The OK Corral was just the beginning. Walk Tombstone's 13 most haunted stops. 3 free, self-guided.
Thirty seconds of gunfire on October 26, 1881, killed Billy Clanton and both McLaury brothers on Fremont Street — and Tombstone has never stopped replaying the violence. The Bird Cage Theatre ran 24 hours a day for eight straight years, accumulating more bullet holes than any building in the Old West. At Boot Hill Cemetery, 250 graves hold men who died with their boots on, including the three O.K. Corral victims. The Suicide Table at the Delta Saloon claimed three owners between 1860 and 1865 — all dead by their own hand — and survived the 2019 explosion without a scratch. Nellie Cashman, the Irish immigrant who tore down execution grandstands in 1884, still hums in her 5th Street restaurant kitchen. Walk 13 free, self-guided stops through America's most violent boomtown.
The Crystal Palace Saloon opened in 1879 at the height of Tombstone's silver boom, when the town swelled to 7,000 fortune-seekers. Inside these walls,...
Built in 1882 for $50,000, the Cochise County Courthouse dispensed frontier justice until 1929. Seven men hanged from the gallows in the courtyard, th...
The building now known as Big Nose Kate's opened in 1881 as the Grand Hotel, the finest lodging in Tombstone during the silver boom. Mary Katherine Ho...
Ed Schieffelin was told he'd find nothing in the Apache-controlled hills of southeastern Arizona but his own tombstone. Instead, he found silver — and...
Ellen "Nellie" Cashman arrived in Tombstone in 1880, an Irish immigrant who had already survived the brutal mining camps of British Columbia and the C...
John Philip Clum founded the Tombstone Epitaph on May 1, 1880, and the newspaper has published continuously ever since — the oldest still-operating pa...
Endicott Peabody — who would later officiate Franklin D. Roosevelt's wedding and become one of America's most influential Episcopal clergymen — came t...
Fremont Street in 1881 was ground zero for Tombstone's violence. The vacant lot near this building was the actual site of the Gunfight at the O.K. Cor...
In 1885, a young bride named Mary Gee received a rose cutting sent from Scotland by her homesick relative — a Lady Banksia rose, a thornless white var...
On October 26, 1881, photographer Camillus S. Fly was inside his studio at 312 Fremont Street when gunfire erupted in the vacant lot next door. The Gu...
The Tombstone 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 Tombstone tour is Crystal Palace Saloon at Crystal Palace Saloon, 436, East Allen Street.
3 stops free in Tombstone. No guide, no schedule — walk at your own pace after dark.
Last updated February 22, 2026. Researched by the History Nearby editorial team.