bellefonte alabama
Bellefonte Alabama
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Bellefonte Alabama was incorporated in 1821 with a population of 200 souls and a post office was built sometime after 1822. It was located on the stage line from Knoxville to Huntsville.
aigleville alabama
Aigleville Alabama
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The romantic version of the Vine and Olive Colony is based in American mythology about the frontier and the “can-do” spirit of the pioneers. According to folklore, in 1817 exiled French military aristocrats loyal to the recently-deposed Emperor Napoleon founded the Vine and Olive Colony at the confluence of the Tombigbee and Black Warrior Rivers.
cahaba alabama
Cahaba Alabama
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There are several buildings within Cahaba’s city limits that are still intact today, including its Civil War federal prison and a farmhouse built in 1841, although it is long uninhabited.
Alabama Ghost Towns
GHOST TOWNS OF ALABAMA
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Ghost towns in Alabama are a popular subject for more reasons than you may think. For instance, it is often required that we survey an abandoned property or ghost town in order to recreate a past event in order to help determine if the event could have actually occured as described in old newspaper articles or testimony of witnesses.
Alabama Ghost Towns
Claiborne Alabama
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Claiborne is a ghost town on a bluff above the Alabama River in Monroe County, Alabama.
Situated near the Federal Road, Claiborne began during the Mississippi Territory period with a ferry over the river.
Alabama Ghost Towns
Battelle Alabama
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Battelle Alabama was a thriving mining community at the turn of the century, having spread out to the base of Lookout Mountain, five miles north of Valley Head, Alabama. Now, the forest has taken over, and no buildings remain in what was Battelle. Ruins include scattered bricks, rotted lumber, and a few pieces of metal.
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
The Bride of Bayview Bridge
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Do not stop your car on the bridge. The lady will get appear in your passenger seat. Everyone in the area knows that bridge is haunted. Some nights she can be seen in her wedding attire near the bridge looking for her Groom. Do not stop your car on the bridge.
Some say slaves twere hung from the bridge as well.
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
Consolation Church Cemetery, Red Level Alabama
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Located at the intersection of Halso Mill Road and Oakey Streak Road in Butler County, Alabama. The tiny church, popular rural legend in south-central Alabama near the Florida panhandle, has the misfortune of a plague of paranormal phenomenon: ghosts, hellhounds, and strange wailings, and other disturbances are told of the Oakey Streak Methodist Church near Red Level, Alabama.
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
The Ghost of Rosemere Cemetery in Opelika Alabama
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The historic Rosemere Cemetery in Opelika Alabama is said to host the ghost of Union Army Private, William Alder.
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
St James Hotel in Selma Alabama Considered Most Haunted Place in Alabama
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It is believed that a few different spirits enjoy spending their time in the building – in the afterlife. Two of the apparent hauntings that are said to occur include that of the popular outlaw, Jesse James.
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
Sally Carter’s Ghost
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Sally was visiting her sister, Mary Ewing when she was struck down with a fatal illness. She died several weeks shy of her 16th birthday, on November 28, 1837.
Alabama Ghosts and Haunted Places
HAUNTED PLACES IN ALABAMA
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Would you dare venture to any one of these? Weird sightings and occurrences at so called “haunted” places is mere theatrics compared to Alabama’s gruesome and terrifying haunted settings.