Haunted Savannah Walking Tour
Savannah's squares hide pirates, plague victims, duels and a famous killing, and each stop here pairs the legend with the record behind it.
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Which app is best for a self-guided ghost walk in Savannah?
Shaka Guide's walk is the longest, 29 stops for $9.99 over half a day. Action Tour Guide's, read by Mark Nesbitt, takes 1 to 2 hours for $14.99 a person. Stories' walk is 7 stops in about an hour, $4.99 for your group, and stop 1 plays free. Two small Savannah apps and a puzzle game, Questo, have one too. We read each seller's own page and App Store listing on November 10, 2026, and the links are at the bottom. Stories is ours, so weigh what we say about it with that in mind.
If you want a guide with a lantern and a crowd that jumps at the same moment, book a guided night tour instead. Ghost City Tours alone runs five in Savannah, most of them 90 minutes at $29.99 to $34.99 an adult, from set meeting points.
Which apps have a self-guided ghost walk in Savannah?
Four apps sell a recorded walk of the city's haunted spots for $9.99 to $14.99, and ours is $4.99. They differ more in length than in price, from our 7 stops to Shaka Guide's 29.
| App | Price | Stops and length | Try it first | Offline | App Store (US) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Shaka Guide | $9.99 | 29 stops over half a day, starting on River Street, or a shorter route of 8 highlights | An audio preview on the tour page | Yes | 4.9 from 15,454 ratings |
| Action Tour Guide | $14.99 per person | 15+ stories over 3+ miles, 1 to 2 hours, from Reynolds Square to the Roundhouse Railroad Museum | An audio preview on the tour page | Yes, after you download it | 4.8 from 11,819 ratings |
| Savannah Walking Tours (Wildcatter) | $12.99, or $17.99 with its history walk | Its listing doesn't say | Its listing doesn't say | Its listing doesn't say | 5.0 from 2 ratings |
| Savannah Walking Tour Guide (David Kneynsberg) | $14.99, or $19.99 for its Savannah bundle | Its listing doesn't say | A free demo in the app | Yes, it needs no signal | 5.0 from 10 ratings |
| Questo | Quests list at $5.99 to $9.99 in the App Store, or $13.99 for 2 phones | A game of clues and puzzles; its Savannah page didn't open for us | Some quests have a free first chapter, its listing says | Yes, once downloaded | 4.8 from 2,969 ratings |
| Stories (ours) | $4.99 for your group, on up to 4 phones | 7 stops over 1.6 miles, about 1 hour, from the Pirates' House to Mercer House | Stop 1 plays free in your browser, with no sign-up | Yes, in the iPhone app after you download it | 5.0 from 2 ratings |
Prices in US dollars on each seller's own page or US App Store listing on November 10, 2026, before any sale. Ratings are for each whole app, not for its Savannah tour. Questo's site asked for a browser check we didn't get past, so its Savannah quest's own price and length are missing here.
Which one should you pick?
It comes down to how long you want to walk and who you want telling it.
- You want the longest walk for the money
Shaka Guide. Its 29 stops cost $9.99, GPS starts each story as you walk, and it works without data. Rachel Ennis wrote and narrates it. Give it half a day.
- You have two hours and want more stories per block
Action Tour Guide. Mark Nesbitt narrates its 15+ stories over 3+ miles. It sells one per person, so a family of four pays $59.96, and a bundle of three Savannah tours is $24.99.
- You have an hour and want to know which tales hold up
Stories. Each of its 7 stops tells the legend and then what the record shows. At the Pirates' House you hear about the tunnels and Captain Flint's ghost, then about the secret chamber workers really found, and why Flint, a pirate from Treasure Island, never lived. $4.99 covers four phones.
- You want a game rather than a story
Questo turns a walk into clues and puzzles. One quest can be played on 2 to 8 phones, and each extra phone costs less, its App Store page says.
- You want to be scared with other people
Book a guided tour. Every app here is self-guided audio, and none of them will jump out at you from a doorway.
What's on our Haunted Savannah walk?
Seven stops, 1.6 miles and about 1 hour 1 minute with the walking, as the tour page listed them on November 10, 2026. Each story runs 2 to 3 minutes.
| Stop | Where | The story | Walk from the last stop |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | The Pirates' House | A Gardener's Shed Grows a Pirate (free, 3 minutes 3 seconds) | Start here |
| 2 | The Marshall House | Forty Years of Empty Floors Upstairs | 11 minutes |
| 3 | Wright Square | A Chief's Grave and a Judgment Day Bill | 4 minutes |
| 4 | Colonial Park Cemetery | The Duelist and the Man Who Shot Him | 7 minutes |
| 5 | Andrew Low House | A Butler Nobody Hired, a Troop Everybody Joined | 6 minutes |
| 6 | Sorrel-Weed House | The Girl Who Was Never There | 3 minutes |
| 7 | Mercer House | The House Savannah Can't Stop Talking About | 7 minutes |
The walk has no departure time, so you can take it by day or after dark. The tour page lists the 28 public sources behind its stories. Want the city by day as well? Our Savannah walking tour runs 8 stops from City Hall to Forsyth Park.
