In
Tennessee
Adams - John Bell Farm - The Bell
Witch is the horrible spirit caused much trouble and may have killed
John.
Alcoa - The Old Stone
House - It is said haunted by an old man who
built on the house for over 45yrs. He and his wife believed that as
long as they kept on working on the stone house that they would never
die. His wife died first and he just said that she lost her faith. He
died about 20 yrs later but you can still see candlelight and hear him
building on the house even during the day.
Antioch - Henry –Loroe
Lane - One an old lady was killed by a coyote in
the woods across the street from Loroe Lane. As the most realistic
story yet she will come and watch you sleep at night if you live on
Loroe Lane. She follows young kids around after dark She is known as
the Antioch Deathkiller.
Arney Hill Cemetery - Granny
February - a local legend, is said to
buried there. If you go to her grave at midnight on Halloween, it is
said you will hear her rocking in her rocking chair.
Athens - Wesleyan College
- is haunted as students have reported hearing
strange voices and seeing dark figures moving near the spot where two
trees grew side by side for 165 years. Believed to be a spot where two
star-crossed lovers were buried.
Atoka - Bethel Assembly of
God Church - The church has a large and fairly
old cemetery (est. in the 1850's) on its grounds, these grounds are
said to house a very unfriendly spirit. The spirit is said to have a
dog like head, lion sized body with the coarse mane like hair, and deep
red eyes. I have been told of two incidents when it was sighted and
chased people out of the cemetery. On one occasion as the people
cleared the fence to get away it hit the fence so hard that it shook,
but it did not pursue them after they had left.
Bellwood Mansion - A
deserted run down mansion, located in the middle of the woods. Supposed
to be a haven for ghosts, paranormal activity, and witchcraft. Located
in Dover Tennessee, near the Cumberland River
Big Sandy - Big Sandy Rail
road Junction - A conductor fell off of a train,
and His head was tore off by the train wheels and He searches on foggy
nights and on the death date for his head with a single light that if
you walk toward it, It'll stay right there , But you feel nothing at
all!
Blountville - Sullivan
County News - A ghost called "George" haunts this
building.
Bolivar - Parran House - the ghost in a rocking chair can be seen on the front
porch.
Bristol - Arnett Home - Disturbed by some kind of disgruntled spirit. Loud,
very clear sounds of someone walking around are heard in both the day
and the night. The house is said to have a very unnatural influence on
many people. There have been reported sounds of guns being fired in the
backyard, but no one being present. Also very faint whispers have been
heard when being alone in the house.
Bristol - Sullivan East
High school - A long time ago back in the 80's a
young girl hid from the teachers in the janitors closet. The janitor
raped and murdered her. He put her in the cafeteria salad bar. Now to
this day everyday the lunch ladies fix salads they can hear that girl
screaming for help in a low deep voice.
Bristol - Weaver Cemetery
- High EMF readings, vortexes, and feelings of
wooziness, and being followed.
Briceville - Train
Trussel Bridge - Lower End of Briceville - The
KKK used to be active in this town, and they hung a black man off this
bridge named Drummond. It is said every night at midnight he walks from
one end of the bridge to the other. He then disappears and you can hear
the rope swinging. The dare was to at midnight, walk across the bridge
and back.
Caryville - Red Ash
Cemetery - There is a good 10 mile stretch in
which several paranormal sightings have occurred. Witnesses
report a red half human, half goat figure that was nearly 8 feet tall
with a pentagram in it's forehead. As they sped away, they had to cross
a set of railroad tracks. Directly in front of them, there was a
strange blue light that was hovering over the railroad tracks. It was
about 10 feet wide.
Caryville - Red Ash Coal
Towers - saw an apparition of a man who had
fallen off of them some 50 years ago, also in the office of the depot,
reports of furniture moving itself and felt a presence of someone else
in the room. Even reports of a train coming, when the railroad tracks
have been defunct for nearly 50 years.
Chapel Hill - Chapel Hill
Light - There is a railroad crossing where many
people have reported a strange, unexplainable light on the tracks.
Supposedly a railroad worker was killed, becoming decapitated, many
years ago. The light is said to be him swinging a lantern looking for
his head. Police don't allow people to park around the tracks anymore
though, you will need permission to visit.
Chattanooga - Greenwood
Cemetery - Long ago at a lake across from the
cemetery, a wealthy family lived in a large house. The wife was
stricken with an illness and had to be put in a wheelchair. Her husband
fell in love with another woman and pushed his wife into the lake
killing her. Some nights she can be seen as a green mist hovering above
the ground and there will be wheelchair tracks on the ground.
Chattanooga - Read House -
room 311 - June 2008 - Removed. It was built in
the 20th century.
Chinqapin - Bristol -
Haunted Hollow - a small road which
glides to a dead end can sometimes mess with time and space
coordination while a strange feeling of being watched hovers around.
Churchill - Fields - There have been numbers of reports of seeing impish
like creatures best described as cows wondering the fields of church
hill late on Halloween night. Most spotters describe the beast as red
eyed /possessed look.
Clarksburg - Palestine
Church - This is an old abandoned church that is
surrounded by a cemetery. You can still go inside the church, it is not
locked. If you go inside at night, you can see a person sitting on the
piano stool, and hear them begin to play the very LOW notes on the
piano. Also, you can see someone standing in the corner wearing a black
cloak, and covering his or her face. You can hear the wood floor
creaking as if someone is walking toward you, if you have the courage
to STAY that long. As you start to leave you can hear the sounds of
"things" running through the woods, leaves rustling, sticks breaking,
etc. And you have the feeling of being "watched" the whole time you are
there.
Clarksville - Amanda Dr.- October 2003 Udate: The building has been torn down - Its an abandoned building in a neighborhood built in
the early 1800s. In this building you can hear moaning and groaning
going on. You will hear a woman sounding like she is in pleasure. This
happens at 11:00pm-12:00am every other day. Sometimes you can see a
visual perspective of a young woman. I advise not to go but go at your
own risk.
Clarksville - Austin Peay
State University - This is in relation to the
haunting of the school's Trahern theatre. last year(2002) in a
production the theatre department was producing. One afternoon, a
perfectly clear afternoon, with no rain, the cast was on stage
rehearsing, suddenly the lights dimmed on and off three times at
differing periods of length, no more than a few seconds each time. it
was clear, there was no reason for the electricity to go out, and no
one was in the lighting booth, the lights simply seemed to go out on
there own. We all joked it was the ghost, trying to get us to leave her
alone.
Clarksville - Austin Peay
State University - Trahern Theater - The
Third floor and stage are apparently haunted by a ghost of a young
woman students call "Margaret". Messing with elevators, locking doors,
banging lockers, and calling the unfortunate night owl's name.
Clarksville - Gateway
Hospital - A ghost was seen walking past an
opened door into a hallway on the first floor of Gateway Hospital.
There were no legs below thigh level.
Clarksville - Palmyra -
Headless Statues - : There is a ghost by the
name of E.T. Wickham who haunts the grounds at and around the headless
statues. Strange noises and such have been heard near the cabin he used
to live in across the street. The cabin still stands but is in ruin.
The statues are all still standing but are in desperate need of repair.
- March 2007 update: The Statues are no longer
there. They have been removed by relatives and family of Wickham.
Clarksville - Reasthaven
cemetery - there's a house back behind the
actual cemetery that is said to have been the house of a slave owner.
As the story goes one of the slaves impregnated the slave owner's
daughter by forms of rape. The slave owner killed the slave. It is said
that the slave still haunts the house and neighboring cemetery looking
for his unborn child. I've been there myself and me and some other
people were walking up to the house and light bluish/greenish light
crept up the house. so of course we fled to where we were parked on the
outside road. we got in the car and as we pulled off a wind of gravel
hit the back window. the weird thing was we were on a paved road with
no gravel in sight.
Clarksville - Smith
Trahern Mansion - The ghost of Mrs. Smith is
said to be seen on the widow's walk on moonlit nights. The house
overlooks the Cumberland River where her husband was a Riverboat
Captain. In life, she sat on the balcony overlooking the river waiting
for him to come home. He died in an accident on the river, and never
returned to her. She still stands in vigil, waiting for her husband to
come home.
Cleveland - Greens Cavern
- On October 30th a tall shadowy figure is said
to be seen roaming through the open field carrying a sickle. at 12:00
midnight he returns to the cavern if you pass by him your soul will
stay with him in his cavern. it’s mystery why he's there.
Clifton - Field behind the
Public Library - There is a field behind the
Public Library that if you go to between 8:00pm and 5:00am then you can
sometimes see a white figure of a man moving around the field.
They say that the white figure is a man by the name of Rosco Young
Blood who buried his money in the field back in the 1950's and still
roams the field trying to find his money that he buried there.
Collinwood - Park in the
center of town - Many of the old folks in
Collinwood tell of a tree in the park where slaves were hanged
during the slave days. They say that if you walk through the park on
stormy nights that all of the trees will be moving from the wind
blowing through the branches and leaves- except one.
Columbia - Bear Creek
Church - no known denomination. It has two
stories, but only the first is accessible. The windows are painted
blood red, even on the 2nd floor. Now abandoned, the place is still
heavily guarded by pure evil, evident through spectral photos.
Columbia - The abandon
cemetery - The cemetery is over 100 years old
and its deep in the woods. Sometimes when you walk past the cemetery
you can hear children playing or you can hear someone getting murdered.
Cookville - Old Dirt Road
- A young woman who had an accident on an old
dirt road by a huge rock in Cookville late at night back in the 1950's
has been seen by passers at midnight on the anniversary of her death.
She was seen sitting on the rock wearing white.
Cordova - Old Town
Cemetery - The cemetery is very old due to the
graves dating back to the early 1800's. Flashing lights can be seen
from the trees at night when no source of light is even visible. And at
a certain grave whose name is "Susan" reveals the shadow of a face and
orbs when photographed.
Cowan - Ciwan Cemetery - At night you can see the tombstones shine and people
sometimes report seeing people standing be side them.
Cragfont - Castalian
Springs - Now toured during the day, at night
witnesses have seen candles burning inside, heard loud screams,
breathing and the feeling of being followed.
Cragfont - The Winchester
house - built from 1798 and completed 1802.
General James Winchester was a hero of the revolution, a Tennessee
pioneer, and one of the founders of Memphis, Tennessee. Cragfont has
reopened for the season. I can attest to strong energy levels in the
master bedroom and the nursery, as well as a few other areas of the
house. Be sure to stop by on a Sunday and ask Joanne for the "ghost
tour."
