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Memphis: True Crime History Bus Tour

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Guided tour
Memphis: True Crime History Bus Tour
4.9 out of 5 stars
4.9
4.9 out of 5 stars
10 reviews

Explore the darker side of Memphis history on this true crime bus tour. Learn about the city's most haunted, murderous, and scandalous historical sites where mobsters and vengeful lovers used to wreak havoc.

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Duration 1.5 hours
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Live tour guide
English

Highlighted reviews from other travelers

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Thomas Mack – United States

We absolutely loved the tour! It was well organized, interesting and fun!

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Jacqueline – United States

I found this tour to be different and interesting. I enjoy history and found the obscure tidbits to be something not usually heard on most tours. Our guide and driver were both courteous and knowledgeable. I totally recommend giving this tour a try.

Highlights

  • Hear how Georgia Tann used the Tennessee Children's Home Society to steal babies
  • Learn about local Memphis woman, Alma Theede's long list of dead husbands
  • Feel the goosebumps as your hear story after story about the city's dark past

Full description

Embark on a twilight exploration of Memphis' murderous, scandalous, fascinating past, complete with serial killers, mobsters, vengeful lovers, and compelling unsolved cases on a bus tour.

Sit back and listen to your local guide's stories as they take you to the scene of some of the city's most notorious crimes. See where a serial killer caused terror over a summer. Pass by Beale Street's deadliest saloon. Hear about stories of Georgia Tann, the notorious baby thief.

Try not to let chills go down your spine as you learn about Memphis' coldest case or about the 'Black Widow' of Vance Avenue, Alma Theede's chilling story. Continue on to hear about the largest jail break in Shelby County history, and more.

Return to your starting point filled with a new angle on Memphis, one of its darker sides.

Includes

  • Round-trip transportation by air-conditioned (or heated) bus
  • Local tour guide
  • Stop at Moxy Hotel for themed cocktails (mocktails, soda, and water also available)
  • Tips
  • Hotel pickup and drop-off

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Meeting point

Meet your tour guide at the activity provider's, Backbeat Tours, ticket podium located on the downstairs patio at Alfred's. If you are arriving by car, there are four different parking garages within a few blocks of the meeting point, and several open-air parking lots. The closest garage to the location, just two blocks away, is at 149 Peabody Place between Second Street and BB King Blvd., next to the Hampton Inn. You can try your luck with on-street metered parking, too, on Second Street just south of Beale; on Beale between Front and Second; or along Peabody Place from Front to Fourth Street.

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Important information

Know before you go

  • This tour does include some off-bus stops, wherein you will walk approximately .5 miles total
  • Within a few blocks of the meeting point there are four different parking garages, and several open-air parking lots
  • The closest garage to the location, just two blocks away, is at 149 Peabody Place between Second Street and BB King Blvd., next to the Hampton Inn
  • You can try your luck with on-street metered parking, too, on Second Street just south of Beale; on Beale between Front and Second; or along Peabody Place from Front to Fourth Street

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Thomas Mack – United StatesFebruary 16, 2025 – Verified booking
We absolutely loved the tour! It was well organized, interesting and fun!
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Jacqueline – United StatesMarch 27, 2024 – Verified booking
I found this tour to be different and interesting. I enjoy history and found the obscure tidbits to be something not usually heard on most tours. Our guide and driver were both courteous and knowledgeable. I totally recommend giving this tour a try.
T
Tech – AustraliaMarch 14, 2024 – Verified booking
Awesome tour with great stories from Shannon our amazing tour guide. Was really cool to hear some of the history or Memphis.

Product ID: 627144

Activity provider:Backbeat Tours

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