Shadowlands Haunted Places Index - Georgia In Georgia Warning Any places listed in the Haunted Places requires permission to visit or investigate. Many of the places are patrolled by the authorities, trespassers will be prosecuted. Acworth - Allatoona Battlefield - Gunshots, voices, strange orbs of light, ghost train. Orbs of light by old grave of unknown Confederate soldier have been reported. Temperature drops about 10 degrees in old train bed. Also gunpowder can be smelled. Acworth - Allatoona Lake - Shots of thunder when sunny outside. Sighting of transparent glowing ghosts by Windy Water's grave. And there is a part of the Allatoona Lake named Windy Waters people have looked in the water of there and seen her. Acworth - Hickory Grove Subdivision - Sound of light footsteps, assuming a child, running down the hall. The sound of doors slamming loud enough to wake a sleeping adult and strong enough to feel a vibration on a wall has been reported. The sounds of chairs moving in the kitchen and the icemaker being used have been heard. Furniture moving in the basement office, sounded like banging of a metal file cabinet. A live two-year old running out of his room saying "Mommy, scaredy me!" when his mother goes to his room with him he says " Scaredy go way." Adairsville - Barnsley Gardens - The ghost of the late Julia Barnsley is said to roam throughout the gardens and grounds of Barnsley Gardens. - The property is patrolled by security at night and any chance of investigating would have to be approved by the people at Barnsley. Adairsville - Barnsley Gardens - The Adair House - There is a little girl that many people have seen on the property and she is usually seen in the Adair house and turns the lights in the attic on and off. The employees have left toys in the attic and they will be in one spot when they leave that day and when they return the next morning they will be moved. Many employees have reported seeing a figure matching the description of Godfrey Barnsley in the cottages at night, he was the owner of the property in the 1800's. - The property is patrolled by security at night and any chance of investigating would have to be approved by the people at Barnsley. Adairsville - Barnsley Gardens - The Rice House - In the Rice House there have been reports of doors opening and closing and a man in a suit and top hat has been seen by a few people with his arms crossed and staring at you. In a couple of the cottages that were moved in from other locations there have been many ghostly phenomena that occurred and reported by guests. - The property is patrolled by security at night and any chance of investigating would have to be approved by the people at Barnsley. Albany - Stone Gardens - formerly listed on this site as Adams Family Graves - The Adams Family Graves are located on a dirt road near the Baker County line. - December update: The following was submitted in the past - It is a small family grave yard that also has four unknown civil war soldiers graves. No one knows if the graves belong to confederate or union soldiers. Those are the graves of 3 adults and a child, along with the Adams family members; all marked. - Driving down the road you can hear moaning and see things moving in the woods but when you reach the grave yard you hear nothing and see nothing except the graves. If you sit in your car for a while you can see people enter the graveyard and hear them talking. then they disappear and you hear and see nothing again. - December 2003 additional information - this area is patrolled by the police and you will be arrested for trespassing. Albany - 7 churches (Hardup dr.) - Its a long dirt road, originally w/ 7 churches but you only see 4. People have sited a little girl in a white dress walking down the road and many different ghosts. There has also said to be in the 4th church that if you try to take the bible away then it will not let you out. There have been many sites of pure evil spirits. - December 2003 update - this area is patrolled by the police and you will be arrested for trespassing. Albany - Turner Field Naval Hospital - An old abandoned mental hospital. It is believed to be haunted by souls that were tortured in the basement of the hospital. There is the stench of blood as you walk in and you can see spirits roaming the grounds. There is also a tunnel in the basement, but no one has ever been to the end of it. If you go to this hospital you will have to park your car in the front of the hospital and walk around it to the back where there is an opening in the fence. It is located off of Turner Rd. Near Kramardie beach. - January 2007 correction: The haunting of the supposed Turner Field Naval Hospital is a rumor. There was never actually a mental hospital at the naval station. There was a small doctor's clinic, but that was all. There is currently a job corps facility using the site. March 2008 correction to the January 2007 Correction: Several years ago a large figure was reported to move