A small office building on the Gallatin Public Square is said to be one of the most haunted places in middle Tennessee. Originally the building was a small stable that was bricked up and turned into a blacksmith shop. Over time it was rebuilt a few times and at one point was home to future…
In 1923 ghost fever swept through Knoxville when a local man named John Stiles began experiencing strange activity while he was in bed overnight in his home on the corner of McKee and East Cumberland. The spirit first got Stiles attention shortly after he moved in by shaking him while he was trying to sleep….
After vanquishing the British from New Orleans in the War of 1812, Andrew Jackson returned home to middle Tennessee seeking a new challenge. During this time word quickly spread about the stories of the Bell Witch in Adams, Tennessee. “Old Hickory” wasn’t afraid and decided to go visit his old friend and see if the…
After making a fortune shipping tobacco in and out of Clarksville in the mid-19th century, Christopher Smith built an opulent mansion on the corner of Spring and McClure Streets in 1858. Sadly, in 1865 while away on business in New Orleans, Christopher came down with yellow fever and died. After learning of her husband’s passing,…
In 1948, the East Tennessee Historical Society came under fire after they allowed the Brazelton Mansion in New Market, Tennessee to be torn down. The house had originally belonged to American Revolutionary War hero William Brazelton and had stood in the same spot for 118 years. Yet, it was believed that the new highway was…
After the Civil War, a doctor and his wife moved into an old abandoned stone house on Woods Hill in Mountain City, Tennessee. Shortly after getting settled in, the couple began hearing three knocks on the front door late at night followed by a cold breeze and the sound of footsteps walking through the house….
Tucked away in a gift shop on Music Valley Drive in Nashville, is an old bus that at one time belonged to country music legend Ernest Tubb. According to legend, when Tubb wasn’t on the road and had a hard time sleeping, he would go outside and climb into the bus and go to sleep….
On December 1862 Nathan Bedford Forrest and cavalry took Union forces by surprise in Trenton, Tennessee and claimed the city for the Confederacy. But the victory came at a cost. Forrest lost ten of his men in the skirmish and they were each buried in Oakland Cemetery. However, according to legend, underneath the ten headstones…
In a quiet and secluded spot of Hawkins County in East Tennessee, there is a spirit of a white horse that is said to be roaming through the area. According to legend, the horse belonged to a soldier who was killed in a skirmish during The War Between the States. After the fighting stopped, the…
While working on my book Southern Ghost Stories: Franklin, Tennessee I got to walk around the historic Williamson County Courthouse in downtown Franklin with a Sheriff’s deputy. The deputy told me some pretty crazy tales about the spirits that supposedly haunt the old courthouse, but nothing tops the story about the prisoner who disrupted court…
