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0Berry College
Rome, Georgia
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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Barnsley Gardens Resort
Adairsville, Georgia
12 miles from Rome, GA
Built by Godfrey Barnsley in 1844, the ruins of the mansion are said to be haunted by Godfrey himself, his wife Julia, and a Confederate soldier who may be Colonel Robert Earle, killed on these grounds during the Civil War.
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Hardin Bridge
Kingston, Georgia
14.5 miles from Rome, GA
The old Hardin Bridge is still there, though a new one was built around 2010-2011 crossing the Etowah River just next to it. It is said that a couple accidentally drove off the old bridge many decades ago, and their spirits still haunt the area. Voices and screams ...
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Johnny Mitchell's Smokehouse
Euharlee, Georgia
15.3 miles from Rome, GA
Set in the 1800's settlement of Euharlee, this local smokehouse and barbecue restaurant is rumoured to be haunted by a male settler, who crosses the road at night from a nearby cemetery. He has been seen by staff and diners on several occasions. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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El Rayos Authentic Mexican
Calhoun, Georgia
20.6 miles from Rome, GA
The building that houses El Rayos Authentic Mexican Restaurant, formerly Place on Peidmont restaurant, was once a private home. Legend has it that it was inhabited by a woman and a little girl, who was run over by a car here. The woman lived here until her death of natural ...
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0Desoto Falls
Mentone, Alabama
31.5 miles from Rome, GA
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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Rock Building
Bremen, Georgia
36.8 miles from Rome, GA
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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Wink Theater
Dalton, Georgia
37.2 miles from Rome, GA
Wink Theater was built in 1941 by J.C.H. Wink, who in fact may be the ghost who is believed to haunt the building. Wink was buried on the premises when he passed away during the theater's construction. Witnesses have reported footsteps and strange banging noises.
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Hot Dog Heaven
Woodstock, Georgia
38.4 miles from Rome, GA
The 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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Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
Kennesaw, Georgia
38.5 miles from Rome, GA
The 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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Piedmont Jacksonville Rd
Piedmont, Alabama
38.9 miles from Rome, GA
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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Chetoogeta Tunnel
Tunnel Hill, Georgia
40.9 miles from Rome, GA
Begun in 1848 and completed two years later, the tunnel was used until 1928 when a new tunnel was built close by. The old tunnel was forgotten and became overgrown with kudzu vines until 1992, when preservationists lobbied to save it. It is now a park centerpiece, and a site ...
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Kennesaw House
Marietta, Georgia
40.9 miles from Rome, GA
Originally 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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Coat's Bend Plantation House
Gadsden, Alabama
42.4 miles from Rome, GA
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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Gordon Lee House
Chickamauga, Georgia
43.1 miles from Rome, GA
The 1840's antebellum mansion is said to be haunted by a man in a civil war uniform, along with the ghost of a German Shepard that belonged to a former owner. (Submitted by Callum Swift)
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Dump Road - Old Chief Ladiga Trail
Jacksonville, Alabama
44.4 miles from Rome, GA
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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Mount Pisgah Cemetery
Gadsden, Alabama
45.4 miles from Rome, GA
You may see orbs and streaks of light from the active spirits at this cemetery across from Mount Pisgah Church.
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McFall Road Tunnel
Jacksonville, Alabama
45.5 miles from Rome, GA
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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Whitman-Anderson House
Ringgold, Georgia
45.8 miles from Rome, GA
This 1918 residence is haunted by a soldier named Captain, who has been known to knock on the front door and materialise by the bedsides of resident's of the house, as if to wake them up in the morning. Legend has it that he is waiting for a letter ...
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Chickamauga Battlefield
Chickamauga, Georgia
46.2 miles from Rome, GA
Apparitions of soldiers are said to be spotted here just about any evening. Sounds of gunshots and screams have been captured here, and flickering lantern lights have been seen as well. Some visitors reported hearing cries for help and feeling cold spots during the summer months. An apparition called Old ...
