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Explore the only remaining restored Gangster Era site in Saint Paul on this guided historic caves tour of the Wabasha Street Caves. Carved into the hillside near downtown Saint Paul, the caves have been numerous things throughout their history, including as a gangster hot spot during Prohibition. Tour the caves and hear fascinating stories of their history from your guide.

Saint Paul is the current capital of Minnesota and was quite the hub for organized crime not too long ago. Discover this thrilling part of the Twin Cities history during a gangster tour by bus. You’ll join a group of history buffs for a ride through the city, spending hours learning about the 1930s Prohibition Era from your funny and informative guide. Venture through South, West, and Central Saint Paul, stopping at sites of payroll robberies, bars where gangsters frequented, and spots where kidnappings took place.

Are you afraid of the dark? Join us for our Haunted Trolley Tour of Minneapolis! It is a spine-tingling journey to the most haunted sites in the City, aboard an historic trolley which itself is said to be haunted. Your knowledgeable narrator will explain the legend and the lore surrounding the most paranormal happenings in our City's history. Prepare for mysterious sightings, strange sounds, and shadows lurking around the corners. The tour begins and ends at a real Haunted Historic Mansion, 300 Clifton in Minneapolis.

Most people don’t know anything about St. Paul’s gangster history—and most definitely don’t go underground to explore it. But you will on this totally immersive tour, heading back to the era of John Dillinger and 1930s-era corruption. Your guides set the scene, taking you around the city, and beneath it, for a day of subterranean suspense.

Gain a different perspective on downtown Minneapolis and learn about its haunted heritage with this ghost-themed walking tour. Walk around to sites such as City Hall, the Stone Arch Bridge, the Foshay Tower, and more, while your guide fills you in on the colorful characters and spooky stories that have shaped the city.

Skip the generic walking tours and explore Stillwater in the spookiest way possible—through its best ghost stories. Following a guide, learn how this 180-year-old town is full of spirits, legends, and secrets—it’s even home to the haunted Minnesota State Prison. Leave your tour with a creepy sense of the city (and the urge to look over your shoulder).

Explore the so-called most haunted place in Minnesota on a fun one-hour walking tour of the sandstone Wabasha Street Caves. Learn more about local history–including the grim and spooky parts–at the caves, which were once a notorious gangster hideout. Around 60 ghosts are said to haunt the caves. Go in search of them yourself.

Learn all about Minneapolis’s thug-life past on this private driving tour, where you and one other passenger drive through the city and see where all the notorious gangsters used to hang out. Learn about John Dillinger and other bank robbers and bootleggers from your guide- more than you could find in a guidebook.

Embark on a private guided ghost tour through the haunted streets of Anoka, Minnesota. Led by a knowledgeable local guide, you’ll unravel the chilling tales and paranormal legends that have shrouded the city for centuries. Explore the secrets hidden within the walls of the Anoka County Historical Society and feel the eerie presence surrounding the Gray Ghost Building. Discover intriguing stories of the supernatural at the Anoka Masonic Lodge and the Anoka County Courthouse. Experience the ghostly atmosphere of the Anoka State Theater, where legends of wandering spirits abound. The tour culminates at the Anoka Armory, a place steeped in eerie history and spectral encounters. Feel the presence of the supernatural as you walk the haunted streets, immersing yourself in the mysterious atmosphere of Anoka.

It was way back in May 1823 when a steamship chugged up the mighty Mississippi River and moored, for the first time, at the Mdewakanton Sioux settlement of Red Wing . In the decades that followed, trade and tourism transformed the tribal land into a thriving town, and plans for the St. James Hotel were drawn up to give weary visitors a place to lay their heads. But when laborers were digging out the foundations, the discovery of skeletal remains in a burial ground was a stark reminder of the town’s Native American heritage. Ever since then, St. James Hotel has been the epicenter of Red Wing’s paranormal mysteries. Tales are told of phantom floating heads emerging from the darkness, mysterious noises in the bowels of the basement, and the domineering presence of deceased owner, Clara Lillyblad. Join us on this fully narrated 1.5-hour experience – Red Wing's first haunted history walking tour! See the Itinerary section below for a sample of the stops.

On this tour, you get to hear about some of St. Paul's most interesting ghosts (and ghostly encounters), including: Ann Bilansky, the only woman in Minnesota history to receive the death penalty was found guilty of poisoning her husband with arsenic. A gallows was built and she was executed right on the streets of St. Paul, and she swore her innocence to her grave. Does her wrongfully accused spirit still walk the Earth? Discover the haunted Landmark Center whose events coordinator, was quoted in the Pioneer Press saying, “We have even had women guests here go into the second-floor bathroom and come out quivering, saying that they saw a man in there, a man that disappears.” Old Bets, a Dakota woman who claimed to be 100 years old and was a local celebrity who wandered the streets charging people to take their picture with her. Long after her death, people still claim to hear her call of “ho-ho” as they walk through the streets of downtown St. Paul.