Louisiana
Toni Jo Henry, the Perfumed Ghost of the Calcasieu Courthouse — Lake Charles, LA
In Lake Charles, Louisiana, the old Calcasieu Parish Courthouse stands with the kind of gravity that public buildings acquire only after decades…
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Southern Ghost Stories
The Southern States are south of the Midwestern States and the Middle Atlantic States. There are fourteen Southern States. They are West Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, Kentucky, Virginia, Arkansas, Tennessee, North Carolina, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and South Carolina.
Stories from Southern Ghost Stories
South Carolina
Julia Legare and the Mausoleum Door That Will Not Stay Shut — Edisto Island, SC
There are places where history lies quietly, and there are places where it does not lie quietly at all. The old churchyard…
Florida
The Burning Bride of Bellamy Bridge — Marianna, FL
There are places in the Florida Panhandle where the land seems less like land than a memory of water. Near Marianna, where…
Alabama
Top 10 Most Haunted Places in Alabama: Where the Dead Still Walk Beneath the Southern Moon
Alabama does not shout its hauntings. It lets them breathe. They rise from red clay after rain, from river fog curling over…
North Carolina
The Phantom Crew of the Battleship North Carolina — Wilmington, NC
By day, the battleship lay in the Cape Fear River like a gray mountain that had forgotten how to sink. Tourists came…
Georgia
The Restless Former Resident of Atlanta’s Beverly Hills Inn — Atlanta, GA
By daylight, the Beverly Hills Inn looked like the sort of place that had learned to keep its secrets polished. It stood…
Arkansas
The Wolf-Bounty Killing at Arkansas’s Old State House — Little Rock, AR
The Old State House stands in Little Rock with the grave composure of a building that has listened too long. Its walls…
Mississippi
The Bride of Annandale at the Chapel of the Cross — Madison, MS
Near Madison, where the land once belonged to the Johnstone family’s Annandale plantation, the Chapel of the Cross stands with the graveyard…
Georgia
The Mill Women of Sweetwater Creek — Lithia Springs, GA
At Sweetwater Creek State Park, the forest does not so much surround the ruins as reclaim them, patient root by patient root.…
Kentucky
Rafinesque’s Curse at Old Morrison — Lexington, KY
On the campus of Transylvania University in Lexington, Kentucky, Old Morrison stands with the grave composure of a monument that has learned…
Kentucky
The Gray Lady of Liberty Hall — Frankfort, KY
In Frankfort, Kentucky, where history seems not merely preserved but absorbed into brick, wood, and winter air, Liberty Hall stands with the…
Tennessee
General Sanders at the Bijou Theatre — Knoxville, TN
Before the Bijou Theatre became a place of footlights, curtains, music, and applause, there was the Lamar House. It stood older than…