Haunted Places In Alabama
Haunted Places In Alabama.
Do you love good ghost stories, and Sweet Home Alabama has plenty of them. The state has its fair share of bone-chilling haunts and thrills, unexplained mysteries, terrifying ghostly encounters, terror-filled, hair-raising scares, dark and bloody history. We bring you 10 of the most haunted places in Alabama. Watch till the end, if you dare….
Sloss Furnace, Birmingham
The legend begins with James “Slag” Wormwood, a foreman of the graveyard shift who made his workers take dangerous risks, resulting in 47 workers losing their lives. The rumour is that workers fed Slag into the furnace in October of 1906. Later, many workers witnessed an unnatural presence of a man with badly burned skin, shouting “get back to work”.
[20 32nd St N, Birmingham, AL 35222, United States]
Gainesridge Dinner Club, Camden
Located in a beautiful 1820s home, Alabama’s most haunted restaurant is known for its family of ghosts including a woman screaming and calling out and the ghostly reflection of a tall, bearded man in black, known as Old Ebeneezer Hearn. Visitors have also reported hearing screams and cries of a baby and smelling pipe smoke.
[933 AL-10, Camden, AL 36726, United States]
Drish House, Tuscaloosa
The Dr. John R. Drish House has been a site of paranormal events, such as phantom fires and ghostly lights emanating from the house. It is believed that the owner of the house, Sarah Drish, causing a fire in the third-story tower by lighting the candles, since her death in 1884.
[2300 17th St, Tuscaloosa, AL 35401, United States]
Sweetwater Mansion, Florence
Sweetwater Mansion is a plantation home in Florence designed by General John Brahan, a veteran of the War of 1812. Caretaker once reported that she saw a casket laid out in one of the downstairs rooms with the corpse of a Confederate soldier inside. Shadowy figures, whispers, sounds of footsteps and a ghostly woman wearing 19th-century clothing have been reported. There have been reports of children laughing, objects being moved, doors being slammed and locked.
[1050 Sweetwater Ave, Florence, AL 35630, United States]
Edmund King House, Montevallo
Edmund King House on the University of Montevallo campus in Shelby County is reported to be the site of spectral lights, the sound of footsteps, and other unexplained noises. It is said that Edmund King's ghost can be seen at night counting his money in upstairs rooms and that he is seen wandering the campus with a shovel and lantern searching for his buried gold.
[University of Montevallo, Montevallo, Alabama]
Jack Cole Road, Hayden
Jack Cole Road is an unpaved road surrounded by dense woods and wilderness. People witnessed the sightings of lights in the woods and ghostly figures walking along the road. It is home to at least 68 deaths, a hospital that vanished, a mummified witch, wolfman, hung artist, a photographer, strangest and darkest haunting in Alabama.
[Highway 7, Blount County, Alabama 35079, USA]
Gaineswood Mansion, Demopolis
Located in Demopolis, Gaineswood Mansion, a breathtaking plantation house, is reportedly haunted by the ghost of a former housekeeper from Virginia. Her ghost supposedly plays the piano in the music room.
[805 S Cedar Ave, Demopolis, AL 36732, United State]
Kenworthy Hall, Marion
Kenworthy Hall, also known as the Carlisle-Martin House, has a fourth-floor tower room that is said to be haunted by the ghost of a young woman. She sits in a window awaiting the return of a lover who died during the American Civil War.
[23200 AL-14, Marion, AL 36756, United States]
Pratt Hall at Huntingdon College, Montgomery
Pratt Hall at Huntingdon College in Montgomery is reportedly haunted by a Red Lady. Huntingdon was originally a Woman's College. The Red Lady is said to be the spirit of a girl named Martha who committed suicide on campus.
[1500 E Fairview Ave, Montgomery, AL 36106, United States]
Maple Hill Cemetery, Huntsville
Established in 1818, Maple Hill Cemetery is Huntsville’s largest and oldest cemetery with more than 80,000 gravesites. Visitors have reported ghostly encounters involving the sightings of spectral apparitions, ghosts of children playing on the playground, swings moving by themselves, hearing strange noises after dark.
[ 202 Maple Hill St SE, Huntsville, AL 35801, United States]
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