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Explore 54 haunted places in Tennessee. Read ghost stories, local history, source notes, and visiting information in the PHASM Haunted Atlas.
Nashville / Hermitage, Tennessee · Historic house
Tennessee’s state-library folklore exhibit retells an overnight experience of two women caring for the Hermitage. They heard dishes crashing in the pantry, chains clanking outside and what sounded like a horse crossing the hall. The noises stopped when a lamp was lit, then reportedly returned the following night.
Knoxville, Tennessee · Historic house
Accounts collected by Southern Spirit Guide describe lantern-like lights inside the former jazz club after closing, glassware falling and objects moving. Some visitors felt they were intruding in an occupied home. The folklore often links these disturbances with Dr. James Baker and his son, although the reported phenomena do not establish the spirits’ identities.
Nashville, Tennessee · Historic house
Nashville Ghosts gathers reports that Adelicia Acklen still appears in the mansion she created. Staff, visitors and security guards are said to have encountered her figure. The tour company connects the continuing presence with her attachment to the house and the losses in her family; those explanations are folklore rather than established motives.
Knoxville, Tennessee · Theater
Inside of Knoxville reports musicians asking about a uniformed man with bright buttons watching from an unused upper balcony. Local tradition identifies him as General William Sanders, who died when the building was the Lamar House hotel. A guide also described flickering lights and normally locked doors swinging open on the former brothel floor.
Petros, Tennessee · Prison
A Ghost Research Society report names Charlie as the presence associated with the laundry, where visitors describe touches and apparitions. D Block stories include growling, figures and a spirit called Leroy following people. The investigators also record shadows in corridors and the former hospital/auditorium area, keeping these claims distinct from the prison’s documented history.
Franklin, Tennessee · Historic house
The Williamson County Public Library retells a sighting of a dark-haired woman in a white dress watching from Carnton’s balcony while a tour passed below. Another story follows an elderly soldier whose boots sound unusually loudly as he patrols the grounds. These accounts belong to the former battlefield hospital’s folklore.
Franklin, Tennessee · Historic house
The Ghost Research Society reports stories of Tod Carter appearing in the bedroom where he died after the Battle of Franklin. His sister Annie is associated with a childlike apparition on the stairs, playful tugs at clothing and unexplained voices. The same account includes distant gunfire and phantom hoofbeats around the former farm.
Savannah, Tennessee · Historic house
Southern Spirit Guide recounts three porch-sitters seeing a white-suited man approach the historical marker and disappear in 1976. Another apparition, a uniformed man at an upstairs window, is identified in local lore as General W. H. L. Wallace.
Newport, Tennessee · Other
Investigator Anthony Justus, quoted by Southern Spirit Guide, described bingo balls bouncing from empty bleachers and a boy vanishing from a corner. Other reported disturbances include locked doors bursting open, a woman’s voice and a baby crying inside the former temporary morgue.
Castalian Springs, Tennessee · Historic house
Caretakers at Cragfont have described furniture changing position in a locked house and beds looking as though someone had slept in them. Southern Spirit Guide also records footsteps, voices and apparitions reported by staff and visitors. The stories attach to the stone home built for James Winchester around the turn of the nineteenth century.
Knoxville, Tennessee · Historic house
Visit Knoxville places this haunting in the Craighead-Jackson House: footsteps descend the front stairs and locked doors open without explanation. Local lore identifies the presence as a servant whose skirts caught fire in the basement after the Civil War.
Memphis, Tennessee · Other
The bar’s jukebox is said to select songs that answer nearby conversations, including playing James Brown while staff discussed his death. Southern Spirit Guide also records a man carrying a white candle and the sound of voices and clinking glasses after customers had left. These stories sit alongside employees’ accounts of reassuring encounters linked to the former owners.
Chattanooga, Tennessee · Other
Southern Spirit Guide summarizes a Stones River Paranormal investigation at the old ballpark. The team reported apparent activity around the home locker room, right side of the stadium and playing field, and believed it contacted promoter Joe Engel in the press box. The account concerns investigators’ interpretations rather than a detailed recurring apparition.
McMinnville, Tennessee · Historic house
A worker decorating upstairs at Falcon Rest reportedly stopped whistling a Christmas carol, only to hear the tune continue down the stairs without him. Nashville Ghosts also recounts footsteps stopping outside Clay Faulkner’s former bedroom and an ornate dining-room mirror falling repeatedly while its wire and wall screws remained intact.
Greeneville, Tennessee · Hotel
The General Morgan Inn’s best-known playful spirit is Green Room Grace, blamed for spoons disappearing from restaurant place settings and pictures hanging crooked. Southern Spirit Guide also recounts complaints about noise in unoccupied Room 207. Staff tradition links that room with General John Hunt Morgan and another presence with a former hotel employee.
Maynardville, Tennessee · Natural landmark
Woodlands and Waters retells local stories of a phantom dog panting near the Hutcheson homesite and a daughter’s cries continuing after her death. Other accounts describe Maston Hutcheson wandering the woods and shapes beside graves in photographs. The marked trail links the former homesites with Norton Cemetery; no standing haunted house survives.
Knoxville, Tennessee · Historic house
A WATE meteorologist reported smelling bacon cooking in an empty kitchen, while a former station director felt a cold breeze and a presence on a late-night trip upstairs. Southern Spirit Guide recounts these staff experiences at the mansion now occupied by the station. Some interpret the presence as original owner Eldad Camp, without confirming that identity.
Haletown, Tennessee · Other
Chattanooga’s tourism bureau collects accounts of figures, unexplained whistling and voices at Hales Bar. Visitors and investigators also describe being touched or having their hair pulled. The surviving powerhouse attracts the stories of former workers and other presences, while the wider dam itself was largely dismantled.
Adams, Tennessee · Natural landmark
The Bell Witch’s cave legend contains an unexpected kindness: an unseen voice rescues a trapped child, then scolds the young explorers. The privately operated cave offers a place-specific chapter of the larger Bell family tradition.
Huntsville, Tennessee · Prison
In a firsthand visit published by Homespun Haints, the writer describes whispers and footsteps in an empty stairwell during a guided investigation. The caretakers added stories of missing sharp objects, hands felt on shoulders and pictures falling or flying from walls. Their accounts give the old jail a reputation extending beyond the cells themselves.
Knoxville, Tennessee · Other
Southern Spirit Guide describes the Evening Primrose, a female presence in Hoskins Library’s basement stacks. The stories involve elevators behaving oddly, books knocked from shelves and unexplained cooking smells. Her identity remains uncertain; accounts portray a waiflike figure rather than consistently naming a particular former student or librarian.
Memphis, Tennessee · Historic house
In the house’s treasure legend, Nathan Wilson guarded a chest of family gold during a yellow-fever outbreak but died before revealing its whereabouts. Southern Spirit Guide reports that his apparition sometimes appears around the property and, in some tellings, leads witnesses toward the hidden fortune. The gold and guiding ghost remain unverified local lore.
Chattanooga, Tennessee · Other
US Ghost Adventures attributes window apparitions and shadow figures inside the Hunter Museum to a woman its account calls Augusta Hoffman. It also reports a sour, unexplained odor. The tour story links her to a death at a neighboring Bluff View property, rather than claiming she died in the museum mansion itself.
Knoxville, Tennessee · Historic house
Visit Knoxville recounts guests meeting a woman making a trundle bed upstairs. She explained that she was staying while her house was built; other witnesses watched her head downstairs. The story identifies her as Mrs. Kennedy. A six-year-old girl reportedly said the same woman scolded her for being rambunctious.