{"id":1338,"slug":"fort-crawford-cemetery-east-brewton-alabama","story":[{"heading":null,"paragraphs":["After the Creek War of 1813-14, the United States threw up a line of log stockades along the Alabama frontier to watch the Muscogee towns and the Spanish in Florida. Fort Crawford was built on a bluff over Murder Creek near present East Brewton in Escambia County — a small frontier post in the years just before Alabama statehood in 1819. The fort vanished so completely that its exact footprint is now an open question: in 2009 archaeologists dug near East Brewton Baptist Church, where the fort was presumed to have stood, and found nothing. The Escambia County heritage book doesn't mention it.","Fort Crawford Cemetery, on Snowden Street near the presumed site, may date to the stockade era — but the file's research notes are explicit that a cemetery is not proof of a fort's ground."]},{"heading":"The soldier and the girl","paragraphs":["The reports collected by the Southern Spirit Guide are vivid for such a thin file. A Confederate soldier's shade is said to prowl the grounds — in a 2011 video by Paranormal Productions he reportedly approaches visitors asking, 'Where is my bayonet?' Another account has a shadow figure seizing a pedestrian passing through, and a young girl in a white dress has been reported among the stones. The Brewton Standard has covered the ghost claims alongside the archaeology.","The archive holds both layers at once and keeps them separate: a fort that may or may not have stood on this ground, a cemetery that certainly does, and apparitions filed as reported lore rather than events."]}],"name":"Fort Crawford Cemetery","aliases":[],"type":"CEMETERY","type_label":"Cemetery","cats":["HAUNTED_PLACE"],"groups":["cemeteries","hauntings"],"desc":"Cemetery in East Brewton; research record.","full_desc":"Fort Crawford Cemetery is a cemetery in East Brewton, Alabama. Cemetery in East Brewton; research record. The archive files it under haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting. The dossier keeps the place and the story in the same record — which is what the archive is for.","address":"Snowden Street","city":"East Brewton","county":"Escambia County","state":"Alabama","postal":null,"region":"South","lat":31.09144,"lon":-87.055345,"coord_kind":"CITY","status":"UNKNOWN","access":"UNKNOWN","access_notes":null,"ownership":null,"website":null,"phone":null,"year_built":null,"year_opened":null,"year_closed":null,"year_demolished":null,"designation":null,"current_use":null,"research_notes":"Cemetery is not proof of the exact fort footprint; archaeology cited by the guide failed to locate the fort at the presumed site.","stage":"SOURCE_RESEARCH","quality":{"level":"LOW","score":40.6,"dims":{"location_confidence":0.75,"identity_confidence":0.65,"historical_confidence":0,"source_quality":0.3999999999999999,"paranormal_claim_provenance":0.8,"coordinate_confidence":0,"current_access_confidence":0,"freshness":0.65}},"claims":[{"id":600,"type":"HAUNTING","description":"Southern Spirit Guide recounts soldier and girl apparitions. Fort Crawford Cemetery's dead are the site's permanent residents; the reports are how the living say they keep noticing. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III' carries the account. The reports keep the place on every haunted list it qualifies for.","evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","evidence_label":"Documented legend","entity":null,"where":null,"first_report":null,"approx_date":null,"confidence":0.5,"conflict_notes":null,"source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4},"conflicting_source":null,"variants":[]}],"history":[],"legends":[{"name":null,"summary":"Southern Spirit Guide recounts soldier and girl apparitions. Cemeteries keep their stories in the stones; Fort Crawford Cemetery in East Brewton, Alabama has its version filed among them. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. It's the version the place will be remembered by, whether or not it's the true one.","earliest":null,"evidence":"DOCUMENTED_LEGEND","source":{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}}],"entities":[],"events":[],"investigations":[],"encounters":[],"media":[],"persons":[],"visitor":{"tour_availability":"Verify before visiting","notes":"Access details are unverified; research before visiting.","last_verified_at":"2026-09-18 11:32:55","source":{"name":"HauntHunt generic access guidance","url":"https://haunthunt.com/about#access-guidance","publisher":"HauntHunt editorial","type":"DIRECTORY","authority":2}},"sources":[{"name":"Alabama Hauntings — County by County, Part III","url":"https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-iii/","publisher":"Southern Spirit Guide","type":"BLOG","authority":4}],"conflicts":[],"wiki":null,"counts":{"claims":1,"history":0,"legends":1,"entities":0,"sources":1}}