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0Camp Cottaquilla
Anniston, Alabama
46.4 miles from Rome, GA
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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Haunted Bridge
Gadsden, Alabama
48.1 miles from Rome, GA
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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Six Flags Over Georgia
Austell, Georgia
48.7 miles from Rome, GA
There 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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Public House
Roswell, Georgia
48.8 miles from Rome, GA
The 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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0Crestwood Cemetery
Gadsden, Alabama
49.7 miles from Rome, GA
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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Mountain View Hospital
Gadsden, Alabama
50.5 miles from Rome, GA
Strange noises and shadowy masses have been reported by numerous visitors to the hospital.
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Coosa River Sea Serpent
Gadsden, Alabama
50.7 miles from Rome, GA
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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Lucy's Afterlife Night Club
Gadsden, Alabama
50.9 miles from Rome, GA
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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0Fort McClellan
Anniston, Alabama
51 miles from Rome, GA
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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Hinds Road
Gadsden, Alabama
51.9 miles from Rome, GA
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
52.9 miles from Rome, GA
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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Pope-Walton House
Atlanta, Georgia
53.9 miles from Rome, GA
Although 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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Rhodes Hall
Atlanta, Georgia
54.7 miles from Rome, GA
Rhodes 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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0Sheraton Road House Hotel
Chattanooga, Tennessee
55.1 miles from Rome, GA
Room 311 is alleged to be haunted by the ghost of Annalisa Netherly. Although not much is known about her, her legend claims she was living in the hotel and was killed when her husband caught her in a tryst with another man.
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0Stringfellow Memorial Hospital
Anniston, Alabama
55.5 miles from Rome, GA
Reportedly haunted by a ghostly organ player who plays the chapel organ in the wee hours of the morning.
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Greenwood Cemetery
Chattanooga, Tennessee
55.6 miles from Rome, GA
Greenwood Cemetery is said to be haunted by the wife who lived in a large house across the lake. She became wheelchair-bound after an illness, and her husband began to have an affair. To get rid of his wife, he pushed her wheelchair into the lake. She is said to ...
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New American Shakespeare Tavern
Atlanta, Georgia
56 miles from Rome, GA
The 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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0Parker Memorial Baptist Church
Anniston, Alabama
56 miles from Rome, GA
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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Ellis Hotel
Atlanta, Georgia
56.3 miles from Rome, GA
In 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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0Amicalola Falls Lodge
Dawsonville, Georgia
56.7 miles from Rome, GA
The Cherokee Indian braves used to pray on Amicalola Mountain, seeking visions that would guide them in their lives. Folks say the spirits they consulted still remain on the mountain, and sometimes visit the beautiful lodge as well. Reports say the spirits disapprove of negative energy, and in one incidence ...
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0The Masquerade
Atlanta, Georgia
56.8 miles from Rome, GA
This 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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0Super 8 Chattanooga Ooltewah
Ooltewah, Tennessee
57.6 miles from Rome, GA
Witnesses reported experiencing a feeling of terror when they saw the ghost of a 20-something woman sitting at the edge of the bed. She appears to be in the process of undressing, leading speculators to believe she was a prostitute who was murdered while on the job.
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Hales Bar Marina and Dam
Guild, Tennessee
58.5 miles from Rome, GA
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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0Memory Hill Cemetery
Albertville, Alabama
58.7 miles from Rome, GA
Just another haunted cemetery.
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Albertville Public Library
Albertville, Alabama
59.3 miles from Rome, GA
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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Forrest Hills Resort and Conference Center
Dahlonega, Georgia
59.5 miles from Rome, GA
Forrest Hills has quite the active property for ghosts. The property itself is rich in history with the Trail of Tears having gone through it along with a rich past of moonshiners and even a suicide by hanging. The majority of the ghosts here are quite friendly and even ...
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Main Street Strip
Albertville, Alabama
59.6 miles from Rome, GA
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 South Pittsburg Hospital
South Pittsburg, Tennessee
60.2 miles from Rome, GA
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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0Moody Brick House
Fackler, Alabama
61.2 miles from Rome, GA
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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