Istanbul Haunted Night Tour
Istanbul’s first and only Haunted Night Tour! Experience spooky dark stories and walk in the footsteps of those who were here before while in the dark with lanterns lighting the way. We will walk in and around the hippodrome and area around it known as Sultanahmet. This is the center of two great Empires where the past and the paranormal intertwine. Journey through the shadows of the hippodrome, investigate Roman ruins and the events that happened there. This tour is two hours long with stops for resting and investigating along the way. We will also be using voice recorders and emf detectors and other ghost hunting equipment to investigate some of our locations. Join us for a fun and spooky evening with spinetingling stories that are sure to thrill your friends and family.
Istanbul’s first and only Haunted Night Tour! Experience spooky dark stories and walk in the footsteps of those who were here before while in the dark with lanterns lighting the way. We will walk in and around the hippodrome and area around it known as Sultanahmet. This is the center of two great Empires where the past and the paranormal intertwine. Journey through the shadows of the hippodrome, investigate Roman ruins and the events that happened there. This tour is two hours long with stops for resting and investigating along the way. We will also be using voice recorders and emf detectors and other ghost hunting equipment to investigate some of our locations. Join us for a fun and spooky evening with spinetingling stories that are sure to thrill your friends and family.
Istanbul’s first and only Haunted Night Tour! Experience spooky dark stories and walk in the footsteps of those who were here before while in the dark with lanterns lighting the way. We will walk in and around the hippodrome and area around it known as Sultanahmet. This is the center of two great Empires where the past and the paranormal intertwine. Journey through the shadows of the hippodrome, investigate Roman ruins and the events that happened there. This tour is two hours long with stops for resting and investigating along the way. We will also be using voice recorders and emf detectors and other ghost hunting equipment to investigate some of our locations. Join us for a fun and spooky evening with spinetingling stories that are sure to thrill your friends and family.
Our 9 Locations Listed Below:
1.Our first stop is next to the Hagia Sophia and the Chalke Gate which was once the main entrance to the royal palace. We will discuss the events that took place here in the 12th century. The brutal torture an Emperor and the murders of the royal family. The end of this Dynasty led to the fourth crusade and the eventual sack of Constantinople.
2. We will briefly discuss the German Fountain and how the same location was the starting gates for the chariot races of the Hippodrome. In the 17th century Ottoman soldiers were returning home from war and they were not being paid. This led to a deadly event that happened at this location where a very old tree once stood.
3. Here was the Palace of Lausus once decorated with the most impressive statuary of the classical world. It was later converted to a church for a saint that was tortured and martyred during the persecution of Christians in the early 4th century.
4. These are the eyewitnesses to the events that once took place here, events that changed the world. We will hear the stories of these monuments and discuss the site of the murdered Komenian Emperor whose body was left laying out in the open for three years. In classical times they believed that a body that was not buried was a restless spirit stuck between two worlds.
5. The Hippodrome was the sporting and social center of Constantinople. It was the center of the Roman world for over 1000 years and was second only to the Cirucs Maximus. This was host to the famous chariot races from the grandest city of the medieval world. The Hippodrome was not only a place for chariot racing and its rival factions, but it held public executions and was the place to see the emperor face to face for the citizens of Constantinople. It was also the scene for one of the most horrific massacres in human history.
6. We will make our way to the side of the Sphendone which is the vaulted remnants of the south side of the Hippodrome. Here we will visit the outside of an ancient prison which once housed wild animals for the circus. We will also discuss torture methods of these prisons and how disfiguration was a common practice during this time.
7. This church was once called the Church of Saints Sergius and Baccus and later rename under Ottoman rule the Little Hagia Sophia Mosque. Before it was a church, the area was a palace home to Justinian before he became Emperor in the 6th century. During the 16th century a high-ranking eunuch was embezzling money and evading taxes. Here he was found and executed losing something very personal for him.
8. We make our way to the back side of the Sphendone where we will hear about the "best seats in the house" and how a great deal of death was compiled here over many centuries. We will hear of a Coup De Tat that was successful in dethroning a powerful Emperor and the fate that him and his sons endured above these walls.
9. Depending on the time of year we will either be able to enter into the cistern as a group or we will sit outside of it to hear the many dead that were once buried inside. During the Plague of Justinian, hundreds of thousands were killed, and this is one of the many final resting places for the victims of the black death.
