MAIN STREET FOLKLORE AREA — ALBERTVILLE
Street — Albertville, Marshall County County, Alabama
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Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/main-street-folklore-area-albertville-albertville-alabama/

Street in Albertville; research record.

A street in Albertville, Alabama, Main Street Folklore Area — Albertville is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Street in Albertville; research record. HauntHunt files it with haunted places. The presences in its file go unnamed: unidentified children, the record says. 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.

Albertville's Main Street has a documented wound. On April 24, 1908, a tornado tore through northeast Alabama, killing some thirty-five residents and destroying a portion of the town — including much of Main Street itself. The rebuild that followed gives the street its present form; the dead of that day give the folklore its weight.
The reported layer is the one the guide records, drawn from local author Faith Serafin's accounts of the town.

WHAT IS REPORTED
Serafin's accounts describe a young boy in khaki knee-pants, a white shirt, and suspenders seen running down Main Street at night; children in period clothing observed playing along the street in the evenings; and business owners reporting their shops' front doors opening and closing on their own.
The file files them together the way the town tells them — a disaster's date on one side, apparitions of children on the other, the connection between them implied by the telling rather than established by any record.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts children in period clothing and moving doors. The presences go by unidentified children in the file. Roadside lore attaches to crossings, and Main Street Folklore Area — Albertville in Albertville, Alabama is exactly the kind of crossing that collects it. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The apparition is the file's anchor — every other report orbits it.
  source: Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part V (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-v/)

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

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