Step into one of the Midwest's most perfectly preserved 19th-century towns—and one of its most haunted. The Ghosts of Galena Tour takes you through gas-lit streets where 85% of the buildings are on the National Register of Historic Places, and where the spirits of the past seem as unwilling to leave as the historic architecture they haunt.
Galena isn't just a museum piece—it's a living, breathing 19th-century town that happens to be very much alive with paranormal activity. From the legendary DeSoto House Hotel, where Abraham Lincoln once spoke and ghostly guests from the 1850s still check in, to the Victorian mansions perched on steep hillsides where wealthy merchants still watch over their former domains, this tour reveals why Galena has earned its reputation as Illinois's most haunted town.
Walk the same brick streets that Ulysses S. Grant walked before becoming president. Hear about the lead mining disasters that built this boomtown but claimed countless lives. Learn about steamboat tragedies on the Galena River, cholera epidemics that swept through the town, and the restless spirits who never quite left this beautiful, haunted place. This isn't just a ghost tour—it's a journey through perfectly preserved history where the past is still very much present.
