Specters & Sinners: San Diego's Haunted History

The Specters & Sinners Ghost Tour is our Adults-Only Tour in San Diego. It’s also the most unique. We use San Diego’s haunted locations to tell the lesser-known stories of our Founding Fathers and the hauntings tied to them. If you’re looking for an amazing, through-provoking Ghost Tour, this is the tour for you.

Duration: 1 hour, 30 minutes
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Tivoli Bar - The Tivoli Bar is an excellent starting point to begin telling you all about what San Diego was like during the late-1800s, and happens to have its own interesting history to explore!
  • Gaslamp Museum at the Davis-Horton House - The Davis-Horton House belonged to the creator of San Diego’s downtown area, and also contains the…
What's Included
  • All fees and/or taxes
What's Not Included
  • Gratuities
Location
Tivoli Bar and Grill
Sixth Avenue
Our tour guide will meet guests in front of Tivoli, please have your confirmation email ready.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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522ciennac
Aug 22, 2025
Couples Things To Do - Jon was incredible! Decided to do a quick getaway with my significant other and this was the perfect cherry on top to end our vacation. Thank you for the incredible mix of knowledge and spookiness. #keepJon
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Melissawh6314ty
Aug 16, 2025
Gaslamp Ghoulies - We had a great time on the Specters and Sinners Tour in the Gaslamp Quarter during our visit to San Diego. Our guide, Jon, knew all the hot spots to hit and had some fun gadgets that let us know when a spirit was near. He was very engaging and our two teenagers were entertained the whole time. We learned so much and found some new great places to come back and visit next time we're in town! Thank you, Jon!
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Zombette
Jul 19, 2025
Ghosts, brothels, bars and cat toys - Jon was an excellent guide! Full of knowledge and great ghost hunting tips! He made the 90 minute tour feel like 30. We learned a lot and now we have a huge list of sites we wish to visit
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Valen
Mar 12, 2025
Great tour! - John was amazing! He was very knowledgeable and so nice! I hope to come back and have another tour with him. Good stuff :))
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I1750mrjenp
Jun 16, 2024
Very entertaining and super fun. - Dani was excellent! Knowledgeable and engaging. Fun to learn about San Diego history. Like thew story about the horse.
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50minah
Apr 23, 2024
Dani’s the best guide ever - Our guide, Dani, really made this tour an incredible experience! She was super engaging with the group, informative, and threw in lots of jokes. Her presentation was natural and it wasn’t super obvious that she was following a script, unlike other tours I’ve experienced. Overall the whole night was super memorable and informative, next time I have friends in town I’d definitely book a tour with Dani again!
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227rhondal
Jun 8, 2023
Great guide - Our guide Kayla was great, interactive, and fun. I would recommend her to anyone looking for an interesting tour of the Gas Lamp area.
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Bruce_p
May 10, 2023
History lesson - It was very interesting . Had a great tour guide who was Katlyn. Was very knowledgeable and would highly recommend her.
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180bethanyy
Oct 2, 2025
More Social Anxiety than I had in High School - My husband and I went together thinking it would be a fun ghost tour of a few haunted buildings. Boy, were we wrong. I think we were put into the worst social experiment of our lives. We were paraded around the busier parts of downtown while our tour guide very loudly talked about r*pe, m*rder and generally uncomfortable subjects in front of crowded areas. And I want to clarify, our tour guide was projecting so much that their voice echoed off of buildings. Throughout the whole tour, they had a laser pointer which they would unabashedly shine into occupied restaurants and bustling streets. I understand you need to point things out, but let's not blind people maybe? I think a finger will do the job just fine. At one point, we were in front of a bar where people were eating while our tour guide went on and on about how the building was a morgue and super unclean. Another time, when talking about a serial killer, they LOUDLY proclaimed something along the lines of "he would kill the women and then f*ck their dead bodies." Several people were around us during all of these instances. I was so embarrassed that I was actively trying to think of ways to get myself out of the situation. I haven't felt this much social anxiety since high school. It was worse that my husband and I were the only ones in the tour so we had no crowd to hide in. If you are someone who believes that you could never get embarrassed, this will change that. :)
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Katlovestravel
Jun 21, 2024
Terrible - This tour was terrible, it was just my boyfriend and I and about 10 minutes into the tour I told the guide let’s stop right here. The guide had to read from some cards annd he didn’t really know what he was doing and it just wasn’t a good tour. I was scammed out of $80. This tour wasn’t worth $40 a person. There are better ghost tours out there and this isn’t one of them. I think they lied when they said they have 5 star reviews and that they’re so highly rated. I was going to leave a google review but of course they aren’t there. So idk where these 5 star ratings are coming from.
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From $35
up to 10 guests
1 - Adult
Cancellation: Free cancellation up to 24 hours before the start of your experience (local time).