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’s 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…
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…
Considered to be one of the most famous honky tonks in downtown Nashville, the Wildhorse Saloon on Second Avenue is also incredibly haunted. The old warehouse was built in the 1870s after a fire destroyed a previous structure on the property that was used to house tobacco, corn and other goods that were moved along…
Known best as the South Jackson Civic Center in Tullahoma, the structure is actually pieced together by several buildings, including the city’s first public school that was built in the 1880s. The Civic Center serves its community with an auditorium, a museum and other facilities. Oh, did I forget to mention it’s also extremely haunted?…
The Fairvue Plantation in Gallatin is said to be haunted by a Union soldier who died in the building during the Civil War. Like most large homes, Fairview was occupied in the early 1860s when the Federal Army marched into Middle Tennessee after the fall of Forts Donelson and Henry. People who have been in…