Crossville - Mile Marker
Ten - it has been said that if one puts their
vehicle in neutral when you get to the hill your vehicle will be pushed
up it. When you get out their will be handprints on the back of the
vehicle. The reason is because a bus broke down with a load of
kids and a semi came over the hill and hit them killing them all. The
reason you are pushed over the hill is to get you out of the way of on
coming traffic.
Dandridge - Tennessee
Mountain Inn - Dandridge - The spirit of a
little girl can be seen walking the balcony at night. She has appeared
on several occasions and one lucky person caught her on film! A gentle
spirit, not malevolent at all.
Decherd - North Junior
High School - There is the spirit of a girl who
haunts the school. She will call out to you, calling out your name in a
pleading voice, asking for help. But when you turn to see where the
voice is, there will not be anyone there. Her voice is normally heard
in the afternoon and early evening.
Dover - Fort Donnellson
National Battlefield - Said to be dead soldiers
walking at night. Gun shots fired throughout the night.
Dover - Fort Donelson
National Battlefield - Cemetery - haunted
by the ghost of Civil War infantryman Reuben Hammond, who is buried
there. Reuben believes his job is to stand watch and make sure his dead
comrades are safe. He's also very lonely and sad because no one talks
to him. Even if you can't see him, just a simple greeting makes his day
(or eternity, as it were). He'll follow you around for a while because
he is just so glad of your company, and will wave from the top of the
cemetery as you leave. His name is listed in the records at the
Surrender House. We knew of him because he called out his name as we
pulled up to park the car.
Dover - The Surrender
House - The Surrender House in Dover, Tennessee
which is part of Fort Donelson National Battlefield Park is haunted. A
volunteer at site experienced some pretty odd things. A ghostly
presence of a Federal Officer.
Dover - The Crow Home - Rumors has it that this theater located in the middle
of the city is haunted by a man. The theater was once some kind of army
hospital way back when. It gained publicity by local radio
station...Voices and even sightings have been heard there. Right next
to the Fort Donnellson National Cemetery, just below the fort, this
house was used as a hospital after the battle! Now a posh bed &
breakfast! you can hear doors open by themselves, & soft voices
crying throughout the home!
Dry Hollow - Crazy
George's Bridge - It is said that an old
railroad worker was working on night under the bridge and he slipped
and fell and got knocked out with his head on the tracks and the train
decapitated him. If you go there on a rainy, stormy night you can see
him walking with a lantern looking for his head.
Dyersburg - Dyersburg
Middle School - in 1977 two teachers were
murdered in the gym of the school. These two people had been having an
affair and the wife found out and shot them. She was sent to an insane
asylum where she died a few years later. The ghosts of these two
teachers haunt the gym. - October 2004 update:
Dyersburg Middle School's Gym has been torn down.They have built a new
school, and the remains of the old school is still standing and is the
Dyersburg City School Systems office.
Elizabethton - Gwendolyn’s
house - short and sweet. not really sure what
went on in this early 1900's house right off of Bristol highway.
Witnesses say there is heavy activity in a house not surrounded by any
living occupants. Ghost dogs, what appeared to be a little girl, and a
ghost that told us to leave before she disappeared is just the tip of
the iceberg.
Elizabethton - The Steel
Bridge - A long time ago a young man and woman
were under the steel bridge on a date. The two were robbed! The girl
was stabbed and died immediately. The boy was stabbed and ran from
robber. He stopped a car on the bridge and jumpe dinto the back seat.
Now every year on Halloween night at midnight you can drive onto the
bridge and stop in the middle and someone will get into your back seat!
You can see the impression of there weight on the seat. You can even
try it with your doors locked and he will stilll get in!!
Elkton - Hanniwal Bridge -
An abandoned 19th century bridge standing
approximately 100 feet over the Elk river. Supposedly a mother and her
infant child were crossing the bridge one night in their carriage, when
suddenly the carriage wheel broke, flipping the carriage over into the
river, killing the both of them. Local residents claim that if you go
to the bridge late at night, you can hear the faint cries of the baby
and the horrid screams of the terrified mother.
Eagleville / Rockvale - Dyer
Cemetery - in the 1800s there was three women
that was condemned has witches and buried there. u can see lights, hear
voices, occasionally be touched or grabbed at and when u turn around
there is nothing there. there has been reports of spirits or ghosts and
hands that felt like broom straw scratching people on face and arms
under the cedar tree at the main gate. there has been red balls of fire
as big as soft balls seen in the center of the cemetery at the foot of
cedar trees and they will go up the tree and go out. u can always go
there and u will always hear voices or see lights if not more. some of
the younger dyers have reported seeing full body apparitions (ghost) in
the rear of the cemetery. more spirits and voices have been seen and
heard during the months of spring and fall.
Englewood - Central High -
One night at a central football game, a little
girl was walking around the track with her friends. She was scared of
many things so constantly she would turn her head and make sure
everything was all right. Once, she turned her head and she saw that a
group of gothic people were looking at her from the corner of the track
and she saw that one of the gothic people were pointing at her as if
they were going to kill her. Now if you go to the track at night and
look in the left corner, you can still see people pointing at you.
Etowah - Etowah City
School - Basketball Court - During a
basketball game a couple of years ago some eighth graders were taking
pictures of the game. It was the big, red and white game (the school
colors were red and white). When the pictures were developed they saw a
shadowy figure in an old Etowah High School basketball jersey. The
Etowah High School was torn down about 50 years earlier, and they
turned it into Etowah City School, and the high school kids in Etowah
had to travel to Englewood, TN to attend McMinn Central High School.
Anyway, they did some research and found out that the boy had actually
committed suicide on that court when he was a senior because he lost
his last high school basketball game.
Flintville - Flintville
school - the Flintville light has seemed to
cause many distractions. an old man carrying an lantern across
Flintville elementary school where the old railroad tracks used to be.
Flintville - Off
Flintville Road - The Flintville Light has been
a haunt for many years. Many young lovers go there and try to see the
Light. Most think it is just a way to get your sweetheart in a parked
car on a dark deserted road. Many have gone there to park, to spend
time alone together. While they are there, a mysterious light appears
from the old railroad track. The light will appear to come towards you.
The story behind the light is that a local was out walking the track
and was run over by a speeding train. His body parts was scattered for
150 yards. The story of the light has been around for decades. Even
though the railroad tracks are gone, you can still see the chilling
light as it makes it way towards. As the light appears to be very
close, it just up and disappears.
Franklin - Carnton Mansion
- here is a Historic mansion in Franklin Tn
called Carnton. It was used as a confederate hospital during the Civil
War(battle of Franklin). Gun shots, rhythmic drum beats, voices, and
running footsteps can be heard there any night. There have been
recordings of sounds and pictures taken there by local investigators.
Franklin - Carnton
Plantation Cemetery - on one row on the right
(where the soldiers are buried) lie the graves of twin brothers. One of
them delights in tickling your ankles or trying to grab your ankle as
you walk by the row where they're buried. This is not the little girl's
spirit, but one of the soldiers.
Franklin - Carter House - While Carnton Mansion was the site of the Civil War
hospital, Carter House was the site where the Battle of Franklin
actually happened. There have been reports of the Confederates being
heard marching down the hill, of the eldest son of Mr. Carter being
seen on the bed where he died after being wounded in the battle, of the
wounded inside the house, and of the toddler son of Mr. Carter who was
killed when he fell from the staircase.
Franklin - Confederate
Cemetery (adjacent to Carton Mansion) - This
site is haunted by a little girl who runs up and down the fence row
running her hand along the fence. The noise has also been heard. A
soldier guards the gave sites and follows people around until they
leave the yard.
Gallatin - Oliver’s
Restaurant - January 2007 Update – formerly
listed on this site as "Loco Lupes" - It was
built in the 1800's and before it was a restaurant in was the Sumner
County Jail. If your in the restaurant late at night. Upstairs you can
hear voices, knocking on walls, and slamming door's also you can hear
someone walking on the stair's. If your downstairs you can hear the
toilets flush and the water faucet will turn off and on.
Gatlinburg - Greenbrier
Restaurant - At the Greenbrier Restaurant the
ghost of a young woman who committed suicide in the restaurant can
sometimes be seen.
Gatlinburg - Holiday
Inn Sunspree Resort - This place is
haunted by many spirits and/or demons. Being one of the oldest
hotels in Gatlinburg many events have taken place here over time.
Gatlinburg - Holiday
Inn Sunspree Resort - TOWER - First,
in room 471, in the summer of 1999, a businessman was out of town
staying in this room. He was walking around the pool (next to
this room) for most of the evening and into the night hours. When
the pool closed a maintenance man told him that he would have to leave
the pool was closed. This is the last anyone would see of this
gentleman because, the next day when he was supposed to check out and
did not, a maid went to the room to check things out. Upon
walking into the room, she found the man had committed suicide with a
357. He had also left a $3.57 tip on the table. Many have
claimed to see a shadow walking around the pool at night in the windows
of the rooms around the pool. Next, in the early 1980's, a boy
scout group had rented the entire 7th. Floor of the building.
This is hard to accurately describe, since no one who was working there
at the time cares to elaborate on any details from this event, but all
that was gathered is that the boy scout leader had apparently gone
crazy and killed some of the scouts before being caught. When the
building was closed for the winter one year (Gatlinburg is a tourist
town which is really only full for the summer and autumn months) an
employee was making rounds through the building and stopped on the 7
th. Floor and heard running and screams he ran to check for intruders
only to find nothing, no rooms were rented in the Tower that
evening.
Gatlinburg - Holiday
Inn Sunspree Resort – HOLIDOME - 413 - in the front of the complex outside, in the late
1970's two young girls were staying there for the night. They
went downtown and picked up a guy from a local bar and brought him back
to their room. While the other girl was out smoking, the guy
drowned her female friend in the bathtub and put her body under the
bed. Then while leaving he went down the back stairwell outside
beside the kitchen and found the other girl smoking, then he proceeded
to strangle her as well, and drug her body to the roof of the building
(then easily accessible). Maids over the years have reported
hearing noises from the bathroom and objects in the room moving from
one place to another, while cleaning the room.
Gatlinburg - Mount
LeCounte - At 3:33a.m. a little girl will
appear at the edge of the bed and watch the people sleep.
Gatlinburg - Rocky
Top Inn - In the old office located in
the back of the building, a multiple murder occurred. An estranged
local killed two employee's of the motel. Motif unknown. The killing's
were of such a perverse nature that you can sometimes still hear them
screaming for there lives. People have seen ghostly apparitions around
the back parking lot, and near the fountain. These murders occurred
over 15 years ago. The killer was charged convicted and sentenced to
death by lethal injection.
