Historic haunted places in Macon, 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 (bed and breakfast; overnight stays).
Macon's tourism office promotes this antebellum inn for its spectral residents as much as its columns. Guests describe ghostly figures, phone calls that ring through from rooms nob…
A Union shell struck this house in 1864 and the cannonball is still on display. Staff and visitors report footsteps crossing rooms and climbing stairs that turn out to be empty, an…
Open to the public (working theater; ticketed performances).
Executive director Randall Widner led the 1969 restoration that saved this 1884 theater, then died in its high thunder room in 1971. Since then staff have noticed strange activity …
Open to the public (house museum; guided tours and seasonal ghost tours).
A longtime board member says staff, contractors or guests at this 1850s 'Palace of the South' have always been reporting something they could not explain. The best-known account is…
About 600 Confederate dead lie in Soldiers' Square on the slope above the Ocmulgee River, and visitors report figures in period uniform among the markers after dusk and the sound o…