Cape May, New Jersey

Follow the Ghost Map to Victorian Cape May

Screecher Jones — ghost pirate of the Jersey Shore — leads ye on a GPS walking tour through 300 years of buried secrets, haunted mansions, sunken ships, and pirate gold.

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18Historic Stops$10One-Time UnlockVictorianGhost HistoryNoDownload Needed

How It Works

X Marks the Gingerbread

Cape May is a town ye walk. One square mile, 600+ Victorian buildings, five presidential ghosts, and a hundred yarns the tour buses won't tell ye. Open your browser, follow Screecher stoop to stoop, and let the haunting wash over ye.

Pick Your Starting Point

Start at Cape May Lighthouse for the full coastal yarn, or step off at Washington Street Mall for the Victorian quarter. Screecher narrates the whole route.

Follow Screecher's Ghost

GPS unlocks stops as ye walk. Three centuries of pirate raids, haunted mansions, presidential secrets, and rum runners — all hidden behind the gingerbread trim.

Earn Your Plunder

Complete the tour and ye claim a digital passport — a shareable badge proving ye walked the haunted mile and lived to post about it.

Screecher Jones

The Haunted Mile

One Square Mile of Victorian Secrets

Cape May Lighthouse — Lit on Halloween night 1859. The ghost on the stairs has been climbing ever since.

Congress Hall — Five presidents slept here. One ran the country from the back porch. A Confederate flag flew out front in 1861.

Emlen Physick Estate — Cape May's most haunted house. Three ghosts. One Victorian doctor who never wanted to be here.

SS Atlantus — A concrete ship. Half-swallowed by the sea since 1926. Still visible at low tide.

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Screecher Jones, pirate seagull mascot
"I've haunted these Victorian streets for three centuries, matey. I watched the Great Fire of 1878 burn forty acres to ash. I watched presidents come and go from Congress Hall. I watched the rum runners sneak ashore at midnight. The living only see the gingerbread houses. I'll show ye what's underneath."
— Captain Screecher Jones, GuidedPlunder
GPS Auto-AdvanceStops unlock as ye walk — no tapping required
Full Audio NarrationScreecher Jones voice — every stop, every story
18 Historic StopsLighthouse to Washington Street to Cape May Point
No Download RequiredOpen in any mobile browser — works instantly

Ready to Walk the Haunted Mile?

$10. One Unlock.
The History is Haunting.

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