Walk Kansas City's most haunted locations. 13 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Kansas City was built on stockyards, jazz, and bloodshed — and the most haunted places here prove it. The John Wornall House served as a Confederate field hospital during the October 1864 Battle of Westport, the largest Civil War engagement west of the Mississippi. Blood soaked into floorboards that are still there. Thomas Hart Benton collapsed dead in his studio on January 19, 1975, brush in hand, painting unfinished — his wife Rita died eleven weeks later in the same house. Beneath City Market, Prohibition-era tunnels lost for 40 years were rediscovered in the 2010s, still carrying the cold. The Epperson House earned a spot on Unsolved Mysteries' Top 5 after Harriet Barse died there of cancer in 1939 and refused to leave. This self-guided tour covers 13 free stops across KC's haunted landscape.
You stand before Kansas City's oldest continuously operating hotel, built in 1888, where the walls remember everything. Room 505 holds the darkest mem...
You approach a Greek Revival mansion frozen in 1858, when the nation teetered on the brink of civil war. This house witnessed the Battle of Westport i...
You enter a Victorian mansion that Unsolved Mysteries named one of America's Top 5 Haunted Houses. Harriet Evelyn Barse, adopted daughter of Uriah Epp...
You stand at the 1856 frontier mansion of Alexander Majors, co-founder of the Pony Express, a man who helped settle the West. This house witnessed the...
You arrive at the 1888 grand hotel where presidents relaxed and gangsters hid. During Prohibition, Al Capone and Bugsy Moran held all-night gambling p...
You descend into Kansas City's forgotten underworld — tunnels built in 1887 beneath the bustling City Market, lost for 40 years until rediscovered in ...
You climb the hill where Kansas City's forgotten immigrants built their lives in the early 1900s. Croatians, Slovenes, Serbians — they came for work i...
You enter the 1903 home where America's most famous muralist collapsed and died in his studio on January 19, 1975, brush still in hand, a painting unf...
You stand in Kansas City's industrial graveyard — the West Bottoms, where the city was born in blood and stockyards. In the late 1800s, this was the l...
The Kansas City ghost tour includes 13 documented haunted locations covering 139 years of documented history.
The first 3 stops are completely free — no account required. To unlock all 13 stops, a History Nearby premium subscription is $4.99/month or $49.99/year.
No. This is a self-guided walking tour. Each stop includes the address, a map pin, and the full haunting story. Walk at your own pace, start anytime, and take any route you like.
Plan for approximately 2.5 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 Kansas City tour is Hotel Savoy at 219 W 9th St, Kansas City, MO 64105, dating back to 1888.
3 stops free in Kansas City. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.