Gatlinburg - Rumor
has it that in the heart of Gatlinburg, near a place called the
Mysterious Mansion, a young girl about age, 7 fell off a hotel balcony,
and landed in a creek below. Every two weeks before her death's
anniversary, you can see her crying and pointing up to the spot where
she fell to her death.
Gatlinburg - Terror
on the Parkway - Formerly Known as
Hauntings this place is haunted by several ghosts. Especially one of a
former manager who ran the operation in the early eighties. - February 2004 update/correction: a visitor to our
site states, “These Stories are very true. However the room 413 has not
been in operation since the events of the evening in your story the
room was removed from operation.” They claim to have been associated
with this facility for many years and the stories and events are well
beyond what has been mentioned here. Of course they realize these are
events reported by persons directly involved but they are very
surprised there isn’t allot more of them.
Graysville - Graysville
Mountain - It has been rumored for a long
time now that the rock overhang on the mountain is haunted by several
ghost that come out at night. Feelings of suicide have over whelmed
ones visiting.
Greeneville - Old
Arch Rail Road Bridge - March 2007: Has
been Removed
Greeneville - Robin
Hood Road - It is said that a young girl
by the name of Ryan was killed in her own house by one of her parents
yet nobody really knows how. It is said that her remains are still in
the basement of the house and that she still roams the streets harming
no one but looking for help to uncover the truth. lights going on and
off in the house, things moving around, blinds opening, and sightings
of Ryan.
Greeneville - Tusculum
College - Doak House - This is a
small building on the outskirts of Tusculum College. Several people
have reported hearing an piano/organ play upstairs, but there's no one
there.
Greeneville - Tusculum
College - Katherine Hall - Used
to be an all-girls dorm; it is an all-guys dorm now. Story is that
there was a girl that had a baby but the head mother took the baby
away. The girl took the baby back and supposedly killed the head
mother. The baby is supposedly buried behind the dorm.
Greeneville - Tusculum
College - Virginia Hall - Used to
be an all-female dorm. It is mostly offices and classrooms now. The
head mother's room was in the attic. The dorm caught fire but the head
mother couldn't get out. The girls could hear her screaming. Classes
where held on the 3rd floor. The 4th floor is the attic. The door to
the 4th floor is sealed, and the elevator will not go to the 4th floor.
Harriman - Swan
Pond Baptist Church - This church is
supposed to be haunted by the preacher who hung himself about 17years
ago. It is said if you drive around the church at midnight, you can see
him hanging in the bell tower. other stuff with the surrounding
cemetery
Harriman - Swan
Pond Community Church - It has been heard
that the pastor of this church hung himself in one of the rooms in the
church. There has been a lot of people that have heard noises when no
one or nothing was around. In pictures you can see different sizes and
orb shapes. You can hear doors slam, and at night, it has been told
that you can see red or green lights that are shaped like eyes. It has
also been told that on a certain Saturday of the month, if you drive
three circles around this church at a specific time, you will see
nothing around you, every thing seems to disappear momentarily. All of
the windows and doors are boarded, but they still have services here
but only on Sunday morning. It is said that there are only a handful of
people that attend, its strange because the church is enormous.
Harrison - Harrison
bay - There is supposedly a cabin not far
from the bay in the woods. there was a couple of people murdered in the
cabin. The caretaker of the cabin was an albino man. They said that he
was the murderer. It is said that you can see red eyes in the woods
moving. Not like someone is walking but as if they were floating. They
say that the albino is named pasty...
Harrogate - Lincoln
Memorial University - Grant-Lee Dormitory In the mid 1800's,when the university was the Four
Seasons Hotel, a fire broke out in the sanitarium, which is now
Grant-Lee Dormitory, burning the building to the ground. All survived
except for a woman, who was wearing a red dress, and her child, on the
forth floor. In the 1960's a fire broke out again, and once again the
building was burned to the ground. Witnesses say they saw a lady
standing in a forth floor window, wearing a red dress, shouting for
help. The sounds of someone up the stairs to the forth floor can
sometimes be heard still, and some still claim to see the lady run down
the hall to her child’s room.
Harrogate - Lincoln
Memorial University - LP Dorm - A
foreign exchange student reported being held down by an unknown force
and talked to in a very rapid voice in English on three separate
occasions. The student could not understand what was said due to the
rapid speech.
Harrogate - Lincoln
Memorial University - Radio Station - The apparition of the man in black has been seen.
Hendersonville - Ellis Middle School -
Formerly Hendersonville High School, this school is reputed to be
haunted by a phantom known as "The Colonel." A former night cleaning
staff working at night have heard his footsteps walking the upstairs
hall when the place was supposed to be empty and another person has
seen a figure lurking in the windows of the library on the second
floor. The round structure was built with a lot of steel which might
account for the nature of the sounds and haunting.
Hendersonville - Hendersonville High School - Stories go that Colonel Barry (who used to own the
property) haunts the high school. Staff and custodial staff often
heard extra footsteps and the fire doors would open and shut, as if
somebody opened them to walk through. A teacher was once sitting
in the bleachers watching cheerleading practice below and she heard
(and felt) footsteps coming up to her, but nobody was there. She
called practice off and refused to go in the bleachers at night.
Hendersonville - Trinity Broadcasting Theatre - Often a man with long black hair dressed in black can
be seen walking up behind you. When you turn around you see no one is
there. There are always sounds in the theatre.
Henry - Hanging
Hill - this is a hill where hangings used
to take place. there is a tree branch that stretches across the road
where the hangings occurred. park under the branch, turn the vehicle
off, and turn the light out, and you will witness a light in the
distance. That is the people that are coming to watch the hanging.
Henry - Springville
- This is in a small neighborhood town.
It's on a side road. There is a little drive off of the side road (it
is a dirt road) that goes back into fields, but on each side there is
lots of tress, but now they keep it chained up. A lot of years ago, a
man was hung down there and they say his spirit still haunts this
place. When you drive down the road you have to go all the way until
you come to a dead end. You will see a lantern swinging in the mist
like as if someone has it walking towards you. Sometimes your car will
not start. The owner of the property was not responsible if anything
happened to anyone. Still to this day the Springville Ghost exists.
Hickory Valley - Ames Plantation - It is
said that on the Ames Plantation, strange noises and visions are not
uncommon. Sometimes late in the evening, you can hear what is said to
be slaves singing and working. It is also the location of quiet a few
suicides. A woman and a little girl dressed in old-fashioned clothes
are the most common spirits there. They are said to be the owner of the
plantation's wife and daughter.
Huntingdon - Huntingdon
high school - in the 1980's there was a
reported woman that worked in the cafeteria had chopped off another
woman's head and put it in the children’s roast soup and from now on
the children say every time they make roast soup you can here the woman
crying in pain
Hurricane Mills - Loretta Lynn's House - This
old estate had been the scene of a civil war battle. several
confederate soldiers were buried here and the original owner of the
house is also buried here. witness reports of people standing by a bed
and doors that open and close by themselves. Sounds of footsteps
and chains being dragged across the porch.
Hurricane Mills - Mills Plantation - The
plantation is said to be haunted by ghosts of soldiers from the Civil
War. Apparations have been reported to have been seen,
unexplanable noises have been heard, pictures have shifted by
themselves. Home is currently owned by country music star Loretta
Lynn and is open for tours as part of Loretta Lynn's Rance. The
home was featured on a Travel Channel special called "Loretta Lynn's
Haunted Plantation."
Jasper - East
Valley Bridge - a long time ago, a man
was having an affair with his babysitter and soon the wife found out,
and the man got mad and took the babysitter and cut her up and put her
in a duffel bag and threw her in the river that runs under it. People
say that if you go to the bridge midnight on Halloween by the way when
it happened) and honk the horn 3x and blink the lights 3x and you get
out the car she will rise up and if you try to get in the door will be
locked and she is supposed to swoop down.
Jefferson City - Old AJ Highway - Said
that a girl is seen walking around the attic at night and can see her
shadow.
Jefferson City - Glenmore Mansion off of old AJ Highway - Light is seen in the attic.
Jefferson City - Jefferson City Inn -
Jefferson Inn is what it was last called, but now it is the home of
Lisa Sczcesny and Scott Arnold. I have stayed there myself and the
place is very haunted. Built during the Civil War it was called the
colonial hotel. Many deaths have occurred there. One man is said to
have shot his self in the kitchen, another was pushed down the stairs
by his wife and killed. a slave hung herself in the basement. Sometimes
at night you can hear a woman screaming on the stairs and shutters
opening and closing. And once and a while you see images in mirrors and
guns going off.
Jefferson City - Jefferson County High School - Rumor is a girl was raped and murdered in a closet 8
years ago, and kids in the class room constantly complain about the
cool air coming from the closet and there are always scratch marks on
the closet door popping up, day after day.
Jefferson City - Jefferson Middle School - Jefferson
Middle School used to be known as Jefferson High School a few years
back, and once a basketball player was on her way to a school dance,
and she was killed in a car crash. Coaches and gym teaches have sworn
to hear basketballs bouncing while alone, grading papers, in the
gymnasium.
Jellico - Jellico
Post Office - There has been tells of the
post office in Jellico Tennessee being haunted if you go in it when it
gets dark outside it is known that you can hear people walking around
and talking up stairs.
Johnson City - East Tennessee State University - Burleson
Hall - A professor who used to teach in
Burleson had a daughter who taught there also. She supposedly killed
herself and now haunts the building.
Johnson City - East Tennessee State University - Gilbreath
Hall - Sidney Gilbreath started building
this campus years ago. Gilbreath Hall was one of the original buildings
in the beginning. Uncle Sid, as he is called, is said to haunt the
building. When there is an approaching thunderstorm he has been known
to shut the windows and doors that were left open.
Johnson City - East Tennessee State University - Lucille
Clement Hall - Women's Residence Hall is
said to be haunted by the ghost of a young boy that died in the
elevator. He is known as "marble boy" and can be heard dropping his
marbles on the ceilings of every room in the hall. Don't yell at him to
stop or he will get mad and drop ALL is marbles. he was also known to
turn TV sets off and on, or change the channel, and to turn on the
water faucet. 2 witnesses reported a bottle of soda went flying through
the air for no reason at all.
