South — open filings

Open to visit in Georgia

49 dossiers in Georgia carry the open to the public filing — the legend is on record and the door, per the last source, is open. Access is a filing, not a guarantee: hours, tickets and seasonality live with the venue. Everything else in the archive stays documented but admired from the legal distance.

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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→

Olde Pink House

Savannah, Georgia

The 1771 mansion where James Habersham still "walks."

2 claims · 2 legends→

Kennesaw Mountain

Kennesaw, Georgia

June 27, 1864—the frontal assault Sherman regretted.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Oakland Cemetery

Atlanta, Georgia

The 1850 garden cemetery where Atlanta is buried.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Barrington Hall

Roswell, Georgia

The 1842 Roswell mansion—the King family’s Greek Revival.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Archibald Smith Plantation

Roswell, Georgia

The 1845 farm that became Roswell’s living museum.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Hofwyl-Broadfield

Brunswick, Georgia

The rice plantation on the Altamaha—the Brailsford-Dent house.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Fort Frederica

St. Simons Island, Georgia

Oglethorpe’s 1736 fort—where the Bloody Marsh decided Georgia.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Christ Church

St. Simons Island, Georgia

The 1820 church where the Wesleys preached—and the ghosts still come.

2 claims · 2 legends→

Fort Morris and Sunbury

Midway, Georgia

The "Come and take it!" fort—and the burned town of Sunbury.

2 claims · 2 legends→

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→

Chickamauga Battlefield

Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia

September 1863—the Confederacy’s last great victory, and "Old Green Eyes."

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→

Kennesaw House

Marietta, Georgia

The 1845 hotel where the Andrews Raiders stayed—now the Marietta Museum.

2 claims · 1 legend→

Bulloch Hall

Roswell, Georgia

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

2 claims · 1 legend→

Midway Church

Midway, Georgia

The 1792 meeting house—where the Puritan dead keep watch.

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→

Fort Pulaski National Monument

Savannah, Georgia

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Georgia Guidestones site

Elberton, Georgia

The "American Stonehenge"—blown up in 2022.

Windsor Hotel

Americus, Georgia

Historic hotel with a published child-spirit tradition.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Rhodes Hall

Atlanta, Georgia

Historic house museum with a published paranormal reputation.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Bonaventure Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

Midnight in the Garden cemetery of Gracie Watson and river ghosts.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Altamaha-ha (Altamaha River)

Darien, Georgia

Georgia’s river monster—Creek tradition and 20th-century sightings.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Wesleyan College

The first women’s college in the world—and its 19th-century dead.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Sapelo Island

Sapelo Island, Georgia

The island of Hog Hammock—the Gullah community and the Reynolds mansion.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Hay House

Historic house associated with published local folklore.

1 claim · 1 legend→

Colonial Park Cemetery

Savannah, Georgia

1750 burying ground where Union soldiers altered the headstones.

Expedition Bigfoot

Blue Ridge, Georgia

The Blue Ridge museum dedicated to Sasquatch research.

Rock City

Lookout Mountain, Georgia

"See Rock City"—the barn-roof legend and the rock city.

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.

Dungeness Plantation

Cumberland Island, Georgia

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

Vann House

Chatsworth, Georgia

NPS-listed historic site associated with the Underground Railroad.

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Record last amended October 2, 2026