Tour Charleston is a guided walking tour provider based in Charleston, South Carolina. The company offers history and ghost tours led by local experts and published authors, delivering site-specific storytelling and interpretive walks focused on the city’s past.
Tour offerings include Lost Stories of Black Charleston, a 2-hour, 1.25-mile walking tour led by Professor Damon Fordham that departs from Buxton Books and examines hidden narratives in Charleston’s Black history. STORIED CHARLESTON BY LIZ BUTLER is an intimate small-group tour led by tenth-generation Charlestonian and award-winning author Liz Legare Butler, highlighting cobblestone streets, window boxes, ironwork, and local stories. The Ghosts of Charleston Tour and The Ghosts of Charleston Tour-- GRAVEYARD ONLY! emphasize Charleston’s supernatural history and feature the Unitarian Church Graveyard; the graveyard-only experience lasts 60 minutes, while the full Ghosts of Charleston Tour runs approximately 90 minutes and draws on material from the best-selling book The Ghosts of Charleston.
Tour Charleston’s experiences combine historical context, guided interpretation, and site-centered narration by named guides and local historians. Group sizes vary by tour, with a small-group format specifically noted for the STORIED CHARLESTON BY LIZ BUTLER experience. Visitors receive route, duration, and starting location information for each trip; the Lost Stories tour departs from Buxton Books. Several tours, especially the Ghosts of Charleston, note a legacy of media acclaim and reports of real-time hauntings, making them popular choices for visitors seeking historical depth or paranormal experiences in Charleston's downtown and historic district areas.