Haunted Places in Oxford, Alabama



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    Parker Memorial Baptist Church

    Anniston, Alabama

    3.2 miles from Oxford, AL

    In researching the Parker Memorial Baptist church, I found what is quite possibly the most hilarious entry of ghostly hauntings ever. On a "ghost website" it is proclaimed that the Parker Memorial *BAPTIST* church is haunted by, and I quote, "a nun who killed herself in the main hallway". ...


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    The Victoria Inn

    Anniston, Alabama

    3.5 miles from Oxford, AL


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    Stringfellow Memorial Hospital

    Anniston, Alabama

    3.8 miles from Oxford, AL

    Reportedly haunted by a ghostly organ player who plays the chapel organ in the wee hours of the morning.


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    Fort McClellan

    Anniston, Alabama

    8.2 miles from Oxford, 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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    Bethlehem United Methodist Church

    Munford, Alabama

    10.6 miles from Oxford, AL

    People claim to see orbs rising over the cemetery attached to the church.


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    Gravity Hill

    Munford, Alabama

    10.9 miles from Oxford, AL

    This gravity hill can be found on Cheaha Road. In case you aren't familiar with the phenomena of Gravity Hills these occur when an optical illusion makes it appear that your car is rolling upward on a hill, when in fact, you are rolling down. The phenomena can ...


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    Camp Cottaquilla

    Anniston, Alabama

    12.5 miles from Oxford, 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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    Dump Road - Old Chief Ladiga Trail

    Jacksonville, Alabama

    15.1 miles from Oxford, 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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    McFall Road Tunnel

    Jacksonville, Alabama

    16.5 miles from Oxford, 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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    Cemetery Mountain

    Talladega, Alabama

    17.3 miles from Oxford, AL

    If it's called Cemetery Mountain, well it just has to be haunted. You can't have a place called Cemetery Mountain and it not be haunted, that would be un-American. It's called Cemetery Mountain, and it's spooky and there are a lot of cemeteries there. So it's haunted. ...


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    Piedmont Jacksonville Rd

    Piedmont, Alabama

    21.2 miles from Oxford, 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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    Coosa River Sea Serpent

    Gadsden, Alabama

    25.7 miles from Oxford, 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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    CEPA Building

    Pell City, Alabama

    26.6 miles from Oxford, 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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    Crestwood Cemetery

    Gadsden, Alabama

    27 miles from Oxford, 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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    Lucy's Afterlife Night Club

    Gadsden, Alabama

    29.1 miles from Oxford, 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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    Coat's Bend Plantation House

    Gadsden, Alabama

    29.9 miles from Oxford, 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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    Dwight Mill Village

    Gadsden, Alabama

    30.8 miles from Oxford, 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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    Hinds Road

    Gadsden, Alabama

    31.8 miles from Oxford, 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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    Flatwoods

    Steele, Alabama

    32.7 miles from Oxford, 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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    Haunted Bridge

    Gadsden, Alabama

    33.2 miles from Oxford, 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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    Mountain View Hospital

    Gadsden, Alabama

    33.4 miles from Oxford, AL

    Strange noises and shadowy masses have been reported by numerous visitors to the hospital.


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    Gallant Children's Cemetery

    Gallant, Alabama

    35.5 miles from Oxford, AL

    Visitors here may see ghostly children coming out to play.


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    Mount Pisgah Cemetery

    Gadsden, Alabama

    35.6 miles from Oxford, 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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    Gravity Hill

    Sylacauga, Alabama

    39.4 miles from Oxford, AL

    One of those interesting phenomena, this Gravity Hill can be found just west of Fulton Gap Rd on Gravity Hill Lane/U.S. 280.


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    Rock Building

    Bremen, Georgia

    40.4 miles from Oxford, AL

    This 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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    Birmingham Racecourse

    Birmingham, Alabama

    47.6 miles from Oxford, AL

    The racecourse was built over the top of an ancient American Indian burial ground. Staff working late hours have reported seeing shadowy figures standing out on the racecourse. Maniacal laughter and voices have been heard in the stables, and phantom hoof beats and winning has been heard on various parts ...


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    Bass Cemetery

    Birmingham, Alabama

    48.3 miles from Oxford, AL

    Screams are heard and a heavy presence is felt.


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    Pinson Cemetery

    Pinson, Alabama

    48.7 miles from Oxford, 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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    Sturdivant Mansion

    Jacksons' Gap, Alabama

    48.7 miles from Oxford, AL

    Nothing but a few walls remain of Sturdivant mansion except rumors of the ghosts that resided there. The ruin in the woods is reportedly haunted, though reports as to the exact nature of the haunting differ. There is a legend that a madman once slaughtered every person inside ...


