #4,528,926

New tour! The Uncanny Upper West Side. Tickets on sale now at boroughsofthedead.com/tours/the-un...

These are *great* tours. Anyone want to join me for the Roosevelt Island tour? I always try to schedule one for my "At long, dreadful last, it is October" gift to myself.

Boo! 👻 Book now: boroughsofthedead.com

The wait is almost over! Tours will start up again after Labor Day. Stay tuned for announcements and updates: boroughsofthedead.com

“It began to occur to me that there are a lot of women’s history threads running through [our ghost tours]." Six years ago today, the New York Times told the world about our feminist ghost tour (at the bottom of a long article about offensive dioramas). www.nytimes.com/2019/03/21/n...

Our founder @andreajanes.bsky.social will be leading her signature "Spiritualists of Green-Wood Cemetery" tour on 3/29. Tickets available via the cemetery's website: www.green-wood.com/event/spirit...

Are these the most romantic ghosts in New York City? boroughsofthedead.com/the-most-rom...

Up next: A Ghost Tour for Christmas: boroughsofthedead.com/ghosts-of-ch...

One last ghost story for you: I went to Charleston to find Denmark Vesey, and found his ghost in the most unusual place. My first for the New York Times. Please enjoy. (Gift link.) www.nytimes.com/2023/10/30/o...

Saturday's tour is now SOLD OUT! But 6 tickets remain for Sunday's tour.

So proud of our own tour guide Marie Carter for her forthcoming book (and her amazing review from Stacy Horn)!

Witches of Old NY, October 21st. Tickets and info on our website.

Ghostly Women of Greenwich Village 10/28 and 10/29! Authors @leannareneehieber.bsky.social and @andreajanes.bsky.social will be leading the tour, all customers will be automatically entered to win a FREE signed copy of A Haunted History of Invisible Women! Tickets and info on our website.