The spirit of the President of the Confederacy, Jefferson Davis is said to still reside in his old home, Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi. A few years ago a visitor marched into the gift shop to file a complaint against a very rude re-enactor portraying Jefferson Davis. According to the lady, as she was walking across…
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…
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…
Allen did an interview in October to promote Southern Ghost Stories: Franklin, Tennessee. During the conversation Allen talks about his inspiration for writing the book as well as a few stories from the project. If you’d like to purchase the book it is available at the Lots House and Landmark Booksellers in Franklin. You can…
Built in phases from 1830 to 1855, the Hunt-Phelan House is one of the oldest mansions in Memphis, Tennessee. The historic house on the corner of Beale Street and S. Lauderdale Street was used as headquarters for the Confederacy during the Civil War until it was taken by the Federal Army after the fall of…
Allen was featured on WKRN in Nashville, Tennessee to talk about Southern Ghost Stories: Opryland and the hauntings around the Opryland Hotel as well as the old theme park and Opry Mills.
