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Hell's Gates
Huntsville, Alabama
6.4 miles from New Hope, AL
Alabama is fond of getting into Hell it seems. Not only is there a Hell's Gates bridge, but there's also this place in Huntsville, which is also called Hell's Gates, which in reality, appears to be nothing more than a set of gates blocking a private driveway to some rich ...
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Cooley Cemetery
Guntersville, Alabama
8.9 miles from New Hope, AL
It is said that a mysterious fog covers this area day or night, and it surrounds the gravestones.
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Union Cemetery
Woodville, Alabama
10.3 miles from New Hope, AL
It is alleged that you can hear the screams of soldiers who died in the Civil War at this cemetery.
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Abbie's House
Guntersville, Alabama
12.7 miles from New Hope, AL
This home dates back to 1909 and is registered by the local historical society. All the locals know it as "Abbie's House," as it was built and lived in by Abbie Smith, who founded the United Methodist church in nearby Warrenton, AL. Many subsequent owners of the home ...
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Kent Robertson Park
Huntsville, Alabama
13.4 miles from New Hope, AL
The ghost of a boy who died there is said to haunt the park.
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Frat House - Heritage Bible College
Huntsville, Alabama
13.8 miles from New Hope, AL
At the WHBC frat house, they say former Youth Minister Anthony Stephens' spirit walks through the house later at night. He may flush the toilet as well. The spirits of his brethren Robert Ekisbus and Adam Cooper are said to follow Stephens' spirit around, mysteriously making a noise reported to ...
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Whole Backstage Theater
Guntersville, Alabama
13.9 miles from New Hope, AL
A pyromaniac ghost? That might be a first. Rumored to be haunted by an old man ghost with a fondness for flammables as well as a young boy who is often heard laughing.
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Cedarhurst Mansion
Huntsville, Alabama
15.3 miles from New Hope, AL
The Cedarhurst Mansion Estate was originally built in 1823 by Stephen Ewing. While visiting the house, a relative, Sally Carter, died of a short illness at the mansion in 1837. The first reports of a haunting was around 1919 after a teenage boy who slept at the house had a ...
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Dead Children's Playground - Maple Hill Cemetery
Huntsville, Alabama
16.6 miles from New Hope, AL
At this playground set up near the cemetery, the ghosts of children play and swing on the swingsets. Apparitions have been seen, and captured on film by paranormal society investigations; orbs have been reported as well. The swings sometimes can be seen swinging by themselves, and the sounds of laughter ...
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Maple Hill Cemetery
Huntsville, Alabama
17 miles from New Hope, AL
It is said that in one of the crypts stands an antique rocking chair, a favorite possession of a lady who was buried in her family crypt. Folks say that when you stand outside the crypt, you can hear the rocking chair rocking.
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Old Dallas Mill Site
Huntsville, Alabama
17.9 miles from New Hope, AL
Although the spot where the Dallas Mill was is now open field, legend has it was once haunted by a man who died while working there.
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Main Street Strip
Albertville, Alabama
21.4 miles from New Hope, AL
Apparently the entire length of Main Street is haunted by the ghosts of tornado victims. Residents hear screaming and footsteps and other ghostly sounds.
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Albertville Public Library
Albertville, Alabama
21.8 miles from New Hope, AL
An elevator that runs by itself. Water faucets that turn on and off. Are the former owners of this home-turned-library angry at the intrusion into their afterlives or just trying to say hello?
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Memory Hill Cemetery
Albertville, Alabama
22.2 miles from New Hope, AL
Just another haunted cemetery.
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Shelton Park
Madison, Alabama
22.4 miles from New Hope, AL
Locals tell a tale of playground sounds that can be heard at night: children laughing, playing and having fun. However, they say eventually the happy noises turn to unhappy ones, as if the children are screaming for their lives.
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Moody Brick House
Fackler, Alabama
28.2 miles from New Hope, AL
The current owners of the Moody Brick claim that the old plantation is definitely not haunted. However, that doesn't stop the tales from being told and retold. In the absence of documented fact, people are free to claim their own version of history and never is that more ...