at the end of the hallway, when everyone was accounted for. On another visit, there was a report of something invisible rushing past witnesses. Alpharetta - Hopewell School - Apparently it was shut down in the 70's after 7 elementary school children were killed by a poisoning. A strange presence is all throughout the old school, which has been abandoned ever since then. - March 2008 update Has been torn down. Alpharetta - the old Food Giant - A lady's body was found by the Alpharetta police department in the woods behind the old food giant store, The lady seems to be angry about something cause her spirit lurks the area! There has been several times and reports of screaming coming from the wooded 2 acre lot. The Alpharetta police look but never seem to find any evidence of fowl play in the woods, they stay puzzled wondering and waiting for the next...The events have happened at 12:00am on random nights. The Alpharetta police say she only strikes at midnight! Altamaha Swamp - (Near the city of Jesup) – Rock Oven - The spirits of Native Americans can be heard performing scared rituals inside the caves. Mysterious green lights roam the swamp. Americus - Leigh Bell Road or 3 Bridges Road - A girl has been seen and heard walking across the bridge at night. Americus - old hospital - Object being thrown, strange lights flashing . !!WARNING!! - NO TRESSPASSING - THE POLICE WILL BE CALLED Americus - Windsor Hotel - Legend says that the ghost of a little girl, daughter of a former housekeeper, runs laughing at night. Both the housekeeper and the little girl lived at the hotel and were pushed down the elevator shaft in the early 1900 s. On the third floor you can feel the presence of a little girl. You can also hear a woman's voice and the cry of a baby. Andersonville - Andersonville Prison - Camp Sumter - Re enactors experienced a fog, shadows, and a feeling of welcoming (the Re enactors were in Federal, or Union uniform) also cold spots by Providence Spring and Stockade Creek Andersonville - Andersonville prison cemetery - a civil war re-enactor, for the CSA reports while they were in Andersonville they were visiting the Drummer Boy museum. while in there a woman came in and said that last year, she and her husband were leaving the cemetery, which closes at 5 pm. She said that she was just scanning the scene one more time and that she saw a man on a crutch. He was missing a leg and wearing a confederate uniform standing beside one of the graves. she asked her husband if he saw it, not taking her eyes off the man. she pointed to her husband and he too saw it. at first they thought it was a re-enactor, but they were all at the camp. when they passed the spot, the man looked in his rear-view mirror and no one was there. Andersonville - Andersonville Civil War Prison - The feeling of people reaching out to you with outstretched arms. You feel despair, suffering and so much death. Appling County - Surrency - The Surrency Ghost Light is said to be seen on a long deserted railroad track which sits low under a bridge on Highway 341. The old story is told many ways, but the most popular is of a husband and his wife that lived next to the tracks. One night after a heated argument, the wife ran blindly out of the house and down the tracks. She was hit and killed by an oncoming train. Witnesses today say they can see the light of the man on the tracks trying to find his long dead wife. Some have even claimed to see the silhouette of a lady with long blond hair walking down the tracks at night. - October 2004 update: The locals call her the blue lady. This is also the Wayne County - Jesup Spooklight - listed below. it can be seen in both places along the tracks. Athens - Old Athens Cemetery - Cold spots found all over in this early 1800's cemetery. Around the Conger family plot tends to be the strongest. Also feelings of not being alone have been reported. Athens - Clarke County - Birthday cake house - There is a sorority house in Athens GA. That is in the shape of a birthday cake. It has black surrounding stairwells, and the house is white. In 1979 a sorority girl committed suicide in her room at the top floor after her new fiancé broke the engagement. Every year since in the same room where a girl resides. She becomes engaged over the corresponding year. Even son still woman's apparition is seen and heard in the hallway of her floor. Still to this day the same sorority resides in this residence on Miledge Ave. Atlanta - Donaldson House - cold spots and footsteps are reported here. Atlanta - Dunwoody - Brook Run - in the back of the park is a gated off area, when inside go down the road and go in the building on the right. There is a huge abandoned building that was a home for the mentally challenged. There are various areas with temperature changes, an extremely strange aura to the place, and pictures will reveal orbs. cold spots on first and second floor, footsteps heard, doors open and close, and banging sounds on the walls. The most