If you like haunted places, then you will love this list we found over at Southern Living. Halloween road trip, anyone?
1. Pratt Hall of Huntingdon College in Montgomery, Alabama
Huntingdon College (photo above) appears to be an idyllic and peaceful campus, but a mysterious figure haunts the corridors of Pratt Hall: the Red Lady. She’s the star of Kathryn Tucker Windham’s Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey, a compilation of short stories packed with Southern folklore and ghostly tales. According to legend, an undergraduate woman slit her wrists in Pratt Hall one fateful night while wearing a red robe. Students claim to have seen a red apparition floating down the hallways and heard the clicking of the Red Lady’s high heels.
2. Moon River Brewing Company in Savannah, Georgia
You’ve probably seen Moon River Brewing Company on Ghost Hunters. In the ghoul-packed Savannah, this establishment tops the city’s most-haunted list. The building originally served as a hotel in the early 1800s until the Union army captured Savannah during the Civil War, and it was later transformed into a hospital for yellow fever outbreaks. Today, bar goers and employees alike have encountered the supernatural at Moon River Brewing Company, such as shadows dancing on the walls or bottles thrown off the shelves. Play a round of pool with Toby, the spirit who haunts the billiards room.
3. Battery Carriage House Inn in Charleston, South Carolina
The Battery Carriage House Inn deems itself as the most haunted hotel in Charleston, South Carolina. Guests have reported sightings of a headless torso of a Confederate soldier. Others have witnessed a supernatural glow coming from the bathroom that shifted into different shapes and sizes. Perhaps you’ll have to stay for a night and see the spirits for yourself.
4. Waverly Hills Sanatorium in Louisville, Kentucky
Major Thomas Hayes purchased this piece of land in the 1830s to build a school for his daughters. He named the establishment “Waverly School,” which, in turn, created the name for the property’s entirety. Major Hayes later sold Waverly Hills to the Board of Tuberculosis, who opened a sanatorium in the early 1900s. A tuberculosis epidemic swept through Kentucky soon after, and a multitude of patients flooded into the hospital for treatment and isolation. Waverly Hills transformed into a community of its own; all who entered the infected zone—either as a patient, nurse, or doctor—were not allowed to reenter the outside world. The souls of the deceased linger in the ruins, even in death not allowed to escape and return home.
5. Lafittes Blacksmith Shop Bar in New Orleans, Louisiana
Built in the early 1720s, Lafittes Blacksmith Shop Bar may be the oldest bar in the country. Brothers Jean and Pierre Lafitte used their establishment to smuggle contraband into New Orleans from foreign merchants and avoid income taxes. Located on Bourbon Street in the French Quarter, the interior decor maintains its original candlelit atmosphere. Patrons might have had too much of the bar’s grape “voodoo” juice, but many have reported sightings of the ghost of Jean Lafitte lurking in the shadows.
We only listed 5 of Southern Living’s picks for haunted places in the South–to read the complete list, visit Southern Living.
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