Madame Morbid’s ghost trolley tours return for the spooky season

Madame Morbid’s ghost tours are returning to Brooklyn for the spooky season.

Photo courtesy of Matt Zaller

With fall just around the corner, one of Brooklyn’s premiere ghost tours is returning to haunt visitors for another season. 

Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours allow guests to immerse themselves in the macabre history of the borough all while riding in a refurbished Victorian-style trolley car. 

The trolley travels around famous neighborhoods within Brooklyn while Madame Morbid herself explains the ghostly lore of each location. The tours kicked off for the 2023 season on Aug. 25, and will run Wednesdays-Sundays through November. 

The idea for Madame Morbid’s Trolley Tours came when co-founders Matt Zaller and Alison Chase realized that despite Brooklyn’s long and deadly history, there weren’t any ghost tours in the borough. 

“The initial thought was like, Brooklyn needs a ghost tour,” Zaller told Brooklyn Paper. “You know, Manhattan has lots of ghost tours, but also Brooklyn needs a tour in general because there are so few Brooklyn tours and it’s so spread out and the history is just so disparate in terms of geographical range for people who may want to come do a single tour in Brooklyn to get the gist of the history.”

The co-founders got inspired to replicate their own experiences with spooky historical tours and traveled across the country visiting the best ones in order to hone in on the particular creepy vibe they wanted to emulate. 

“We were hanging out one day and started talking, and [Chase] was telling me about it and I was like ‘This is absolutely a good idea and let’s do it, let’s do it together,’” Zaller said. “We went to Charleston and Savannah and Key West and Boston and hit every ghost trolley tour.”

The trolley itself was purchased by the pair, and while it is a modern vehicle, has been completely tricked out to help visitors really get a feel for the Victorian age, with specially…