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The Haunted Record

Alabama

21 sourced records. Reports are attributed claims, not proof of supernatural activity.

Bladon Springs · Alabama

Bladon Springs Cemetery

Lee Peacock’s cemetery visit discusses David Higdon and Brett Talley’s account of steamboat captain Norman Staples, who died in January 1913 after losing his vessel. The book describes reports of his figure among the graves. Peacock identifies both the burial place and the published source without establishing the apparition as fact.

Barbour County · Alabama

Cato-Thorn House

This house is included in the region’s published collection of reported hauntings. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Alabama Black Belt. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Point Clear · Alabama

Confederate Rest Cemetery

An account describes a horse heard near a soldier’s burial. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Baldwin County, Alabama. This is a published haunting account; the proposed supernatural explanation remains unverified.

Tuscaloosa · Alabama

Drish House

Accounts of apparent flames and unexplained lights surround this historic house. Alabama tourism links the candle-and-tower legend to Sarah Drish and to Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh’s published collection. The house and book are real; the supernatural interpretation of the reported lights remains unverified.

Dauphin Island · Alabama

Fort Gaines

The account describes apparent sentries continuing to patrol the fort. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Alabama Battlefields. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Gulf Shores · Alabama

Fort Morgan

This masonry fort has a documented military past and a separate tradition of reported footsteps, voices, and figures. Alabama tourism describes the haunting claims but does not establish their cause. Visitors can examine the fort’s architecture and military history while keeping ghost stories clearly labeled as reports.

Camden · Alabama

Gaines Ridge Dinner Club

A regional tourism account records owner Betty Kennedy’s belief that several spirits inhabit the former home, converted to a restaurant in the 1980s. Reports include a voice from an empty kitchen, pipe smoke and a woman apparently moving past the windows.

Demopolis · Alabama

Gaineswood

The house’s best-known tradition concerns unexplained piano music and footsteps on the basement stairs. Regional tourism presents the account as a legend about a young woman whose burial was delayed. Haunted American History examines that tradition; the mansion’s architectural history is separately documented.

Point Clear · Alabama

Grand Hotel ballroom

The hotel’s ballroom is associated with reports of unexplained piano music. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Baldwin County, Alabama. This is a published haunting account; the proposed supernatural explanation remains unverified.

Near Spanish Fort · Alabama

Historic Blakeley

The Civil War site appears in a published collection of battlefield haunting traditions. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Alabama Battlefields. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Montgomery · Alabama

Huntingdon College

The campus is included in a collection of the capital’s paranormal traditions. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Montgomery, Alabama. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Montgomery · Alabama

Lucas Tavern

The historic tavern appears in a published local ghost account. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Montgomery, Alabama. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Huntsville · Alabama

Maple Hill Cemetery

Huntsville’s historic cemetery is associated with reports of apparitions and with stories about swings moving at the nearby playground. Alabama tourism records the tradition. A cemetery visit should center on public access and respect for graves, rather than treating an unexplained movement as evidence of a deceased child.

Mobile · Alabama

Mobile Carnival Museum

Accounts describe objects disappearing and later returning. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Mobile. This is a published haunting account; the proposed supernatural explanation remains unverified.

Mobile · Alabama

Oakleigh

The house’s haunting tradition includes an alleged protective presence. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Mobile. This is a published haunting account; the proposed supernatural explanation remains unverified.

Birmingham · Alabama

Sloss Furnaces

The ironworks operated from 1882 until 1971 and became a National Historic Landmark. Alabama Living’s reporter discusses investigations aired on Ghost Hunters and Ghost Adventures, then describes a daytime visit without any paranormal encounter. The industrial history stands independently of television claims and later ghost folklore.

Wilcox County · Alabama

Snow Hill Institute

The historic educational site appears in a book of regional paranormal accounts. The publisher identifies this location in Haunted Alabama Black Belt. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Selma · Alabama

St. James Hotel

Alabama Public Radio interviewed a desk employee about guests who claimed to see a seated figure identified as Jesse James in room 301. The employee said she personally favored ordinary explanations for her limited experiences. The association with James remains part of the hotel’s ghost lore.

Selma · Alabama

Sturdivant Hall

Museum director Manera Sercy told Alabama Public Radio she had heard footsteps on the second floor when nobody was there. She associated the reports with former owner John Parkman. The 1852 house’s ghost tradition also includes visitors describing children running through otherwise empty rooms.

Mobile · Alabama

USS Alabama

The preserved battleship appears in a collection of Alabama eyewitness haunting narratives. The publisher identifies this location in The Haunting of Alabama. Its inclusion documents a published paranormal account; the interpretation of a reported experience as a ghost remains unverified.

Selma · Alabama

Water Avenue Charlie tradition

Tour guide Maggie Davies told Alabama Public Radio about a figure called Charlie associated with Water Avenue. Her account describes cart noises without a visible cart and visitors feeling light touches. The report documents a local tour tradition rather than verifying Charlie’s identity or biography.