Alabama

Auburn

First Presbyterian Church

Built in 1851, this is the oldest public building in Auburn. It is believed to be haunted by the ghost of a Confederate soldier. During the Civil War,
this church was used as a hospital. In 1864 a British fighter named Sydney Grimlett was injured during battle by shrapnel from a cannon. In
attempt to get rid of his gangrenous leg, the tried to amputate it, but he bled to death during the surgery. He then was buried in the chapel
cemetery not far from the chapel. There were not accounts of hauntings until the 1960's when a theater group named the Auburn Players took
over the chapel. No one knows why this group would of awakened the ghost of Sydney Grimlett, but this is the point from which his ghost
became known. His ghost was witnessed by several separate members of the theater group on separate occasions. This spurred interest on
finding out who he was so they contacted him through a Ouija board to find out is identity. Besides actually seeing Sydney himself there were
other ghostly manifestations such as making floating orb lights, moving props, whistling in the attic when no one was up there, and tapping his
foot. No witnesses have ever mentioned if his ghost has both of his legs or just the one.

Bladon Springs

Bladon Springs Cemetery and James T. Staples Riverboat

This case is both Staples's river boat and his children's graves. Some believe that the destruction of his beloved river boat was by the ghosts own
doing. This was one of the most elegant boats on the Alabama river's and it's maiden voyage was is 1908. It was named after the father of the
ship's designer and the captain himself. Unfortunately they lost their beloved ship in December 1912 because of the unfair practices by the larger
steamboat company in the area. Captain Staples was completely distraught and on January 2, 1913 he held a shotgun to his chest and pulled
the trigger taking his own life. Shortly after he was buried he shadowy figure began appearing to the crew members of his ship. Eventually all
these men quit and had to be replaced by men that had not heard of his ghost. Then there was a bad sign when all of the ships rats jumped ship
and swam to shore. On January 13, 1913 (the same hour that Staples had taken his own life) the ship docked at Powe's Landing to take on
cargo, and the ship then exploded killing the new captain and twenty-five crew members and passengers. Some people were able to escape the
explosion, the boat then drifted downstream and sank right near the shore of the Bladon Springs Cemetery where he had been buried.

Since there is no more boat for the captain to haunt he has been seen hovering over the graves of his children, James, Mabel, Bertha, and Norma.
His apparition seems to guard and protect the graves of his children. He has also been seen with his hands against his head like he is mourning
or regretting his decision to take his own life.

James Alfred Staples (Infant Son of Norman and Dora Staples), died Dec. 13, 1903. Mabel Clare Staples, born Aug 6, 1899, died July 6, 1900.
Bertha Jaquetta Staples born Mar 19, 1895, died Oct 8, 1900. Norma A. Staples born July 19, 1896, died Mar 14, 1973.

Carrollton

Pickens County Courthouse

This courthouse was burnt down on November 16, 1876, by an unknown individual. Everyone at the time blamed the fire on a rowdy man named
Henry Wells who was an outsider that lived on the outskirts of town. The sheriff arrested Henry and held him in a attic of a building that was going
to serve as the new courthouse. On February 1878 a lynch mob formed and Henry was looking down through a window at the angry mob of
people that had formed below. At this time a intense electrical storm was brewing and a flash of lightening hit the roof of the building taking a
snapshot of Well's face looking out the window burning it into the glass. Some people said that it didn't exactly look like Henry Well's but, it did
have all of this emotions present in the face he must have been feeling at the time including horror, pain, and sorrow. They have attempted many
times to remove this image, but no solvent or scrubbing have taken it off.

Henry Well's actually died from wounds he received from attempting to escape one evening. Every pane in this old building has been destroyed
because of storms etc., all but this one pane of glass with his picture. Some incorrect versions of this story he dies by being struck by the
lightening which burned his picture into the glass. This does make a more dramatic story, but is not the truth.

Claiborne

McConnico Cemetery

At this old cemetery, twelve Union horsemen phantoms have been seen riding. The first sighting was in the autumn of 1865 by Captain and Mrs.
Charles Locklin. They were traveling by carriage one morning by the cemetery when the soldiers, 2 rows of six, on gray horses passed on each
side of their carriage. They noticed that each horseman wore white gloves and a white bandage wrap around their heads. The couple was certain
that they had seen the victims of the Confederate soldier Lafayette Seigler. He was known to ambush Northern Patriots, kill them, and then cut off
their ears (explaining the white head bandages). Supposedly he had a large collection of ears from Yankee victims.

Decatur

Highway 11

This is where the ghost of a young man named Lonnie Stephens is trying to flag down a ride. He was falsely accused of the murder of his
girlfriend in the September of 1934. He was eventually proven innocent when the real killer surfaced, but at this point it was already to late for him.
He had managed to escape from his working chain gang and was trying to flag down a car to give him a ride to escape, when he was killed by a
passing motorist. He can still be seen occasionally trying to flag down a car, and he is usually in the middle of the road frantically waving his
arms trying to get vehicles to stop. Strange enough many people still run him over to this day, but he just seems to go through their car, and
when they stop of course no body can be found.

Demopolis

Gaineswood

This mansion was built in 1842 by General Nathan Whitfield, but there is a ghost that still haunts this beautiful home. She is believed to be
Evelyn Carter, sister of Nathan Whitfield's second wife. Evelyn lived in their home, but eventually died of an unknown disease during the middle of
the winter. During this time it was a common practice to keep the dead in the basement until the ground was thawed in early spring, which is
what they did with Evelyn. They stored her in a pine box under the cellar stairs, until the ground thawed. This is what they believe upset her spirit
because the haunting began when they placed her under the stairs. Her manifestations include soft footsteps through the hallways, and her voice
could her heard echoing from the basement singing her favorite song. She is mostly "felt" rather than heard in this home today which still has a
feeling of an overwhelming presence in the cellar.

