Historic haunted places in Birmingham, AL. Each page gives the ghost story, whether visitors can go, and a link to the site the story came from. The stories are folklore, not documented fact.
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Haunted place
331 Cotton Avenue SW, Birmingham, AL 35211
Open to the public (house museum; ticketed paranormal investigation nights).
Birmingham's last antebellum mansion hosts regular paranormal investigations. Staff and investigators describe doors slamming with no one nearby, rocking chairs moving by themselve…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
1120 19th Street North, Birmingham, AL 35234
Open to the public (cemetery; daylight hours).
Cabinetmaker-turned-coffin-maker Edward Erswell lies in the family vault here with his wife Catherine, who reportedly wanted to be buried at the more fashionable Elmwood Cemetery. …
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
20 32nd Street North, Birmingham, AL 35222
Open to the public (museum; free self-guided access, seasonal haunted attraction).
The famous foreman 'Slag' Wormwood was invented for the Sloss Fright Furnace haunted attraction, yet staff and visitors have still reported phantom whistles in the casting shed and…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
1817 3rd Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203
Open to the public (ticketed shows and concerts; private tours by arrangement).
In 1986 organist Cecil Whitmire and a singer rehearsing on the empty stage saw a man walk from one wing to the other and vanish; Whitmire believed it was Stanleigh Malotte, house o…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
2101 5th Avenue North, Birmingham, AL 35203
Open to the public (hotel; lobby and rooftop bar open to non-guests).
Hank Williams spent one of his last nights here on December 30, 1952, and guests describe humming, faint guitar music and a shadowy man on the upper floors. Clifford Stiles, the ow…
Source: hauntbound.com
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.