Marengo House
Marengo House is a historic house in Lowndesboro, Alabama. Historic house in Lowndesboro; research record. Its signature presence is Kathleen Powell — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 named or described presence — all telling, no verified spine yet, and the file says so plainly. Access details are unverified — research before visiting.
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Is Marengo House haunted?
The record holds 1 claim, 1 legend, 1 named entity — filed as reported, not verified. The heaviest filing is classed documented legend. The archive documents the claim; it takes no position on the ghost.
The record — long form
Marengo came to Lowndesboro secondhand. The house was built around 1835 in Autauga County and moved to North Broad Street sometime between 1843 and 1847, joining one of Alabama's densest streets of antebellum survivors. Local tradition credits its second owner, Dr. Charles Edwin Reese, with saving the whole town in 1865: as Union troops under General Wilson swept through burning property, Reese reportedly met the general with a rash-covered patient and claimed a smallpox epidemic — a ruse that worked.
The tradition is filed as tradition. What follows is record.
The Powell death
A later owner, Lindsay James Powell Jr., bought a gun for the protection of his wheelchair-bound wife Kathleen. In 1961 he found her shot to death in her bed, the gun beside her. The death was ruled a suicide; the guide notes evidence pointed toward possible murder. The file declines to choose — it records the finding and the doubt together.
Owners since have reported a woman's laughter in the house. A visiting psychic reportedly named Kathleen; another reportedly answered that no one who had lived there had been happy, and that a second female spirit shared the rooms.
Today
The house was donated to the Lowndesboro Landmarks Foundation in 1975 and has served as an events space for years — a building that is, in the end, busier than its legend.
The record of claims
The guide recounts unexplained female laughter. The lore gives it a name — Kathleen Powell — which is what turns a report into a resident. Marengo House in Lowndesboro, Alabama is the kind of old house where every sound eventually gets a name. It's a documented legend: the telling is real, the contents remain folklore. The report is preserved in sources like 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part V'. The haunting claim is now part of the site's identity, filed alongside the documented history.
The guide recounts unexplained female laughter. The house's rooms are where the accounts concentrate — old houses keep their stories in the walls they were built around. The story is documented as legend — recorded and retold, never verified as fact. The account appears in 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part V'. Legends accrue where records go silent; this one filled the gap and stayed.
Alleged entities
The guide recounts unexplained female laughter. The file calls it Kathleen Powell. Marengo House wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. Sources including 'Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part V' keep the claim in circulation. A named spirit outlasts an anonymous one; the file's name is Kathleen Powell.
Sources on file
- 01Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VSouthern Spirit Guide · blog · A4
Field notes & open questions
Conflicting death interpretations need official records; no homicide determination inferred.