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Ghost & Haunting Reports in Alabama

6 nightmarks documented

6 ghost and haunting reports in Alabama

Ghosts & Hauntings

Sweetwater Mansion — Civil War ghosts of Florence, Alabama

Sweetwater Mansion, Florence, Alabama·1990s

A Confederate soldier still guards the porch of this 1828 Alabama mansion — both armies occupied it, and both may have left spirits behind.

Ghosts & Hauntings

Sturdivant Hall — the banker's ghost haunts Selma, Alabama

Sturdivant Hall, Selma, Alabama·1853

Banker John Parkman died escaping prison and returned to the mansion he'd lost — his anxious ghost paces the upstairs parlor and watches from the window.

Ghosts & Hauntings

Kenworthy Hall — the haunted tower room of Marion, Alabama

Kenworthy Hall, near Marion, Alabama·1850s

A woman imprisoned in the fourth-floor tower room died and never left — her silhouette still watches from the window of this Alabama plantation house.

Ghosts & Hauntings

The Boyington Oak — the tree that grew from a dead man's grave in Mobile, Alabama

Boyington Oak, Church Street Graveyard, Mobile, Alabama·1835

Charles Boyington swore a tree would grow from his grave to prove his innocence — it did, and his ghost still proclaims the truth beneath its branches.

Ghosts & Hauntings

The Red Lady of Huntingdon College — Alabama's scarlet apparition

Pratt Hall, Huntingdon College, Montgomery, Alabama

She wore only red, painted her room red, and died surrounded by crimson — now the Red Lady walks Pratt Hall in her scarlet robe.

Ghosts & Hauntings

The ghost ship Elizabeth on the Tombigbee River, Alabama

Tombigbee River, near Pennington, Alabama·19th century

A phantom sidewheel steamer moves through the fog on the Tombigbee River — passengers call for help from the water, but the ship dissolves before anyone can reach it.