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Explore 60 haunted places in Georgia. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Savannah, Georgia · Hotel
The inn’s stories follow three different figures. Visit Savannah describes Anna waiting upstairs for a lost lover, a cook heard banging pots in the kitchen, and a servant boy glimpsed near diners. The overlapping tales link overnight guest rooms with the restaurant’s daily work rather than placing every encounter in a single room.
Macon, Georgia · Hotel
Travel writer Alex Temblador reports waking at the 1842 Inn after three touches to her upper arm. Her companion was asleep beside her, and she could see nobody else in the room. In the Fodor’s account, a local paranormal team later told her it had also experienced unsettling incidents at the inn.
Pearson, Georgia · Other
The courthouse clock is the center of a revenge legend collected by HauntedPlaces.org. An innocent man supposedly condemned there vowed that his accusers would know no peace. The tale says the clock repeatedly loses the correct time despite adjustments, while footsteps return near the tower on the anniversary of his death.
Savannah, Georgia · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org identifies the inn’s recurring apparition as Sarah Anderson, associated in the story with its original household. Witnesses place her in the upstairs corridors, elevator, laundry room, and by the entrance. Rather than appearing at a single bedside, this watchful figure is said to move through the everyday working spaces of the mansion-turned-inn.
Adairsville, Georgia · Hotel
The ruined mansion at Barnsley carries a family-centered haunting tradition. HauntedPlaces.org names Godfrey Barnsley and his wife Julia among the spirits said to remain around their former home. A third figure, a Confederate soldier, is sometimes identified as Colonel Robert Earle, whose death is associated in the account with the grounds.
Mount Berry / Rome, Georgia · Other
Berry’s student newspaper records several campus traditions. One involves a child speaking with a cold-handed woman in the Hoge Building, then recognizing Martha Berry’s portrait later. A longtime campus resident also describes a light appearing intermittently in an upstairs Roosevelt Cabin window. Other student accounts concern the Green Lady and a disputed dormitory death story.
Savannah, Georgia · Cemetery
Little Gracie’s sculpted likeness draws visitors to Bonaventure, where a child’s greeting is sometimes said to come from an empty space. The grave’s folklore belongs within a much larger, still-working cemetery.
Grantville, Georgia · Other
At the former Grantville inn, HauntedPlaces.org describes a small cast of apparently friendly residents: Mary, a woman said to dislike electricity, a ghostly cat, and a man identified as the original owner. Unexplained sounds at night accompany the sightings.
Gainesville, Georgia · Other
Brenau’s campus legend centers on Agnes, an alleged former student whose apparition is associated with Pearce Auditorium. HauntedPlaces.org records incompatible versions: rejection by fellow students or a lost performance role, and a death near either the balcony or a supposed pool. Some tellers describe seeing her hanging figure in the auditorium. Agnes’s identity, motivations, and death location differ among versions; not an established student death.
Tunnel Hill, Georgia · Road or bridge
HauntedPlaces.org describes soldiers appearing around the historic tunnel, with distant screams, phantom campfires, and lantern-like lights. Some witnesses also report an unexplained decaying smell. The stories attach Civil War imagery to the old railroad passage, which is a separate structure from the newer, active rail tunnel nearby.
Chickamauga, Georgia · Other
HauntedPlaces.org collects reports of soldiers, wavering lanterns, gunfire, cries for assistance, and patches of cold even in summer at Chickamauga. The battlefield also has a stranger legend: Old Green Eyes, described as a hairy creature with sharp teeth. A separate apparition is a bride believed to be searching for a soldier who never returned.
St. Simons Island, Georgia · Cemetery
Golden Isles Ghostbusters records a flickering light among the Christ Church graves and says members of its crew witnessed the phenomenon. The local explanation is a devoted husband’s candle for his wife, who feared darkness. In the legend, the light keeps appearing after the husband himself has died.
