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Historic haunted places in Petersburg, VA. 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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Every January 24 at about 7:30 p.m., occupants since at least the 1870s have reported the sounds of soldiers arriving: horses, boots on the stairs, clinking gear and the front door…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
Haunted place
Petersburg's ghost walks tell of a 19th-century traveler who bragged about his money at this tavern and was murdered in the hallway. A formerly enslaved man was blamed and hanged i…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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Edgar Allan Poe and his young wife Virginia Clemm honeymooned here in 1836, a stay the Poe Museum has confirmed. Petersburg author Michelle Hamilton recorded the legend that on the…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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This colonial church served as a Civil War field hospital, and its cemetery holds the remains of about 30,000 Confederate soldiers, with the Crater battlefield less than a mile awa…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.
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The park itself doesn't promote ghost stories, but visitors at the Crater, where a Union mine blast on July 30, 1864 opened a battle with thousands of casualties, report glimpses o…
This story is folklore told about a real place. It is not presented as documented fact.