Haunted things to do in Boise
Looking for haunted places & dark-history spots in Boise? These 7 are the genuinely strange ones — Old Idaho Penitentiary, Egyptian Theatre, US Ghost Adventures - Boise Ghost Tour and more — each hand-vetted and sourced, not pulled from a top-ten list. Great for an unusual date, a weird afternoon, or showing a visitor the side of Boise they'd never find on their own.
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Old Idaho Penitentiary
A territorial prison that locked up its first inmates in 1872 and kept operating until it closed in December…
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Egyptian Theatre
This 1927 movie palace was built in full Egyptian Revival style riding the King Tut craze, complete with an o…
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US Ghost Adventures - Boise Ghost Tour
A roughly one-mile, hour-long guided night walk through downtown Boise's documented hauntings, anchored at Th…
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Morris Hill & Pioneer Cemetery Walking Tour
Boise keeps two separate historic cemeteries, each with its own free city-published walking-tour map. Pioneer…
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Idaho City Historic District & Boot Hill Cemetery
Founded in 1862 in the wake of the Boise Basin gold rush, Idaho City briefly swelled past 7,000 people, large…
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Silver City
Roughly seventy weathered 1800s structures still stand in this remote Owyhee Mountains mining town, never tur…
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Idaho City & Boise Basin Museum
About an hour northeast of Boise on Highway 21, Idaho City was the largest town in the Pacific Northwest duri…