Ghost Bridge - Florence, Alabama

Properly called Jackson Ford Bridge, there are currently plans to demolish the bridge due to vandalism and decay making for a safety hazard. Of course if people start dying, that will just add to its reputation as a haunted spot, so possibly Darwinism should be allowed to take place here. There are several rumors as to why it is called Ghost Bridge by the locals, some say the eerie white mist that rises up from the creek also gave rise to the name, others claim a runaway slave was hanged from the bridge during the Civil War.

Address:
Jackson Rd.
Outside Florence, AL

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Cry Baby Hollow Bridge - Hartselle, Alabama

Various urban legends have arisen around the claims that Cry Baby Hollow and the bridge going across it are haunted. A baby is said to have died there, either from murder, a car accident, a wagon accident from pioneer days, or variations on the theme. People claim to hear the baby crying and claim their car shakes if they go across the bridge (which of course has nothing to do with the engineering).

Address:
Kayo Rd
Hartselle, AL

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Bill Sketoe's Hole - Choctawhatchee Bridge - Newton, Alabama

There are a couple of different accounts as to why Bill Sketoe was hanged. Some claim that he deserted his post to care for a sick wife, other’s that he was assisting in local guerilla operations against the army, in any event, he ran afoul of the local confederate Home Guard. He was hanged, with a rope too short for his size and the soldiers quickly attempted to dig a hole beneath his feet as he dangled slowly strangling. His death caused quite a stir in the population and the hole became much remarked upon especially as it remained for years exactly as it had been dug, never filling in. Legend has it that that any attempts to fill the hole were futile as the hole would empty itself over night. The hole was just finally filled in the 90’s after flooding caused the entire area to be covered in tons of rock.

Address:
Hwy 134
Newton, AL

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Salem-Shotwell Covered Bridge - Opelika, Alabama

The original bridge was the site of a tragedy when a woman and her two children were crossing it in a car and the bridge collapsed. All three were killed. Urban legend has it that if you put candy on the bridge’s edge at night, by the light of your car headlights you will see the ghost children come to collect the candy. The original bridge was destroyed by a falling tree in 2005. 

Address:

Park Rd

Opelika, AL 36801

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Refuge Bridge - Clanton, Alabama

Every bridge in Alabama is haunted. Every. Single. Bridge. This one however you'd best be careful on, because it's not your standard "scorned woman walks the bridge" story. This one contains a malevolent and evil presence prone to chasing people and vehicular violence....

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Pickens County Courthouse - Carrollton,ALABAMA

No one really knew who set the fire that burnt down the original Carrollton Courthouse on November 16, 1876. But everyone blamed Henry Wells, a rowdy black man who lived outside of town. The sheriff arrested him and held him in the attic of a building that was to become the new courthouse. One afternoon in February 1878, a lynch mob gathered in front of the new courthouse and demanded that Wells be turned over to them. As a violent thunderstorm approached the town, Wells peered out at the crowds through the garret window at the top of the building. Suddenly, a lightening bolt struck the roof, killing Wells. The flash of brilliant light etched his defiant expression into the window pane, and no amount of scrubbing or solvents in the decades since has been able to erase it. And on those when thunderstorms roll through Pickens County, it is said the ghost of Henry Wells stares out from the garret window of the old courthouse. (Carrollton is 30 miles west of Tuscaloosa in Pickens County, at the intersection of Hwys 17 and 86. The face of Henry Wells can still be seen in lower right-hand pane in the garret window of the Pickens County Courthouse.)

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University of North Alabama Area - Florence ,Alabama

Weslyan - Haunted by a civil war general's son. He drowned when he jumped head first into Cypress Creek from the old one lane bridge on Waterloo Road, a couple of minutes from campus. His wet footsteps can be seen at night.

Off Campus Bookstore - In the late 30's or early 40's, a young girl named Molly lived in the building with her parents. For her eleventh birthday, her parents bought her a puppy. Soon, her puppy contracted rabies and bit her hand. Within a week, Molly died. Her ghost has been seen many times in the upstairs window, looking down.

