Welcome to the DarkParis.com (previously known as Mysteries of Paris). We are the first, original, and premiere tour to explore the “Darkside of the City of Lights.”
Our Paris Night Tours featuring Vampire & Ghost Walk brings you through the dark heart of Paris and gives you an alternative experience which allows you to see Paris in a way no other company will reveal.
As thousands of students, business people, tourists, musicians and artists go about their days, little do they know they walk through and past thousands of spirits who haunt the many parks, buildings and streets.
ALL tours are in English and our 2016 season runs April 1st until October 31st, taking place every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at 9pm – perfect to finish your dinner and catch the darkness and lights of Paris in summer months. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes with 6 mystery stories… 7 or 8 if the group is really vibing with our guide.
All of our of guides are passionate about the Darkside of Paris and are fluent in English.
Our brand new book is now available! Please click here to purchase or here to learn more.
ALL tours are in English and our 2016 season runs May 4th until October 31st, taking place every Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday night at 9pm – perfect to finish your dinner and catch the darkness and lights of Paris in summer months. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes with 6 mystery stories… 7 or 8 if the group is really vibing with our guide.
Come with us and be intrigued, spooked and mystified!
The Mysteries of Paris Ghost & Vampire Tour begins every evening at 9pm (21h) sharp, so please arrive 10-15 minutes early for checkin. We start at the statue of Charlemagne in front of Notre Dame. The tour lasts approximately 90 minutes and ends in Les Halles.
Master Storyteller
Impressario/Storyteller
Greetings all, From 2009 to 2015 we have been known as Mysteries of Paris: Ghost and Vampire Tour. We LOVE exploring “the Darkside of the City of Lights” and for 2016 onwards we will be known as DarkParis.com. We begin our legendary DARK PARIS Tour May 4th to and continue to October 29th 2016 with […]
When: Thursday November 13th 2014 7pm to 10pm Where: SetinParis.com Box Office 3 Rue Maître Albert, 75005 Paris, France. With great pleasure we are to announce the official book release party for Father Sebastiaan‘s new book “Mysteries of Paris: Darkside of the City of Lights.” To celebrate our Mysteries of Paris Kickstarter. This book exploration of […]
Greetings all, On April 26th 2014 I had the honor of being a guest on “The Travel Detective’s” Peter Greenberg’s show radio show broadcast from the Presidential Suite at the legendary Le Bristol Hotel in Paris. Among guests were Victoria Mather, travel editor for Vanity Fair and Paul Charles, former BBC presenter and aviation expert. Peter Greenberg is an Emmy award winning […]
Everyone has heard of the legendary hunchback of Nortre Dame and his love for the gypsy Esmerelda, and perhaps that’s why gypsies hang out in front of it, busking and pick-pocketing tourists. The story sounds like a fairy tale, however new research has unveiled what is possibly the real-life inspiration for the Hunchback found in […]
Today in Paris there is only 1 rat for every 3 people. This strange fact is said to come from a little known mystery called “rats, lovers and the well.” In the 1st Arrisedomont on the Corner of Rue Pierre Lescot and Rue St. Denis was a well known as Ariandne’s Well. The legend […]
Support the Mysteries of Paris Kickstarter today! The Knights Templar were knights who protected the pilgrims coming from the coast to Jerusalem during the Crusades. They became very wealthy and powerful, being both militarily strong with fortresses all over Europe, thus became very secure and one of their side businesses was banking. Thus making them […]
(Jardin des Tuileries, next to the Louvre) Catherine de Medicis, Queen of France during the 16th century, had a henchman, a butcher by trade who committed murders for the crown. His name was ”Jean l’écorcheur”, john the skinner. Rumours say that he knew way too many secrets about the royal family. So the queen decided […]
Do you know who is “the most kissed face” of all time? In the late 1880, the body of a young woman, around 16, was pulled out of the Seine River, near the Louvre Palace. No violence was noticeable on the corpse, so suicide was suspected. But the strange thing was that she looked peaceful, […]
The pyramid of the Louvre museum has fascinated millions of visitors since its construction in the 1980s. The most widespread rumours tell that it is made of 666 triangles of glass, 666 being the number of the beast in the book of revelations. Conspiracy theories have first surfaced in the year following its construction, following […]
See this post on our Kickstarter and become a Backer today! Like cats, this Cabaret has many lives! It opened for the first time on the 18th of November, 1881 at 84 Boulevard Rochechouart by Rodolphe Salis, a wine seller who was fond of poetry. Where the name does came from? The night when Salis […]