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Cry Baby Hollow Bridge
Hartselle, Alabama
32 miles from New Hope, AL
Various urban legends have arisen around the claims that Cry Baby Hollow and the bridge going across it are haunted. A baby is said to have died there, either from murder, a car accident, a wagon accident from pioneer days, or variations on the theme. People claim to ...
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Woodland Hospital
Cullman, Alabama
37.1 miles from New Hope, AL
Although this hospital is now closed and operates a geriatric-psych ward, employees tell tales of "Homer" a ghost who roamsthe halls. He is known to flush toilets, independently operate ice machines and brush past people leaving them with chills. Both staff and patients of this former hospital have ...
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McCandless Hall - Athens State College
Athens, Alabama
37.4 miles from New Hope, AL
Reportedly haunted by the ghost of a young singer who died on the night of her greatest triumph. Having promised her adoring audience she would return, she was killed in an accident on the way. Shortly thereafter, sightings of a young woman in white roaming the hall began ...
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Founders Hall - Athens State University
Athens, Alabama
37.4 miles from New Hope, AL
According to legend, a female student was killed while she was trying to sneak out after curfew. They were holding candles, and her hair caught fire. It is to her that witnesses attribute the sound of footsteps, lights that turn on and off by themselves, cold spots, and a phantom ...
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Athens Limestone County Courthouse
Athens, Alabama
37.6 miles from New Hope, AL
The third floor of this historic courthouse formerly housed a row of cells, dating back to the early twentieth century. This floor is allegedly haunted by an inmate who hanged himself in one of the cells, where visitors have reported feeling a sad presence. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Gallant Children's Cemetery
Gallant, Alabama
38.2 miles from New Hope, AL
Visitors here may see ghostly children coming out to play.
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Mountain View Hospital
Gadsden, Alabama
38.6 miles from New Hope, AL
Strange noises and shadowy masses have been reported by numerous visitors to the hospital.
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Mount Pisgah Cemetery
Gadsden, Alabama
38.6 miles from New Hope, AL
You may see orbs and streaks of light from the active spirits at this cemetery across from Mount Pisgah Church.
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Haunted Bridge
Gadsden, Alabama
39.5 miles from New Hope, AL
Alabama has a lot of haunted bridges. A LOT. And when you are a state who apparently decides a bridge needs to be replaced with a new one, and then moves the old one to a brand new location you can kind of understand how lots of bridge wrecks and ...
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Hinds Road
Gadsden, Alabama
39.8 miles from New Hope, AL
Ah no backwoods town is complete without the story of the Witch in the Woods who sold her soul to the devil, lived in a shack (because if you sold your soul to the devil, all you'd want out of it was a shack in the middle of some hillbilly ...
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Dwight Mill Village
Gadsden, Alabama
40.6 miles from New Hope, AL
Dwight Mill Village is a housing development built by the Dwight Manufacturing Company to house workers for its cotton mill. An historical marker with a bronze bell mounted atop it is located at the intersection of Marston Avenue and Coolidge Circle. Numerous houses in this historical district have been ...
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Lucy's Afterlife Night Club
Gadsden, Alabama
42.6 miles from New Hope, AL
This night club housed in a 1903 historic building has a ghost named (you guessed it) Lucy. She is occasionally seen by staff and patrons wandering through the building, and is believed to be responsible for a variety of other paranormal activity reported. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Crestwood Cemetery
Gadsden, Alabama
45 miles from New Hope, AL
Rumored to be located on a former slave plantation, people claim that it is haunted by slaves who died there. The specific claim that is most often repeated is that of a hanged slave that appears in the trees.
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Coat's Bend Plantation House
Gadsden, Alabama
45.6 miles from New Hope, AL
This historic mansion is haunted by a former slave at the plantation house. Residents claim to have seen her standing in the courtyard of the mansion, staring up at them. A male resident was apparently attacked by a flying ghostly light that materialised in the private cemetery adjacent ...
