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0Bonnie Castle
Grantville, Georgia
15.9 miles from Meriwether County, GABonnie Castle, now reported to be closed, was once a bed-and-breakfast inn. Ghosts reported here include a woman named Mary who dislikes electricity, a spectral cat, and a man who is said to be the original owner. Strange sounds have been reported coming from the building at all hours of ...
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Hanging Grounds in Senoia
Senoia, Georgia
21.8 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis site, off of Padgett Road, near Starr's Mill, once belonged to Old Man Padgett. Stories say that long ago, as an execution was taking place, the man broke loose and hanged Old Man Padgett from the railroad bridge nearby. Although the tracks are no longer used, phantom trains have ...
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Holliday-Dorsey-Fife House
Fayetteville, Georgia
31.2 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe ghost who calls this place home is believed to be John Manson Dorsey, a.k.a. “Manse” or “Manny,” flag bearer for the first company that left Fayette County during the Civil War.
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0Warren House
Jonesboro, Georgia
39.1 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe plaster has been stripped down in certain sections of this house to reveal the signatures of men who convalesced here during the Civil War when the house was used as a hospital. People believe that the ghost of a soldier still remains inside the Warren House and claim that ...
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0The McDonough Square
McDonough, Georgia
42 miles from Meriwether County, GAA train wreck in 1900 is said to be the source of the haunts here. Several of the injured were brought here for medical treatment, and some died. Locals have seen apparitions in the old nearby buildings and the sounds of phantom trains have been heard.
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Springer Opera House
Columbus, Georgia
43.5 miles from Meriwether County, GASpringer Opera House's stage has seen the likes of Oscar Wilde, Lillie Langtrey, John Philip Sousa, Ethel Barrymore, Will Rogers, William Jennings Bryan and Franklin D. Roosevelt. But that's not all. Edwin Booth, brother of Lincoln assassin John Wilkes Booth, is rumored to haunt the place. Other ghosts are thought ...
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Double Hill Road
Opelika, Alabama
44.9 miles from Meriwether County, GAReportedly haunted by a ghostly horse drawn carriage.
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0Spring Villa
Opelika, Alabama
47.9 miles from Meriwether County, GAAllegedly haunted by a former master of the house and slave owner who was killed by one of his slaves. Although this origin story is unlikely since the purported master died after slavery was abolished and also apparently of natural causes, many people are convinced the house is haunted, ...
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0Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge
Opelika, Alabama
48.1 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe original bridge was the site of a tragedy when a woman and her two children were crossing it in a car and the bridge collapsed. All three were killed. Urban legend has it that if you put candy on the bridge's edge at night, by the light of your ...
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Six Flags Over Georgia
Austell, Georgia
51 miles from Meriwether County, GAThere are many ghost stories surrounding Six Flags Over Georgia. Some say a blonde girl about 9 years old was hit and killed by a car in the 1970s, and she may appear and ask guests for help, only to disappear shortly thereafter. And at the Crystal Pistol Music Hall, ...
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Ellis Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia
52.5 miles from Meriwether County, GAIn 1946, a fire broke out in what was formerly the Winecoff Hotel, resulting in the deaths of 119 people. While the tragedy led to a reform in fire code safety, some of the victims are said to be here still. Apparitions of frenzied people appear in the halls, screams ...
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New American Shakespeare Tavern
Atlanta, Georgia
53.2 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe Shakespeare Tavern is said to be visited by spirits. Witnesses have reported disembodied voices, shadow figures and strange lights. Apparitions seen here include a young boy in an 1800s blue velvet suit, an old man in period clothing, and a woman who moves items around in the women’s dressing ...
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0The Masquerade
Atlanta, Georgia
53.8 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis night club is said to be visited by the spirits who died in fire and tuberculosis outbreaks long ago, both of which killed several members of the building's former staff. Apparitions have been seen and unexplained footsteps have been reported.
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Rock Building
Bremen, Georgia
54.1 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis clubhouse for the local tennis courts is believed to be haunted. Staff and members claim to have seen the apparition of a young man wandering the building after hours, who is believed to have drowned in the city swimming pool. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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0Old Train Depot
Auburn, Alabama
54.8 miles from Meriwether County, GAMany ghost websites make this ludicrous claim about the Train Depot: "It is said that if you go in there, no matter where you go, you always come back to the spot where you came in. " What does that even mean? How is that evidence of a ...
