South Street Seaport Ghost Tour Ghosts of the Seaport, a phantasmagoria of nautical ghosts, vengeful spirits, pirates, and other waterfront phantoms. THE CITY’S ONLY SEAPORT GHOST TOUR This is the city’s only South Street Seaport ghost tour, and the first to focus specifically on the spectral and supernatural side of the seaport. Nautical lore is filled with ghost stories and sailor superstitions, and we’re so excited to finally have an appropriately haunted walking tour of this historic district! GHOSTS OF THE SEAPORT New York wouldn’t be the city it is without its harbor. Its waters bore witness to its growth over the centuries as one of the leading ports of the world, but also to the darkness that came from its ambition. From the vengeful spirits of legendary pirate captains who were used as pawns in global warfare, to death and starvation aboard the cost-cutting Victorian merchant vessels that lined every pier, growth always has its price to be paid. On this 90-minute walking tour, you’ll stand beside the iron hull of a 19th century ship that braved the worst weather in the world, see a monument to the lost souls of the Titanic, hear the tales of spiritualists who called them back from their watery graves, and walk down the crooked cobbled streets where bars, dance halls, and rat pits managed by the bloody gangsters of New York’s underworld sprung up to serve the seaport’s transient clientele. The Seaport has always been a place of constant reinvention. But on this tour, among the slanting shadows of 19th century counting houses and bridges, in the slosh of the water and the brackish smell of its tides, this neighborhood’s ghosts will always be a part of it. This tour represents a decade-long culmination of our guides’ shared obsessions with nautical ghosts, historic seafaring, and waterfront haunts. It was designed by Silas Costello, lead guide with Boroughs of the Dead, sailor of historic ships, and author of the award-winning Gothic fantasy novel Lacrimore and the web comic Going to Weather, a nautical ghost story set on an 1840s whaleship. Tour runs on Friday nights throughout April, and makes a perfect companion to our Ghosts of the Titanic tour!