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HAUNTED PLACES IN ALABAMA: ADAMSVILLE - BREWTON |
Adamsville - Bottenfield Middle School - The ghost of a young man has been seen by several in the band and choir wing of the school. He appears at any hour and then vanishes just as quickly.
Alabaster - Old Buck Creek Cotton Mill - this is a old cotton mill opened in 1896.the mill is in bad shape but you can still get in. there is blood spots in some rooms, cold spots and some very scary noise.
Albertville - Albertville Public Library - Some of the workers say that the elevator will go up and down by itself, hearing the water running in the bathroom & it stops when they look to see where it is coming from. They say that the library was built over a house that was tore down in the early 1900's and that the people who lived there are mad about their house being tore down so they haunt the library. Most of the things happen early in the morning when the first person comes to work all alone.
Albertville - off Highway 431 - Believed to be haunted by one of the first owners. He died while plowing his garden with a tractor it overturned on him and killed him. Soon afterwards the man’s wife started hearing banging noises, so she moved and sold the house. The next owners had the same things had happened and they left the house in the night with all of there belongings still inside. When the house was empty neighbors would see lights come on at night and no one was there. The house has been on the market for quiet some time, the price was reduced by 20,000 dollars, when it is bought, and no one will live there longer than a month.
Andalusia - Prestwood Bridge - When you stop on the bridge and turn your lights, off and someone will come to you car and bang on it. they will mess you car up bad so don't do it.
Anniston - Anniston High School girl's lockeroom - The legend of Anniston High School's lockeroom is known widely through out the school. The legend is told to all the new coming female freshmen that goes to their lockers to dress out for P.E. They are told by what we call the "upper classmen" maybe to give them a little scare or perhaps to warn them from a revengeful ghost. The legend varies in detail from person to person but the main facts of the story are almost always the same...a girl is late dressing in and leaves a precious item and decides to go back to get it while sending her friend to hold the buses for her, a man then tries to rape and kill her but ends up dead and the body never gets recovered and the obvious conclusion is never go into the girl's lockeroom by yourself, always go in with one of your friends and never leave anyone alone in there. The incident that started this legend occurred not too long ago. This is how the legend goes: There was this girl (name is unknown) who was the type who always dressed in for P.E. She was the first to dress in and also the first to leave and dress back out. One day while coming in from playing outside she was late in dressing out. It was the last period of the day and she was hurrying so that she wouldn't miss her bus. Her best friend was late with her and they only had 2 minutes to dress back out instead of their normal 5 minutes. While they was hurrying to dress back out, other girls, who was already dressed out, was leaving to go in the gym and wait for the bell to ring that signaled the end of the day. Her friend was faster at putting on her school clothes but she was more slowly and took her time. Deciding to wait for her, her friend sat on one of the benches in there to keep her company. They rode the same bus and knew that it was almost always one of the first bus to be there and didn't want to get left. Soon after the girl finished putting on her clothes and they both walked out to sit with the rest of the students in the gym to wait for the bell she almost forgot that she left her purse in her locker. The bell then rung but she was concerned about leaving it since it contained all her money. The girl's best friend offered to go back with her to get it but instead she insisted that she get on the bus and tell the bus driver to hold it for her until she got on. At least this way, the girl thought, both of them wouldn't have to miss it. So the girl ran down the steps and entered the locker room to get her purse and her friend ran out to get on the bus and she relayed the message to the bus driver. As the girl got her purse and began to close and lock her locker she heard the door creaked and thought someone had came in. Thinking it was her coach she called her name to let her know that she was still in there and not to lock the door just yet. "Coach...coach! It's me, I left my purse. Please don't lock the door just yet," she yelled but she got no answer. She then heard footsteps that seem to draw closer to her. She then began to grew scared and forgot about her friend holding the buses for her. Suddenly she heard loud breathing that was so loud she was sure the person was right behind her. She panicked and dropped her purse as she ran the other way around the lockers toward the doors but was yanked to the back of the lockers as she turned the corner. She kicked and screamed as the hands of a big strong man tore off her shirt and began to rip off the rest of her clothes. He began to strangle her and scream at her to shut up. She continued to fight back and scream but her voice became parched and she couldn't scream anymore. She still didn't give up. Her last attempt was to pull a set of lockers down upon him and he laid there motionless and breathless... He was dead. In a fright she ran out the locker rooms to the bus stop. But she had taken to long and despite her friends desperate attempt to hold the bus she had been left. She was still frightened by what had happened and called her mom to come and get her. After telling the shocking story to her mother with great trouble of reliving the incident, they called the police but when they inspected the scene they only found the pulled down lockers, the girl's purse and a bath full of blood. The body was no where to be found. The girl was more shocked then ever. She was for sure the man was dead and the amount of blood on the floor was a great loss for him to still be alive. Her fear was just to great to go back to where she had been raped and strangled and they moved and was never heard of again. Her friend soon grew knowledge of the incident and couldn't help to feel guilty of what had happen. If only she had waited a little longer or went back with her, maybe...just maybe she could have helped her. The man was never found but many say that he still lurks in the locker rooms waiting for an unexpected girl that's by herself to take revenge on for his death. Many didn't take this seriously until the incident seemed to reoccur when a girl in the band who was to play at a football game was left by herself to get dressed in. They left her and played all night without noticing she was gone. After the game had ended she was sitting in the parking lot crying. She wouldn't say what had happened but appeared to have been strangled and her clothes ripped and covered in blood. She then moved away without telling anyone of her dreadful story. Maybe she met the ghost and had fought back just like the girl...or maybe not. But what else could explain it. This happened recently in 2001. That's 2 years ago. Many girls have been known to hear footsteps when no one's there, seeming to draw closer and the sound of lockers seeming to close and shut and the door creaking open as if to let an unwanted stranger in when no one is there. You might also feel a cold chill come across you and hear loud breathing seeming as if someone is right behind you but always cease when you turn around.