haunted is the 3rd floor it many believe a little boy hunts it. - March 2008 update Has been torn down Atlanta - Fox building - The face of a Confederate private has been photographed in a window. Atlanta - Hi-Fi Buys Amphitheater - Years ago a rock singer was killed on stage by a gunshot that come from the stadium. His spirit stills walks thru the seating area. Some have said that you can feel his hand on your neck. Atlanta - The Masquerade - After-hours people have spotted the ghost of a tall black man wandering around inside the club. Heavy music amplifiers are found turned upside down. Also unexplained footsteps, cold spots, and unearthly screams are heard around the backstairs. The nightclub is rumored to be frequented by true vampires. It is said that a vampire actually lives on the premises. The building was once a textile mill where several young girls died in accidents and others developed tuberculosis because of the dangerous working conditions. Shrieks, footsteps and other noises are frequently heard during non-business hours on the back stairs, where cold spots are often felt. The building has been the site of a number of freak accidents including fires and structural collapses. Atlanta - Metropolitan Ave. - There's a bridge right over Metropolitan Ave by University St. It's said that a young lady in a white dress stands under the bridge looking for a ride home. When one picks the woman up and takes her home, she gets out the car and says Thanks for the ride. Then she vanishes in thin air. Most people that pick this young lady up usually goes to the door of the young women house to make sure she made it in or where she went to. But when the door opens, it is the woman's mother and she tells the people that every year someone comes to the house to drop off her daughter. The girl is her daughter who had been killed in a horrible car accident 10 years ago under a bridge on Metropolitan St. formerly known as Stewart Avenue. Atlanta - Oakland Cemetery - This cemetery is the resting place for 3,000 to 4,500 confederate soldiers that died during Sherman's Invasion of Atlanta. In one section of the cemetery is a statue of a large wounded lion in honor of The Unknown Confederate Soldier. People hear a disembodied voice giving "The Roll Call of Dead", somberly calling out the names of the long dead soldiers. Atlanta - The Shakespeare Tavern - During a production of Henry IV Part I in 1993, the actor playing Falstaff suddenly came from the men's dressing room, very shaken. He had seen a very young boy dressed in a velvet suit much like children wore in the 1800's beside his dressing table. Others have seen passing images and odd lights over the years. Sometimes when the theater is pretty much deserted, voices will be heard, as if a group is meeting together. There is a room in the top level of the building that sensitive people will not enter, because it is clammy and the energy feels terrible in there. An old man has been spotted on a couple of occasions. A female energy once warned of a fire, and sometimes upsets things in the women's dressing room. Occasionally a shadowy figure can be seen on the catwalk above the stage. Atlanta - Six Flags - People have seen a little girl wondering around pretending like she is lost. If you follow her she will lead you so far into the woods you won't be able to find your way back, then you will turn around and she will vanish! Atlanta/Fulton - Anthony's Restaurant - Old mansion, now high-class restaurant. Dishware flying across the restaurant has been reported. Large orbs can be seen on film. People that "were never there" play tricks on the surrounding grounds. Voices heard when you're alone. The feelings of cold sensations when you pass through doorways, and hand on your back are strong. Augusta - Augusta State University - Augusta State University was a civil war headquarters and behind the Admissions office (a converted antebellum mansion) there is a small cemetery of the Walker family and there have been sightings of a man dressed in a confederate uniform walking across the campus and disappearing into the cemetery. Augusta - Augusta State University - Bellevue Hall - The ghost of Emily Galt is said to haunt the building. Emily etched her name ("Emily Galt, 1816") in the glass of one of the windows before her fiancé left and was killed, in the Civil War. Finding out her betrothed was dead; she threw herself out of one of the upper windows, and died. It's said at night you can hear the two lovers arguing over whether or not he should go off to battle. Phones and TVs mysteriously go haywire. The widow still exists and is in storage at the university. Augusta - Augusta State University - Benet House - Footsteps upstairs, strange sights in mirrors and the sounds of rocking chairs and doors slamming by themselves. Augusta - Partridge Inn - People have witnessed the ghost of a young girl in a 1800s style wedding dress. They say a young girl (named Emily) died there of a broken