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Explore 50 haunted places in Alabama. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Ozark, Alabama · Historic house
At the J. D. Holman House, a boy in early twentieth-century clothing is said to appear in photographs taken near the top of the staircase. Other accounts mention footsteps and whispers without a visible source. The child is not named in the available story. The historic house later became a venue for weddings and other gatherings.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama · Historic house
At the Jemison–Van de Graaff Mansion, visitors tell of cold patches and an unseen presence. Other accounts describe a girl near the grand staircase, heavy footsteps, music and a crash like falling china from an empty room. A particularly dramatic story concerns a mirror apparently thrown across an upstairs room while a bride prepared for her wedding.
Mobile, Alabama · Hotel
Visitors to Kate Shepard House have described an elderly woman's apparition and the feeling that another person is nearby when a room appears empty. The historic home's association with educator Kate Shepard invites speculation about the figure, although the available account gives no secure identification. Its reputation rests on these modest household experiences, not a dramatic tragedy. The historic home's association with the educator Kate Shepard invites people to attach a familiar name to the presence, but the directory does not establish the apparition's identity.
Eufaula, Alabama · Historic house
Kendall Manor's best-known presence is Annie, a nursemaid said to have continued watching over the household. Other accounts mention a woman in older dress, a small girl near the porch, and a man in a tall hat who disappears from a doorway. The house formerly welcomed overnight guests, which helped circulate the stories, but its later return to private residential use matters. Its ghostly reputation should not be mistaken for permission to approach the home.
Montgomery, Alabama · Other
Lucas Tavern's friendly apparition is usually identified as Eliza Lucas, an early proprietor. She is said to stand in the doorway in old-fashioned clothing, smiling or waving at passersby. The tavern is one of the preserved buildings of Old Alabama Town, providing a tangible setting for a story about a hostess who never entirely stopped welcoming people. The account does not establish when these sightings occurred or who witnessed each one.
Mobile, Alabama · Hotel
A pacing woman on an upstairs balcony is the best-known figure in Malaga Inn's ghost stories. Some accounts specify Room 007, while other reports concern swaying chandeliers, furniture apparently shifting, or lamps found unplugged. The inn grew from two adjoining historic houses, a real architectural detail separate from the paranormal claims.
Marion, Alabama · Other
Marion Military Institute's old campus carries stories of noises in otherwise empty hallways, belongings moving or disappearing, and the feeling that someone is nearby. Its Chapel and Lovelace Hall were used as a military hospital during the Civil War, a historical connection often used to explain the reports.
Moundville, Alabama · Natural landmark
Moundville preserves the monumental remains of a Mississippian community, while some visitors also tell stories of unexplained lights near a mound and drums heard without a visible performer. Those reports are a small folklore layer on a much larger Indigenous history. They should not be presented as proof of a curse, an unnamed burial-ground legend, or the beliefs of present-day Native communities.
Coy, Alabama · Cemetery
New Providence Cemetery, also called Coy Cemetery in the directory, is associated with lights glowing above the graves and voices without an obvious speaker. In some accounts, the voices seem to call visitors by name. No single spirit is identified. These reported sounds and lights, rather than one named tragedy, form the cemetery's local paranormal reputation.
Equality / Nixburg area, Alabama · Road or bridge
Oakachoy's haunting belongs to a bridge that no longer stands. Before vandals burned the covered structure in 2001, stories linked an alleged hanging nearby with a shadowy figure and cars behaving strangely on the crossing. Some later tellings move the apparition into the surrounding woods. The ghost story remains attached to the former bridge site. The alleged death and supernatural reports should remain attributed legend unless independently documented.
Orrville area, Alabama · Ghost town
Alabama’s first state capital survives as roads, ruins and archaeological traces where two rivers meet. Old Cahawba’s folklore includes the dancing light known as the Pegues Ghost, a story preserved by southern storyteller Kathryn Tucker Windham and retold by local heritage interpreters.
Oneonta, Alabama · Other
The Old Garner Hotel's stories make empty rooms sound occupied: coffee and tobacco odors, furniture apparently moving, and papers rustling without a visible worker. A paranormal team later reported recorded voices and unusual photographs. No spirit was securely identified. The former railway-era hotel provides the setting for this collection of experiences rather than one defining apparition.
