[Bravo35223]

Originally Posted by downtowndoll

As some of you may not know, Mobile is over 300 years old, older than New Orleans. Lots of opportunities for haunting with yellow fever deaths and years as a colony of France, Spain, Britain and finally the Americans. Also, the last port to fall in the Confederacy.

Living in an old home (100+ years old) and neighborhood, we hear a lot of stories. One of my friends had a haunted home. Most of the stories involve feet stomping up stairs, so loud they had a gun ready for the intruder to find noone there. Also a story of a blond girl who looks like a 1960's era hippie wandering the Oakleigh Garden District's streets.

The Oakleigh House is supposedly haunted, but I don't think anything lately. Footsteps are routinely heard upstairs. Curtains closed on their own that never are normally closed (in a room where a child died). The crystal chandeliers used to move around a lot for no reason, so they put steel rods on the chains. Someone who lived on Roper Street , behind the house, woke up in the middle of the night and found a man sitting on his bed. (The idea was that property was once the stables of Oakleigh)
I've also heard that the Bragg-Mitchell Mansion and DAR-Richards house, which are two other house museums , are haunted as well.

There is a Victorian home in the 900 block (North side)of Government Street that supposedly has a little girl looking out the window. Family reports hauntings. I've never seen her myself. I always look, though!

Fortunately, my home is not haunted. I never believed in that kind of thing at all. I still think there is some rational explanation for it! However!.......
a former home I had was haunted, or something. We didn't mention it to the owners and they haven't complained so I hope it's gone..

The previous owners had told us the house was very haunted, which we didn't believe for ourselves. Like this was a selling point! However, when we first moved in, my hubby and I both saw at the same time what appeared to be a 10 year old boy walk past a doorway. And in our room, shuffling slipper sounds at night and lots of crazy noises downstairs. My 2 year old pointing at weird areas of the ceiling - talking about that old lady. (THAT was freaky!)
After a while, everything calmed down except for the noises downstairs. Some music I couldn't find a source for. I slept with the light on when my hubby was out of town. It wasn't scary or anything, very liveable. Then , we decided to sell the house. Somewhat active again. Some doors slamming and then hearing a boy voice say "Mother".
Our home now, as I said, is not haunted. And I'm glad!

A business/former home at 1668 Government is haunted. Lights and water faucets that turn on after being turned off is some of the activity.

There is a home on State Street in the De Tonti Square District north of Downtown that has had a long haunting by a sea captain who killed himself. I wish I knew where it was or if the house is still there. People reported the haunting in the 1800's after he shot himself at the top of the stairs. What happens is he reenacts the falling down the stairs part of his death. It would wake the owners up in the middle of the night. Later, he began to wander the garden.

Now that the Battle House hotel is reopened, I wonder what ghost tales will come out of that place!

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Wonderful Post!!! We NEEED more from MOBILE and its rich heritage....please come back more often!!!

[Reactionary]

Sally Carter's Grave - Huntsville

Sally Carter visited Stephen and Mary (her sister) Ewing in 1837 at Cedarhurst (Whitesburg and Drake) to spend the summer. She died a few days after arriving in Huntsville. Her tombstone read:

"My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise
And in my savior's image rise."

A few years later, servants reported hearing eerie sounds in the night - like trumpets sounding - Mr. Ewing was walking past Sally's grave later that morning and spied two small footprints in the dew in the middle of her grave. Ewing sold the house in 1865: few peple remembered Sally Carter, but almost everyone knew of her ghost and had heard the sounds of trumpets near her grave...

In 1919, J.D. Thornton bought the house. In the fall of that year, his nephew visited, and one morning at breakfast, the nephew appeared, pale and trembling. He told the family that "Sally appeared to me last night" and "she said her tombstone had fallen over and would I put it back up". The family went to her grave and discovered that Sally's tombstone had fallen over: in shock and fear, they left it laying there - the nephew went back to Dothan and never visited again. Over the years, people at the house would report strange noises and unexplained mysteries.

In the 1970s, the house and land were sold to a development company to build Cedarhurst community - with the house renovated into the community clubhouse. The family cemetary needed to be moved so the graves were disinterred, all except for Sally's vault - it was empty...

From 'Old Huntsville' monthly. I knew of the story, but "Old Huntsville" has the rich details. For all the newcomers here, this paper is a wonderful source for local history.