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Rhodes Hall
Atlanta, Georgia
55 miles from Meriwether County, GARhodes Hall, built in 1904 by founder of Rhodes Furniture Amos Rhodes, is rumored to be haunted by Mrs. Rhodes, who passed away in the home. Ghostly children have been seen and heard laughing here as well. But the scariest ghost here is the Shadow Man, said to reside in ...
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0University Chapel - Auburn University
Auburn, Alabama
55 miles from Meriwether County, GAOriginally haunted by a ghost dubbed "Sydney", the spirit of a Confederate soldier who died there. Sydney reportedly manifested in the 20's when an acting troupe took over the chapel and he began bedeviling them. Overactive theater students imaginations or evidence of an actual haunting, who knows, but reportedly ...
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0Lovelady Bridge
Camp Hill, Alabama
58.3 miles from Meriwether County, GAReportedly the site of a suicide or car accident in which a pregnant woman died. Apparently you can hear her crying at night on the bridge. (Photo courtesy of Steve Osborne)
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Pope-Walton House
Atlanta, Georgia
58.3 miles from Meriwether County, GAAlthough the site, once the Pope-Walton House and then Anthony's Fine Dining, is reported no longer to be in operation, it was rumored to be haunted by Annie Barnett, who was married here in 1882. The sound of ghostly children singing also has been reported.
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0Gaither Plantation
Covington, Georgia
59.4 miles from Meriwether County, GAAt this site, which was featured on an episode of TV's Ghost Hunters, folks have reported seeing many a Civil War soldier. There is also a female spirit in residence at the antebellum home, the ghost of Cecilia, the daughter of a former owner. Her bedroom is said to be ...
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Holt Cemetery
Auburn, Alabama
59.5 miles from Meriwether County, GAIt is said that photos taken here have turned up strange things after being developed, and those who leave tape recorders here will pick up the sound of someone singing.
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Sycamore Grill Building
Stone Mountain, Georgia
60.7 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe Sycamore Grill building, now empty, is a former Civil War hospital said to be haunted by its past patients. Witnesses have reported shadowy figures and apparitions in the dining area and heard strange shuffling sounds.
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0Village Inn Bed and Breakfast
Stone Mountain, Georgia
60.8 miles from Meriwether County, GAOnce used as a Civil War hospital, the 1830s hotel is the site of many strange events. Folks have witnessed apparitions, including that of an African-American man singing and/or whistling, and heard the unexplained sounds of footsteps, slamming doors and Morse code.
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1842 Inn
Macon, Georgia
62.4 miles from Meriwether County, GAA ghost, thought to be original owner John Gresham, has been seen in the Dogwood Room, and the ghost of a little girl has been seen in some of the other rooms. A third apparition, one of a tall blonde woman, has been seen in several places throughout the inn.
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Johnston-Felton-Hay House
Macon, Georgia
62.7 miles from Meriwether County, GABuilt in 1859, the house was converted into a museum in 1962 and donated to the Georgia Trust for Historic Preservation in 1977. The museum is said to be haunted; the apparition of an elderly woman in a mid-1800s dress has been seen in the hallways. Witnesses also describe cold ...
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Douglass Theatre
Macon, Georgia
63.2 miles from Meriwether County, GAAfter the theater underwent restoration, staff members noticed that occasionally the lights would grow dim for no apparent reason. The phenomenon is attributed to the theater's ghosts.
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Kennesaw House
Marietta, Georgia
63.5 miles from Meriwether County, GAOriginally built in the 1840s as a cotton warehouse, the place was a makeshift hospital and morgue during the war. Many TV shows have featured this site, where visitors who descended to the basement in the elevator saw an active wartime hospital room. Another ghost reported to reside here is ...
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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw, Georgia
65.4 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe Battle of Kennesaw Mountain, fought June 18 to July 2, 1864, is the source of the battlefield's hauntings. Ghostly soldiers walk the grounds; gunshots and cannons are heard. Also reported here are ghost deer who run at the witness and then disappear when they get close. The smell of ...
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0Tuskegee National Forest
Notasulga, Alabama
65.6 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe area is said to be haunted and cursed by devil worshippers who first used the area in the 1990s.