Carrollton, Alabama · Other
The face in Pickens County Courthouse's window is commonly linked with Henry Wells, a Black man accused in connection with a courthouse fire. Legend says his image remained in the glass after he died. Versions disagree about his capture, death and the window's appearance. The face story is longstanding folklore, not evidence of his guilt or innocence. Those differences matter: the legend is not a substitute for evidence about a racially charged historical accusation.
Montgomery, Alabama · Other
The Red Lady is Huntingdon College's best-known campus legend. The story tells of a lonely student called Martha, closely associated with red clothing and furnishings, whose presence was said to remain after her death. Later accounts describe a woman or a red glow around Pratt Hall. Versions differ, but the colour red remains the tale's defining image. Its significance is the long-running campus tradition, rather than a promise that a specific room will produce an encounter.
Birmingham, Alabama · Hotel
Redmont Hotel's haunting accounts include a woman in white, a small dog in the corridors, and doors or luggage apparently moving without help. Some tellers also associate former owner Clifford Stiles with the building. These guest stories give the old hotel a varied paranormal reputation, although the figures' identities and the causes of the disturbances remain uncertain. A frequent Hank Williams connection must be handled carefully: stories about his presence do not establish that he died at the hotel, and this profile makes no such claim.
Millbrook, Alabama · Other
Robinson Springs church members have described doors moving and the sound system switching itself on or off. A pastor reportedly invited paranormal investigators after hearing these experiences. During one investigation, sounds resembling a television seemed to come from an empty area, although no television was found. The stories concern a still-recognisable historic place of worship.
Birmingham, Alabama · Other
The preserved blast furnaces of Birmingham tell stories of workers who never left their posts, particularly a ghostly ironworker associated with another furnace across town.
Selma, Alabama · Historic house
A locked door flying open and impressions appearing in beds are part of Sturdivant Hall’s quieter ghost stories. Former owner John Parkman is the presence often named within this Selma house museum.
Florence, Alabama · Historic house
A caretaker's startling vision of a coffin is Sweetwater Mansion's most distinctive ghost story. In the account, she came downstairs and saw a Confederate soldier laid out for a funeral, although no such event was taking place. Local interpretation connects the scene with the Patton family, but that identification is part of the legend. Other reports mention whispers, figures in older clothing, and children's laughter.
Union Springs, Alabama · Hotel
The former Josephine Hotel is associated with sounds of unseen company: voices, hints of past revelry, and the smell of smoke where no smoker can be found. A paranormal group's account also describes a small moving light in a hallway. The building's later arts uses helped bring visitors into a place with a much older social history.
Kinston area, Alabama · Cemetery
Grancer Harrison's legend follows a dancer beyond the grave. Tradition says he arranged to be buried with his favorite clothes, dancing shoes and bed in an unusually large above-ground tomb. After his death, people supposedly continued hearing fiddle music, dancing steps and a voice calling square dances near the burial place. The colorful details belong to Alabama folklore and should not be mistaken for a modern performance or guaranteed experience.
Tuscaloosa, Alabama · Historic house
The Drish House's tower is associated with a phantom fire. In the best-known tale, Sarah Drish wanted candles from her husband's funeral used again at her own. When they could not be found, her restless presence supposedly produced lights or flames in the tower that vanished without a real blaze. This story became widely known through Thirteen Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey. It is folklore, not proof of a supernatural fire, and the building's documented nineteenth-century history should be kept separate from later dramatic versions.
Birmingham, Alabama · Hotel
The Tutwiler's mischievous ghost stories involve lights and appliances switching on when staff expect them to stay off. The spirit is sometimes called Colonel Tutwiler, but the present hotel is not the original building that bore his name. It occupies the former Ridgely apartment building, an important identity distinction that prevents two places from being folded into one history.
Mobile, Alabama · Other
On the battleship USS Alabama, visitors have reported voices without a visible speaker and hatches slamming when nobody seems to be operating them. No individual ghost is identified in the available account. The ship's wartime spaces, now explored as a museum, give these sounds an evocative setting without proving that they come from former sailors.