Louisiana
Joseph Bentley’s Restless Hotel — Alexandria, LA
In Alexandria, Louisiana, where the heat settles heavily and the past seems to rise from the streets after dusk, the Hotel Bentley…
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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
Arkansas
LaDell Allen and the Christmas Suicide at the Allen House — Monticello, AR
In Monticello, Arkansas, there stands a house that seems to have learned how to keep its own counsel. It was built in…
Arkansas
The Bowie-Knife Ghost of the Old State House — Little Rock, AR
The Old State House stands in Little Rock with the gravity of a building that has listened too long. Before it became…
North Carolina
The Bare Circle Where the Devil Is Said to Pace — Bear Creek, NC
You can drive past the turnoff three times and still miss it, even if you’re looking. That’s the first thing they tell…
Louisiana
The Well-Widow of T’Frere’s House — Lafayette, LA
By daylight, T’Frere’s House looked harmless enough. It sat a little back from Verot School Road, where the traffic sighed past in…
Tennessee
The General Who Never Left the Garden — Greeneville, TN
There are houses that stand, and there are houses that wait. The Dickson-Williams Mansion in Greeneville, Tennessee, is one of the latter.…
Florida
Perfume and Footsteps in Cedar Key’s Old Island Hotel — Cedar Key, FL
On quiet nights in Cedar Key, the town seemed to fold itself up like a damp paper map. The tourists went first,…
Tennessee
The Lady in White Along the Holston — Kingsport, TN
On the quiet edge of Kingsport, where the Holston River bends like a dark arm around the low ground, Rotherwood Mansion stands…
Arkansas
The Actor Who Never Left the Footlights — Van Buren, AR
By day, the old King Opera House in Van Buren looked almost respectable. That was the trick of sunlight. It smoothed the…
Kentucky
The House That Would Not Empty — Murray Station, KY
You could miss Murray Station Homestead if you drove too fast, and most people did. That was part of its arrangement with…
Georgia
The Mourning Tunnel Beneath Candler Hospital — Savannah, GA
Savannah has always known how to keep a secret. It hangs its secrets from wrought-iron balconies and lets Spanish moss comb them…
North Carolina
The Phantom Whistle of the Catsburg Ghost Train — Durham, NC
There are places where the earth does not forget what men have done upon it. That is what old Mr. Harlan Pruitt…