WISTERIA PLACE
Historic House — 524 Eighth Street North, Columbus, Mississippi
Status: Status unknown · Access: Private property
Dossier: https://haunthunt.com/place/wisteria-place-columbus-mississippi/

Historic house in Columbus; research record.

Wisteria Place is a historic house in Columbus, Mississippi. Historic house in Columbus; 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. It is private property; the dossier documents it, it does not invite you in.

Columbus keeps an unusual density of antebellum houses, and Wisteria Place is one of the best of them — a cottage built around 1854 for William R. Cannon, six square columns under the portico, a handsome balustrade on the balcony, and its original kitchen still attached by a breezeway. Cannon was a state legislator who served as acting governor and presided over the State Democratic Convention; when he died in this house at fifty-four, Jefferson Davis is reported to have said, "I have lost my best friend."

THE MAN AT THE KITCHEN WINDOW
The haunting, as collected in Beth Scott and Michael Norman's Haunted America, is small and specific: current and previous owners report a figure in a white shirt hurrying past the kitchen window toward the front door. When the door is opened, no one is there. It is the whole story — no motive, no name — and the tellings do not inflate it. The house remains a private residence, documented rather than visited.
Cannon did die inside these walls, which is as close as the legend comes to identifying its resident. The file keeps the distance: a documented death, an unnamed figure, and a sighting modest enough to believe the owners saw something.

FILED CLAIMS — 1 on record, reported not verified
· [Documented legend] apparition: The guide recounts a white-shirted figure near the kitchen. Wisteria Place wears the claim the way old houses do: visibly, and without comment. The account has a collector's pedigree — written down as legend, which is the most honest status it can hold. 'The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi' carries the account. The figure remains the site's most-repeated sighting.
  source: The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi (https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/)

SOURCES — 1 cited
· The haunting of Columbus, Mississippi — Southern Spirit Guide
  https://www.southernspiritguide.org/haunted-columbus-mississippi/

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