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Camp Watts - Confederate Graveyard
Notasulga, Alabama
68.5 miles from Meriwether County, GAYou may see the ghostly apparitions of soldiers here or in the surrounding woods. Their voices and sounds also have been heard.
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Little Gardens
Lawrenceville, Georgia
68.8 miles from Meriwether County, GANow a venue for upscale events, Little Gardens was once an 1800s plantation house. Its restaurant is said to be haunted by the ghost of a woman who died here in the early 1900s. According to witnesses, she moves dishes and silverware, sometimes throwing them across tables. She also makes ...
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Public House
Roswell, Georgia
69.9 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe Public House, known as Peasant Restaurant in the 1970s, was originally a commissary for the Roswell Mill constructed in 1854. The building housed the Dunwoody Shoe Shop in 1920 and a funeral home upstairs. It was a Union hospital during the Civil War, and as legend goes, is the ...
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Plains Historic Inn and Antique Mall
Plains, Georgia
71.7 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis quiet southern town was the birthplace of Jimmy Carter, and also boasts a supposedly haunted inn. The historic hotel formerly featured a funeral parlour on premises, but now houses delightful guest accommodation and a quaint antiques store with a variety of interesting displays, including local memorabilia. Apparently a ...
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0Windsor Hotel
Americus, Georgia
72 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis 1892 hotel once boasted 100 rooms and a 3-story atrium, but it closed in the 1970s. It has since reopened and now has 53 guest rooms. It was once the site of a 1928 speech given by Franklin D. Roosevelt, prior to his becoming governor of New York. The ...
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Tuskegee Army Airfield - Sharpe Airfield
Tuskegee, Alabama
73.7 miles from Meriwether County, GAThere is no trespassing allowed on this site, as it is owned by a hunting club. Signs posted here reportedly say "Anyone found here at night will be found here in the morning." It is said that the sound of a phantom explosion can be heard as well as the ...
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Hot Dog Heaven
Woodstock, Georgia
73.9 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe prankish ghost at this Hot Dog Heaven location is blamed for turning off the hot dog cooker and hurling buns out of locked bins in the middle of the lunch rush.
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0Camp Cottaquilla
Anniston, Alabama
77.4 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis haunted story falls firmly into the category of "urban legend". No doubt a bunch of girl scouts sitting around camp invented this one, because it doesn't even make the slightest bit of sense. The legend is this: every year during the week of Halloween a one-armed girl ...
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0Fort McClellan
Anniston, Alabama
78.6 miles from Meriwether County, GASupposed to be haunted. Your guess is as good as ours as to how or the particulars as we have not been able to uncover much, or any, info, however we will keep looking. If you find any actual documentation on this haunting, let us know.
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Dump Road - Old Chief Ladiga Trail
Jacksonville, Alabama
80.1 miles from Meriwether County, GAMany people claim to have seen many different ghostly things, primarily people in old-fashioned clothes walking the road, a possible former slave being hanged from atop an embankment. It is rumored that somewhere along the road is the site of a former slave quarter, from which horrible screams can ...
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Piedmont Jacksonville Rd
Piedmont, Alabama
82.1 miles from Meriwether County, GAThis is the Legend of The Ghost Bride Of Piedmont Jacksonville Rd. Legend has it that many years ago on Halloween, a young bride to be was getting ready for her wedding. When she went outside of her house she was attacked and dragged off to the other side ...
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Aqua Terra Bistro
Buford, Georgia
84.3 miles from Meriwether County, GAAt Aqua Terra Bistro, witnesses say coffee mugs and wine bottles fly off shelves, voices can be heard in the dining room, and EVPs and a ghostly apparition have been picked up by ghost hunters.
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1880's Josephine Hotel
Union Springs, Alabama
86.1 miles from Meriwether County, GAAlthough the historic hotel is no longer in service, it now is an art museum and a café. Ghostly voices and strange lights have been seen in the building after it has closed down for the night. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Braselton Town Hall
Braselton, Georgia
90.9 miles from Meriwether County, GAThe 1909 residence of the town's founding family is said to be haunted by a ghost called Little John, said to have been a mentally challenged boy who lived in the attic. He is heard walking around and banging when the place closes for the night. Also reported here are ...
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