by talysin | Nov 11, 2025 | Destination Ghost Blog Series, Destination Ghost Tours, Destination Ghost Tours Blog, Destination Ghost Tours Features, Folklore, Ghost Sightings, Ghost Stories, Ghost Tours, Ghosts & Legends, Haunted Savannah
Two Lives Converge in Gilded Age Savannah In the late 1880s, Savannah, Georgia was a city of elegant squares and gaslit streets, still shaking off the shadows of war and yellow fever. Amid its society of cotton merchants and genteel families, two very different men...
by talysin | Nov 10, 2025 | Ghost Sightings, Ghost Stories, Ghost Tours, Haunted Savannah
Early History of the Site The site at 119 Bull Street has roots in Savannah’s earliest years. In the 1730s, Savannah’s first courthouse and jail – simple wooden structures – stood at the northwest corner of Wright Square, roughly where the CVS building sits today....
by talysin | Nov 10, 2025 | Destination Ghost Blog Series, Destination Ghost Tours, Destination Ghost Tours Blog, Ghost Sightings, Ghost Stories, Ghosts & Legends, Haunted Savannah
Nestled in the heart of Savannah, Georgia, stands a testament to both architectural grandeur and spectral whispers—the Sorrel Weed House. As the sun dips below the horizon, casting long shadows through the Spanish moss, one can’t help but feel the weight of history...
by Christopher Allen | Aug 17, 2025 | Haunted Savannah, Historic District Stories, Organized Crime History, Prohibition Era, Savannah History, Savannah History & Culture, Strange Savannah Stories, True Crime, True Crime in Savannah, Visiting Savannah
Notorious Cases and Violent Flashpoints The morning of August 16, 1923 opened like any other: gulls tilting over the river, a tug pushing low through the current, shop doors hauled up on their belts along Bay Street. Then men with quiet shoes began to move. At a desk...
by Christopher Allen | Aug 13, 2025 | Haunted Savannah, Historic District Stories, Organized Crime History, Prohibition Era, Savannah History, True Crime
A Knock in the Salt Wind Night rises slow over the bluff. Cobblestones keep the day’s heat, lanterns sharpen the seams of brick, and the Savannah River breathes brine and tar. Far below Bay Street the water slips dark between pilings, hulls creak, and somewhere a tug...
by Christopher Allen | Aug 12, 2025 | Haunted History, Haunted Savannah, Savannah Ghost Stories, Savannah Ghost Stories & Legends
A walk at the fence line: an introduction Night gathers early beneath the oaks. The fence of Colonial Park Cemetery runs along Abercorn Street like a ribcage, each iron picket cool under the palm, each bar holding back an acreage of shadows and names. The air smells...
