The moon that hangs over Savannah on the last weekend of October 2026 will be full, or so close to it that no one on a darkened sidewalk will argue the difference. The Hunter's Moon reaches peak illumination at 12:12 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time on Monday, October 26 — five nights before Halloween — which means that from Friday the 23rd through Sunday the 25th, the city's live oaks and wrought-iron fences will be throwing shadows at their most theatrical. 6th Sense World has built a weekend of walking tours around it.
The company's Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tour departs each of those three nights at 7:00, 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. from Clary's Cafe at 404 Abercorn Street. Its other flagship walk, the America's Most Haunted City Ghost Tour, runs Friday and Saturday at 8:00 p.m. from 1 East Broughton Street. Tours are about two hours and roughly half a mile, and they go rain or shine. The 7 p.m. departure is open to all ages; the later ones are for guests 16 and older. Tickets are $36 for adults, $32 for military, seniors and children ages 4 to 15. Reservations are recommended — the company warns that full-moon weekends tend to sell out — and can be made at 6thsenseworld.com or by phone at 912-292-0960.
What separates these walks from the dozens of other lantern-lit processions that thread through Savannah's squares is a claim of priority. 6th Sense World describes itself as the original Savannah ghost tour and says it has been at it for 25 years, which would put its beginnings in the late 1990s or around 2000. The company's own account of the Sixth Sense tour is more specific: it says that before 2002, no ghost storytelling took place in the particular Historic District neighborhood the walk covers, and that the route was assembled over 12 years of exploring that area and collecting stories from the friends and neighbors who live there. The company is woman-owned and bills itself as the outfit that "helped pave the way" for Savannah's haunted heritage tourism. It holds a 2024 TripAdvisor Travelers' Choice award, and its marketing cites appearances on Wheel of Fortune, the Travel Channel, Georgia Traveler and the Los Angeles Times, plus a USA Today list of top tours.
Some of that television history is tied directly to the ground the tours cover. Episodes of Scariest Places on Earth, hosted by Linda Blair, and of Ghost Hunters were filmed in the neighborhood because of the company's investigations there, according to 6th Sense World. The tours promise uncensored versions of local tales — poltergeists, séances gone wrong, first-hand accounts of things that shouldn't be there — delivered by guides who live in the city rather than reading from a script written elsewhere.
The meeting point for the Sixth Sense walk carries its own weight. Clary's Cafe has stood at 404 Abercorn since 1903, when the building opened as a neighborhood drugstore with a soda fountain. In the 1930s a pharmacist named Luther Clary took it over as the second of his two Savannah drugstores; when he died a few years later, his wife Clara kept the counter running for decades. The pharmacy was remodeled into a restaurant in 1986, and in 1994 it became permanently famous as a setting in John Berendt's Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Guests waiting on the corner for a 9:30 departure are standing outside a building that has been in continuous public use for more than 120 years — a fitting place to start a tour about things that refuse to leave.
The Hunter's Moon itself is a piece of folklore worth knowing before the walk begins. The name comes from the season: with autumn fields cleared and game fattened, a bright moon made it easier to spot animals after dark, and the full moon that follows the Harvest Moon also marked the opening of the hunting season in Anglo-Saxon tradition. It has carried other names too — the Travel Moon, the Dying Grass Moon, the Sanguine Moon, the Falling Leaves Moon. In 2026 it arrives five nights before Halloween; a true full moon on October 31 is a rarity, and this year the holiday will get a waning gibbous instead, still bright but past its peak.
That timing is the whole point of the weekend. Savannah has been marketed as "America's Most Haunted City" for so long that the phrase is now a registered trademark, and October is when the claim gets its heaviest workout. The appeal of a walk-up tour on a night like these is that it asks almost nothing of the visitor: no reserved seating, no fixed arrival beyond the departure time, no ticket for a specific chair. Show up at Clary's, hand over $36, and follow a storyteller into the dark for two hours.
For anyone planning around the moon, the best viewing nights fall on either side of peak — Sunday evening, October 25, and Monday evening, October 26 — when the moon rises in the east near sunset and climbs with nearly all its illumination. Sunday the 25th is also the last night of the tour weekend, with departures at 7:00, 8:00 and 9:30 p.m. from Abercorn Street. Daylight saving time doesn't end until November 1, so the sky will be dark early enough for the 7 p.m. group to walk out under a moon already well above the rooftops.