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Named ghost legends filed in Mississippi

Mississippi files 16 hauntings with a name attached — a claimed identity, often a former owner, a patient, a soldier, kept alongside what the record can actually confirm about that person. Many named ghosts turn out to be real people; whether they stayed is the part nobody can file.

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Mansion
Medium

Auburn

Natchez, Mississippi

Levi Weeks’s 1812 masterpiece—the "most magnificent" of Natchez.

3 claims · 1 legend→
Mansion
Medium

Monmouth

Natchez, Mississippi

John A. Quitman’s 1818 house—the general’s ghost and the inn’s lore.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

Magnolia Hall

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1858 Greek Revival—Henderson Britton’s last house.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

House on Ellicott Hill

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1798 house on the hill—where the Spanish flag came down.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

Melrose

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1848 NHP house—the most intact antebellum estate in Natchez.

2 claims · 2 legends→
Town
Medium

Rocky Springs

Port Gibson, Mississippi

The Trace town that died of yellow fever—and the church still stands.

2 claims · 2 legends→
House
Medium

Stanton Hall

Natchez, Mississippi

The 1857 palazzo—Natchez’s grandest mansion.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Grand Village of the Natchez

Natchez, Mississippi

The Natchez people’s ceremonial center—the mounds on the bluff.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Elvis Presley Birthplace

Tupelo, Mississippi

The two-room shotgun house where the King was born—1935.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Bryant’s Grocery

Money, Mississippi

August 24, 1955—the store where Emmett Till was accused.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Tallahatchie County Courthouse

Sumner, Mississippi

The 1955 trial—where the killers walked free.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Shubuta bridge

Shubuta, Mississippi

The "hanging bridge"—where the lynchings happened.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Beauvoir

Biloxi, Mississippi

Jefferson Davis’s last home—the Confederate president’s Biloxi house.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Site
Medium

Ship Island

Gulfport, Mississippi

Fort Massachusetts on the barrier island—where the prisoners died.

2 claims · 1 legend→
House
Medium

Walter Place

Holly Springs, Mississippi

The mansion where Grant’s wife stayed—and the ghosts remain.

2 claims · 1 legend→
Museum
Medium

Jimmie Rodgers Museum

Meridian, Mississippi

The Singing Brakeman’s museum—the father of country music’s hometown.

2 claims · 1 legend→

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