Johnson City - East Tennessee State University - Old
Library - If you go to the old library
building and enter the stacks there, you might see the ghost of a
former librarian. She worked there about 20 years ago and finally
retired, but would go just to help put the books back in place, she had
a heart attack and died down there. Whenever people were down there,
they said they felt like they were being watched, and when they pulled
material and left for a minute they'd come back and it was put up,
that’s not strange except they were down there by themselves. She
appeared to one of the workers and she swore she'd never go down there
again.
Johnson City - Okolona road exit - the
story goes that there was a man and a woman traveling down the exit
when their car broke down. The man got out of the car and started
pushing the car up the exit towards the main road so that it could be
seen by passerbys. Out of nowhere a car came and killed them both. It
is said that once on the Okolona exit, a person should put their car in
neutral. Instead of the car traveling down the incline, like it is
supposed to do, the car rolls backwards up the hill, as if someone
where pushing it. Some say that if done long enough, the car windows
become foggy and you can see the handprints of the man in the windows
from where he was pushing the car.
Johnson City - Swingle Hospital - Swingle
Hospital was the first hospital in Johnson City. The hospital is
located near Science Hill High School and Heritage Manor. It is
said that back in the 1920's, Dr. Swingle performed simple surgeries in
this privately owned estate. Dr. Swingle was a sloppy surgeon and
all of his patients would die on the operating table. If you
slowly walk up the front walkway, between the row of hedges, leading to
the main entrance you can hear the voices of the insane doctor and his
staff, and if you walk around to the back of the house you can hear the
screams of the dead patients, who are buried in the backyard. You
cannot get in to the old hospital due to boarded windows and
doors. If you decide to visit the hospital, park on the street
next to it and walk over, but stay away from the road. If caught
on Swingle property, you can be charged with breaking and
entering. Be careful, cops watch that place very heavily.
Interesting article http://www.people.fas.harvard.edu/~cadden/longautobio.html
Johnson County - Mountain
City - Doe Mountain - The apparition is
called the Doe Mountain Fireball. It's been spotted at several
locations on the mountain at different times of the day and night. It
rolls along up and down the mountain and can roll across even dry
leaves and never start a brushfire. It ranges in size from about a
bowling ball size to upwards of three feet across. It appears as a big
ball of fire rolling from place to place on Doe Mountain.
Jonesborough - There are records of several ghostly happenings in
Jonesborough. It has been rated as one of the most haunted places in
the country. It is Tennessee's oldest and most mysterious town.
Karns - Churchill
- Reports of shadows dancing around,
screams heard and the sounds of children being choked.
Kelso - Golden
Hollow Road - Back in the 1950's there
were two cars that hit head on. It happened during the springtime. All
7 occupants died, 4 in one car and 3 in the other. On a warm spring
night when the flowers are coming out, you will see several people
walking. They will appear to be injured. As you get close enough to ask
them if they need help, they all disappear. All you will be left with
is a chill for your trouble.
Kingsport - Bloomingdale
- The Witches Grave - There was
supposedly a witch buried on top of a hill in the edge of the cemetery
in Timbertree. Many people have said when they are there they hear the
witch beating on the top of the coffin trying to escape.
Kingsport - Ketron
Middle School - it is said that a little
girl was walking downstairs to the band room holding her flute and fell
down the stairs. The flute then went down her throat and killed her.
now sometimes you can see her at night waling around downstairs in the
school. - January 2007 Correction: The
girl who died collapsed in the gym and died of a heart attack. She did
play the flute in the band. Assistant Principal did CPR on her but it
didn't work. It is said that some nights she wanders the halls but
especially the gym. She has been seen (dressed in a long white dress)
walking on the gym stage. One person who claimed to have seen her
thought she was a real person until she walked off the stage and just
kept walking into the air.
Kingsport - Netherland
Inn Road - Hugh Hamblen was killed on
Netherland Inn Road in 1922, run down by a car. He had been visiting
his son, who had also been in a car accident, in the hospital. On foggy
nights, Hamblen stands in the road in a trench coat with outstretched
hands warning oncoming cars of the fog. Over 120 people have reported
seeing him.
Kingsport - Rotherwood
Mansion - Sometime back, a women lived in
this house, and was looking for a husband. When she found one, he
drowned on a fishing trip at Holston River on the wedding day. This
happened several times to this girl, and soon she murdered herself. Now
on foggy, full moon nights, people have reported 2 things. 1, they said
they saw a women in a wedding dress in her room window, crying. 2, they
saw a women in a wedding dress rushing down Holston River.
Kingsport - Sensabaugh
Tunnel - This tunnel was built in the
early 1920's and is one of the most famous haunted places in our area.
Mr. Sensabaugh is told to have killed his entire family in the stream
that runs through the tunnel, and now it is said you can hear his
baby's voice crying and legend tells you can see all types of orbs and
figures, also it is said that a women and her child was in a bad storm
and pulled off into the tunnel to get shelter and the next day they
found the body's of the two dead and now it is said if you pull your
car into the tunnel and shut the engine down it will not start. - January 2007 additional information: Most young people
from the area have visited the tunnel. The one common story is that
when driving through the tunnel, a woman suddenly appears in the back
seat of the car. There are reports of a photo taken inside a car in the
tunnel and there was the outline of a woman sitting in the backseat.
The Shadowlands has not seen the photo.- March
2007 Correction: there are actually 2 tunnels, and the one you can
drive through is NOT the haunted tunnel. The other has a creek flowing
through it and you have to walk through the tunnel on a ledge. A family
explored this tunnel a few months ago and took their 6-year-old son.
When about halfway through the tunnel, their son started screaming to
the top of his lungs to get out...get out. so they ran out of the
tunnel and asked what was wrong...he said he heard a baby crying in the
tunnel.
Knoxville - Baker
Peters Jazz Club - Baker Peters Jazz Club
is a known haunted site in Knoxville. Now a trendy & expensive Jazz
bar, it was once a Civil War era residence. The baseline of the story
goes that the house was built by a Dr. James Harvey Baker. Dr. Baker's
allegiances in the war are disputed; some have him on the side of the
Confederates, others have him as neutral. Either way, he did have at
least one son that we know of named Abner who fought staunchly for the
Confederates (other versions have Dr. Baker with TWO sons on opposing
sides of the war). During an invasion by the Union army in 1864, Dr.
Baker was treating wounded Confederates in his home when the Union army
arrived and demanded the surrender of the men in the house. Dr. Baker
refused and barricaded himself and in his bedroom. The Yankees invaded
the house, raced upstairs and shot him through the door. Upon returning
home, 22 yr old Abner vowed revenge on the person who informed the
Yankees that his father harbored Confederates. He did kill the
informer, a postmaster, but was later killed by the informer's friends
in a return act of revenge. Legend has it that Abner has refused to
leave the house that he and his family fought so hard to retain. The
house went through several changes of hands before becoming a jazz bar,
which was likely very disrupting to whatever spirits are there. Baker
Peters claims to have a framed photo of what looks like Abner's ghostly
reflection posted somewhere in the restaurant. Other accounts report
employees experiencing chills, hearing whispering, objects moving or
being thrown from shelves and breaking, and even (in the early days)
discovering a hanging candelabra in a dining room with the candle
holders twisted downward.
Knoxville - Bijou
Theater - Rumors has it that this theater
located in the middle of the city is haunted by a man. The theater was
once some kind of army hospital way back when. It gained publicity by
local radio station...Voices and even sightings have been heard there.
Knoxville - Halls
High School - It is said that in the
late 1970's a young girl was having a fight with her boyfriend at the
top of the stairs by the office when he pushed her and she fell to the
bottom of the stairs. He left her to bleed to death. When the boyfriend
got nervous, he went back to where he had left her and she wasn't
there. No one knew where the girl had went and he told no one of what
he had done. She was filed under "missing persons" and no one ever
found her. One year later on the day of her murder, the boyfriend was
on his way home from a party when he was stabbed and killed and left
for dead. No weapon was ever recovered nor was anyone ever convicted.
It is said that is was his high school girlfriend that came back from
the dead to avenge her murder. Supposedly, many strange things happened
in that stairwell that caused the school board to close it up. The
doors are locked and it now leads to nowhere cause it has been built up
at the top. There are many boxes of storage in there and no student is
to be allowed in there at anytime. At night it has been reported that
janitors can hear arguing, and sometimes you may even hear something
falling down them.
Knoxville - HillCrest-North
Nursing Home - Building "B" - was
built in 1951,the oldest wing of the Nursing Home was originally used
as a T.B. Hospital and years later turned into a Nursing Home. The
building is of the Art-Deco style and has six floors and a basement.
Many who have worked here, have seen ghosts. The ghosts have been of
dead people who have worked there years ago, such as Nurses and
Maintenance Men who still feel compassionate towards the building and
residents. Hillcrest is known for it's caring staff. Living and
Deceased.
Knoxville - Lakeshore
Asylum - The original structure burned
down in the 1920's, but the gutted ruins remain. People have reported
hearing the screams of patients being beaten and shackles being thrown
around.
Knoxville - Lennox
Place - Lennox subdivision - Not many of
the neighbors want to talk about it but some do. The whole Lennox
subdivision has experienced ghosts. It is not a house but many houses
that see the same ghosts. A man with white hair, in a long nightgown. A
young girl with long blonde hair. They are mischievous mostly and not
mean. They like to open people's garage doors in the middle of the
night. Rattle dishes. Unlock doors during daytime when the owners are
away so that they come home and their house is wide open.
Knoxville - Old
Grey Cemetery - Supposedly haunted by a
black shape. Mainly seen late at night moving through the tombstones.
Knoxville - University
of Tennessee campus - Strong Hall - The Women's Residence Hall, Strong, is said to be
haunted by the ghost of one of the first female students to attend the
school. It is said that she appears in the lobby mirror every year on
her birthday. Students have reported strange noises at night, and
Sophie, the ghost, is said to take a dislike of sexual indiscretions.December 2003 Addition: "Sophie"... One of the most
popular rumors is that the 4th floor Resident Asst's room is considered
to be "Sophie's" room and that anyone assigned to that room is
teasingly/affectionately nicknamed "Sophie's Roommate". Some have even
gone so far as to say that no one RA has lasted more than a year in
that room. While Sophie is generally depicted as a benevolent spirit
who wants to ensure that the women of Strong uphold their moral
decency, many younger students are afraid of her still.
LaFollette - bluff
springs - a local peeping tom wandered
the apartment complex, every night. Until a resident caught him and
called the police. he was arrested, an on his way to the local
jail a the cruiser was involved in an accident killing all three
men. And now every night at 12:03a.m. Residents claim to see red
glowing eyes and hear movement outside there apartments.
