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    Haunted Places in Savannah

    7 cataloged locations in Savannah, United States. Uncover historical records and field investigation details.

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    Bonaventure Cemetery

    SavannahUnited States1846 (Plantation established 1762)

    Perched dramatically on a scenic bluff overlooking the Wilmington River east of Savannah, Georgia, the 160-acre Bonaventure Cemetery is world-famous for its haunting Southern Gothic beauty, Spanish moss-draped live oaks, and intricate Victorian funerary sculpture. Originally established as Evergreen Cemetery in 1846 on the historic site of Bonaventure Plantation, it became immortalized by John Berendt's 1994 bestseller 'Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil'. Visitors and grave-tenders frequently report encountering child apparitions, moving marble statues, and disembodied laughter.

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    Moon River Brewing Company

    SavannahUnited States1821

    Located at 21 West Bay Street in Savannah, Georgia, Moon River Brewing Company is an award-winning brewpub operating inside the historic City Hotel building, constructed in 1821. Known as one of the most violent and actively haunted commercial buildings in the United States, the structure served as a luxurious hotel, a Civil War field post, and a makeshift yellow fever hospital whose basement morgue held hundreds of victims. Featured prominently on Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and Paranormal State, the building is famous for shadow figures, physical poltergeist attacks, and a feared malevolent entity known as 'Toby'.

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    Savannah Historic District

    SavannahUnited States1733–present

    Widely acclaimed as America's Most Haunted City, the Savannah Historic District in Georgia is a sprawling 2.5 square mile urban National Historic Landmark built literally atop forgotten cemeteries, Revolutionary and Civil War battlefields, and yellow fever mass graves. Laid out in 1733 by General James Oglethorpe around 22 picturesque cobblestone squares, the district boasts thousands of reported supernatural encounters per year across its historic mansions, subterranean tunnels, taverns, and Spanish moss draped oak squares.

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    Sorrel Weed House

    SavannahUnited States1835–1840

    Located at 6 West Harris Street on historic Madison Square in Savannah, Georgia, the 10,000-square-foot Sorrel Weed House is one of the grandest examples of Greek Revival and Regency architecture in the state. Built between 1835 and 1840 for wealthy French-Haitian merchant Francis Sorrel, the mansion carries a tragic history involving the death of Sorrel's second wife, Matilda, and an enslaved woman named Molly. Featured prominently on Ghost Hunters, Ghost Adventures, and HGTV, it is widely regarded as one of the most actively haunted private residences in North America.

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    Historic House
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    The Kehoe House

    SavannahUnited States1892

    Situated on historic Columbia Square in Savannah, Georgia, The Kehoe House is an exquisite 1892 Renaissance Revival mansion built by Irish iron foundry tycoon William Kehoe for his wife Anne and their ten children. Designed by architect Andrew DeWitt Bruyn at a cost of $25,000, the 13-room mansion showcases monumental cast-iron stairways, window treatments, and verandahs crafted in Kehoe's own iron foundry. Renowned nationwide as one of Savannah's most romantic and actively haunted luxury inns, guests and staff report encounters with playful child spirits, disembodied footsteps, touching hands, and phantom music in upper floor guest suites.

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    The Marshall House

    SavannahUnited States1851–1852

    Located on bustling East Broughton Street in Savannah, Georgia, The Marshall House is the city's oldest operating hotel, built in 1851–1852 by Mary Magdalene Marshall. Having served twice as a makeshift military field hospital during 19th-century Yellow Fever epidemics and as a Union Army hospital during General Sherman's Civil War occupation, the hotel carries a deeply ghostly legacy. Guests and staff report sightings of Civil War soldiers, phantom nurses, disembodied children's laughter, and self-activating plumbing fixtures.

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