Savannah, Georgia · Other
Two different stories circulate around Churchill’s. HauntedPlaces.org describes a supposed hanging figure whose shadow appears among the ceiling beams. It also recounts staff claims that security footage in February 2013 showed unattended beer taps opening and draining substantial quantities of beer. The pub’s legend combines a shadowy human apparition with mischievous activity behind the bar.
Savannah, Georgia · Cemetery
Beneath Savannah’s old burial stones, ghost stories speak of floating lights and a greenish mist drifting among the graves.
Dahlonega, Georgia · Other
Spookfinder recounts a tall, hooded figure that staff call Tommy, seen around the old courthouse balcony and windows. Inside, a model stamp press reportedly starts running when nobody is operating it, and unexplained knocking comes from within the walls. The name is a staff nickname; the account does not establish a historical identity.
Savannah, Georgia · Hotel
The inn itself tells of Charlie, a friendly but mischievous presence associated with its third floor. In the hotel’s version, a young man fell from an upper window and now walks the floor at night. Flickering lights and unexpectedly locked doors are attributed to the resident whom staff affectionately named Charlie.
Savannah, Georgia · Hotel
The inn’s own account describes a Confederate soldier standing at an upstairs window and a young girl in a white dress associated with soft laughter in the nighttime corridors. Guests and local storytellers have passed on both sightings. The hotel embraces the stories as part of its historic Jones Street setting.
Atlanta, Georgia · Hotel
HauntedPlaces.org connects the Ellis Hotel’s ghost stories to the devastating 1946 fire at its predecessor, the Winecoff. Witnesses reportedly see distressed figures in corridors and hear screams. Another recurring story concerns a fire alarm sounding around three in the morning, close to the hour associated with the original disaster.
Washington, Georgia · Hotel
A community report collected by HauntedPlaces.org describes a woman in green at the Fitzpatrick, accompanied by a floral perfume smell with no obvious source. Another recurring experience is music drifting from the ballroom between nightfall and dawn, even though the room appears empty. The two sensory stories give the hotel its distinctive reputation.
Savannah, Georgia · Hotel
Savannah.com recounts the Foley House tradition of human remains discovered inside a wall during renovations. Staff nicknamed the supposed former boarder Wally. A man in a top hat is said to stroll through the garden at night, turning the hidden-body legend into a recurring story about a recognizable visitor. The skeleton discovery and its identification as a boarder are part of the published legend; no contemporary discovery record verified here.
Savannah (Cockspur Island), Georgia · Other
A Reddit contributor recalling a childhood visit describes a uniformed man hurrying out of Fort Pulaski and urging the family to return inside as they were leaving. The writer later recognized the clothing as Confederate. According to the post, a gift-shop worker said nobody in uniform was present that day, leaving the family wondering whom they had met. Firsthand online recollection, not independently corroborated. Cockspur Island near Savannah, not on Tybee Island proper.
Dahlonega, Georgia · Other
In the story collected by HauntedPlaces.org, former mayor Fred Jones returns to the building that housed his Chevrolet dealership. His apparition supposedly sits at a café table where his office once stood. Shopkeepers also report rearranged displays, doors found open despite being locked, unexplained noises, and a woman believed to have worked there as a cook.
Covington, Georgia · Other
Reports collected by HauntedPlaces.org place Civil War soldiers around Gaither and identify another presence as Cecilia, a former owner’s daughter. Her bedroom is singled out for unexplained footsteps and apparitions. The story consequently follows both the wider grounds and a particular domestic room, and the property has appeared on Ghost Hunters.
Milledgeville, Georgia · Other
The mansion’s reputed cook, Molly, is remembered through smells as much as apparitions. HauntedPlaces.org describes unexplained aromas of muffins, pork, and black-eyed peas, plus a burning-potato smell reportedly strong enough to summon firefighters. Other accounts mention cigar smoke and bed linens thrown aside, as though an unseen household still occupies the building.