OLD STATE BANK Historic Bank — 925 Bank Street, Decatur, Morgan County County, Alabama Status: Closed · Access: Restricted access · est. 1834 Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/old-state-bank-decatur-alabama/ Historic bank in Decatur; research record. A historic bank in Decatur, Alabama, built in 1834, Old State Bank is filed here for what the record attaches to it. Historic bank in Decatur; research record. Its signature presence is Unnamed women — the figure the file’s accounts keep returning to. The dossier holds 1 reported claim, 1 legend and 1 documented fact, with the verified spine filed separately from the lore. It is closed now; the account outlives the building. The Old State Bank in Decatur dates to 1834 — one of Alabama's oldest surviving bank buildings, a Federal-style branch of the state bank that survived the Civil War that burned the town around it. Carolyn Cortner Smith's 1934 rehabilitation saved it — the file's documented spine being a bank building that outlasted the bank, the war, and a century of downtown change. The National Register listing in 1972 and the 1934 rescue are the file's register — a building saved twice: once by survival through the war, once by a woman's restoration. TWO WOMEN The guide recounts two female apparitions — unnamed women reported in the old bank. The file's ghosts are anonymous: two women in a building whose documented savior was a woman, the apparitions' identity lost to the record but their presence reported. The unnamed women are the file's register — a bank that held the town's money and its dead alike, the two figures the reports' most persistent presence. WHY THIS FILE MATTERS The Old State Bank is the archive's saved-building file — an 1834 bank that survived the war and was rescued by a woman's 1934 rehabilitation, keeping two unnamed female apparitions. The documented survival is the record; the two women are the lore. A bank that outlasted its own institution keeps two women in its rooms — the file's suggestion being that the building's caretakers include some it never hired. FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified · [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts two female apparitions. The presences go by unnamed women in the file. Old State Bank's file is thin on proof and long on persistence — the standard profile of American place-lore. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting. source: Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/) HISTORY — 1 documented facts · The city dates completion to 1834 and National Register listing to 1972; it describes Carolyn Cortner Smith’s 1934 rehabilitation. A documented history gives the file real substance; this entry is part of that spine. The fact is historically verified — the part of the file that doesn't need hedging. The record appears in 'Old State Bank'. It's the sort of fact that gives the haunting reports their context. SOURCES — 2 cited · Alabama Hauntings — County by County Part VI — Southern Spirit Guide https://www.southernspiritguide.org/alabama-hauntings-county-by-county-part-vi/ · Old State Bank — City of Decatur https://www.decatur-al.gov/explore/things_to_do/museums_and_tours/old_state_bank.php — HauntHunt is a research archive. Claims are filed as reported — documented where sources exist, marked as folklore or unverified where they do not. Methodology: https://haunthunt.com/methodology/ · Corrections: https://haunthunt.com/report/