The Business of Ghosts: Splintered Spirits Live with Tim Nealon, CEO of Ghost City Tours

Splintered Spirits sits down with Tim Nealon, the software engineer and entrepreneur who turned a “joke” ghost tour in Savannah into Ghost City Tours, one of the most recognizable brands in haunted tourism. This conversation starts out funny then dives into how Tim built a real world business around phenomena most people still consider unreal.

Across the episode, Tim talks candidly about his universe and his competitors. He breaks down why most ghost tour operators may be passionate, but not great business people (or even ethical ones), how ambition and drive helped him scale to hundreds of employees, and what changes when every guest thinks they are a paranormal expert thanks to TV and social media.

We also explore how years of investigations at famous haunted locations shifted his sense of what might happen after death and why he believes we have barely scratched the surface of how the paranormal interacts with us. If you care about ghosts, business, and the strange intersection of curiosity and capitalism, this is a sharp, funny look at what it means to build a haunted empire in the real world.