The Sam Davis Home, now a house museum, was built around 1810 but was restored completely in 1850. Sam Davis himself lived here until 1860 and in 1863 he was hanged by the Union Army as a spy. Apparitions of a young man, believed to be Sam Davis’ brother Oscar, and sounds have been heard, including the sound of a woman crying where Sam Davis’ body was laid in state in the parlor. Footsteps, voices, and electronic voice phenomena, and electrical anomalies have been reported as well.
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Geographic Information
- Address:
- 1399 Sam Davis Rd
Smyrna, TN 37167
United States
Get Directions » - GPS:
- 35.988987, -86.49852199999998
- County:
- Rutherford County, Tennessee
- Nearest Towns:
- Smyrna, TN (1.2 mi.)
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Contact Information
- Web:
- http://www.samdavishome.org/
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We went there today for the first time. After returning to the parlor from the upstairs, we smelled a strong perfume and felt like we had walked into a freezer! We walked outside and then after talking about it we asked if we could go back into the parlor to snap a couple pics. I didn’t smell the perfume anymore but the room was still cold. I took 6-7 pics of the room. When we looked at the pics, there is a bird on the wallpaper pattern that appears a different color….amazingly different…from one pic to the next. Crazy!
The last time I went there I have seen 1 of the spirits looking out 1 of the windows . I seen the shape of the face and looked at a photo inside the museum it was the Grand mother Elizabeth I have seen
A historian who lectured at the Sam Davis home confirmed I have the only known photograph of the ghost of Eliabeth-Sam Davis’s grandmother. I lived in a rental home for 8 years on the grounds of the form slave cabins of the former Sam Davis plantation. I have videos, audio recordings and witnesses to the paranormal activity that occurred during the 8 years I lived there-up until the very last moments before relocating…. they apparently did not want to let me go. The movers were so freaked out-they refused to enter the home-I had to call several Christian friends over to help me finish moving.
Is there anyway we could see these pictures or recordings?!
A historian who lectured at the Sam Davis home confirmed I have the only known photograph of the ghost of Eliabeth-Sam Davis’s grandmother. I lived in a rental home for 8 years on the grounds of the former slave cabins of the former Sam Davis plantation. I have videos, audio recordings and witnesses to the paranormal activity that occurred during the 8 years I lived there-up until the very last moments before relocating…. they apparently did not want to let me go. The movers were so freaked out-they refused to enter the home-I had to call several Christian friends over to help me finish moving.