Rome Ghost Tour: Spine-Chilling Tales and Dark History

Explore Rome’s Bone Crypts and dark tales with expert storytellers. Uncover eerie histories and spine-chilling legends in the Eternal City.

Duration: 2 hours
Cancellation: 24 hours
Highlights
  • Museum and Crypt of Capuchins - Visit the fascinating Capuchin Crypts, decorated with other 3,700 bodies, and learn the symbolism and history behind the macabre decoration
  • Via Rasella - Hear one of the darker tales of Rome’s most recent past, with a tragic story from the Second World War.
  • Trevi Fountain - Hear one of the lesser known…
What's Included
  • Entry Fee to Capuchin Crypt
What's Not Included
  • Food and Drink - an optional rest stop at a caffe can be offered
Additional Information

Guided by captivating, award winning storytellers, offering a blend of the macabre and the magical, uncover the Eternal City through spine-chilling tales.
Begin your journey at the Capuchin Crypt, where the line between art and mortality blurs in a silent meditation on life and death. Find out why this place is home to over 3,700 skeletons, with bones…

Location
Piazza Barberini
Meet your guide by the fountain in the middle of Piazza Barberini. They will be holding a sign saying "Rome's Bone Crypts and Dark Centre." PLEASE NOTE: Shoulders and knees must be covered for entrance to the Capuchin Crypt. Disposable shawls are available for purchase for €1 per person.
Cancellation Policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

Customer Ratings
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Carlal595
Dec 18, 2024
Great Tour of Capuchin Crypts and Interesting Dark Stories Around Main Attractions - The tour of the crypts was fascinating. Our guide, Arielle, was super friendly and really knew her history about the Capuchins. She told some great stories about beheadings and executions in the Pantheon Square and the Piazza Navona as well. Thoroughly enjoyed the tour. Thanks Arielle!
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L6586vtstephenh
Nov 30, 2024
Great for macabre interested kids - Tour guide was awesome! She was personable and knowledgeable. My kids adored the tour. My kids are always interested in ghost walks and jumped at the opportunity to tour the crypt. Very much well worth it.
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Sarah_j
Nov 2, 2024
fascinating and beautifully haunting - Arielle was excellent! Navigated us around Rome with fascinating dark history stories, and capuchin crypts. She was able to keep our group together weaving through crowds on a busy national holiday. My husband and I enjoyed every moment of this tour. Highly recommended.
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Keithsj3541ke
Oct 24, 2024
Entertaining and spooky fun tour! - Thank you Alethea for the very spooky and fun tour! The Capuchin Crypts are about as macabre as you can imagine. I like learning about the history of Rome and some of the darker chapters. Entertaining and spooky fun tour!
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L8020dppauld
Oct 19, 2024
Freaking awesome - Simply awesome :) Major shout out to Alethea, our incredible tour guide. She was clearly passionate about history, the city and her job. She was super well informed and had the perfect relaxed, animated and humorous delivery. The combination of her and the tour's content made it perfect. If you love history, spooky stuff and seeing unique stuff a little off the beaten track (that still hits up the tourist hot spots), look no further. We covered a lot of ground and learnt so much interesting stuff - the kind of facts so interesting you'll never forget them. Alethea also really took her time to answer questions and include everyone. Thanks for an amazing time :)
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Drew_s
Oct 16, 2024
A must see in rome - What an interesting insight to this side of Rome , the crypt was like a wow moment truly magnificent. Ivana was an excellent host and really fun Would highly recommend this tour to anyone
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Kathryn_s
Oct 13, 2024
5stars - ivana was brilliant! tours are always so much better when the guide has a real passion for what they are talking about, best parts were seeing the crypts and hearing of the dark stories around the centre which were really interesting, well organised, definitely recommend
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Michael_s
Oct 12, 2024
Missed tour due to transportation issue, but five stars for the tour group - Unfortunately, we were unable to make the tour due to transportation issues with Uber and taxis in Rome. The group did try to contact us but because of Internet access unable to receive messages. I was able to respond back to their email and they responded quickly. I gave the tour five stars because of them. Suggestion for anyone going on this give yourself plenty of time to get to the location. Otherwise you’re going to miss the tour and be out $50!
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Rory_d
Oct 5, 2024
Fabulous Tour - All of the interesting information that we would never have known without our fabulous tour guide. Best one so far.
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Mary_b
Sep 24, 2024
Bone Crypts - Absolutely the most interesting tour we went on. The walk around Rome with stories not told on normal tours was fun.
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