HAUNTED PLACES IN ALABAMA: HAINE'S ISLAND - LYNN

Haine's Island - Nancy Mountain - Nancy walks up and down the hill to the ferry in hopes to meet her son and husband that were in the war. She is seen walking with a lantern in one hand and a bucket of water in the other.

Hartford - Pondtown Creek - At the bottom of the hill there sits a small wooden bridge over a creek that flows into the woods on the other sides. Off to the side is an old wrecked car with scratch marks covering the driver's side door. Okay, legend has it that a massive German Shepard dog was killed by a hateful man on that very same road. The dog (now white, ghostly) supposedly haunts the road, looking for the man who took his life. They say on moonless nights, you can pull up to the bridge, and shut your car down, turn off all the lights, you'll hear (and sometimes see) this frightful apparition.

Hartselle - Cry Baby Holler - People claim that a woman was driving over this narrow bridge and wrecked. She lived, but the baby in her car died. Now when you drive over that bridge at night. Stop and sit there, until you hear a baby cry. Leave candy on the bridge. Come back a couple of minutes later...a piece of the candy is gone.

Hueytown - Lilly Lane - The entire street has reported seeing an old man walking up and down the street late at night. He always has on jeans and a white shirt. He has even been seen in some people’s houses. He has been spotted in the neighborhood for many years, and believed to be a protector spirit.

Huntsville - The Carter Mansion - is haunted by the ghost of Sally Carter who died a violent death at 16 year old and is buried on the Carter Estate. She has been sited walking the grounds. Some say she is responsible for toppling her headstone on occasion.

Huntsville - Crybaby Hollow - Ghost of a baby wails through the trees on cold nights and will sometimes scratch on the bottoms of cars that park there. Mysterious breathing sounds sometimes heard as well.

Huntsville - Dead Children's Playground (next to Maple Hill Cemetery) - The ghosts of children often are seen swinging in swing sets or sometimes the swings are moving as if someone were in them. The children are seen very late at night or early the next day like from 11:00pm to 3:00am, too late for children to be out.

Huntsville - Hell's Gates (Green Mountain) - There are a set a big black gates that stand about a mile from the bottom of the mountain that guard some huge mansion on this mountain. If you go and sit in front of the gates for a little while a car will come down the mountain and chase you until you get to the bottom and the car will suddenly vanish...its no myth.

Huntsville - Heritage Bible College - WHBC Frat House - Late at night you can hear the Ghost of former youth minister Anthony Stephens walking through the house flushing the toilet. His now deceased brethren Robert Ekisbus and Adam Cooper follow him around making noises that almost sounds like the word "cheese".

Huntsville - Huntsville High School - People have claimed to here foot steps and laughing of teenagers through the halls at night after late softball or basketball practices.

Huntsville - Kent Robertson park - A young boy died there one summer day. They named the park after him and made a memory stone. He still is heard in the park at night and the hunt club-woods behind it.

Huntsville - Maple Hill Cemetery - An old lady passed away and was put in the family burial house. Her family placed her antique rocking chair in the crypt with her because it was a prized possession to her. Most anytime when you stand outside the burial house, you can hear the rocking chair moving back and forth.

Huntsville - Old Dallas Mill Site - The Dallas Mill was built in 1891 and burned down in 1992. Haunted by a man died while cleaning the smoke stacks shortly after the mill was built, and a homeless person who lived there after the mill burned down. People have reported seeing him wandering around the ruins.

Huntsville - Space Camp - Space camp counselors tell the story there about a man who was working on the sleeping quarters at the facility. One day they were using explosives to make large holes in the ground for the below ground quarters. The explosives went off early and he was buried alive by dirt and rubble. Until this day in the halls and in some rooms there they can still here his cries for help echoing through the halls and large moans late at night.

Jacksonville - Jacksonville State University - Weatherly Hall - There have been reported instances of footsteps, message boards being torn off doors and flung down the hall, moving furniture in locked rooms, and has also been known to play with people's clocks.

Jasper - Mill Creek Bridge - the bridge collapsed when two men in an asphalt truck went over it, their ghosts are supposed to haunt the new bridge.

Jasper - Samaria church - There are railroads by the church and long ago a man lost his hand and at night if you set there in your car he will tap on it with a hook. One person drove away when they heard it and when they stopped there was a hook stuck in their car.

Jasper - Warrior River Bridge - John Monnasco died after an eighteen- wheeler hit his car on warrior River Bridge. It is said that he haunts the bridge and throws sticks and rocks at the trucks that pass go on the bridge, trying to get his revenge.

Kinston - Grancer Harrison's Dance Hall - Sounds of music and dancing in the abandoned dance hall of the late Grancer Harrison

Lafayette - Hilltops Apartments - About 15 years ago, many reporters and people found out that there gravesites that used to be in Hilltops Apts. at night they say if you stay alone in your house for 10 minutes an turn off everything in your house but leave lights on then there will be a very cold chill over your body and a ghost will stare at you with a hat on wit farmer outfit (overall). at night it will not leave that night until you boil water and hold it to keep the ghost from coming toward you.

Lauderdale - Elgin - Jazz Man - The story goes that a jazz musician was walking across the Second Creek Bridge when a car struck him. He walks up and down the bridge, still wearing his white Zoot suit, looking for a ride to Florence. If you stop to pick him up, he says something about his trumpet and disappears.

Leeds - Cedar Springs Shopping Center - In the old Wal-mart part of the shopping center, at the left front part of the store at night there’s been a man seen, also you can feel a cold chill, hair standing up on your neck and stuff just falling off the shelves. The store is built on top of a spring. there’s two stories to why its haunted. The first one is that the old man that owned the land didn’t want to sell it an one day he come up dead. the other story goes that on day they found an old black man hanging in a tree.

Linden - Sally's Lane - A young woman who was beheaded on a road while riding in her wagon in the 1800s still haunts the area. The family, who owns a hunting camp next to the lane where she was killed, have experienced unexplained events. Green lights that have been linked to spiritual hauntings, seeing young children play in period clothes and disappearing, and being slipped in the middle of sleeping have all occurred without a single explanation.

Lincoln - old downtown - downtown at night near the old gas station at the bar a man haunts it people say in the middle of a fight that the man was killed when he was struck by a train the person accused of pushing the man in front of the train also haunts the land in search of a battle he could not win.

Little River - Red Eagle Gravesite - It is reported that at the site where the Indian Red Eagle and his mother are buried late at night if you go out there, you can see the Indian dancing around his grave and the oak tree that sprouts from his gravesite.

Livingston - Covered Bridge - Figure seen standing in the windows, strangely related to cold feelings and a black and white cat.

Lynn - Highway 5 - A woman was walking down the side of highway 5 near the Winston county Drag strip was run over and killed by an 18-wheeler. Her ghost now jumps onto the side of 18-wheelers looking for the driver that ran over her.

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