Sullivan County After Dark: Paranormal History
Ghost stories rooted in real history — Friday and Saturday evenings
Child: $25 · Senior: $40
Why This Tour
Paranormal tourism is one of the fastest-growing segments in heritage travel, and Sullivan County has the goods — 250 years of frontier history, three presidential ghosts, a stagecoach inn with centuries of stories, and a county seat where Civil War tensions still feel present. This tour bridges the gap between serious history and entertainment, attracting visitors who might not book a traditional heritage tour but will absolutely show up for a ghost walk.
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Your Itinerary
The evening begins at the Old Deery Inn as the last light fades over Blountville. Your guide — equal parts historian and storyteller — introduces the inn's extraordinary history before walking you into the legends that have accumulated over two centuries. When a building has hosted three presidents, countless frontier travelers, Civil War soldiers, and generations of Sullivan County families, the stories layer upon each other until history and legend become inseparable. The inn after dark is a different experience entirely.
- • After-dark access to the Old Deery Inn grounds
- • Documented ghost stories rooted in the inn's 200+ year history
- • The presidential room — where Jackson reportedly still makes his presence known
- • EMF readings and historical investigation techniques
From the inn, you walk the darkened streets of Blountville — Tennessee's frontier county seat. The courthouse, the cemetery, the old storefronts — they all have stories that the daytime tours don't tell. Your guide reveals the Civil War tensions that split Sullivan County families, the frontier justice that played out at the courthouse, and the cemetery stories that connect the buried to the living. The lantern light and the quiet of the county seat at night create an atmosphere that no daytime visit can match.
- • Walking tour of Blountville's historic district by lantern light
- • Civil War stories and frontier justice tales
- • Historic cemetery visit with documented burial stories
- • The darker chapters of Sullivan County's frontier history
Sites in This Tour
Logistics
Old Deery Inn, Blountville → Blountville historic district
Total driving: Walking tour — no driving during the tour. Drive to Blountville.
Dark, comfortable clothing. Closed-toe shoes required. Layers — fall evenings in the mountains can be chilly.
What to bring:
- • Flashlight (backup — one provided)
- • Warm layers (evenings cool down, especially in fall)
- • Comfortable walking shoes
- • Camera (for any encounters)
- • Open mind
When the sun goes down over Blountville, the oldest stories come alive. The Sullivan County After Dark tour takes you through the haunted history of the Old Deery Inn, the historic Blountville cemetery, and the dark corners of the county seat where 250 years of frontier life have left more than just memories. This isn't a cheap scare show — every ghost story is rooted in documented history, every legend has a verifiable origin, and your guide is as much historian as storyteller. By the end of the evening, you'll never look at Sullivan County the same way.