Anniston - Blockbuster - The store was robbed and a group of the employees were killed the killer was caught but the store closed down and has remained standing. Many years before the Blockbuster incident the land on which the building sets was occupied by a gas station. In the late 1960's, a woman was brutally beaten, raped and murdered there. On the far right hand side is where her body was found. The murderer, on the other hand, never was. If you walk to the right side of the building which is were the killer supposedly exited the building you can feel the energy of the spirits it is in the form of like cold wind.
Anniston - Parker Memorial - Hauntings of a nun who killed herself by hanging herself in the main hallway. It has been known to still hear her kicking the chair out from under her feet and hearing the choking sounds late at night. The rope has been seen numerous times by many other churchgoers.
Anniston - Stringfellow Memorial Hospital - The founder of the hospital Mary Stringfellow was an old organ player. The nurses say that if you are working the 3rd shift you can hear the organ being played in the chapel. But no one is there if you go and look. The other haunting is the story of a man committing suicide in one of the rooms by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. Patients have said on numerous occasions that they can see the body of a headless man with blood on the wall in the corner of that room.
Anniston - The Victoria - The Victoria was once a beautiful mansion. It's been adapted into a restaurant/hotel. Reports of the piano being played and footsteps in the main part of the building have scared more than a few visitors. Sometimes the glasses hanging in the bar clink, and a woman has been spotted on the upstairs landing.
Ash Land - Clairmont Springs Hotel - built over an Indian burial ground. Back in 1972,A six-year-old girl was hit by a train across the street. Every night at midnight, trains go by every five seconds, and in the hotel ghost roam around, and they say you can hear her running through the halls.
Ashland - Hudson house - It's an old house in the middle of nowhere. It is said to be haunted by a lot of ghosts. When you walk around the house you can hear voices and footsteps and you can even hear dogs panting. If you stand in front of the house you can feel someone tap you on the shoulder. There is even a creepy dark figure that runs on top of the roof.
Ashville - Engle Mountain - Two tall structures have been seen walking the midst of Engle Mountain with . Residents of the area have reported hearing shotguns going off in the night between 12:00 and 2:00A.M.. It is often said that residents around the area have computers that turn on and off in the night with ghostly looking images popping up all over the screen ....LOCK YOUR DOORS
Ashville - Pine Dale Shores - After you turn down the road you’ll see a house in the distance if you honk your horn and flash your lights a outside light will come on but the house has no power going to it
Athens - Athens State College - During the Civil War, A mysterious lady in a flowing lace dress was looking out her window when confederates bombed the place. She was so frantic; she took a one last look at her room on the very top floor, and jumped out the window. She hit an open window, splattering blood down the wall of the (what is now) college. Every Monday morning at exactly nine o'clock, you can see the horrific scene in a ghostly, transparent sort of way. Every other day of the week, you see her, standing there, looking out her window.
Atalla - Atalla Wood Bridge - Some people say that a school bus full a kids fell of the bridge and went into the lake for years people say that if you go there at night just put your front wheels on the bridge on the right side of the bridge and then put your car into neutral the children of the school bus accident will push you across so that you don't fall off.
Athens - Athens State College - McCandles Hall - Is supposedly haunted by a girl in a white dress who died in McCandles Hall. Is also supposedly haunted by Madame Childs, who haunts the young women who stay out past curfew.
