Tennessee Ghost Stories: Williamson County Courthouse

Tennessee Ghost Stories: Williamson County Courthouse

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…

Southern Ghost Stories: Franklin, Tennessee Available Now!

Southern Ghost Stories: Franklin, Tennessee Available Now!

On November 30th 1864, Confederate General John Bell Hood’s mighty Army of Tennessee marched down Winstead Hill to launch a full frontal assault on Federal Forces entrenched at the Carter House, a half mile from the Franklin Square. The subsequent bloody battle overwhelmed the town, leaving thousands of abandoned dead soldiers to bury, and even…