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Top 5 Creepiest Savannah Locales

I have a saying I often utter when feeling maudlin. “The whole world’s a graveyard.” My friends often make fun of me for this, but in Savannah it is actually true. Charleston’s irresistible, slightly busted, promiscuous little sister was built atop many ancient Native American and Colonial graveyards. Between that and the steamy atmosphere - sexy Spanish moss, pollen covered mansions - it is no wonder that the booze-soaked eccentrics who call Savannah home claim ghosts as their neighbors and friends.

Bonaventure Cemetery: The most exquisite, haunting and perfectly situated cemetery I have ever seen, Bonaventure was once the oak-draped waterfront plantation of the hospitable Tattnall family. It is said that in 1800 there was a party that continued as the main house burned to the ground while the host exclaimed, “May the joy of this celebration never end.” Now, among the ornately carved life like memorials (“Little Gracie,” “Corrine,” the “Bird Girl”) it is said you can hear a perpetual feast, people laughing, and the sound of crystal being thrown into the raging fire.

330 Bonaventure Road, Savannah, GA 31404

Kehoe House: This Queen Ann style mansion is now a luxurious 4-star bed and breakfast in Savannah. But if you care to stay in one of the elegant rooms, you may be awakened by someone other than your flailing partner. Children of the Kehoe family are the primary ghostly residents. On the second floor laughter and young footsteps can be heard, in room 201 a child caresses faces and another tyke calls out to tour groups “come play with me.” The family patriarch is said to keep the lamp lit in the cupola all night long, probably to escape from the energetic nursery. Doesn’t it sound like a quaint and cozy romantic retreat?

123 Habersham Street, Savannah, GA 31401

Sorrel Weed House: A lovely and deceptively cheerful Greek Revival mansion, the Sorrel Weed House is consistently named one of the most haunted sites in America. Ghosts are seen in the windows, the basement makes visitors physically ill, and upstairs invisible parties can be heard- perhaps to celebrate the end of mysterious battles, complete with marching bands.  The carriage house is said to be haunted by a female slave who was murdered by her owner after the mistress of the house (perhaps the figure in the window?) committed suicide. Cheesy ghosts tours are offered here, complete with personal EMF detectors you can use to catch a spirit of your very own!

6 West Harris Street, Savannah, GA 31401

The Pirate's House: Come share a reasonably priced, yummy, southern style meal with the ghosts of pirates, privateers and prostitutes who have been overstaying their welcome since 1753. This wood-frame tavern (the oldest building in Savannah) near the river was once an inn and dining hall for men and women of ill-repute. A tunnel -now boarded up- leads to the ports where pirates would force drunken seamen into indentured servitude on their ships. The ghost of a scar-faced captain, called Captain Flint, parties all over the establishment,  angry seamen bullies cooks, and in the basement apparitions of pirates carry one of their drunken prey to the tunnel entrance. Oh, and the she-crab soup is delicious.

Hampton Lillibridge House: Jim Williams, the flamboyant anti-hero of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, bought this 1796 home in 1963 and moved it four blocks to a better location. It is said a worker was killed during this process and an empty crypt was found, unleashing all the evil that resided in the home. Workers heard and saw many supernatural occurrences and had building material fly at their heads. Many new neighbors saw different menacing figures in the windows, heard a woman singing and glimpsed figures dancing on the third floor. The terrifying spirits finally drove Williams to action, and an exorcism was performed. It failed and ghosts are said to still haunt the residence, if on a smaller scale.

507 East St. Julian Street, Savannah, GA 31401

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