Adela Haunted Tours

Adela Haunted Tours turns downtown Dothan’s history into a walking narrative, leading small groups past storefronts, churches, and old civic buildings while weaving in the stories, and the occasional ghost story, tied to each stop. Built by a team of self-described paranormal enthusiasts rather than operated as part of a larger sightseeing company, the business focuses specifically on the Wiregrass region, with its signature offering being a Dothan Historical Walking Tour that meets downtown on South Foster Street and threads through several blocks of the city’s older architecture on foot.

The walking tour runs on select Saturday evenings, typically from 5 to 7 in the evening, and covers general Dothan history alongside the paranormal folklore that has attached itself to specific buildings over the decades. General admission runs 25 dollars per person, with a group rate of 237 dollars available for parties of ten, which makes it a reasonable option for a birthday outing, a bachelorette weekend, or simply a group of friends looking for something more active than a standard museum stop. Because the tour covers real, walkable ground rather than a bus route, it doubles as a genuine introduction to downtown Dothan’s layout and architecture for visitors who have never explored the area on foot.

Beyond the flagship walking tour, the company runs separate graveyard tours in the Dothan area, typically scheduled from 7:40 to 10 at night, also priced at 25 dollars per person, focused specifically on local cemetery history and the stories tied to individual grave sites and family plots. These evening tours tend to draw a different crowd than the historical walking tour, leaning toward visitors specifically interested in the paranormal side of the business’s offerings rather than straightforward local history, though the two experiences share the same guides and the same research-driven approach to storytelling.

The company occasionally runs tours further afield as well, including an investigation at the Bullock County Jail and a trip to the USS Battleship North Carolina, both priced separately and scheduled less frequently than the core Dothan offerings. For most visitors interested specifically in things to do within Dothan itself, the historical walking tour and the local graveyard tour are the two experiences worth building an evening around, since both start and finish within the city and run on a predictable, bookable schedule through the company’s own ticketing page.

Because dates are limited and tours depend on advance reservations rather than walk-up availability, booking ahead through the company’s website is essential rather than optional. For anyone who has already covered Dothan’s museums and gardens during the day, an evening walking tour with Adela Haunted Tours offers a genuinely different way to experience the same downtown blocks after dark, told through the lens of local history and the folklore that has grown up around it over the years.

Guides typically walk visitors through a mix of confirmed local history, drawn from newspaper archives and city records, alongside the ghost stories and unexplained accounts that have accumulated around specific buildings over decades of local storytelling, and they are generally upfront about which parts of the tour lean toward documented fact and which lean toward folklore. That balance tends to appeal to visitors who enjoy a good ghost story but also want to walk away having actually learned something true about downtown Dothan’s past. Comfortable walking shoes are worth wearing, since the tour covers several blocks on foot, and arriving a few minutes early to the meeting point on South Foster Street helps avoid missing the group’s opening introduction before the walk begins.

Groups traveling to Dothan for a weekend visit often pair the walking tour with dinner downtown afterward, since the tour route passes several restaurants and the timing leaves plenty of evening left once the group disbands. Because Adela Haunted Tours is a small, locally run company rather than a large sightseeing operator with tours in dozens of cities, the guides tend to know the buildings and their histories in real depth, and repeat visitors often report picking up new details on a second walk through the same downtown blocks.