Norton Auditorium - Haunted by a ghost named George, who was a construction worker helping build the auditorium some time ago. He fell from a scaffold to his death. He has been heard walking on the catwalk and various other things are heard as well.

Guillot University Center - Before it was built, a dorm for girls stood in its place. What is now UNA used to be Florence State Teacher's College. In
the early 1900's, a student at the college who lived in the dorms was said to have a secret that stressed her out so much, that she hung herself from the elevator shaft in the tower of the building. No one knew what her secret was or why she felt she had to kill herself.Later, security guards in the building would hear noises that sounded like a swaying body hanging from a rope. Now the Guillot Center stands in its place and noises are still heard on the second floor.

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Horton House - Pine Ridge ,Alabama

The Horton House is an abandoned house located on the outskirts of Fort Payne in a small town known as Pine Ridge. The house is the site of a vicious murder, where a father went insane and mutilated his wife and his three children, and committed suicide shortly after. Witnesses say that the entire family haunts the house. There have been stories of séances that went horribly wrong in this house. There have also been numerous accounts of people being choked when they walk into this house. Knocking can be heard on the walls and the floors, and the sounds of a bird will come through the bay window that turns into the sound of loud screams of a young girl.

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River Falls Slave Prison - River Falls ,Alabama

If you go down River Falls Road away from Andalusia, you cross a bridge. Turn to the right,as if you were going to Point A. Go to the boat ramp and look to the left. There is a road that goes beside a field. Walk down the road. The road goes to the prison. Walk down the road late at night and sing the gospel song, "I'll Fly Away" loud. You supposedly can see three black guys hanging from a tree in front of the prison. If you walk to the
back of the prison, where you can look out over the water, you can see
something dragging something else underneath. It is falling apart
though, so if you go, be careful.

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The White Lady of Wagerville - Wagerville ,Alabama

There is a small place called Wagerville, between Chatom and Leroy. Behind the Texaco Gas Station, there is a dirt road by a cemetery that is haunted by a woman who was raped and killed there. Around midnight until about 3am, you can park on the road along the cemetery gate, turn everything off and put your car in neutral. The white lady will push you along the road out of harms way. It is not downhill. The car rocks back and forth like someone is pushing it. Some have seen the lady as a white light or form, and others have seen her walking in the cemetery. Sometimes you don't see her but you can hear her footsteps outside, as she pushes the vehicle.

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Anniston High School Girl's Locker Room - Anniston ,Alabama

The legend of Anniston High School's locker room is known widely throughout the school. The legend is told to all the new coming female freshmen that go to their lockers to change clothes for P.E. They are told by the upper classmen to give the freshmen a little scare by warning them of a vengeful ghost. The legend varies in detail from person to person but the main facts of the story are almost always the same… A girl is late getting changed and leaves a precious item behind. She decides to go back to get it while sending her friend to hold the bus for her. A man then tries to rape and kill her in the locker room but he ends up dead and the body never gets recovered. The obvious conclusion is never go into the girl's locker room by yourself. Always go in with one of your friends and never leave anyone alone in there. The true incident that started this legend occurred in 2001. This is what happened: There was this girl (name is unknown) who always changed for P.E. She was usually the first to change for P.E. and also the first to leave P.E. and change back. One day while coming in from playing outside, she was late in changing. It was the last period of the day and she was hurrying so that she wouldn't miss her bus. Her best friend was also late and they only had two minutes to change, instead of their normal five minutes.

