Frankfurt

Ghost & Vampire Tours

Enjoy a 1-hour walk through Frankfurt at night with a robed hangman as your guide. Follow your scary guide (if you dare) on a journey of discovery of Frankfurt's history and his bloody work. But while you listen to your guide, be aware, for he must finish his work and he has no time to waste because the devil is after him.  Start your journey into the past at the cathedral, where German kings and emperors were elected and crowned. Continue towards the bank of the Main where many culprits, mostly women, were drowned in the water. Finally, reach your final stop, the Römer, Frankfurt's famous Town Hall, where you will learn all about the Römerberg's gruesome past as the location of many medieval death penalty punishments and torture chambers.

Experience the scary side of Frankfurt, Germany, on a guided walking tour that pays homage to E. T. A. Hoffmann’s short story, “The Sandman.” Visit some of Frankfurt’s top attractions while learning about the city’s history from your guide.  Your nightmarish journey starts at Frankfurt’s cathedral. There, meet your guide, a man in eye-catching clothing. Head out to visit some of the top attractions of the city. Stop at Rotes Haus, the Saalhof, the Eiserner Steg footbridge, and finally at the Mainkai with a view of the museum banks (Museumsufer).

Welcome to the Niddapark in Frankfurt. Enjoy a 1-hour walk with a scary theater play through the park. Your journey into the darkness will start under a bridge. There, you will meet Leon and his servant. Let him tell you about how he was changed into a vampire. In a time of the early romantic, when the air was fragrant and arousing, he found his great love. At that time Frankfurt was a prosperous commercial center.  Like all vampires, his thirst for blood is insatiable but at the moment he can control it because his craving for revenge is much more powerful. However, your vampire guide is not your biggest threat so be on your guard. There is a great gathering of lost souls in the nearby forest. They are waiting for the opening of the great feast and they are very thirsty. Will you dare to follow Leon on his way through the wood where his destiny will await him?

Enjoy a 1-hour walk through the Niddapark in Frankfurt, where professional actors will entertain you with a scary theatrical play. Begin your journey into darkness at the underground train station, where two masked men wait for you under the bridge. Do you dare to follow these shady men into the darkness? If you dare, continue through the darkness and into a forest. Be on your guard because killers and the black order are sneaking around this place. Will your guide protect you from them or has he got other plans for you? Discover the answer to this question and the origin of this madness in the events of the Thirty Year War. Follow your guide into the past and discover an era where armies of mercenaries besieged Frankfurt frequently, devastating the whole environment and murdering the rural population. Finally the killing and burning was brought to an end by the Westphalia Peace. But you are about to rediscover a hidden outcome of this terrible war.

Learn more about the terror of the Black Death that haunted Frankfurt many times during the Middle Ages. Start your journey near the Eschenheimer tower, one of the main entrances of the city in the 16th century. Find a plague doctor on his way through the infested city. Join him and learn more about the worst pandemic in human history. Nearly a third of the whole population of Europe died by the plague. In addition to this, the continent was in the midst of the Thirty Years' War. Frankfurt was frequently sieged because of its strategic position. Learn about the many plagues that fell upon the city, and about its sudden disappearance in 1667.

Welcome to Bad Homburg. Enjoy a 1-hour walk through the city and the curepark with a scary theater play. Your journey into the darkness will start at the beautifully renovated construction of the historical train station, Bad Homburg. Two masked men will await you. One of them will warn you of a mysterious thread. Will you dare to follow these shady men into the curepark? There you will see some mineral springs, constructed at the time of Emperor Wilhelm 2, and the building of the local casino. But be on your guard because the killers out of nowhere and the black order are sneaking around this place. Will your guide protect you from them or has he got other plans for you? The origin of this madness lies in a 3 decades long war but its terrible outcome now again appears in the here and now.

Experience Frankfurt from a completely different perspective as you follow a group of actors around the city whilst they perform a self-written play that you will find yourself in the middle of! Prepare to be spooked as they act out convincing performances, and enter a dark forest with a shady prophet who has something interesting to say about the history of the city and some of its famous locals. Hear selected quotes from former residents, including Goethe and Schopenhauer, that will take you to the doors of madness. Hear about the last secret of the universe whilst creepy figures threaten your guide. Death will be the end of life. What remains is hope - or the fear of the unknown - and the redemption or terror of the white spider!

Experience the true horror stories of Frankfurt on a guided walking tour of the city. You will see iconic places like the Frankfurt Cathedral, Römer city hall, Old St Nicholas Church, and other monuments of the old town of Frankfurt. Start your tour at Iron Footbridge, known for its marvelous city views and padlocks attached by romantic couples. You will stroll along the iconic Mainkai riverside road towards the Frankfurt Cathedral. Admire the beauty of the soaring Gothic structure accompanied by the scary, dark stories. Next, you will follow the so-called Coronation route, the footsteps of former kings and emperors from the place of their crowning at the cathedral, to see the harmonious architecture of the New Old Town. Walkthrough the narrow alleys to hear more stories about ghosts and other hunting mischiefs. You will reach the Römerberg town square, to see the Fountain of Justice, medieval Römer city hall, the Gothic-style Old St Nicholas Church, and other monuments. Your private guide will tell tragic stories from the city's past, such as the Black Death pandemic that killed 2,000 Frankfurt citizens in only 72 days of the plague. You will pass by St Paul’s Church and St Catherine's Church to see the David and Goliath Sculpture. Know the story of David’s victory over the already dead Goliath of the Bible. Lastly, you will walk to the Eschenheim Tower, a city gate that was a part of the late-medieval fortifications of Frankfurt. Throughout the tour, hear about the myths, legends, and folklore from the German Middle Ages.