Kenworthy Hall — the haunted tower room of Marion, Alabama

Kenworthy Hall near Marion, Alabama, is a Greek Revival plantation house built in the 1850s that features a distinctive fourth-floor tower room, which is the focus of the building's ghost legend. According to local tradition, a young woman was confined to the tower room by her family — either because of mental illness or because she had fallen in love with an unsuitable man — and she died there, either by her own hand or from neglect. Her ghost is said to remain in the tower, and visitors to the property have reported seeing a light in the tower window when the room is known to be empty. Some have described seeing a woman's silhouette standing at the window, looking outward. Those who have entered the tower room describe an intense feeling of claustrophobia and sadness that is not present in other parts of the house. The temperature in the room is said to be noticeably colder than the rest of the building, even during Alabama's hot summers. The house changed hands multiple times and has fallen into various states of repair and disrepair over the decades. The tower room legend has been documented in several collections of Alabama ghost stories and is well-known throughout Perry County.