Lancaster - hanging
rope - There is a long rope hanging from
a bluff approximately 2 miles from center hill dam. It is said that a
while back a man hung himself there and the rope was so long that
rescuers merely cut him down as opposed to climbing the bluff and
removing the rope. Some people say that on nights when there his no
moon you can drive be and see the shape of a man hanging there, but if
you get out of the car it is gone.
Lavergne - Fate
Sanders Recreation Area - There have been
a few reports of a small boy stepping out of the woods laughing, and
asking those around , if they could help him find his father. There is
not much information about this little boy, but he is said to Haunt all
of the local trails and even the water.
Lebanon - Cumberland
University - Mary White Dormitory - Mary white is said to be haunted by a girl who was
murdered. Two roommates were staying for a few days before leaving for
Christmas break. In a few towns over a murderer had escaped from a
prison. The girls were told to keep their door locked. One of the girls
needed to use the restroom. They developed a secret knock so that the
other girl would know who it was. The girl left to go to the bathroom
and the door was locked behind her. The girl was gone for about 30
minutes and then the girl in the room heard two knocks on the door. She
did not open the door, because it was not the secret knock, but kept it
locked and made no sound. Several hours later the girl walked out into
the hallway to find the hall covered in blood and her roommate dead on
the floor. Apparently, the murderer broke into the hall and killed the
girl. She haunts the hall and plays tricks on the residents. TVs are
known to turn on and off. Doors slam, showers turn on, rooms are
trashed, refrigerator doors open, doorknobs fall off, and posters are
torn off of the walls.
Lebanon - Cumberland
University - Memorial Hall - Memorial
hall is said to be haunted by several different ghosts. A boy waiting
for his class to begin was sitting on the window sill of the third
floor. He leaned back on the window and the window gave way, and
tragically he fell to his death. It is said that the boy wonders the
third floor slamming the doors as he makes his way through the hall.
Also, many years ago a science teacher who's class was on the third
floor was leaving for the night. He was making his way down the many
flights of stairs when he began experiencing signs of a heart attack.
He drove home and died there. Rumor has it that When walking down the
stairs at night you will feel someone pushing you and hurrying you down
the steps.
Lewisburg - Bethbirei
Church - There are several stories,
Including a tombstone falling on a 3 year old girl at the
cemetery. the story is that if you steal the bible from the
church that you will die. There are some people with accounts of
someone they knew stealing the bible and dying on that night. The
church was built in the 1800's and some of the graves are older than
that.
Livingston - Old
Union Church - Lights from inside can
sometimes be seen through the cracks along the edge of the doors and
windows, even though there is no one there, and the doors are padlocked
from the outside. Piano playing can also sometimes been heard.
Manchester - Historic
Tower House Inn - The Tower House as it
is known by locals was built by the main financial contributor to the
originating fund for and the First President of People's Bank and Trust
Co. Around the time that John P. Adams began to build the tower house
both his wife May and toddler son Marion passed away. Until 1943 Mr.
Adams continued to live in his wonderful house with tower rising over
the structure. He owned several lots which extended well toward the
town square and a store which is still located at 210 Spring St. on the
historic town square. Since 1963 a few brave individuals have admitted
to hearing May weep or show fear during a storm. John is often seen
strolling through the house from the men's parlor to the front room
which houses a Civil War exhibit. Marion is seen upstairs in the boys'
room where he and brother John Jr. would watch for kids to come down
the way. Marion is seen at times toddling over to the window. He is a
blonde haired boy clothed in a wonderful soft light. There are no bad
spirits here. May did show great sadness the day a 1870's period
garment was place on display in their master bedroom which is now the
main lodging room for the current inn. Several media sources have
already noted this haunting including radio and newspapers in
Tennessee. The inn is owned by GhostLabs Research Society's Dan and
Carol Gist. Carol conducts ghost tours each day or house tours
according to visitors requests. Information about the inn can be
accessed on the - Ghostlabs.com
website.
Manchester - Tullahoma
- Concord Cemetery - This cemetery is
said to be haunted by the ghost of Sadie Baker. Her apparition has been
seen on several occasions in the cemetery. This is one of Coffee
County's oldest known ghosts.
Martin - University
of Tennessee - Martin Clement Hall -
This is the oldest building on campus and is used as a dorm hall when
needed. On the fourth floor a student killed herself and has since
haunted the hall. The annual haunted house is held here, but not on the
fourth floor. Students have reported strange happenings on the fourth
floor, especially in the community bathroom.
Maryville - Carpenters
School - people say they hear a little
girl crying in the halls of the school. plus the school is built on a
cemetery. When you are outside playing ghost come up to you and grab
you and try to take you away but if you do not look at them they will
leave you alone.
Maryville - Maryville
College - Wilson Chapel - It is said that
Lily, a shy woman who worked behind the scenes in the drama department,
was left by her lover for the star of the show. It is said that she
continues this tradition and can be seen in the catwalks above the
stage in her favorite black and white dress.
Maryville - Porter
Elementary School - It is said in the gym
in the boy's locker room that a young man hung himself. The Toilet
flushes by its self and the closet light goes on and off by its self.
Also in the theater there is said to be ghosts walking around and
playing the piano.
Mason - Old
Trinity Church - From the 30's or 40's
that has been desecrated by satanic cult. Statue of Mary that bleeds
from the neck and eyes. WARNING~ trip wires, metal wires at neck
height. etc. have been installed by caretaker to prevent vandals
McKenzie - Chapel
Hill Cemetery - Strange lights are
sometimes seen "dancing" on the graves. A nearby church, re-built on
the site of a much older church (and near an old Indian mound) is said
to have "shadows" appear where there are no obstructions and lights to
appear.
McMinnville - Devil's
Cave - It has been reported that there is
a cave in Blue's Hill, that is called "Devil's Cave”. There are stories
that there was 2 men going caving at Devil's Cave. One of the men
hoisted the other down in the cave. After a few minutes The man at the
top heard a blood curdling scream, he started shaking with fear as he
was pulling his friend back up, by some unknown reason the man's hair
was white as snow and his skin was icy, they said he never spoke any
word of what he saw, but when you see something that horrific and it
turns your hair white it had to have been something very scary.
Medina - Hope
Hill Cemetery - A young girl was raped
and then beaten to death by her uncle. And before he done it he built
her a dollhouse---and now if you go to her grave you will see her
talking and playing with her dolls in her doll house.- March 2005 update/ correction:the little girl was NOT
raped by her uncle. The story is - The little girl was killed by a
piano which was dropped by the mover her parents hired. Her parents put
her 'dollhouse' on her grave because it was her favorite place to play.
Also it is told that if you see the light on in the doll house at night
she is there playing. Former caretakers of that cemetary report until
the new caretaker built a house at the end of the drive. The new
caretaker now has a gate up and noone is allowed down the drive from
dusk til dawn. Also the story of the light didn't start until YEARS
after the little girl was buried. Due to the eccessive amount of
partying from teenagers and sickening graffetti as well as littering,
the former care taker took a light and a car battery and placed it
inside the doll house and would turn it on at night. Also he repainted
the doll house. Since then there has been NO defaceing of the property,
littering, or teens out partying in the graveyard. After the caretaker
moved into his new home the light has been removed.
Memphis - Auburn
Park - If you park your car by the lake
in Auburn Park, The Blue Lady is supposed to rise out of the lake and
walk towards your car.
Memphis - Egypt
Baptist Church - When you drive up to the
side, lights are all around. But when you look into the bottom four
windows, they are completely black. It is as if there are no light
poles. Supposedly an evil presence haunts in those rooms.
Memphis - Fire
Church - when you walk up to the church
night or day there is nothing there but as you drive past the church
you see flames in the back window. This place could be haunted by and
evil spirit this will only happen at night during the day you can not
see the flames
Memphis - Metal
Museum/Army hospital - The Metal museum
of Memphis is on part of the grounds of what was the army hospital.
This was ground zero for the yellow fever epidemic - and the equivalent
of the CDC. Thousands died here. There are many tails of things at
night. There is a lot of activity in the morgue building and the
doctor’s residence.
Memphis - St.
Jude's - It is said that one of the rooms
on the 2nd floor is haunted by the spirit of a 17 year old female that
died there. The spirit is reportedly friendly.
Memphis - The
lake at Overton Park - according to
several witnesses a 35ish year-old lady with a long light blue dress
has been seen walking around the lake (usually on the south side) at
night...she asks for help with an out stretched arm, but when
approached she vanishes. It was reported that the body of a lady with a
blue dress had been found near this lake raped and stabbed in the
1960's but its unknown if there is a connection.
Memphis - THE
HOSPITAL - This old hospital was once a
Baptist hospital but then turned into a Veterans hospital. It is said
that the people that died in the operating rooms have stayed and
personal accounts and pictures tell the story as well. This place has a
fence around it but is not owned by anyone. The morgue in the basement
is said to be the most haunted place in Memphis. The Hospital is
located on Lamar.
Memphis - The
Orpheum Theatre - Several definitive
accounts of Mary, the ghost of the Orpheum Theatre exist in the
archives of Memphis Magazine, in It Happened in Tennessee and in the
published history of the Orpheum. The ghost of a little girl, Mary,
haunts this theatre. She has a favorite seat during performances. Some
people believe that she is the ghost of a girl who died when the
original Orpheum burned, but no one was reported to have been killed,
and others believe she was killed near the Orpheum on Beale Street. She
is not a malicious ghost, actually very shy, and enjoys the playing of
the organ (where she has appeared several times.
Memphis - University
of Memphis - Old Brister Library - It
is said to be a young female college student who was raped and killed
in the tower of this old library. The ghost has been seen by many
custodians who just recall seeing a student who appear and then vanish.
The ghost would also scream help me which at times would very much
scare the campus police who would go in the building to inspect the
screams. Many students in the past have tried to spend the night in the
library and have only heard the screams. -
March 2004 Correction:Although there were a couple of rapes, no one was
ever murdered. There have, however, been several suicides on campus.
Memphis - University
of Memphis - UC bldg - There are
reports of a presence in the building which rides the elevator. The
elevator is set to automatically return to 2nd or 3rd floor if out of
use for a time period. It has opened on the 4th floor or 1st for people
to get in when final inspection of building is done at closing. It is
believed to be ghost of construction worker who fell from 3rd floor
during the building of the student center. - October 2007 Update: This building has been
demolished.
