YMCA founder Franklin W. Smith came to St. Augustine with dreams of opening a lavish resort for all his snowbird friends up north. Unfortunately after he built the hotel he ran out of money and it was bought by Henry Flagler. And like Flagler’s other old hotel the Casa Monica is thought to be one…
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 early 1880s eccentric entrepreneur Henry Morrison Flagler bought an orange grove and began construction on a resort in St. Augustine, Florida in 1885. Three years later Flagler’s dream was realized when the lavish 540-room Ponce De Leon Hotel finally opened. The Ponce De Leon was the place to be and was one of…
The Ghosts of Gallatin Haunted Tour will be picking up where it left off last fall when they kick off their spring season on Friday, March 4th. Southern Ghost Stories series author Allen Sircy and local historian Eli Geery will lead guests to a dozen sites around the Gallatin Square. Whether it’s manifestations, murder, mayhem…
432 Abercorn is considered to be one of the most haunted places in Savannah, Georgia. Though once majestic and one of the nicest homes in town, the mid-19th Greek Revival structure has fallen on hard times and looks as haunted as it really is. A number of children have been rumored to die in the…
Henry Flagler saw an opportunity to turn St. Augustine into a tourist destination and built the opulent 540 room Ponce De Leon Hotel in 1888. The building has since been turned into Flagler College but that hasn’t stopped the spirits of a bygone era from making their presence known. From a creepy tile by the…
Is it a popular bookstore or one of the most haunted places in Franklin, Tennessee? Maybe it’s both! Long before the building was home to the bookstore the Factory Store Building was used as a gathering place for Andrew Johnson and his troops after the War of 1812. In 1864 the building was used as…
Kids in Louisville grow up hearing about the fabled Sauerkraut cave in E. P. Tom Sawyer Park. Ghost stories and creepy tales surround the the cave that was part of an old mental asylum. But is it really haunted by former mental patients who died while receiving primitive treatment from doctor’s who didn’t know how…
Laid out in 1789, St. Louis Cemetery #1 is one of the oldest and most historically significant cemeteries in New Orleans. With roughly 700 tombs and 100,000 people interned in walls and tombs sinking into the ground, the cemetery is a site to see. It’s also the final resting place of Voo Doo priestess Marie…
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…