[mwl251]

They Say My School Is Haunted (murphy High School) In Mobile

[mikeburks]

i used 2 work ther as a security officer, that place is haunted. in fact i worked there for about 2 weeks and ended up quitting.. wheel chairs moving themselves, screams, phones ringing even when u pick them up, i later found out that the explorium is on a site that used to be the first jail house..then a old firestation. i seen a man upstairs while making my rounds,wearing the old jail uniforms{white with black stripes} handle-bar mustashe... i swear i was even chased by something that didnot want me there...i felt like i had been slaped,,even had a handprint on my face. to this day i will not step foot in there. scary as hell..

[tcs251]

Me and some friends of mine investigate haunted places in mobile and surrounding areas. We have been to cry baby bridge, a hidden cemetary in creola, a house in bay minette, Fort Gaines, and are working on investigating one of the country clubs in mobile. We are in the proccess of putting are findings online. If yall would like for us to check out a place or house, email me.

[kevin_1975]

Harrison's Grave Yard outside of Kinston.

They say you can hear a fiddle play in the middle of the night.

[Bama`s Port]

When I was about 16 or 17 years old, I was at the Main library downtown which sits right in front of that old ancient cemetery .I was doing a highschool research project at the library. I saw 3 women dressed in black with some lamps are candles in there hands couldn`t realy tell what it is but it was [SIZE=3]Illuminant. They were chanting or mumbling something and I pointed them out to my mom and she poped my hands and told me to never point at a cemetery and she told me maybe they are devil worshipers are something . I dont` know what the three women were doing in that cemetery around 8 p.m but it was crazy to me and as of now when I visit that library I park on the other side ! [/SIZE]


[SIZE=3]I also have heared that there were voodoo practicies in Mobile back in the day is that true ?
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[FlourChild]

Originally Posted by Reactionary

Sally Carter's Grave - Huntsville

Sally Carter visited Stephen and Mary (her sister) Ewing in 1837 at Cedarhurst (Whitesburg and Drake) to spend the summer. She died a few days after arriving in Huntsville. Her tombstone read:

"My flesh shall slumber in the ground
Till the last trumpet's joyful sound
Then burst the chains with sweet surprise
And in my savior's image rise."

A few years later, servants reported hearing eerie sounds in the night - like trumpets sounding - Mr. Ewing was walking past Sally's grave later that morning and spied two small footprints in the dew in the middle of her grave. Ewing sold the house in 1865: few peple remembered Sally Carter, but almost everyone knew of her ghost and had heard the sounds of trumpets near her grave...

In 1919, J.D. Thornton bought the house. In the fall of that year, his nephew visited, and one morning at breakfast, the nephew appeared, pale and trembling. He told the family that "Sally appeared to me last night" and "she said her tombstone had fallen over and would I put it back up". The family went to her grave and discovered that Sally's tombstone had fallen over: in shock and fear, they left it laying there - the nephew went back to Dothan and never visited again. Over the years, people at the house would report strange noises and unexplained mysteries.

In the 1970s, the house and land were sold to a development company to build Cedarhurst community - with the house renovated into the community clubhouse. The family cemetary needed to be moved so the graves were disinterred, all except for Sally's vault - it was empty...

From 'Old Huntsville' monthly. I knew of the story, but "Old Huntsville" has the rich details. For all the newcomers here, this paper is a wonderful source for local history.

My husband used to write for "Old Huntsville"! Great magazine.

Our house in Huntsville (on Polk Drive) was home to some odd things. I used to see (and hear) a tall (around 6'6") gray figure dashing in and out of one of our bedrooms. I thought at first it was something in my eye, but realized that stray eyelashes don't make "whoosh"-ing noises. When I took my blouses (and it only happened to MY clothes, not my husband's or our kids') out of the laundry, every button on every blouse would be fastened, despite my having undone them before washing the garments. I was the only one doing the laundry; it used to freak me out.

The Dead Children's Playground (back behind Maple Hill Cemetery) is supposed to be ubercreepy. It's creepy in the daytime, let alone at night!

[happynoodleboycey]

Originally Posted by FlourChild

The Dead Children's Playground (back behind Maple Hill Cemetery) is supposed to be ubercreepy. It's creepy in the daytime, let alone at night!

I'm not surprised with a name like that.

"Be back in an hour dear, just going to take the kids to Dead Children's playground."

What's wrong with a name like'Happy Children's Playground of Fun' or something?

[FlourChild]

Originally Posted by boycew02

I'm not surprised with a name like that.

"Be back in an hour dear, just going to take the kids to Dead Children's playground."

What's wrong with a name like'Happy Children's Playground of Fun' or something?

Hee! "Honey, the kids and I are headed to Wednesday and Pugsley's Death Park. We'll be back...at least SOME of us will." EWWW.

I'm pretty sure "Dead Children's Playground" wasn't the original name. If it was, SOMEBODY didn't do their market research.