Memphis - Woodruff-Fontaine
House - The "Rose Room" is haunted by
Molly Woodruff whose bedroom it once was. Her picture is on the wall
and she wanders the house, makes a depression in the bedclothes as if
she slept there, and there are cold areas. Her most famous appearance
was the day the house museum opened in the 1960's when a docent saw a
woman in the bedroom who said, "My bed doesn't go there." That was the
first of many such stories. Strange odars like cigar smoke have also
been in evidence on the house's third floor from an unnamed visitor.
Milligan - just
outside of Clarksville - There's a little
used road in Milligan, that goes by a Civil War battlefield. Somewhere
on this road, you have to drive through a river that isn't there. You
can see it and hear it, but if you stand in it, you stay perfectly dry.
Millington - Millington
Central High School - The school theater
is haunted by a ghost that goes by the name of "Herky", this, however
is not the person's name when she was alive.
Millington - The
Smoke Stacks - This used to be a
gunpowder factory during the world wars. Most of it is under ground and
a lot of tunnels. Rumor has it that it was used by an old crazy
homeless man to kill and hide his victims. The factory is off limits
but you can see the stacks for miles. rumor has it the woods are
haunted by the old mans victims and the tunnels are haunted by the old
man himself
Mount Juliet - Easter Seals Camp Lindahl - A man (Mr. Cropper) and his family who used to live,
where killed when there house was set on fire on the land where the
camp is now. He now haunts the camp grounds, looking for those who
burnt the house, but only appears to the councilors.
Monteagle - Fairmont
Apartments - One of the complexes at the
Fairmont Apartments is haunted for unknown reasons. Many of the people
living there in the past have reported hearing constant footsteps
around the place at all hours. Other people have been asleep in their
beds and have had the covers pulled off of their beds in the middle of
the night by unseen forces. Out of all the apartments in this complex
apartment 6 is believed to have the highest spiritual energies. The
people that once lived in this apartment were haunted by many spirits
and reported hearing their names like "the wind blowing" at late hours.
Another report about this apartment was when a woman was sitting in the
living room watching the TV, the room grew very cold and the numbers on
the TV began to change, however the TV remained on one channel. Then
shortly after she reported seeing footprints appearing in the carpet as
if someone was walking across the room. Also the showers have been
reported to come on by themselves.
Morristown - Bethesda
Church and Cemetery - Reportedly the
Church has spirits inside, as it was used as a hospital during the
Civil War, it's boarded up and they seem trapped inside. Mass graves of
Confederate soldiers are nearby, and the soldiers seem to not like
visitors, especially ones with Northern accents. There exists in the
cemetery, a family plot of a couple and their daughter who died on the
day of her birth which is reportedly a highly active area; the sound of
a woman weeping and physical manifestations are known at that grave
site.
Murfreesboro - Stones River Battlefield - Stop no.4 is an incredible cold feeling just being
there; felt cold presence at the Wilder Watch Tower..
Nashville - Belmont
University - Belmont Mansion - Adelicia
Hayes first marriage, to a wealthy businessman, lasted seven years, in
which their four children all died by age eleven. In 1849, her second
marriage resulted in the building of the Belmont mansion; it was built
in the style of an Italian villa set in elaborate gardens. In fact,
Adelicia opened the estate for the citizens of Nashville, as there was
no public park available. Her second husband died in the Civil War, and
their twin daughters died of scarlet fever. Her third marriage took
place at Belmont Mansion. However, she sold Belmont in 1887 to move to
Washington D.C. She died in D.C. later that year and was brought back
to Nashville to be buried. The Belmont mansion is now the center of
Belmont University and of course the mansion has strict security due to
random acts of collegiate vandalism. Security guards have reported
seeing Adelicia floating around and even setting off the motion
detector a time or two. A psychic was secretly brought in once, and she
reported that Adelicia was afraid her home wouldn't be there much
longer due to the campus renovation and expansion. The psychic also
said Adelicia was looking for her children. The psychic didn't know
anything about Adelicia's many dead children. - January 2006 Update /Additional information: A 1999
Alumnus reports Adelicia is still around the mansion, but she never
does or causes any harm. She has been seen numerous times at different
places throughout the mansion and it's grounds. It has also been known
and reported that on more than one occasion, she has set off the motion
detectors in the middle of the night or other times the buildings are
empty, and the security office has to go check things out and re-set
the alarms. During any expansions or renovations, the trustees as well
as those in charge at Belmont are very careful not to disturb or mess
up anything related the Mansion, as it is a historical landmark as well
as Adelicia's home. (A lot of the original furnishings and artwork are
displayed in the mansion.) If you go to www.belmontuniversity.edu,
you can read the history of the mansion as well as the university,
which was an all girls college for many years. One of it's most famous
graduates was Grand Ole Opry star Sarah Cannon, a.k.a. Minnie Pearl.
Nashville - Capitol
Records Building - At the turn of the
century, Jacob Schnell created the most grandiose mansion in Nashville,
but his daughters were miserably snubbed by the city's elite. After his
death, his daughters allowed the once great house to crumble and
deteriorate into ruin while they lived inside it. After they died, the
house was knocked down and capitol records built on the site. After
building was completed, employees reported they thought the ghosts of
the daughters were still around walking the halls, moving things,
locking doors and playing with equipment. A psychic visited the place
and claimed the house was full of a great sadness.
Nashville - Congress
Inn - Early one Saturday morning in 1987
a visitor was awaken by someone sitting on the back of their legs at
their knees, they were unable to turn over for maybe 10 to 15 seconds.
They later ask some locals if they knew of any thing like that
happening before, They were told that the motel office had been used
for a hospital in the civil war, and that at one time the fighting was
so severe that they had to bury their dead by cementing them in the
walls of the basement.
Nashville - Old
Donelson Hospital - The old Donelson
Hospital was one of the oldest hospitals in Nashville until it closed
down over a decade ago. It is now used for storage for current
hospitals and doctor's offices. It has been reported by various people
who have had to enter the hospital for supplies that at anytime, day or
night, once the doors close behind you numerous screams and moans can
be heard as well as footsteps and clanging on the walls. Once you get
closer to the old psych ward high energy can be felt and extreme chills
even in the middle of summer with no air conditioning running
throughout the building.
Nashville - Hawkins
House - a poltergeist inhabited this
house for a time.
Nashville - The
Hermitage - Home to President Andrew
Jackson. Several Caretakers have reported seeing slaves gathered
on the front balcony of the mansion in front of Jackson's bedroom
window.
Nashville - Madison
- Duff's Smorgasbord - stories of strange
sounds & activity, they generally occur in either the morning or at
night when the restaurant is closed and there were only a few employees
(1-4) there. These strange sounds usually came in the form of crashing
pans or stock, as though something had fallen in the back. Other
employees claimed to have heard the sound women laughing as though they
were above them in the air. Duff’s
Smorgasbord ExperienceOcotber 2004 update:
has since been Closed down.
Nashville - Market
Street Pub and Brewery - Market Street on
Second Avenue in downtown Nashville is currently a restaurant and bar.
when the establishment has been empty (with the exception of the
eyewitness, and on occasion, two or three others). There are stories of
chairs moving across the dining room floor, seemingly of their own
accord, light fixtures swinging in the absence of a draft or an open
window (as well as lights going off by themselves, only to come back on
when commanded to do so by a human), and people just feeling eerily
uncomfortable when alone in the building.
Nashville - Opryland
- Hank Williams has been seen by a
construction worker who got locked in and explored the building and saw
Hank, and another singer was practicing one of Hank's songs and all the
lights went out in the middle of the song.
Nashville - Opryland
Hotel - There is said to be a ghost at the
Opryland Hotel, it is a lady that will come down the corridors late at
night. There has been strange things been happening there. especially
on the 3rd shift. Some says they have seen her.
Nashville - Two
Rivers Mansion& Golf Course - people
walking in the mansion and items disappearing. Lights turning off and
on. Witnesses report fellings like you are being watched, and if its
really quiet you can hear foot steps following you around. It is known
to be a litter of civil war bodies under the ground. Also known for a
Indian burial ground. In the process of building the golf course there
were Indian and civil war artifacts found underground. Rumor is that
there was an old house that was at the very back of the golf course
that was torn down along time ago that there was an old man that lived
in it that buried his money under ground and if you go up there late at
night you can hear him opening his jars of money that were found during
the destruction of the house.
Nashville - Wilowen
poltergeist - House is haunted buy an
evil entity that is very abusive to who ever lives there for any length
of time. It is said a disgruntled old man that live there is angry that
someone else may be in his home. Full classical haunted house, by whom
or what is still to be determined.
Neva - Neva
School - There is a little boy that
haunts the bathroom because he was always picked on in there. So one
day he ran away and no one ever found him. So he haunts the old school
that closed down 1 year ago.
Newport - Memorial
Building - the memorial building was used
back in the 70,s to store the remains of bodies that were left behind
from a plane crash in Parrotsville, which killed about 60-70 people. In
2000, a group of college students decided to do a research paper on the
building for their psychology class. the group had to return to the
building 3 times because of being scared out of unexplained things.
they decided to do their theme like the one on MTV so each guy had to
go sit in a room by themselves for 10 min. well that night they got ran
out by a scream of a women in the attic. so they waited a couple of
days and went back. it got to the last guy and his mission was to go to
the gym, he had only been there for 3 min and he all of a sudden
starting screaming and said that a little boy appeared in front of him
sitting in Indian style staring at him, he said the boy had a shaggy
bole cut, which was the hair style that was in the 60's or 70's. he
said when he looked at the boy he could tell that the boy was startled
because he could see him, he tilted his head back and seamed also.
needless to say that was by far the last trip they made to finish their
project. when the boys went back to review their work, they noticed
that when the 2nd guy had went to the basement for his 10 min section,
they seen a shadow figure fly by, but when u pause it just right you
can see that there is a figure of a man standing right behind him just
staring at the guy.
North Chattanooga - The cemetery off of Memorial Drive - There is an arch
in the middle of the cemetery a Masonic arch at which an apparition is
supposed to appear.
Oak Ridge - Alexander
Inn - When you walk in you can hear
people walking up stairs. There is blood on the walls and broken
glass every where. Out side of the hotel you can see a figure
looking through the curtains of the window.
Oak Ridge - Galaher
Road - George Jones Missionary Church - It
has been told that several people were murdered within a 2 mile radius,
and if you go there in the dark, you will not be alone. there has been
a lot of unexplained activity there and it followed visitors home, be
careful about what you do here, bad things has been known to happen to
passerbys.