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Desoto Falls
Mentone, Alabama
45.8 miles from New Hope, AL
The ghost of an old woman and her dog is said to wander the area around Desoto Falls. Allegedly the ghost of the old woman was angered at not having a properly marked grave after thieves stole her burial money so she wandered the hills. The legend has it that ...
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Coosa River Sea Serpent
Gadsden, Alabama
46 miles from New Hope, AL
The Coosa River is a hotspot for sea serpent sightings and reports of something odd inhabiting the river have been made for over a hundred years.
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Flatwoods
Steele, Alabama
46.7 miles from New Hope, AL
The woods along here is reportedly the site where a group of freed black slaves set up a settlement following the Civil War that was burned out and destroyed by the KKK. It is said to be haunted by the men and women who died during the raid.
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Old South Pittsburg Hospital
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
50.2 miles from New Hope, AL
The Old South Pittsburg Hospital was built in 1959 and is located on the foothill of South Pittsburg Mountain, in South Pittsburg, TN. The hospital was built on a solid Limestone rock, as its foundation and a natural spring running directly under the hospital and into the most Northwest part ...
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Auto Zone
Moulton, Alabama
50.4 miles from New Hope, AL
The land this was built on was at one time a cemetery. Allegedly there is a photo that shows a ghost in it.
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William B. Bankhead National Forest
New Hope, Alabama
57.7 miles from New Hope, AL
There are several websites out there that state something to the effect of "Aunt Johnson would hang anyone who trespassed on her property and the rope can still be seen to this day." Does no one ever stop to wonder precisely how a middle-aged woman would manage to hang a ...
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McFall Road Tunnel
Jacksonville, Alabama
58.8 miles from New Hope, AL
A narrow tunnel on McFall Road in Jacksonville Alabama where you can park your car and turn the headlights off. It is rumored that there are black figures that fade in and out of the shadows as your eyes adjust. (Submitted by Braden B.)
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Jazz Man - Second Creek Bridge
Rogersville, Alabama
59.5 miles from New Hope, AL
Urban legend tells of a man who was hit by a car and killed while walking across this bridge. His spirit has been seen wearing a white zoot suit, and he may try to catch a ride with you to Florence. If you agree to give him a ride, witnesses ...
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Hales Bar Marina and Dam
Guild, Tennessee
60 miles from New Hope, AL
Constructed in 1905 to tame the whirlpools along the Tennessee River, legend has it that the dam was cursed by Native Americans. Some say if visitors get too close, they'll be sucked in. Witnesses have seen eerie black figures and heard chanting, and some have seen apparitions of drowning Native ...
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Little Vine Cemetery
New Hope, Alabama
60.1 miles from New Hope, AL
Possibly among the most inane of haunted reports, people claim to see a green light in the cemetery at night.
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Piedmont Jacksonville Rd
Piedmont, Alabama
60.3 miles from New Hope, AL
This 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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Pinson Cemetery
Pinson, Alabama
60.5 miles from New Hope, AL
There's legend here of a ghost who does housework! That's right, allegedly there are sightings of a ghost... sweeping. Because after an entire life of drudgery and cleaning, that's how every woman wants to spend her afterlife.
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Dump Road - Old Chief Ladiga Trail
Jacksonville, Alabama
63 miles from New Hope, AL
Many 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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Winston County Courthouse
Double Springs, Alabama
63.5 miles from New Hope, AL
I worked there as a jailor in the county jail there in the old part when it was on the 2nd floor. Had several experiences: a padlock moving on its own, and you can feel like there are a lot of people in the hallways late at night when ...
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Moncrief Cemetery
Gardendale, Alabama
64.4 miles from New Hope, AL
Eerie screams have been heard and ghostly apparitions have been seen haunting the Moncrief cemetery.
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CEPA Building
Pell City, Alabama
66.1 miles from New Hope, AL
People in the performing arts claim to her crying of a little girl, and gets the reaction of a man who accidentally got hung when a play or any other event messes up. (Submitted by Amie)
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Camp Cottaquilla
Anniston, Alabama
66.1 miles from New Hope, AL
This 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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Fort McClellan
Anniston, Alabama
66.3 miles from New Hope, AL
Supposed 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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