Secret tunnels underneath a cemetery? The Nashville City Cemetery has them. After the Civil War strange things started happening in the City Cemetery, most of which centered ‘round the vault of a prominent judge in Middle Tennessee, Judge John McNairy. According to sextons and grave diggers, white shadowy figures were often spotted rising up out…
After the death of his wife, country music star Roy Acuff moved into a modest house next to the Opry House on the grounds of the Opryland theme park in 1983. Acuff was a beloved member of the Opry family and WSM wanted to make sure he was taken care of. Acuff thrived in the…
During the contentious 1828 Presidential election, Andrew Jackson’s wife Rachel became the target of a vicious smear campaign by John Quincy Adams and his allies. Before meeting Andrew Jackson, Rachel was married to Lewis Robards in Kentucky. When their marriage fell apart, Robards sent Rachel home to Nashville and filed for divorce. However, during this…
In early August 1829 Presbyterian minister and East Tennessee College professor Dr. Stephen Foster met with 24-year-old James White and 60-year-old Joshua Young in jail in Knoxville, Tennessee. Both men were convicted murderers and scheduled to be hanged. As a man of science and faith Dr. Foster had an eerie fascination with galvanism that stemmed…
In downtown Birmingham, Alabama you will find the old Central Library that is now the Linn-Henley Research Center. The building has been serving the people of Birmingham for nearly one hundred years. But, it’s also home to the spirit of a faculty member who has been known to make an appearance on occasion. Join us…
The Omni Parker House is one of the most historic hotels in Boston. It’s hosted every United States President since Ulysses S. Grant and was the meeting place for literary giants such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and other notable novelists, authors, and poets during the 1800s. But the hotel is…
After losing a son in the Civil War, grieving New York businessman Felix Baillet moved his wife and three daughters to Coffee County and settled in Tullahoma. The Baillets bought a lot on South Jackson where a school that was used as a Civil War hospital once stood. After building a two-story Italianate house, Felix’s…
The oldest building on the square in Gallatin, Tennessee at one time belonged to a local attorney named Andrew Jackson. Although Jackson moved on to battle the British in New Orleans several spirits from different time periods have decided to hang around and make their presence known from time to time. Join us as we…
In the early morning hours of January 17, 1985 excitement filled the East Tennessee State University campus in Johnson City as a huge snowstorm dumped several inches of snow on the ground. As several students bundled up and began having an impromptu snowball fight, they began to hear what sounded like a race car off…
The Sorrel Weed House is not only one of the most haunted places in the south, but one of the most haunted places in the country! Visitors to the house have experiences being pushed, bitten, and other strange occurances. The root of all the hauntings is thought to be the original owner of the house,…
