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Jemison-Van de Graaff Mansion

Tuscaloosa, Alabama, United States

Historic house · local-legend

The Story

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.

The Hauntings

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.

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