Philadelphia Haunted Old City Self Guided Ghost Tour Game

Key facts

What's included

Itinerary

1. Stop 1

   You'll start at the gate of Christ Church Burial Ground on Arch Street, where the app opens your case file and introduces the agent running it. Your first task will be to investigate the inscription above the gate and find a password. Once you solve it, you learn why people still throw pennies on Benjamin Franklin's grave, and what he thinks about it.

   8 minutes

2. Stop 2

   You'll walk down Arch Street to the Quaker meeting house and solve another challenge. You'll learn how many people lie under its neat lawn without a single headstone.

   7 minutes

3. Stop 3

   You'll stop at the flag house at 239 Arch Street and search for a sign to help you solve the next challenge. You'll learn how many times Betsy Ross has been moved, and why nobody can say whose bones are under her stone.

   7 minutes

4. Stop 4

   You'll turn into Elfreth's Alley, the oldest continuously lived-in street in the country, and read what's hidden on its historical marker. You'll learn why it survived three hundred years and the story of the spy who was hanged there.

   7 minutes

5. Stop 5

   You'll walk to Christ Church on 2nd Street and investigate the iron sign. You'll learn about the people in the vaults under the floor where Sunday services are still held.

   6 minutes

6. Stop 6

   You'll head to Franklin Court on Market Street and solve a riddle about the object on the wall above the post office's red gate. You'll learn why Franklin's fire company refused houses with trees in front, and who took those customers.

   7 minutes

7. Stop 7

   You'll stop at Carpenters' Hall on Chestnut Street and complete a torn note from the text by the gate. You'll learn about the first bank robbery in American history, $160,000 taken from this very building.

   7 minutes

8. Stop 8

   You'll cross to the marble portico of the First Bank, unscramble a message and look up at the building to answer it. You'll learn how the robber got caught putting the money back into this bank under his own name.

   7 minutes

9. Stop 9

   You'll walk into Society Hill to Powel House and use a sign on site to name two of its famous guests. You'll learn about Peggy Shippen, who danced here at eighteen and insists she was no bystander to Benedict Arnold's treason.

   7 minutes

10. Stop 10

    You'll stop at St Peter's, where almost nothing has changed since 1761, and find what's missing from your photo of its carved stone. You'll learn whose names are kept in a burial register that has survived 260 years.

    6 minutes

11. Stop 11

    You'll walk to the Hill-Physick House and use a punchcard on the text of its bronze plaque to find your answer. You'll learn what the Father of American surgery had delivered to his back yard after midnight, and why his wife left him.

    7 minutes

12. Stop 12

    You'll solve a challenge someone buried in Old St Mary's churchyard. You'll learn why every respectable burial ground in the city turned people away, and where they ended up instead.

    6 minutes

13. Stop 13

    You'll finish in Washington Square, where you'll turn the fragments you've collected into the word that leads to the last clue. You'll learn what this lunchtime park was for 88 years, and who kept watch over it with a lantern.

    8 minutes

Meeting point & pickup

Meet at the starting point

The game starts at Christ Church Burial Ground. After booking, we'll message you a code and activation link. Activate with your own email, then log in to the Questo app with that email. No message? Open the Questo app, tap "Bought a quest somewhere else?" and enter your booking reference number.

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