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We got back to the hotel & had a little while to relax in the room before heading out to our ghost tour. We could have walked, but as the tour was getting over close to midnight, we did not want to walk back that late. So we drove & parked at Clary's Cafe where we were to meet the group.
It was a beautiful evening & with the sun down it was actually cool & quite pleasant. We remembered to put on bug spray this time!
We met the group & before long were heading out to one of the squares where we talked about Savannah's hidden cemetaries. It seemed that we were standing on top of an old slave cemetary in Calhoun Square. That area used to be outside the city limits & was a place for slave burial, but as Savannah grew & expanded, they just built over the old cemetaries. So Savannah is literally a city built on her own dead.
We walked to a house at 423 Abercorn street.
The house is abandoned now & according to the tour guides story has been since 1984. People don't want to live there because of all the paranormal activity. It is a very spooky looking place where supposedly back in the 1800's a man's little girl misbehaved & he took her punishment to extremes. He sat her in front of the window facing the square & told all the servants to ignore her. So for 3 days, she sat there with no one bringing her food or water & with the afternoon sun shining in on her & all the people walking by the square seeing her. She died in that chair with everyone looking on of dehydration & is now said to haunt this home showing up in the window on the right in the 2nd story where she sat.
We were able to go up & look in the window & in the mail slot in the front door. Pretty spooky & I kept expecting a face to be peering back at me.
There is also a face on the side of the house. This is a more contemporary story about college students living there & a friend refusing to go in because he saw another friends face on the house.
We went to another old home that is being redone that is haunted by a young man's ghost that was beaten because he was cheating with a mobsters girlfriend. They tied him to the front banister of his father's house & left him for dead.
The father was a judge & didn't want people to know what happened so he would not take him to the hospital so he died a few days later in the home. He is said to haunt the 3rd floor & appears on the balcony.
Then we went to Mercer House which is a setting from Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil. There have been quite a few deaths here & not all can be explained so the local legend is the house has it out for people. A man that killed his wife here was one night seen to be almost lifted off a side balcony by the wind & pitched over to his death. And this home is where the infamous crime from Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil was commited.
We visited another home where we were told about a ghost as companion. A confirmed bachelor lived in home where a doctor had lived. The doctor showed up & kept the bachelor company & he liked having him around. He left for a trip to Europe allowing a priest friend to stay there & the priest thought he was doing the man a favor by doing an excorcism to get rid of the spirit but it made the man really mad when he came back to discover his companion was gone.
Our last stop was to look in one of the backyard gardens behind a home. Here we talked more about the hidden cemetaries. At one point, Union troops were disturbing graves in the cemetaries around Savannah, so people would go out & exhume their dead relatives & bury them in their back yards to keep their graves from being disturbed by the D@M* Yankees
. So the moral to that story is, if you buy a home in the historic district in Savannah there is no telling who you have in your garden.
All, in all the tour was good & was a fun way to see Savannah in a different light. I think I would enjoy doing a tour that was a little more historical next time as a lot of these stories aren't the famous ones but it was still fun & the guide Larry was a very good story teller. I didn't capture anything weird in any of my photos either, not even any orbs.
Up next......walking tour & it's rainin' men
It was a beautiful evening & with the sun down it was actually cool & quite pleasant. We remembered to put on bug spray this time!
We met the group & before long were heading out to one of the squares where we talked about Savannah's hidden cemetaries. It seemed that we were standing on top of an old slave cemetary in Calhoun Square. That area used to be outside the city limits & was a place for slave burial, but as Savannah grew & expanded, they just built over the old cemetaries. So Savannah is literally a city built on her own dead.
We walked to a house at 423 Abercorn street.
The house is abandoned now & according to the tour guides story has been since 1984. People don't want to live there because of all the paranormal activity. It is a very spooky looking place where supposedly back in the 1800's a man's little girl misbehaved & he took her punishment to extremes. He sat her in front of the window facing the square & told all the servants to ignore her. So for 3 days, she sat there with no one bringing her food or water & with the afternoon sun shining in on her & all the people walking by the square seeing her. She died in that chair with everyone looking on of dehydration & is now said to haunt this home showing up in the window on the right in the 2nd story where she sat.
We were able to go up & look in the window & in the mail slot in the front door. Pretty spooky & I kept expecting a face to be peering back at me.
There is also a face on the side of the house. This is a more contemporary story about college students living there & a friend refusing to go in because he saw another friends face on the house.
We went to another old home that is being redone that is haunted by a young man's ghost that was beaten because he was cheating with a mobsters girlfriend. They tied him to the front banister of his father's house & left him for dead.
The father was a judge & didn't want people to know what happened so he would not take him to the hospital so he died a few days later in the home. He is said to haunt the 3rd floor & appears on the balcony.
Then we went to Mercer House which is a setting from Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil. There have been quite a few deaths here & not all can be explained so the local legend is the house has it out for people. A man that killed his wife here was one night seen to be almost lifted off a side balcony by the wind & pitched over to his death. And this home is where the infamous crime from Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil was commited.
We visited another home where we were told about a ghost as companion. A confirmed bachelor lived in home where a doctor had lived. The doctor showed up & kept the bachelor company & he liked having him around. He left for a trip to Europe allowing a priest friend to stay there & the priest thought he was doing the man a favor by doing an excorcism to get rid of the spirit but it made the man really mad when he came back to discover his companion was gone.
Our last stop was to look in one of the backyard gardens behind a home. Here we talked more about the hidden cemetaries. At one point, Union troops were disturbing graves in the cemetaries around Savannah, so people would go out & exhume their dead relatives & bury them in their back yards to keep their graves from being disturbed by the D@M* Yankees
. So the moral to that story is, if you buy a home in the historic district in Savannah there is no telling who you have in your garden.
All, in all the tour was good & was a fun way to see Savannah in a different light. I think I would enjoy doing a tour that was a little more historical next time as a lot of these stories aren't the famous ones but it was still fun & the guide Larry was a very good story teller. I didn't capture anything weird in any of my photos either, not even any orbs.
Up next......walking tour & it's rainin' men
I hope you don't forget.
So we headed over to Wet Willies to get one.
She was really funny though & got the show started off in the right light mood.
I can't wait to read that trippie!
