Bulldog Tours

I didn't see any real ghosts during the graveyard tour of Charleston, but I had a great time tromping around the graveyards of Charleston. And they really do have exclusive access to the ecumenical graveyard. Some guy was ready to chase us off until he recognized our guide, and said "Oh, it's you." The tale about the ghost who "likes" pregnant women was especially interesting. :-D

The tour provided our group with some specifics about three locales in downtown Charleston. As I recall it two of the three stops weren't particularly "ghostly'' in nature, as promo suggests. They did leave quite a bit to the imagination, though. We did go back to St. Phillips' Episcopal Church graveyard and found the burial places of Sue Hardy and her stillborn child. The photo shown by the tour guide made us want to explore the graveyard itself. Don't remember the guide's name - we went on the tour Tuesday evening, Oct. 30 - but she was quite good. .

Much of the 90-minute tour was spent walking -- at times quite briskly to keep up. Some of the walking was a bit difficult, crossing dark cobblestone streets and then trying not to trip over uneven ground, rocks, and even pieces of graveyard headstones. If you are at all unsteady on your feet, this tour is not for you! The tourguide was friendly enough and has been doing this for a number of years. Some of the historical information he shared was interesting; but some of it conflicted with information we heard from other tourguides. As the tour was at night, and right around Halloween, I expected a few more "ghost" stories and a higher degree of spookiness. Overall, we were disappointed and felt a little more effort could have had better results.

This tour was a good one. In addition to relating one of Charleston's many ghost stories our tour guide provided a lot of interesting historical information about the jail. It surprised me to know the gallows used for private hangings was still on the grounds, until Hurricane Hugo dispatched it in September 1989. Apparently the gallows could not be tampered with by people because of its historic nature. The story of the serial killing couple was especially intriguing. Our guide's stories of her personal experiences in the jail were a plus. In addition, the guide told us about the two-story house next door, which she said was probably more haunted than the jail.

My wife and I were in Charleston on our honeymoon and did the Ghosts and Graveyard tour on our first night in Charleston. We thoroughly enjoyed the tour, especially thanks to our guide, Tad, as he was a superb storyteller and exceptionally friendly. We had a great time and learned a great deal about Charleston's history in an interesting and different way. If you do go on the tour, make sure you try to get Tad as your guide...you will not be disappointed.

This was a great way to see another side of Charleston. The tour guide was great. I woudl definitely recommend it.

This was my first trip to Charleston and I had an amazing time. The one thing I wanted to do while in Charleston was to take a "Ghost Tour". I really didn't know what to expect but thought it would be fun. Although we didn't see any ghosts - that we know of - the history and the guide we had were amazing. I have already been talking about doing another Bulldog Tour there soon. Thank you so much for the excellent customer service and the excellent tour guide - I will definitely recommend to many of my friends! MJ

I really liked the tour, however, I would have liked to have seen more scary things and gone on a longer tour... possibly to the basement. Our tour guide was wonderful, but talked really fast, so it was hard to understand a lot of it. We had a very big group which also made it very difficult to see. There were a few things that I would have liked to seen on the walls that I could not. I would also recommend not sending adults with children. Our group was full of maybe 13 year old girls would acted silly the whole time, so it was difficult to get the full effect. Overall, we had a good time though.

I really liked, it was very exciting. I liked that they showed us pictures of the ghost. And that we actually got to see the gravestones etc.

WE HAD A GREAT TIME. OUR TOUR GUIDE WAS VERY INFORMATIVE. WOULD LOVE TO DO ANOTHER TOUR WHEN WE ARE BACK IN TOWN.

We enjoyed the tour. It provides for a history of the city with a twist.

My anticipation of being scared was worse than the actual. Our tour guide Susan was fabulous!!! She has a great voice for this tour and she certainly knows her facts about the jail. We did not experience any spirits but I do beleive they reside in and around the jail.

Tour guide seemed knowledgable in a "history teacher" sort of way, but not a great storyteller. Stories were drawn out too much, and we began to lose interest. We've been on many other tours in the area, and were a bit disappointed with this one.

We loved our tour guide Lawerance. He had great stories to share and was very entertaining. I would definatly recommend the jail house tour.

My husband and I went to Charleston for our 10 year anniversary and decided to do this tour since it was Halloween weekend. We had a great time learning about some of the local haunts. The graveyards were unbelievible, not only from the "spooky" stand point but from the history as well.