Oak Ridge - Wheat
Community Church - It has been said for
many years that the old Wheat Church is haunted. There have been many
stories told on the church and what happened there, but the one I have
heard to be true is this one. The church is a very small one with a
small cemetery right beside it. Not a lot of folks went to the church
even when it was still open to the public back in the 1940's. It was
said that the minister of the church went mad, and hung himself by the
bell tower. If you were to go there on Halloween it was said you could
still see the rope swinging, and blood dripping from it. No Trespassing
Oliver Springs - Old
Abandoned Barn - it is rumored that a
little girl was playing in the top of a barn and fell all the way down.
An hour later she died from blood loss. it was in the broken down old
barn in the middle of Oliver Springs. Anyone who has ever been in it
has heard strange noises, and sounds like fingernails scratching in the
very back of the barn. As soon as you walk into the barn it feels like
someone is staring at you. And in the very back you can see what seem
to be blood red eyes staring straight at you.
Oliver Springs - Harvey Furniture - Apparitions
seen. At one time in Oliver Springs history two families owned most of
the land. The mansion of one of the families was there right where
Harvey's is located. Well a murder was committed there. They blamed it
on the little black servant boy but too many things were wrong with
this. First thing the gun was actually the other families and was
returned to them. Second, the boy was too short to cause the gun shot
to the back of the head of the lady. The boy's apparent suicide was
very suspicious too. Unfortunately the police at the time let people
walk around and the whole incident was botched. Recently the police
reopened the cased cause of public interest and cleared the black boy.
A book was written on the case.
Ooltewah - Super
8 Motel - A girl, in her mid 20's,
sitting on the edge of the bed, looks like she is undressing. May have
been a murdered prostitute. Gives the feeling of terror.
Paris - Henry
- Dumpling Hill Cemetery - The Ghost of A
Slave hanged for a petty crime is often seen and heard here attempting
to chase away any Visitors. So be wear stay away from Dumpling Hill
Cemetery at night.
Paris - The
Ghost In The Road - IT is said that
if you sit in this certain spot in the middle of the road, turn off
everything on your car, a ghost will appear and beat on your car. The
legend is a man was driving down this road and his car ran into a field
and hit a tree and he died and he is wandering around looking for his
stuff.
Pigeon Forge - Family Inn by Dixie Stampede - It's said to be haunted by an old lady who was killed
working late...They say that you can see her shadow watching you from
wherever you stand, on the same day as her death.
Pikeville - Mount
Crest - On a hill above the Mt Crest
Church of God there is an old broken down house where it is said that
if you sit in the field on a rainy day that you will hear horse
carriages running down the road. Also a family of four supposedly was
killed when their horse and carriage ran off the bluff above the old
house on their way back from church. It is said that you can hear their
screams and the wailing of the horse. Driving past the old house
you get a creepy feeling that something or someone unseen is watching
you.
Powell - Copper
Ridge Baptist Church - Reports of seeing
black figures, moving around inside, and you can hear screams up at the
old barn, about 75- 100 yards away from the church. Once a group of
boys went in with a tape recorder, and left it inside, while they
remained outside. On the way home they listened to the recorder, and
you can distinctly hear a little girl say " help us." The boys went
back and put the tape recorder in the church, overnight. Upon there
return, and listening to the tape, you can hear all kinds of things
moving around all night, and after the tape had been running for about
15 minutes, you can hear footsteps come up to the recorder and turn it
off. - October 2007 Update – The Church
has been demolished.
Purdy - Dodd
House - This house is located right down
the road from the Purdy Cemetery. It was the home of a confederate
soldier during the civil war. He was shot by another soldier during the
battle of Shiloh and died at the top of the stairs on the second floor.
It is said on certain nights the blood reappears and you can hear him
scream.
Purdy - Purdy
Graveyard - One of the oldest cemeteries
in West TN. Many apparitions seen and heard at the graveyard during the
night.
Roane - Oliver
springs - Colonial Hall - There is a
rumor that a little girl who died years ago haunts the place. she walks
up and down the stars saying she is cold. no one can explain who she is
or what she wants.
Rockwood - old
school house - This schoolhouse is a
single room building. It’s been told that the school caught fire many
years ago; there were several children that got burned to death. If you
stop at this school, its been told that you can hear children
screaming. If you take photos you can see a lot of unexplained things
such as faces of kids, mean dogs and such. The outside of the school
remains, the inside has been gutted, but is by no means empty.
Rugby - The
Town - A carriage will drive through the
town. The Episcopal Church is in the tour, and they still hold service
there on Sundays. Kingstone Lisle is also in the tour. In the buildings
on the tour you can take pictures but cannot use flash when you do.
Also, unfortunately, you cannot touch any of the books in the library.
All of the buildings are beautiful and there are a couple of cemeteries
included in the tour. For more information on the tours go to www.historicrugby.org
Rugby - The Big
South Fork National Park - The
newspaper, USA today did a story in 1997 on one of the houses that is
haunted by the ghost of a land agent who died there waiting for his son
to arrive. Rugby is a village that is the remnants of a failed
Victorian attempt at a utopian settlement there in the Cumberland
Mountains.
Rugby - Kingstone
Lisle Inn - This is the home of "The
snoring ghost", can only be entered during the tour. This is the house
that Thomas Hughes, founder of Rugby, built for his mother, there are
at least two. His mother and one they call "the snoring ghost". He
likes to pull the blankets back on the bed and evidently you can hear
him snoring.
Rugby - The
Library - The Library still has the
original first edition books that were brought over, including those
from Thomas Hughes himself. They say that the curator is still there
overlooking his books and his dog is still trying to get out the door
at night.
Rugby - Newbury
House Inn - there are a few. One is of a
man that killed his wife thinking she had cheated on him, then killed
himself. He was a nasty man.
Russellville - Morristown Block - The
business known as Morristown block was originally known as The Vaughn
Block Company, which formed in the 1930s. In the mid-60s, the company
secretary, who was engaged in a romantic affair with the owner
apparently committed suicide in the front office. Actually, it was
widely assumed that Mr. Vaughn killed the secretary who was also his
sister in law because of a possible pregnancy. People who have worked
late in the office have been known to hear a struggle between a man and
a woman and then a silence. Persons living across the street from the
block company in the house formerly owned by the secretary have
reported the presence of a woman who could be described as looking like
Mr. Vaughn's secretary. The spirit is not said to be evil, but very
watchful, especially when the seasons change.
Sale Creek - Shipley
Hollow in Sale Creek - For over a hundred
years, a glowing white figure has haunted the small road stretching
from the Mill Dam on Daughtery Ferry Road, right off of Highway 27, and
continues through Shipley Hollow Road. This white figure has been said
to have uninvited joined many hay and horseback rides.
Scarce Creek - scarce creek bridge - well
the story on this creepy bridge that a long time ago a women got hit by
a car and she took the blow so bad it snapped her neck and her head
went flying off and if you want to see her go to the bridge at midnight
with a full moon and come to a complete stop and do three steps step#1
honk your horn 3 times step#2 walk around your car 5 times step#3 roll
your window up and if your wondering how we came across the steps well
heres the answer the people that hit her honked the horn three times
and they never stopped so they hit her then they stopped and rolled the
window down and looked out then they got out and walked around the car
5 time thinking about what there were going to do then they got back in
the car and rolled up the window and left.
Scott County - Scott County Hospital - The
ghost of a hospital psychiatric patient who dove off the end of a bed
and killed herself is said to ride the elevators to the nursery to see
the newborn babies. Her name is Cora and she opens doors and knocks
items off of shelves. There was a report of someone seeing a woman
walking onto the elevator near the nursery. They yelled for her to hold
the elevator doors and when they walked into the elevator there was no
one there.
Sequatchie County - Grayson Manor - The
house of General Grayson is a very hot topic in Marion County. General
Grayson still walks through the halls and room upstairs. He was a
doctor during the civil war. It is said that he went crazy and stabbed
his wife and his children to death. While standing downstairs you can
sometimes hear footsteps in the bedroom upstairs (where General Grayson
hung himself after he murdered his family), and then you hear a loud
thud and then a creaking sound as if you hear him swinging from the
rafter.
Sevierville - Bluff
Mountain Old hotel site - Apparitions and
voices, a feeling of dread have been reported. - October 2003 Update - Popular in the 1920's. What few
people know about is the old cemetery a couple hundred feet off the
trail leading to the bluffs. Reason enough, some would say to see a few
spirits. The thing dates back to the 1790's when the bluffs were used
as a look out point for the continental army, watching for Indians
along the trade route, from North Carolina to what was the lost state
of Franklin(now Tennessee). A small post was there and they were
attacked by a rouge band of the peaceful Cherokee. Most were
slaughtered in there sleep.
Sevierville - The
Old Eledge House - It is said that Mr.
Eledge died of a heart attack in the house and has haunted the place
since it had happened. The lights flicker on and off at night and
noises are heard throughout the house. The noises are of Mr. Eledge and
his children talking and laughing. The basement of the house is haunted
by ghost of his children.
Sewanee - Dubose
Conference Center - In the last room on
the East hall a girl named Sidney is said to have hung herself in the
closet and haunts the room to this day. Many who stay in the room have
said they felt her presence. Also the previous caretaker Dr. Dubose is
said to haunt the grounds.
Sewanee - The
University of the South - Library - Headless Gownsman
apparently appears during homecoming on certain years.
Sewanee - The
University of the South - Tuckaway Dormitory - Tuckaway was an inn prior to being a dormitory. The
ghost there is supposedly that of a hunter who stayed at the inn and
was killed in a hunting accident. He appears to the last student to go
to bed in Tuckaway each night. Since so many students there literally
stay up all night for various reasons, there are few nights where
someone is the last to go to bed. Reports of the victim feeling hands
grab his throat and start to choke him.
Sewanee - The
University of the South - Walsh-Ellet Hall - Witnesses have heard footsteps come up the staircase
and continue into the corridor pause by the open door where I was
studying--felt an odd chill--then the footsteps continued down the hall
and down the staircase on the other side. In addition, there are two
enclosed staircases on the exterior of Walsh-Ellet Building on the Quad
and one is labeled 'UP' and the other is labeled 'Down' Many students
have heard & seen the gownsman (different from the gownsman in the
library. especially if they are going the 'wrong direction' on the
stairs.
Shelby County - Shelby Forest - there
has been a man seen in the woods several times known as Pigman when
approached he disappears he has a pig like face and others haunt this
wooded area too. its only likely that you'll see pig man at night but
carry a flashlight to see other strange things.
Shelbyville - Hillcrest
Cemetery - apparitions, and cold spots
recorded.
Shiloh - Shiloh
Battlefield - On the battlefield, there is
a pond known as "The Bloody Pond" where many injured and dying soldiers
went to cool their thirst during the heat of the day, during the Battle
of Shiloh. It is said that, on certain days, when the sun hits just
right, the water looks blood red; Just as it did during that battle.
