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Anecdotal reports in Georgia

Georgia keeps 24 anecdotal files — secondhand accounts and casually repeated reports, the friend-of-a-friend shelf. The archive holds them because the stories circulate and somebody should keep count; each is filed as reported, no stronger.

24 dossiers0 counties covered100% open to visitorsThe Pirates’ House — deepest file

Also filed anecdotal:Arizona58 Hawaii55 Virginia34 Michigan31 Louisiana29 Texas26 Pennsylvania24 California23

Other Georgia shelves:documented legends43 local folklore21 investigation claims7 media-reported hauntings4

The Pirates’ House

Savannah, Georgia

1753 sailors’ tavern where men vanished into the rum tunnel.

5 claims · 3 legends→

Kehoe House

Savannah, Georgia

1892 ironmaster’s mansion B&B haunted by the Kehoe children.

3 claims · 2 legends→

Marshall House

Savannah, Georgia

1851 hotel that served as a Civil War hospital and yellow-fever ward.

3 claims · 2 legends→

17 Hundred 90 Inn

Savannah, Georgia

1790 inn haunted by Anna Powers, the jilted lover who leapt.

3 claims · 1 legend→

High confidence

Andersonville Prison

Andersonville, Georgia

Site documented in a Ghost Research Society investigation report.

Moon River Brewing Company

Savannah, Georgia

Savannah’s first hotel, now a brewery with a basement poltergeist.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Historic House Museum

Sorrel-Weed House

Savannah, Georgia

1840 mansion where the Matilda story fuels Savannah’s darkest ghost tour.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Tybee Island Lighthouse

Savannah, Georgia

The 1867 tower on a 1736 light site—Keeper Jackson’s daughter lore.

2 claims · 1 legend→

St. Simons Island Lighthouse

St. Simons Island, Georgia

The 1872 tower where a keeper was shot—and still climbs the stairs.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Springer Opera House

Columbus, Georgia

The 1871 opera house where Edwin Booth played—and reportedly stayed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Fox Theatre (Atlanta)

Atlanta, Georgia

The Fabulous Fox—its Moorish fantasy interior and organ that plays itself.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Mercer-Williams House

Savannah, Georgia

The Midnight in the Garden house—where Jim Williams shot Danny Hansford.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Lake Lanier

Buford, Georgia

The reservoir built on a drowned town—hundreds dead, they say it’s cursed.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Okefenokee

Folkston, Georgia

The blackwater swamp—700 square miles of peat and gator.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Bulloch Hall

Roswell, Georgia

The 1839 house where Teddy Roosevelt’s mother grew up.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Harris Neck

Townsend, Georgia

The displaced Gullah community under the runway lights.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Moore’s Ford

Monroe, Georgia

July 25, 1946—the bridge where four were lynched.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Georgia Guidestones site

Elberton, Georgia

The "American Stonehenge"—blown up in 2022.

Colonial Park Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

1750 burying ground where Union soldiers altered the headstones.

Jekyll Island

Jekyll Island, Georgia

The club where the Federal Reserve was born—millionaires’ island.

Cumberland Island

St. Marys, Georgia

The wilderness island of wild horses and the Dungeness ruins.

Little White House

Warm Springs, Georgia

Where FDR died at the easel—April 12, 1945.

Providence Canyon

Lumpkin, Georgia

Georgia’s "Little Grand Canyon"—carved by 19th-century farming.

Wormsloe

Savannah, Georgia

The oak avenue and the 1745 tabby ruins—Noble Jones’s estate.

Full Georgia record → state index· Every anecdotal filing → evidence shelf

Record last amended October 2, 2026 · shelves recounted with the archive