Founder: Tom Oberon
In 2025, Tom Chaudoin founded a Nashville tour company built on a simple but unconventional idea: that a city tour should feel less like a lecture and more like a performance.
Tom started doing haunted tours in downtown Wilmington NC in 2010, then began tours in the now infamous Cape Fear Serpentarium. Later Tom would deliver both haunts and history in Cincinnati OH and Newport KY. In 2021 Tom set his sights on Nashville, and has been doing tours here ever since. A native of KY, Tom has been coming here since he was a boy, and living here for a decade of his adult life.
With a background shaped by storytelling, cultural observation, and a deep fascination with how place and memory intersect, Tom approached Nashville not as a destination to be explained, but as a stage to be revealed. Like the stages of the Ryman, the Bridgestone, or the Municipal Auditorium, the city is itself its own stage. The city’s streets, venues, and overlooked corners became narrative set pieces—each holding its own tension, history, and character.
Rather than relying on traditional tour formats, he designed experiences with theatrical structure in mind: pacing, reveal, contrast, and emotional arc. Guests are not simply guided through Nashville—they are carried through it, scene by scene, as the city’s history unfolds in real time.
Under his direction, the company developed a distinctive style that blends historical truth with narrative performance. Guides function less like lecturers and more like performers and interpreters of place, shaping each tour into a living story that shifts with tone, setting, and audience energy.
What began in 2025 as a small experiment in immersive storytelling has evolved into a signature approach to touring Nashville—one where the line between history and performance is intentionally blurred.
At its core, the philosophy remains unchanged:
Nashville is not just a place to observe. It is a story to be staged.