There is also the ghost of a woman in a white dress, possibly the wife
of one of the soldiers or officers that helped nurse the men. She
appears to women and children who become lost and become saddened or
frightened by the battlefield. She is a helpful spirit who tries to
calm and soothe those who are in need of comfort or help, but quickly
disappears when someone else comes upon her and the person she is
trying to help.
Shiloh - Shiloh
National Military Park - Activity
occurring in the old caretakers house. Doors open and close
mysteriously. Cabinet doors open and close as well.
Shiloh National Military Park - Duncan Field - A number
of shadowy soldier-like figures have been spotted in the field at
night, appearing to be re-fighting the battle. They make no sound and
cannat be contacted. This has been witnessed by many people on multiple
occasions.
Signal Mountain - Mabit Springs - In the
woods if you go camping, late at night you can see a lone campfire. If
you walk towards it, you will hear a voice calling out your name. Walk
closer and you’ll see a grayish, dead-looking hand reaching out from a
shadowy tent. Step closer still and the hand will go in the tent. And
the body attached to it will come out. It is obviously the dead body of
a young boy with no legs. He will tell you his sad story and then beg
and plead you to join him in the woods forever then he will creep
forward on his hands and reach for your face. You can feel your body
being eaten. This is when you run.
Signal Mountain - Old Signal Mountain Elementary - In a former classroom, there is a loft where I have
seen a little girl in the old uniform, crying. She sobs, "My dolly! My
little rag dolly! It's burning!" The building, which is now a community
center, is over 100 years old.
Smith County - Billy Hollow RD - There
was a small private plane crashed between Billy Hollow RD and Dean Hill
Rd many years ago. There were four passengers and one pilot on board
the plane. One passenger was a woman and her infant baby.
Throughout the years, several different types of people have reported
hearing and seeing many strange things around those hills. The most
popular tale is that if you drive down Billy Hollow RD or Dean Hill RD
anytime after dark, you can hear either/or a baby crying or its mother
desperately trying to locate it. Other stories include sightings of
five strange-looking "people" walking alongside Billy Hollow RD. But
when you turn around and go back to get a better look, there is no one
around, and nowhere that they could have disappeared to so suddenly,
unless they simply vanished. Another story says that when you are
driving one one of the two roads, your car will suddenly die and as you
try to start it back it won't start. Then just as you start to panic,
your car roars to life once again. Yet another unexplained incident in
Tennessee's ghostly history.
Smyrna - Fate
Sanders Recreation Area - A few years
back, Some fishermen were walking to their car, when a little boy came
walking out of a trail. The boy told them that he got lost from his dad
and asked the men for help. One man went with the boy into the woods
just left of the parking lot, The other fisherman decided to stay with
the car. At around 2:30 am, the man heard the little boy laughing. So
he realized that the boy must have found his father. So he waited for
them to get back. He got back in his truck and sat for a little while.
Then he heard some rustling coming from the trail, and figured that it
was his friend. he looked over and didn't see anything. And then, right
beside the driver seat door he heard the little boy again, laughing.
When he got out he saw the boy standing at the trail again. Then the
boy told him that they found his father and that he should come and see
him. The man told the boy to go get his friend. The boy just kept
saying that his dad had something really neat to show him and that he
should go and see. The man turned on the truck and peeled out. Just as
he was leaving the area, he heard the boy laughing again off in the
distance, and his friend was never seen again. Since then there have
been many reports of hearing a little boy laughing coming from the
bushes at night.
South Pittsburgh - The Baumgartner house - Located
directly across the street from the cemetery. Built and owned by the
first undertaker of the town. Haunted by three family members. A woman,
probably the original owner's wife dressed in a blue dress, a dark
haired attractive man, and a slender tall man with a short hair cut
wearing a long john shirt and slacks. Seen frequently in rooms not
being used for a period of time and then used again. Ghosts here don't
seem to want to be noticed much. These ghosts interact with the
surroundings and are quite visible.
Suck Creek - In
the canyons of Suck Creek, there is a trail that leads up the mountain
to Printice Cooper, a local nature reserve, some nights on this trail
you can see and hear a man groaning, and walking aimlessly looking for
the men who killed him. The folklore tells of a slave, that tried to
escape to freedom, before he could get very far men on horses can and
beat him then hug him in a tree, the men came back to discover him
still alive. So they beat him until he died. Now he searches for
vengeance.
Sumner county - Portland - the big South
Tunnel train tracks - Believed to be haunted by the lady in white. She
has been seen in the woods around the tunnels and in people's yards
that live nearby. Seen in pictures as a bright white orb floating
through the woods.
Sunbright - Burntmill
bridge - People have recorded sightings
of a young girl walking back and forth across the old ran down
bridge(thats only about 25 feet high), looking for her father that
killed her and threw her over the bridge in the early 1960's. No one
ever reported her doing harm except one had said to seen her fall off
the bridge and and not make a splash when entering the water.
Sumner - Hendersonville
- One Man's Treasure - Former art
business. Given by former owner/resident and her two children
experiences. Upstairs area - a bedroom door that didn't fit, to where
you had to force it shut would open and close itself shut over and over
again. Middle room - Very loud knocking, scratching and a rush of
leaves heard in the wall (my daughter never stayed in the room after,
nor did her cat) A reflection of a women's face and a large bright
"orb". Photos can be viewed on www.hauntedsouls.com. Downstairs- On the
walls (made of hard plaster) through the hallway a dozen plus paintings
fell all at the same time onto the floor. In the restroom a 85% full,
give or take, roll of toilet paper unrolled itself completely.
Additional unexplained photos of the downstairs area can be viewed
also.
Surgoinsville - New Providence Church Cemetery - The Old White Oak as its called has many strange
things happen atop that mountain. Right off 11W in Surgoinsville. A
Black dog seems to watch over Captain Maxwell’s grave but disappears
right after sighted. Birds erupt at night if one gets within a few feet
of the Revolutionary soldiers grave and many have heard footsteps in
the leaves that walk along with them at night.
Sweetwater - Lost
Sea Cave - Here is said to be a Ghost of a
union Soldier who was killed while spying on Confederates in the cave,
another is a jaguar ghost, people have felt its tail brush against
them.
Tiptonville - Margaret
Newton Elementary School - Some have seen
in the storage room. Some in janitor’s room. She is not mean, but she
will hurt you she has thrown brooms and chairs at some of the kids.
Triune - Chapel
Hill - A long time ago a man was working
for a railroad company. He was looking out the window to try and
ascertain why the train was tilting, he fell off and was run over by
the train, his head was cut off. He's still on the job. What he is
doing is still trying to determine just what made the train tilt. All
you can see is a mysterious light going back and forth a few feet above
the ground. The light comes closer and closer then goes farther and
farther away.
Tullahoma - Forest
Gallery Shopping Center - Hastings entertainment store and a tsc - formerly - Old Walmart Building - Night shift crew would see black apparitions out of
the corner of their eye, report being tapped on the shoulder or pinched
on their backside. There where reports of seeing merchandise move off
pallets, fall of shelves and items disappear to reappear nowhere near
where the where to begin with. Strange music being played, seeing
strange faces in the security balls that hang on the ceiling. Hearing
screams and strange voices over the PA system. This store is no longer
the Wal-Mart, since it moved to a Supercenter.
Tullahoma - old
burnt down orphanage - If visiting the
orphanage or nearby lake, desperate cries for help are believed to be
heard by the children who were either burnt or drown to death.
Unicoi County - Jobe Cemetery - Jobe
Cemetery is said to be haunted by a spirit of a mean hobo that died
about 100 years ago he is said to still haunt this place and scare
local residence that dare visit the cemetery.
Union County - Union County court house - well they say that before today that there was a man
sentenced to death and they killed him and he has been haunting the
place forever the doors will open by thereselves.
Union County - Horace Maynard Middle School - Well this school is About 60 years old. But the
janitors were cleaning and they heard girls laughing. Sometimes they
will knock on the front door. Sometimes they can see the girls running
down the oldest (6grade) hall.
Wartburg - Pettit
Lane - There's a field on the right side
of the road. Collin's Field. If someone drives by at Midnight when
there's a full moon it is said, that there is a ghost of a slave that
once worked that field who murdered his owner's daughter. He can be
seen walking along waving around a pitchfork looking for his next
victim.
Wartrace - Walking
Horse Inn - Was the location where the
Union released most of the Confederate prisoners at the end of the war.
Many were very sick and malnourished, several have past away in the
hotel. Also in the 70's a Vietnam vet.(during a flash-back) shot and
killed four other guests in the hotel. You can hear walking and running
in the hallways, gunshots, and many voices (as in a group of people)
talking late at night. There are 13 rooms in the hotel; room 11 has a
very eerie feel to it, as though you are being watched.
Washburn - Arnwine
Cemetery - The cemetery is located about
10-15 miles on this old back road. As you go back the road gets narrow
and the tree limbs start to scratch the side of your car. When you
finally get back there, no one has been buried there since around 1903.
That is the latest date found. Reports of cars not wanting to start and
a woman appearing..
Washington - Bumpass
Cove Graveyard - Bumpass Cove Graveyard
is located off on a tall hill off Bumpass Cove Road way back to where
the road leads. It is said that a jeep crash took place there off the
side of a hill when a couple where sitting in a dirt spot beside the
circular graveyard, when the man knocked the car out of gear and it
tumbled down the mountain into the river. When the moon is full and at
Midnight, you drive around the graveyard 3 times, the Jeeps headlights
will appear and chase you a short distance. No color has been
identified, just the outline. One thing is for sure, it exists.
Washington - Johnson
City – Cherokee - dry creek - It has been
said that if you are out after dark that something will walk up behind
you. You can't see anyone but you can feel their presents. if you run
it will chase you but if you stop it will stop. Some people have
actually seen it. They have said that it looks like human with no face.
Whitwell - graves
creek - IN THE EARLY 80'S THERE WAS AN
EXPLOSION IN MINES #21 WERE 13 MINERS WERE KILLED. THEY SAY ON SOME
NIGHTS YOU CAN SEE THE MINERS COMING OUT OF THE GROUND WERE MINE #21
WAS LOCATED. MINE 21 HAS BEEN SEALED UP AND YOU CAN SEE THE WHEAT
LIGHTS OF THE MINERS COMING OUT OF THE GROUND AND THEN THEY JUST
DISAPER. WERE THEY GO NO ONE KNOWS
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