While they were hurrying to change, other girls who had already changed left to wait in the gym for the bell that signaled the end of the day to ring. Her friend was faster at putting on her school clothes but her friend stayed to wait with her in the locker room. They rode the same bus home, so they both knew that it was almost always one of the first buses to be there and didn't want to get left behind. So the girl finally finished putting on her clothes and they both walked out to sit with the rest of the students in the gym to wait for the bell. As the bell rang, the girl just remembered that she left her purse in her locker. She was concerned about leaving it because it contained all of her money. The girl's best friend offered to go back with her to get it, but the girl insisted that her friend should get on the bus and tell the bus driver to hold it for her until she got on. So the girl ran down the steps and entered the locker room to get her purse and her friend ran out to get on the bus. The friend relayed the message to the bus driver. As the girl got her purse and began to close her locker, she heard the door creak and thought someone had come in. Thinking it was her coach, she called her name and yelled, "Coach! Coach! It's me, I left my purse. Please don't lock the door just yet." She got no answer. She then heard footsteps that seemed to draw closer to her. She then began to grow scared. Suddenly, she heard breathing that was so loud she was sure the person w as right behind her. She panicked and dropped her purse. She ran the other way around the lockers toward the doors, but was yanked to the back of the lockers as she turned the corner. She kicked and screamed as the hands of a big strong man tore off her shirt and began to rip off the rest of her clothes. He began to strangle her and scream at her to shut up. She continued to fight back and tried to scream, but her throat closed and she couldn't scream anymore. She still didn't give up. In her last attempt, she pulled down a set of lockers on top of him. He laid there motionless and breathless... he was dead. In a fright, she ran out of the locker rooms to the bus stop. But she had taken too long and despite her friend’s desperate attempt to hold the bus, she had been left alone. She was frightened by what had happened and called her mom to come and get her. After telling the shocking story to her mother with great trouble of reliving the incident, they called the polic e. But when they inspected the scene, they only found the pulled down lockers, the girl's purse and a pool of blood. The body was nowhere to be found. The girl was more shocked then ever. She was sure the man was dead and the amount of blood on the floor indicated that it was impossible for him to still be alive. Her fear was just too great to go back to where she had been raped and strangled, so they moved and were never heard from again. The man was never found, but many say that his ghost still lurks in the locker rooms waiting for an unsuspecting girl that's by herself to take his revenge. Many didn't take this seriously until a similar incident occurred when a girl in the band who was to play at a football game was left by herself to get dressed. The band left her in the locker room and played all night without noticing she was gone. After the game had ended, she was sitting in the parking lot crying. She wouldn't say what had happened, but appeared to have been strangled and her clothes were ripped and covered in blood. She then moved away without telling anyone of her dreadful story. Many girls have been known to hear footsteps drawing closer when no one's there, lockers close and shut, and the door creaks open as if to let in an unwanted stranger when no one is there. You might also feel a cold chill come over you and hear loud breathing coming from someone right behind you, but always cease when you turn around.

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Main Street Strip - Albertville ,Alabama

At night, you can hear footsteps and voices. In the early 1900's, a tornado ripped through the town and killed many people on what is now “The Main Street Strip”. People with businesses on the street have said that sometimes in the summer they would go outside and feel a sudden coldness. They would also hear people screaming at night and the street would be empty.

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Off Highway 431 - Albertville ,Alabama

It’s believed to be haunted by one of the first owners. He died while plowing his garden with a tractor. It overturned on him and killed him. Soon afterwards, the man's wife started hearing banging noises, so she moved and sold the house. The next owners heard the same noises, and left the house in the middle of the night with all of their belongings still inside. When the house was empty, neighbors would see lights turn on at night. The house has been on the market for quite some time. The price was reduced by $20,000 from when it was first bought, and no one will live there longer than a month.

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Indian Meadows - Adamsville,Alabama

The community of Indian Meadows and
its sister community Shady Grove, are both built over an ancient
Cherokee Indian burial ground. The two have had several hauntings
reported over the last two decades. At night, dark figures have been
seen scurrying about in the woods on the outskirts of the
neighborhoods. Some brave souls who dare walk the streets at night say
they can feel or even hear someone following them, but turn around to
find that no one is there. People have reported hearing scratching
noises outside their houses late at night. One man heard scratching
sounds on his front porch late at night, and each time he turned on the
porch light to investigate, nothing was there. But the next morning he
found claw marks down the banister of the porch. Some see the shadows
of people (possibly the spirits of the restless Indians) rushing past
their windows at night, but investig ate to find no one outside. In
several homes, people have reported hearing footsteps late at night in
hallways or on stairs, doors slamming shut by themselves, voices
calling out their names, electrical equipment going on and off by
itself, and even the sound of someone or something running through the
house. In one house, the face of a crying man appeared on several of
the doors in the house all at once. Try walking the streets of Indian
Meadows or Shady Grove at night and you just might have your own creepy
experience.

