Haunted Franklin Tour

          Downtown Franklin is just a' crawlin' with ghosts! 

 Departed socialites, spies, businessmen, Confederate soldiers, and even children roam Main Street and Third Avenue, and we spend a delightful hour and a half with them on this tour.  One is helpful, several appear lonely, and one seems to be afraid of the dark!             

               $15 adults (ages 14+); $10 children ages 6 - 13.  No children under the age of 6, please.  This tour covers about six city blocks.  Wear comfortable walking shoes and dress for the weather.  Most of this tour is wheelchair accessible.  

Ghosts and Gore Tour

Also known as: The Good Old Days...Not! Tour

   This 90 minute tour features the best of downtown Franklin's ghost stories and explores some of the crime from Franklin's past -- from rape, murder and prostitution to abortion, bootlegging and murder for hire--as well as the horrifying Battle of Franklin and its gruesome aftermath. The criminal elements of this tour make it inappropriate for children under the age of 14 (you have to trust us on this).  $15 per person.  The Ghosts and Gore Tour covers about six city blocks.  Dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes.  Most of this tour is wheelchair accessible.    

Peggy Eaton, left, was the center of an 1830s Washington sex scandal called The Petticoat Affair.  

Murder and Mayhem on Main Street 

No Ghosts, just Gore

 This tour includes the very best of the worst  The kind of tour that makes Franklin natives of a certain age say, "I remember when that happened!"  If you like the down and dirty, this is your tour! You will hear about:

• Murder (of all kinds: for hire, passion- and alcohol-fueled)

• Prostitution

• Back-alley abortion

• Riots

• Blackmail

• Bootlegging

• War

Not appropriate for children under 14. $15 per person.  The Murder and Mayhem Tour covers about six city blocks.  Dress for the weather and wear comfortable walking shoes.  Most of this tour is wheelchair accessible. 

  This 1890s Kurz & Allison print of the Battle of Franklin misses on the topography but the fighting is gruesomely accurate. 

Regularly-scheduled ghost and crime tours are on hiatus for the winter. If you have a group we may be able to accommodate you now. Call 615-516-2011. Otherwise, we'll be back with the spring thaw!

 Click here to purchase tickets. 

        For more information on private tours, click here.

Read all about it!   Ghosts of Franklin:   Tennessee's Most Haunted Town by Margie Thessin   Written accounts of Franklin's most chilling ghost stories, 140 pp, 25 historic and current photos, trade paperback, $19.95. Click here to purchase.  (And yes, that's a ghost on the cover!)

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