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    Memory Hill Cemetery

    Albertville, Alabama

    49.2 miles from Oxford, AL

    Just another haunted cemetery.


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    Albertville Public Library

    Albertville, Alabama

    49.6 miles from Oxford, 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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    Main Street Strip

    Albertville, Alabama

    50 miles from Oxford, 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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    Old Courthouse

    Columbiana, Alabama

    53.8 miles from Oxford, AL

    The ghost that occupies the upper floor of the apparently likes sunlight as it has a tendency to open closed blinds. People claim to hear knocking and other unexplainable noises and one person claims the ghost operated a typewriter and corrected a typing error she had made(??).


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    Oakachoy Covered Bridge

    Alexander City, Alabama

    54.3 miles from Oxford, AL

    Vandals burned the bridge down a few years ago, but it was reported that it was haunted by a slave who was hanged nearby.


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    Sloss Furnaces

    Birmingham, Alabama

    55.5 miles from Oxford, AL

    A National Historic Landmark, Sloss furnaces is not only a testament to a burgeoning industrial age, but a ghostly witness to the untold suffering of its workers. More than 60 people died, often gruesomely, at Sloss Furnaces and legend has it that some of those workers till remain, chained forever ...


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    Hotel Highland - Pickwick Hotel

    Birmingham, Alabama

    55.9 miles from Oxford, AL

    Formerly the Pickwick Hotel, a 1950s creation named after an even older historic spot, the Pickwick Club, the Hotel Highland may have a ghost that comes from its historic past when it was a medical building. Witnesses say a ghostly nurse haunts the hotel.


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    Redmont Hotel

    Birmingham, Alabama

    56.3 miles from Oxford, AL

    The ghost of a woman in white who passed away in the hotel has been seen on the ninth floor of the hotel. The ghost of a small dog is seen in the hallways of the hotel, as well as the ghost of former owner Clifford Stiles. The most famous ...


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    The Tutwiler Hotel

    Birmingham, Alabama

    56.4 miles from Oxford, AL

    A mischievous ghost is said to turn on the lights and appliances. Although legend attributes the haunting to Colonel Tutwiler, it is highly unlikely, since the current location of the Tutwiler hotel is not the same as the one that originally bore his name and therefore, it is unlikely ...


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    Linn-Henley Research Library

    Birmingham, Alabama

    56.4 miles from Oxford, AL

    A ghostly man has been sighted as well as objects moving by themselves and reports of cold spots and eerie feelings have been reported.


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    Moncrief Cemetery

    Gardendale, Alabama

    56.5 miles from Oxford, AL

    Eerie screams have been heard and ghostly apparitions have been seen haunting the Moncrief cemetery.


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    Old Walker Chapel Cemetery

    Coalburg, Alabama

    56.5 miles from Oxford, AL

    Visitor here have reported that something grabs their feet as if attempting to pull them down into the graves. At times, the force has pulled the shoes right off their feet.


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    Liberty Cemetery

    Alexander City, Alabama

    56.8 miles from Oxford, AL

    You may hear the cries of a baby who died during the Civil War, and feel an eerie presence.


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    Lovelady Bridge

    Camp Hill, Alabama

    57 miles from Oxford, AL

    Reportedly 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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    Whole Backstage Theater

    Guntersville, Alabama

    57.5 miles from Oxford, 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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    Jack Cole Road

    Hayden, Alabama

    59 miles from Oxford, AL


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    Abbie's House

    Guntersville, Alabama

    59.4 miles from Oxford, 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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    Berry College

    Rome, Georgia

    59.6 miles from Oxford, AL

    The hauntings at Berry College have earned it the nickname Scary Berry. The ghost of a female student is supposed to haunt Ford Hall. She hanged herself upon receiving news that her boyfriend was killed in World War II. Blackstone Hall has several ghosts, the most well known perhaps being ...


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    Hodges Cemetery

    Watson, Alabama

    59.8 miles from Oxford, AL

    You may experience many things here such as banging on the car, faces or hands in your car windows, a wolf who chases you, moving lights or red glowing eyes. Tombstones are said to move and shadowy beings have been reported, as well as strange noises and music.


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    Cooley Cemetery

    Guntersville, Alabama

    62.5 miles from Oxford, AL

    It is said that a mysterious fog covers this area day or night, and it surrounds the gravestones.


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    Cardiff Cemetery

    Graysville, Alabama

    63.2 miles from Oxford, AL

    Typical cemetery haunting fare including orbs and reports that your car will die if you drive there on specific dates.


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