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Engle Mountain - Ashville,Alabama

Two tall figures have been seen walking the midst of Engle Mountain. Residents of the area have reported hearing shotguns going off in the night between 12:00AM and 2:00AM. It is often said that residents around the area have computers that turn on and off in the night with ghostly looking images popping up all over the screen....LOCK YOUR DOORS!!!

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Bridge in Refuge - Clanton,Alabama

There's this bridge in a place called Refuge.

It’s a small, one-lane bridge in the middle of nowhere. If you go there

at night, you can hear strange sounds and see balls of light. Some

people have said that when you get out of your car, you can hear and

feel someone walking right next to you and feel a menacing presence.

Lots of people have seen fog chasing them and there's one area that no trees grow and everything looks dead. People have reported that their cars will start rocking, as well as being chased by an unknown entity.You can also feel an evil presence on some nights.

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Fort Crawford Cemetery/Park - East Brewton,Alabama

If you go in the cemetery at night at around 11:00PM - 12:00PM, you can sometimes hear children laughing and see a shadowy black figure roaming the cemetery.In the park, from around midnight to 3AM, you can see a confederate soldier walking around. If you stay long enough, he will ask you if you have seen his gun.

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The Haunted Bridge - Gadsden,Alabama

The Haunted Bridge is an infamous legend in the city of Gadsden. There was a couple that had a farmhouse near Gadsden. The couple got into a heated argument, in which the woman finally ran away with her baby. Feeling sorry for his family, the man of the house got on his carriage and searched for his wife. Hiding near the bridge, the woman appeared out of the bushes and scared the horses. The horses knocked both her and the baby into Black Creek, drowning both of them. Since then, a woman can be seen walking the banks of Black Creek, carriage wheels are heard, and a baby's cry is sometimes heard. Many people have had different experiences, and one of the houses near the bridge was reported to have had an exorcism performed.

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Manchester Graveyard - Marshall,Alabama

A town once buried by Lake Guntersville, it has only left its mark with a Civil War era graveyard. This was a place where séances were once popular. Day or night there is a constant fog that covers the ground that surrounds the gravestones. Not an easy place to find unless you live in the area, but nonetheless.

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USS Alabama Battleship - Mobile,Alabama

Located in Mobile
Bay, the ship was brought to Mobile in 1964 as a tourist attraction and
memorial for veterans in Alabama. The Alabama is a South Dakota class
Battleship that was completed in 1942 for use in WWII. The "Mighty A"
saw plenty of action against the Japanese in the south Pacific and is
credited with shooting down 23 Japanese aircraft. Somehow, the Alabama
and her crew managed to make it out of WWII without casualties or
damage from enemy fire. The only deaths on board the ship were 8 people
in a 5" gun mount (mount #5) that were killed by friendly fire from
another gun turret (mount #9) on the ship. A safety feature that
prevented the turrets from firing if they were pointed at another
turret or part of the ship failed. Mount 9 fired a round into mount 5
which exploded and killed everyone inside. All that remained of the gun
commander was his boots. There we re little fragments of bone and flesh
plastered on the walls inside the turret where the men were vaporized
by the exploding shell. There were also two other deaths while the ship
was under construction at Norfolk Naval Shipyard. A former worker
reports that they had to stay on the ship overnight alone quite a bit,
so they got their share of scares. Their first encounter was in the
Marine Compartment where the Marines slept. Footsteps were heard
approaching from around the corner when there was nobody on board. All
around the ship, strange footsteps and voices were heard. Heavy solid
steel watertight hatches on the superstructure would slam shut with a
loud thud for reasons that could not be explained. Late at night when
the whole ship was very quiet, the bulkheads would seemingly come alive
with popping and tapping, and at times it was concentrated in one area.
Needless to say, the Mighty A was very much alive.

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