Hickory Hills

Hunterwood Dr. House

This home was only built 28 years ago in 1976. There is no known reason for this house to be haunted. This house is a brick house that is filled
with unexplainable sounds, movements, and a figure. In this home the doors lock and unlock right before peoples eyes, drawers would close and
open, and footsteps in the hallways when no one else is home. This phantom also has taken form of the family members that were in the home.
They dubbed the ghost "Helen" after it's former owner even though they weren't sure it was her.

Huntsville

Athens State College

Athens State College was founded in 1822. There are a couple different hauntings in this college but the most famous is a blond woman who
appears in a third story window of McCandless Hall. Many people believe it is the ghost of Abigail Lylia Burns who was an operatic soprano, but
she never was at the college between the years 1908-1922 which is during the time that the haunting started, so the ghosts real identity is still
not known. When she is seem, she is always wearing a formal white gown.

Another ghost in this college is Madam Childs, whose identity has been somehow confirmed. She was a proctor in one of the woman's dorms.

Mentone

De Soto Falls

At this site is the ghosts of an elderly woman named Nancy Dollar, and her dog which can be seen walking around the woods by the waterfall or
the ruins of her old cabin. She died in 1931 when she was 108 years old, and when she died her friends put her old dog Buster asleep and buried
him as well. Right after her death is when people broke into her house and stole her money she had been saving for her funeral and her
gravestone. Because of the thieves she never had a gravestone placed over her grave, and this is why many people think she could not rest. She
was being seen so often people decided to take up a collection in 1973 and had a marker put over her grave. This seemed to satisfy the ghost of
Nancy but it has not satisfied the ghost of Buster because he is still seen in the area.

Mobile

Boyington Oak

Charles Boyington was hanged for the murder of his friend, Nathaniel Frost on February 20,1835. These two friends used to relax in the Church
Street Graveyard. Then one day Nathaniel Frost was found stabbed to death, and everyone in town assumed that they had an argument and
Charles killed him. Boyington, and innocent man kept proclaiming his innocence. On his way to the gallows he said that a great oak tree would
grow from his grave to prove his innocence. Within a few months of his burial, a small oak tree started to grow on his grave, and the tree is still
there to this day. Other than this strange "coincidence" of the oak tree growing where he said it would, people have heard the cries of a man
proclaiming his innocence in the breeze.

Newton

Choctawhatchee River Bridge

At the shore of this river is a shallow hole which is haunted. Locals say that if the whole is filled with dirt, by morning the hole will be dug again.
Once highway workers completely filled the hole and pitched their tent on top of it, and by next morning the hole was completely dug out. The
ghost is thought to be Bill Sketoe, a former pastor of the Methodist Church who was hung on December 3rd, 1864 from an old tree that once
stood at that spot. He was accused of being a traitor to the Confederacy, but he claimed to be innocent. A lynch mob hung him from the tree at
that spot but it wasn't strong enough to hang hill and it bent enough for his feet to touch the ground. The lynch mob quickly dug a hole beneath
his feet so he would hang, and he was slowly strangled to death. After he was killed he was eventually found to be innocent, but was obviously to
late. The six men that hung him started telling stories of how they were seeing the ghost of the innocent pastor that they had killed, and they all
eventually died violent deaths.

Tippens Eddy

Burnt Corn Creek Bridge

People in this area say that if you look into the black waters of the Burnt Corn Creek on a dark still night you can see a greenish glow. From this
glow a form then emerges from the water and then disappears into the brush on the banks. In this area parents are known to tell their children to
not go to close to the water because if they fall in they might never come up. There have been a number of strange stories coming from this
haunting. One was in the 1960's where a couple was arguing and the girl got out of the car and started to walk across the bridge. The boy
reached to grab for her, and because there was no guardrails on the bridge at the time, she fell into the water and was never found again.

A couple weeks after that story another couple was standing on the bridge when they looked into the water below and they saw the strange glow
in the water. As they stared at the glow, it took form of the girl that was lost in the river and she struggled her way out of the water and onto the
bank of the river. Some believe the girl was probably trying to get home.

The bridge is no longer there, but that doesn't stop people from voyaging to the area to find the ghost. Although it is not seen often, there is
always a cool breeze even on the hottest days and fish are never caught is this area of the river.

Tuscaloosa

Drish Mansion

This ghost is the original owner, Sarah Drish, of the mansion that still does not want to leave. She keeps returning to the tower room to light
candles, which makes the tower look like it is on fire. This home was constructed in 1830. After Dr. Drish died, his wife lit dozens of candles
while he laid their in his coffin. When she was done using the candles for her husband, she asked that they be used again at her own funeral. Her
later years in life she became obsessed with this candle ritual, and pleaded with her friends and neighbors to make sure they put the candles
around her coffin. When she died, her relatives were to busy and did not look for the candles or perform the ritual she asked for. Within months
after her death, fiery lights started appearing in the tower. There were many reports called in to the fire department because people thought it
looked like a fire had started in the tower. Sarah's ghost has also been seen materialized in the downstairs parlor, so the residents of the home
are almost positive that she is the culprit causing the lit candles.