Walk Sacramento's most haunted locations. 13 stops, self-guided. 3 stops free. No guide, no schedule — just you and the dark.
Gold Rush Sacramento buried its dead fast and its secrets faster. Beneath Old Sacramento lies the original 1850s street level, where cholera victims were quarantined in basement rooms and left to die. John Sutter established his fort in 1841 and enslaved hundreds of Miwok and Nisenan people to work the land. The Old City Cemetery, opened in 1849, holds 25,000 graves — miners, murdered prostitutes, children dead from scarlet fever. In 1978, projectionist Ray died of a heart attack alone in the Crest Theatre booth, the film still running. The Delta King riverboat, built in 1927, ran illegal gambling during Prohibition. This self-guided tour covers 13 free stops through Sacramento's buried streets and unquiet graves.
The Sacramento History Museum sits at the site of the original 1849 Sacramento City embarcadero, where gold rush miners arrived by riverboat. The grou...
You stand before the Governor's Mansion, a Second Empire Victorian built in 1877. Thirteen governors lived here between 1903 and 1967. But one first l...
You descend beneath Old Sacramento, into the original street level buried after devastating floods. In the 1850s, cholera swept through the Gold Rush ...
You're sitting in the Eagle Theatre, a reconstruction of California's first theater, which opened in 1849. The original burned in 1850, but one story ...
You walk the grounds of Sutter's Fort, established in 1841 by John Sutter. But the history books leave out the horror. Sutter enslaved hundreds of Nat...
You walk among 25,000 graves in Sacramento's Historic City Cemetery, established in 1849. Gold miners, murdered prostitutes, Chinese laborers, childre...
You stand in the California State Capitol, completed in 1869. Democracy was messy here. In 1914, a lobbyist was found dead in a Capitol basement room—...
You tour the Leland Stanford Mansion, home of California's railroad baron and governor. But wealth couldn't protect the Stanfords from tragedy. Their ...
You're sitting in the Crest Theatre, a 1949 Art Deco movie palace. In 1978, a projectionist named Ray suffered a heart attack in the booth during a la...
You're walking the Tower Bridge, a 1935 Art Deco marvel spanning the Sacramento River. But its golden towers have witnessed darkness. At least 30 peop...
You're aboard the Delta King, a 1927 paddle-wheel steamboat permanently docked in Old Sacramento. During Prohibition, this boat ran luxury cruises—and...
You're standing in the Crocker Art Museum, housed in the 1885 Crocker family mansion. Judge Edwin Crocker built this ornate Victorian palace to showca...
The Sacramento ghost tour includes 13 documented haunted locations.
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 Sacramento tour is Sacramento History Museum at Sacramento History Museum, 101, I Street.
3 stops free in Sacramento. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.