Auburn - old train depot - Near auburn there is a old abandon train depot. It is said that if you go in there, no matter where you go, you always come back to the spot where you came in. The building is old so enter at your own risk. - and as always, make sure you are not trespassing, many of the places listed are patrolled by police.
Auburn - University Chapel - Haunted by a Confederate soldier
Bankhead Forrest - Lawrence & Winston CO. - A woman by the name of Aunt Jeannie Johnson lived way out there in the forest. She used a skull to do her dishes in. and she would hang trespassers on an old oak tree outside her house. Her house is partly fallen in but the rope is still hanging from the oak tree. She is buried in a family graveyard close to the home. it is said strange things happen around her house at night especially on full moon nights and stormy nights.
Birmingham - Banks Middle School - on 6th grade section in the girls bathroom on halloween you can hear doors slamming shut while you are in class.
Bay Minette - Old public library - Was site of old city hall/morgue in early 1900's. Faces seen peering out windows, figures seen moving about, books moving by themselves.
Bayview - Bayview Bridge - It is said that a woman has been seen walking across the bridge in her wedding dress. She ran away from her wedding and when she was crossing the bridge her car ran off the bridge.
Bayview/Birmingham - Mulga - Village Falls Cemetery - There have been sightings of ghostly figures hanging from the tree. Witnesses have encountered many odd feelings of something being around. The streetlights often come off and on one by one that are surrounding the cemetery.
Bayview/Jefferson - Mulga - Bayview Bridge - Reports of a ghostly looking white dress floating in the water.
Bayou La Batre - Bayou La Batre Jail - Late at night while everyone is quiet and still, a ghostly figure can be seen leaving the cell in the middle of the jail. Also, you can hear the toilet flushing, even though no one is ever put in that cell. The legend has it that the cell served as a "drunk tank" and the cops hung a man there in the early 1980s.
Bayou La Batre - Gwodz Rd. - In the early 1930s and 40s, some members of the KKK in Bayou La Batre hung some local black folks for reasons unknown. Until this day they come back on certain nights. When you stop under the noose and turn off the vehicle and lights, and wait till you can hear scratches on top of the car, it will also shake. Also you will hear screaming and sometimes laughter.....
Bellville - Bush Upton's House - used to be a Civil War Hospital. Reports of Ghosts of soldiers throwing things at windows and breaking them.
Birmingham - Banks Middle School - on 6th grade section in the girls bathroom on halloween you can hear doors slamming shut while you are in class. also 10 to 15 years ago a teacher killed herself by jumping off the airplane that sits on top of the building. it is said that a disruptive student drove her crazy.also on halloweenthe intercom will just click on.
Birmingham - Bass Cemetery - The cemetery is just over 200 years old and is the final resting places of many Civil War soldiers and deceased slaves. There have also been reports of Occult happenings there. Along with these reports came various accounts of animal corpses around the cemetery. One Crypt there has been located and the body removed. Apparitions have been seen, feeling of being followed and strange screams heard.
Birmingham - Old Public Library - They say that in the library people see the man that first opened the building and that there are strange feelings and things being moved.
Birmingham - Parkwood Apartments on 4th Ave South in Birmingham - At the apartments they say that there was a horrible homicide in the 1970's and that every year in January on the anniversary of the murders that blood appears to ooze from the upstairs foyer, the stench of burning human flesh is pungent, and one woman even reported feeling fingers caress her neck and bosom. Many believe the apparition to be that of the murderer; he was never found.
Birmingham - Sicard Hollow Road - Just Drive up and down it at night and you will feel the energy. Part of the original Alabama interstate highway over 100 years ago.
Birmingham - Sloss Furnace - Old Iron Plant, now a popular location for concerts, the ghost of a worker who was killed at the plant has been seen walking around the catwalks above the main floor, where the concerts are held.
Bonneville - Owsley County Elementary School- A girl was killed by another student in the gym and she still runs up and down the gym bleachers and also haunts the bathrooms and can be seen in the mirror after school hours and in the girls locker room which they do not use no more on the count of weird things and deaths of other students .
Boulder - Court House - It's been rumored that ghosts have been sighted walking around the court house grounds at night. These ghosts are said to have been the hanging victims of the death sentence carried out in the 1800's.
Brewton - County Court House - a gray orb showed up by the window of the judges office . |
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| Alias | Date | Reply |
| Thankyou! |
10/8/2004 1:15:00 AM |
Argh!! So creepy! did you have to mention the computer screen one though! ARGH! The locker room one was scary as well! Ghost-Chick |
| 32Degree |
10/10/2004 4:27:00 AM |
Great info. Would love to know the source,as I collect books on "hauntings","ghosts", etc. and these might be from a book or books I do not have.Thanks again. |
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