GAINESRIDGE DINNER CLUB
Restaurant — 933 AL-10, Camden, Wilcox County County, Alabama
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Restaurant in Camden; research record.

A restaurant in Camden, Alabama, GainesRidge Dinner Club is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Restaurant in Camden; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. The dossier holds 1 reported claim and 1 legend, every one filed as account rather than fact. Visitor status is unverified; confirm before making the trip.

GainesRidge sits on Alabama Highway 10 outside Camden in Wilcox County, in a house believed to date to the 1820s — among the oldest structures in the Black Belt county. It opened as a dinner club in 1985 and built a reputation on Black Belt cooking; the ghost file opened with the restaurant and grew the way restaurant files do — staff accounts, accumulated over years, in a building old enough to have plausible candidates.
The owner's own term for what happens there is quoted in the sources and worth keeping: not a 'ghost story' but a 'ghost truth.'

THE VOICE ON THE STAIRS
Her account, recorded by the Southern Spirit Guide: while prepping for the next day's service with the cook, she went upstairs for a pot and heard a voice call her to come quickly back down. She raced to the kitchen to find the cook calmly working — no one had called. After searching the empty restaurant they left for the night. The wider report file adds a spectral infant's crying and the apparition of a tall, bearded man.
Author Beverly Crider contributes the most-cited corroboration: a very young relative she took to dinner there saw a spectral dog and later a little boy — figures invisible to the adults at the table. Everything here is reported, not demonstrated; the archive files it as the strongest kind of restaurant lore — named witnesses, consistent details, no resolution.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] voices: The guide recounts calling voices, infant crying and apparitions. GainesRidge Dinner Club, a restaurant in Camden, Alabama, keeps the story on the menu alongside everything else it serves. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The report is preserved in sources like 'Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII'. The sounds are the site's most consistent claim — the one detail witnesses agree on.
  source: Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vii/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· Alabama Hauntings—County by County Part VII — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vii/

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