Haunted Places in Riverside, Alabama



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    CEPA Building

    Pell City, Alabama

    5.4 miles from Riverside, 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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    Bethlehem United Methodist Church

    Munford, Alabama

    15.9 miles from Riverside, AL

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


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    Gravity Hill

    Munford, Alabama

    16.6 miles from Riverside, 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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    Flatwoods

    Steele, Alabama

    19 miles from Riverside, 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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    Cemetery Mountain

    Talladega, Alabama

    20 miles from Riverside, 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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    Parker Memorial Baptist Church

    Anniston, Alabama

    22.1 miles from Riverside, 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

    22.1 miles from Riverside, AL


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    Stringfellow Memorial Hospital

    Anniston, Alabama

    22.3 miles from Riverside, 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

    25.8 miles from Riverside, 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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    Birmingham Racecourse

    Birmingham, Alabama

    26.4 miles from Riverside, 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

    27 miles from Riverside, AL

    Screams are heard and a heavy presence is felt.


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    Gallant Children's Cemetery

    Gallant, Alabama

    27.2 miles from Riverside, AL

    Visitors here may see ghostly children coming out to play.


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    Pinson Cemetery

    Pinson, Alabama

    27.8 miles from Riverside, 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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    Coosa River Sea Serpent

    Gadsden, Alabama

    28.1 miles from Riverside, 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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    Gravity Hill

    Sylacauga, Alabama

    28.4 miles from Riverside, 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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    McFall Road Tunnel

    Jacksonville, Alabama

    29.2 miles from Riverside, 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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    Crestwood Cemetery

    Gadsden, Alabama

    29.7 miles from Riverside, 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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    Camp Cottaquilla

    Anniston, Alabama

    30.2 miles from Riverside, 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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    Dwight Mill Village

    Gadsden, Alabama

    30.3 miles from Riverside, 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

    30.3 miles from Riverside, 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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    Dump Road - Old Chief Ladiga Trail

    Jacksonville, Alabama

    31.1 miles from Riverside, 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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    Hinds Road

    Gadsden, Alabama

    31.8 miles from Riverside, 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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    Mountain View Hospital

    Gadsden, Alabama

    33.9 miles from Riverside, AL

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


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    Sloss Furnaces

    Birmingham, Alabama

    34.3 miles from Riverside, 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

    34.9 miles from Riverside, 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

    35.2 miles from Riverside, 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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    Haunted Bridge

    Gadsden, Alabama

    35.2 miles from Riverside, 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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    Old Walker Chapel Cemetery

    Coalburg, Alabama

    35.2 miles from Riverside, 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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    The Tutwiler Hotel

    Birmingham, Alabama

    35.2 miles from Riverside, 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

    35.3 miles from Riverside, 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

    35.4 miles from Riverside, AL

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


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    Piedmont Jacksonville Rd

    Piedmont, Alabama

    35.9 miles from Riverside, 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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    Coat's Bend Plantation House

    Gadsden, Alabama

    36.3 miles from Riverside, 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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    Old Courthouse

    Columbiana, Alabama

    37.7 miles from Riverside, 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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    Hodges Cemetery

    Watson, Alabama

    38.6 miles from Riverside, 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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    Mount Pisgah Cemetery

    Gadsden, Alabama

    38.6 miles from Riverside, 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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    Jack Cole Road

    Hayden, Alabama

    40.3 miles from Riverside, AL


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    Bottenfield Middle School

    Adamsville, Alabama

    41.9 miles from Riverside, AL

    Many witnesses have reported seeing the ghost of a young man who appears and quickly disappears in the section of the school that houses the band and choir rooms. A musically inclined ghost, maybe?


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    Cardiff Cemetery

    Graysville, Alabama

    42 miles from Riverside, 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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    Burgundy Drive

    Adamsville, Alabama

    43.5 miles from Riverside, AL

    The community of Indian Meadows and the adjacent community of Shady Grove are both built over the top of an American Indian Cherokee burial ground. Haunting have been reported in both houses, Burgundy Drive (the street that runs through the communities) and in the adjacent woods. Dark figures and shadows ...


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    Bayview Bridge

    Mulga, Alabama

    44 miles from Riverside, AL

    There are many different versions of the haunting of this bridge, from a woman alone, to a woman and a baby to a car crash...etc. Guess you will just have to visit and see for yourself.


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    Village Falls Cemetery

    Mulga, Alabama

    44.4 miles from Riverside, AL

    Ghostly figures, spooky feelings. The usual haunted cemetery fare can be found here.


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    Memory Hill Cemetery

    Albertville, Alabama

    45.3 miles from Riverside, AL

    Just another haunted cemetery.


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    Albertville Public Library

    Albertville, Alabama

    45.5 miles from Riverside, 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

    45.7 miles from Riverside, 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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    Little Vine Cemetery

    Riverside, Alabama

    47 miles from Riverside, 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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    Lilly Lane

    Hueytown, Alabama

    49 miles from Riverside, AL

    The ghost of an old man apparently wanders the streets at night. Reported by numerous residents who claim to have seen him.


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    University of Montevallo

    Montevallo, Alabama

    51.4 miles from Riverside, AL

    Reports tell of a spooky tunnel that runs under this entire campus once used during the Civil War, now used as a steam chassis. The Reynolds theater department was said to be used as a Civil War hospital, and rumor has it that one of the rooms was stacked with ...


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    Whole Backstage Theater

    Guntersville, Alabama

    51.7 miles from Riverside, 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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    Sturdivant Mansion

    Jacksons' Gap, Alabama

    52.3 miles from Riverside, 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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