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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Haunted Alabama
I know of one near Florence and the old Forks of Cypress location and one at Flint, just below Decatur. Have you read "13 Alabama Ghosts" and the other Jeffrey books by Kathryn Tucker Windham? She is a state and national treasure.
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