Walk Fort Worth's self-guided ghost tour. 9 documented stops, 5 free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Fort Worth is home to 9 documented ghost-tour stops spanning 104 years of history. This self-guided ghost tour covers 9 stops across the city, from Fairmount Neighborhood - Hell's Half Acre Site (1870) to Fort Worth Water Gardens. 5 stops are free — no guide, no schedule. Walk at your own pace after dark.
Miss Molly's sits above the Star Café on Exchange Avenue in the Fort Worth Stockyards. The upstairs rooms have been a boarding house, a speakeasy, and...
You're standing near the ruins of Swift Meatpacking, once the largest employer in Fort Worth. At its peak, they processed 4,000 cattle a day. Blood ra...
You check into the Stockyards Hotel, built in 1907 when Fort Worth was the Wild West's last hurrah. Bonnie and Clyde hid here in 1933, using Room 305 ...
You're standing in the old Knights of Pythias Hall, built in 1901 for a fraternal order steeped in ritual and secrecy. In 1923, during an initiation c...
You walk through Log Cabin Village, a collection of 1850s pioneer structures relocated here as a living history museum. But one cabin—the Parker cabin...
You descend into the Fort Worth Water Gardens, a sunken landscape of cascading water and concrete. Beautiful. Hypnotic. Deadly. In 2004, four children...
You're standing on sanitized ground. This was Hell's Half Acre—two square blocks of saloons, brothels, and gambling dens that made Fort Worth the wild...
You walk Oakwood Cemetery, established in 1879, final resting place for pioneers, outlaws, and Confederate soldiers. But some of them aren't resting. ...
You're drinking in the White Elephant, a saloon operating since 1887. This is where Marshal Luke Short killed Jim Courtright in 1887's most famous sho...
The Fort Worth ghost tour includes 9 documented stops covering 104 years of documented history.
The first 5 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 9 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided tour you can start anytime. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the story tied to that location. Follow the suggested stop order or move at your own pace.
Plan for approximately 2 hours. This accounts for walking between stops and reading each haunting story. You can also split it across multiple evenings.
The most visited stop on our Fort Worth tour is Miss Molly's Hotel at Miss Molly's Hotel, 109, West Exchange Avenue, dating back to 1910.
5 stops free in Fort Worth. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.