heart, after her fiance was killed. Augusta - Pendleton King Park - Small cemetery in the park belongs to the Bugg family. The park is the former site of the Bugg Plantation, purchased pre-1842 by Judge John P. King and donated to the city by his son, Henry King, upon his death. Reports have been made for years involving a white figure that darts in and out of the trees surrounding the brick walled cemetery, and in and out of the cemetery itself. There are also tales of a Camellia bush that grew beside the old mansion (now burned down), it would bloom profusely in warning of the coming death of one of the King family. Augusta - The Pillar - There is a round pillar that stands about eight feet tall on a corner of Broad street in downtown Augusta that is said to be the remains of the old slave market from years ago. On several occasions, this pillar is scheduled to be removed for development, but on each occasion the person who was supposed to remove it died unexpectedly. A few years ago a driver lost control of his car and bumped into the pillar. He was dead in his car when the police arrived, but the accident was not life threatening. It is said that a slave put a curse on the pillar to which he was tied as he was being sold. For whatever reason, the pillar still stands alone with nothing else around it on the corner of Broad Street. Austell - Six Flags Over Georgia - Amoco Gas Station in Parking Lot - The Amoco gas station in the parking lot at Six Flags over Georgia is haunted. Apparently a little girl about 9 years old with blond hair was hit and killed by a car in the early 70's. Today guests report seeing a little 9 year old girl come running up to them crying "Mommy, Mommy, Please help me find my Mommy!". The guests usually think this is a typical lost child. The guests agree to take the girl to someone to find her mommy and proceed with her. They get no more than 10 yards when they notice the little girl has completely disappeared and is nowhere in sight. Some people have actually gotten a photo of the little girl. Austell - Six Flags Over Georgia - Crystal Pistol Music Hall - According to legend, back in 1967 when Six Flags over Georgia first opened; an actor by the name of "Joe" was to star in the opening number for the very first show at the Crystal Pistol. Due to unfortunate circumstances, Joe was killed in an automobile accident on his way to work. Apparently, Joe is still waiting to perform that number. Several sightings have occurred in the Crystal Pistol of a man who stands at the edge of the balcony and watched performances that are currently being put on. Orbs have been found in photographs taken inside the music hall. After closing, many employees will hear a man singing backstage even though there is nobody back there. Employees have also found props missing from the stage and later find the props next to the Railroad tracks, which run beside the theater. Austell - Six Flags Over Georgia - Six Flags Over Georgia Railroad - It is believed that the Six Flags Over Georgia Railroad is haunted. Apparitions have been seen walking across the Lickskillet Railroad Bridge. The apparitions are dressed like from the 1800's wear but since the park has only been there since 1967 the spirits are likely those from the train robbery which was put on each train ride back in Six Flags' early history. No noise comes from the apparitions, however. They just walk by as if going to wait for the next train to come by so they can have their hourly shoot-out with the conductor and the engineers. Austell - railroad tracks of Thornton Rd - a pale figure rides a horse late at night and will chase you to a certain point. Austin - Old St. Mary's- A man named Jack Peacock died in a house by a heart attack. His children were on vacation when it happened. He was not found until two days later. The family who occupy it has seen him in the house. The mother sees images in the middle of the night. Mostly she sees a young girl, possibly one of Jacks kids. She looks like Marsha Brady w/ long, straight, blonde hair wearing 60's clothing. Sometimes she sees people climbing through the window, even though the bedroom is on the second floor. To this day she is grateful not to see anything paranormal for just one night. Bainbridge - New Enterprise Freewill Baptist Church - People have seen a ball of fire hovering over the cemetery, and then in the next few days a new grave will need to be dug. People have also seen a large ghostly black dog with a blood-curdling howl that doesn't leave any tracks. Barnesville - Sappington Cemetery on Bush Road - Full-body apparitions have been seen here, footsteps heard in the gravel inside the cemetery, cold-spots that measured at below-zero temperatures, one person even reported feeling a hand touch her shoulder. Barnesville - The Walking Path - Behind the Gordon College Commons, adjacent to the baseball fields is one the scariest places in Georgia. All one need d… truncated (115,619 more characters in archive)