What do the other apps do better?
- More to hear
Shaka Guide has 29 stops and Action Tour Guide 15+ stories. Ours has 7, so it's the short version.
- A person's voice
Rachel Ennis narrates Shaka Guide's walk and Mark Nesbitt Action Tour Guide's, and the Kneynsberg app says its stories are professionally narrated and prepared by local guides. A synthetic voice reads ours.
- Thousands of reviews
Shaka Guide's main app has 15,454 App Store ratings and Action Tour Guide's 11,819. Ours has 2 so far.
- A real fright
A guided night tour has a guide, a group and a little theater. A story in your ear is quieter, whichever app tells it.
Our ghost walk in Savannah, and others like it
Haunted Savannah first, then the day walk through the squares and our ghost walks in New Orleans, Charleston and St. Augustine. Each one's first stop plays free on its page.
Stop 1 is free, no sign-up. The whole tour is $4.99 for your group, on up to 4 phones.
Savannah Walking Tour: City Hall to Forsyth Park
Eight stops from City Hall, begun in 1904, to Forsyth Park, by way of Johnson Square, the first of the city's squares, laid out in 1733.
Haunted French Quarter Walking Tour
Eight stops from the Hotel Monteleone to the Beauregard-Keyes House, built in 1826, by way of the LaLaurie Mansion at 1140 Royal Street.
Haunted Charleston Walking Tour
Seven stops from White Point Garden, where a 1943 marker remembers the pirate Stede Bonnet, to the Old City Jail, opened in 1802.
Haunted St. Augustine Walking Tour
Eight stops from the Castillo de San Marcos, begun in 1672, to the Bridge of Lions, whose donor died in 1924 before its lions went up.
Read next: VoiceMap vs GPSmyCity, with Savannah's history walks in three apps · Ghost walks you take on your own · Self-guided audio tour apps compared.
Questions people ask
Is there a self-guided ghost tour of Savannah?
Yes, several. Shaka Guide ($9.99, 29 stops), Action Tour Guide ($14.99 a person), two smaller Savannah apps ($12.99 and $14.99) and Stories ($4.99 for your group, 7 stops) all sell a recorded walk you take on your own, and Questo sells a ghost-themed puzzle quest.
How much does a self-guided ghost tour in Savannah cost?
Most of the walk apps we read on November 10, 2026 charge $9.99 to $14.99. Action Tour Guide charges per person, and Stories is $4.99 for a group on up to 4 phones.
Is there a free ghost tour app for Savannah?
We didn't find a whole one free on November 10, 2026. Shaka Guide and Action Tour Guide have audio previews on their tour pages, the Kneynsberg app has a free demo, and stop 1 of the Stories walk, about 3 minutes at the Pirates' House, plays free in your browser.
How long does a self-guided ghost walk in Savannah take?
Ours takes about an hour for 1.6 miles. Action Tour Guide says 1 to 2 hours for 3+ miles, and Shaka Guide calls its 29-stop walk a half day.
Can I walk Savannah's haunted spots at night on my own?
Yes. None of these apps has a departure time. Download the tour first if you're using an app, so a weak signal doesn't stop the audio.
Do I need to download an app?
For most of these, yes. Stories plays in any phone browser with a signal, and the iPhone app plays each stop by GPS with the phone in your pocket and works offline.
Where these facts come from
- shakaguide.com: Haunted Savannah walking tour
- Shaka Guide on the App Store
- actiontourguide.com: Ghosts of Savannah audio tour (Mark Nesbitt)
- actiontourguide.com: Savannah audio tour
- Action Tour Guide on the App Store
- App Store: Savannah Walking Tours, history and ghost tours (Wildcatter LLC)
- App Store: Savannah Walking Tour Guide, with its ghost tour (David Kneynsberg LLC)
- Questo on the App Store (quests, prices, phones)
- questoapp.com: Ghosts of Savannah quest (asked for a browser check on Nov 10)
- ghostcitytours.com: its five guided Savannah ghost tours compared
- Stories: the Haunted Savannah walk (stops, miles, minutes)
- Stories on the App Store
- Stories: support (phones per purchase, refunds)
Checked November 10, 2026. Prices, catalogs and ratings change: check each app before you buy. Spot something wrong or out of date? Tell us at support@winding.ai and we'll fix it.