Historic haunted places in Athens, GA. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
Open to the public (performing arts venue; ticketed events).
Performers at this 1910 Black-owned vaudeville house report small props shifting when their backs are turned and footsteps on unstaffed upper floors, mostly around the backstage dr…
Athens' best-known cemetery legend tells of a drunken 19th-century farmer who drove his horse and carriage off the cemetery bridge into the river and died. On full-moon nights he i…
Visitors and student investigators report a very young girl in old-fashioned clothes wandering among the stones in late afternoon and at dusk, often linked to Dicy Ann Roberts, bur…
Open to the public (house museum; reservations required).
Tour guides describe a gentleman in a long, old-fashioned dressing gown who comes down the central staircase, sits by the drawing-room fireplace as if to read, and then vanishes. S…
Open to the public for events and occasional tours (city-run event venue).
Major William S. Grady bought this Greek Revival house in 1863 and was killed at Petersburg the following year, and local tradition says he came home anyway. Event staff and visito…