In the 1870s Yellow Fever moved across the city like a tidal wave, taking 1,000 lives with it. There are rumors that city officials hid many of the bodies in underground tunnels beneath the former Candler Hospital building in an effort to hide the severity of the outbreak. While those stories can’t be entirely be validated, we do know those same tunnels were once used by the hospital for autopsies.

In response to Philip Minis's blatant anti-Semitism during a game of horseshoes in 1832, James Stark challenged him to a duel. But after Stark changed his mind and failed to show up, Minis hunted him down and killed him inside the City Hotel. Minis was later acquitted and set free, but James Stark has never left the City Hotel. The building is now a brewery, and sightings of his ghost there are as common as the sweet smell of beer.

The mansion, once belonging to Francis Sorrel, was the site of Sorrel's repeated assault of an enslaved woman Molly. This tragedy led to the suicides of both Mrs. Sorrell and poor Molly. Tourists have reported being touched or struck by an invisible force. Others have described shadowy figures that move across hallways, and the sounds of voices crying out from different parts of the house. The house might be unoccupied, but if these stories are true, it’s certainly not empty.

This was one of the first black churches in America, and when you visit, look for holes in the wood floor. They’re small, maybe the width of a pencil, but are arranged in an old African pattern. They’re more than decoration, though; they are also breathing holes. The church was once part of the Underground Railroad, and slaves who passed through would hide beneath the floor boards until it was safe to move on.

In December 1733, Alice and her husband Richard were indentured to the brutal William Wise, whom they later killed. The tree from which Alice was hanged in Wright Square is the only tree there with no Spanish moss growing on it, a sign—according to the legend—of the blood that was spilled. The most common sighting in Wright Square is of a pale woman wearing an old, weathered dress. She is said to approach people, asking “Do you know where he is? Where’s my baby?”

This old mansion had a varied history, first as a personal museum (where a guard died of a gunshot on the roof) as well as a residence, where a young girl died tragically after tripping over a billiards ball. Today the mansion is home to a number of unexplainable sights and sounds. The figure of an older man smoking a cigar has been reported on the roof of the building, and guests inside have heard sounds they can only describe as billiard balls dropping to the floor above them.

The most well known spirit here is Gracie Watson, who died of pneumonia at age 6 in 1889. A statue stands in front of her grave, and many people place coins and toys at the base. Some who have stood close to her grave have seen a beautiful little girl, while others claim to have seen tears of blood in the statue’s eyes. In other parts of the cemetary, visitors have heard a baby crying near an infant’s grave, and the sounds of an unseen pack of dogs barking angrily.