In 1929 the first ever Academy Awards were held at the Roosevelt Hotel鈥檚 Blossom Room in Hollywood, California. That night Wings won the award for best picture and Emil Jannings and Janey Gaynor took home the Oscar for Best Actor and Actresses. However, during the awards ceremony, someone was slighted and didn鈥檛 receive an award…
Built in the late 18th century, the building on North Maple in Murfreesboro is home to an unassuming bar called “Wall Street”. It鈥檚 believed that the 120 year old building is haunted by three spirits, an old man, a child and a woman. Those who work in the establishment have heard people whispering, children giggling…
Just outside of Mason, Tennessee you will find the Old Trinity Episcopal Church. The old church building was built by slaves in 1847 to replace a previous church that had burned down two years earlier. The 170 year old house of worship had long since been abandoned when a group of five juveniles ransacked the…
Long before the Paramount Center for the Performing Arts opened in downtown Bristol in 1931; the property had originally been home to the Thomas House Hotel in the late 19th century. In 1863 two local men, Colonel Prentice and Robert Droke got into a heated argument in the street in front of the hotel. Tempers…
At the intersection of Kingston Pike and South Peters Road in Knoxville, Tennessee you will find the historic Baker-Peter鈥檚 House. Built in 1830, the structure was home to a physician named Dr Harvey Baker. Dr. Baker sided with the Confederacy during the War Between the States and was rumored to have operated on injured soldiers….
In the mid-19th century a mysterious mute woman appeared in the small village of Manchester, Tennessee. The ragged, starving woman walked up and down the streets looking for coins to buy food. Having compassion on the poor girl, a prominent family took her to their home and cared for her. After a few days of…
Before Two Rivers Mansion heiress Mary Louise Bransford McGavock passed away in 1965, she made it clear that she wanted portions of her vast estate to be sets aside for schools, parks and other things that benefited the community. However, within a few years her land wound up becoming home to the Opryland theme park,…
After his parents became some of the first settlers in what would eventually become Davidson County, James Buchanan grew up and became a surveyor and a ferry operator in middle Tennessee. In 1807 he built a simple two story log cabin near the Mud Tavern settlement and married Lucinda East three years later. James and…
In the early 1880s eccentric entrepreneur Henry Morrison Flagler bought an orange grove and began construction on a resort in St. Augustine, Florida in 1885. Three years later Flagler’s dream was realized when the lavish 540-room Ponce De Leon Hotel finally opened. The Ponce De Leon was the place to be and was one of…
The City Cafe in Murfreesboro, Tennessee is said to be haunted by several spirits, one of which is a child who died after chasing a ball down the stairs and into the street many years ago. One day the owner was setting up for a birthday when she watched a balloon detach itself from a…
