While the entire Opryland Hotel complex is said to be incredibly haunted, one of the most eeriest parts of the hotel is the Grand Nashville Lobby due to the murals of Nashville that adorn the walls. 99 characters ranging from children to adults were hand-painted by a local artist onto the walls of the lobby,…
The Arcade in downtown Nashville is said to be haunted by a former maintenance man known to locals as “Arcade Roy”. Roy worked in the Arcade for the most of his adult life and even had an apartment in the dark and musty basement below the 100+ year old shopping center. As he got older…
According to legend the old Maddox House in Huntingdon, Tennessee is said to be haunted by the spirit of man named “Big Red” who was friends with a servant in the house in the early 20th century. Big Red showed up at the stately mansion drunk one night and was ushered away before the lady…
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….
At the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, students that live at Tuckaway Hall tell strange stories about hearing footsteps and shuffling feet in their dorm rooms late at night. Doors have also been known to randomly get stuck and refuse to open. Sometimes they open on their own and violently slam shut in…
Tucked away in the Caraway Hills of Gibson County, Tennessee, people have claimed to see bright lights and other strange anomalies late at nigh. In 1973 two local high school students told a newspaper reporter that they saw what appeared to be a “small sun low on the horizon” before they got spooked and ran…
During World War 2 James Truman Ward bought 400 acres off of Old Hickory Boulevard in Brentwood, Tennessee, just outside of Nashville. He built a lavish mansion and named his property Maryland Farms, after his wife Mary. Over time Truman turned the property into one of the largest Saddle horse breeding farms in the country….
Hidden away in the woods between the Smyrna airport and Percy Priest Lake in Smyrna, Tennessee is the Cannon Cemetery. The long-forgotten burying ground was established in the early 19th century but no one has been interned there for over 70 years. In the 1960s, when the J. Percy Priest damn was built, 88 graves…
When the War Between the States began, a young man named Dewitt Smith Jobe followed the example of his cousins, Sam Davis and Dee Smith, by enlisting in Company D of the Tennessee Infantry. After three years of fighting, Jobe was selected to become a Coleman scout. The new position was seen as a promotion,…
Hidden away behind the Gallatin Square is an old home that was built in 1865. Today the structure is used as an apartment building. While people who live in the building claim to hear unexplainable strange noises from time to time, that’s not even the oddest thing about the house. Around back, underneath a staircase…
