We don’t do fairytales. We do the parts of history that smell slightly of blood and candle wax.
At Dark Side City Tours, we dig up the stories buried beneath the tourist traps – the murders, ghost sightings, poisonings, betrayals, and uncomfortable truths that most guidebooks politely ignore. If it happened in a shadowy alley, a plague pit, or an execution chamber, that’s where we’re going.
We’re a team of haunted history tour experts: historians, researchers, and professional storytellers who specialise in making the darkest parts of the past entertaining (sometimes disturbingly so). No costumes. No ghost-hunting gadgets. Just real stories, told well.
THE WORLD AT NIGHT, FOR MUCH OF ITS HISTORY, WAS A VERY DARK PLACE INDEED
Whether you’re here for the ghosts, the gore, or the grim reality of the past, our tours are as educational as they are entertaining. And if you laugh at a murder story, don’t worry. We probably will too.
We don’t hire actors. We hire the kind of people who read murder trial transcripts for fun.
Our guides are historians, researchers, and, most importantly, storytellers. They know where the skeletons are buried, and how to talk about them in a way that’ll make you laugh, shiver, and maybe even learn something.
They’re darkly funny, weirdly brilliant, and probably know more about historical poisons than your pharmacist.
You’ll meet them on the street. Just look for the ones smiling while talking about executions.
