For three nights over Halloween weekend, the sidewalk outside Clary's Cafe at 404 Abercorn Street becomes the starting line for Savannah's oldest ghost-tour operation. 6th Sense World, which has been walking visitors through the Historic District since 1995, runs its Sixth Sense Savannah Ghost Tours nightly Friday through Sunday, and its higher-intensity America's Most Haunted City Ghost Tour on Friday and Saturday. The Sixth Sense walks gather at the corner of Abercorn and Jones Streets, outside the cafe; the America's Most Haunted City tour meets at Bull and Broughton Streets. Both are ticketed, both run in all weather, and neither requires reservations beyond a booking.
The two tours are different animals. Sixth Sense Savannah is the company's flagship walk, offered in a family-friendly version and an adults-only version for ages 16 and up, and it leans on local lore and haunted landmarks — the Mercer Williams House, the morgue tunnels beneath the old Candler Hospital — while threading in the city's architecture, history and notable figures. America's Most Haunted City is the weekend-only, high-intensity option, covering a dozen squares and sites including colonial execution grounds and a home famous for having been exorcised. Guides are the draw as much as the stops; recent reviewers single out a storyteller known as Captain Jack, a Savannah native, and another called Otto the Odd.
The starting point is not incidental. Clary's is one of the most recognizable corners in the city, and not because of ghosts. The building opened in 1903 as a neighborhood drugstore with a marble soda fountain and a black-and-white tile floor. In the 1930s a pharmacist named Luther Clary took it over as the second Clary's Drugstore in Savannah — the first was on Bull Street at Perry Lane — and after his sudden death his wife, Clara, kept the lunch counter running for decades. The cafe later became a pilgrimage site for readers of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, which put both Clary's and the Mercer Williams House on the tourist map. The tour route passes the latter.
The company behind the tours has its own origin story, and it is tangled up with the city's most famous piece of paranormal branding. 6th Sense World was founded by Shannon Scott, who arrived in Savannah as a fine arts student at SCAD, became a regular at the Georgia Historical Society, and had his first tour guide license by age 19 — driving carriages, buses and trolleys before creating a local company's walking tours in 1995. He went on to co-host the television series Scariest Places on Earth, appeared on Ghost Hunters, and produced a documentary called America's Most Haunted City. In 2002, Scott accepted the designation "America's Most Haunted City" on behalf of Savannah from the American Institute of Parapsychology, at a conference his company helped organize. By the company's own account, it was the biggest news story to hit Savannah since Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil.
The title stuck, and it is the reason the tour that bears its name exists. The American Institute of Parapsychology's 2002 designation has been cited ever since by tour operators, travel writers and the city itself, and the reputation rests on a genuinely grim history: Revolutionary War bloodshed, Civil War occupation, yellow fever epidemics and catastrophic fires, plus the uncomfortable fact that Savannah has paved over and built atop its dead for centuries — a city, as the saying goes, built on its own dead. Construction crews downtown still turn up bones.
That is the material the guides work with on Halloween weekend. The Sixth Sense route's stops include the old Candler Hospital, chartered in 1804 and the state's oldest, whose morgue tunnel is said to run underground toward Forsyth Park — one of the most repeated stories in Georgia ghost lore. The Mercer Williams House carries a different kind of weight, its notoriety rooted in a 1981 killing rather than in anything supernatural, which is precisely the blend of documented history and local legend the tours trade in.
Practical details are worth knowing before booking. The Sixth Sense tour meets at Abercorn and Jones, with Clary's as the landmark address; guides wear 6th Sense World badges and ask guests to arrive five to ten minutes early. Parking is on the street, there are no restrooms at the meeting point, and only service animals are permitted. The walk is wheelchair and stroller accessible and operates rain or shine. The America's Most Haunted City tour meets separately at 1 East Broughton Street, at the corner of Bull and Broughton. Ticket prices vary by tour type and season and were not posted for the 2026 Halloween dates at the time of writing; booking runs through the company's site and through Viator, where the Sixth Sense walk is listed at roughly $36 for a two-hour outing.
Halloween weekend is the busiest stretch of the year for Savannah's ghost economy — dozens of operators run walks, trolleys and even a converted hearse through the district — but 6th Sense World has the longest claim on it, and the corner of Abercorn and Jones is where that claim started.