Others report waking up to the sight of Anne standing over them crying and then turning to jump out the window. But there was a single historic event that paranormal experts believe may have caused it to become a hotbed for ghostly activity.
You may have heard the stories of two brutal suicides that occurred at the Sorrel-Weed house. And the other was a young slave named Molly, who was supposedly involved in a torrid love affair with Francis. Accounts of their suicides vary; but many historians believe these deaths actually took place at another location, just down the block. While these events surely had an impact on the family who lived there, and perhaps even contributed to the eerie ambiance of the home, there was a single event that is believed to have caused the Sorrel-Weed House to become a hotbed for ghostly activity.
The house was built not long after the American Revolutionary War. And the site of the Sorrel-Weed House happens to be the same place where the Siege of Savannah occurred. Many soldiers were massacred during this battle which became known as the bloodiest hour of the entire American Revolution.
During the Civil War, the Federal Troops took occupation of the cemetery and used it as a headquarters for their soldiers during the take-over of Savannah. The soldiers were less than respectful to these hallowed grounds. In fact, they were down right malicious and proceeded to desecrate graves, damage headstones and even shot up many of them.
Established in , Bonaventure Cemetery is known for its magnificent beauty; but many visitors flock to this historic cemetery to discover if the stories of hauntings are real. As you walk beneath the canopy of towering oaks, dripping with Spanish Moss, among the tombstones and mausoleums, you wonder how something so beautiful can have such a tumultuous past. And while there have been numerous accounts of ghost sightings, even the disembodied sound of vicious dogs snarling and barking, the tragic death of a young Savannah girl is perhaps an event that causes continued mysterious hauntings.
Gracie Watson, just six-years-old when she died, was laid to rest in Bonaventure. Here, an angel statue marks the grave of this beautiful little girl who was taken all too soon.
For 44 years, Florence Martus welcomed boats into the Savannah harbor by waving a white cloth. At least four people in the group of ticket-holding hauntees were on the upslope of a bachelorette party. The guide was very earnest on the subject of ghosts; he began by playing wind-tunnel-like noises on his phone, and asked us whether we heard screaming voices in them.
But other people seemed to have better spiritual hearing than I did. At one house, our guide said that sometimes, on some nights, the owner shines a blinding light on tours and screams for them to go away. Then we stopped at Calhoun Square, a small park trimmed in stately homes. A hurricane had come through only days before, and the lawns between the brick paths were still scattered with beaten branches and leaves.
The guide said that Calhoun Square was the most haunted square in old Savannah. People walking here, across the centuries, had reported feeling shadows pass through them, a tightness or a great weight on their chests. The other spooky thing that we should know about Calhoun Square, he said, was that it had been a burial ground for slaves—some people estimated that a thousand bodies rested deep beneath the grass, but no one really knew for sure, because the graves were mass and unmarked.
The bodies underneath, he said, made it a super-haunted place. I thought about the Calhoun Square tour the next day, and on the fight home, and on and off through the week after that.
But is superstition really the right word for such a thing? Sailors still say they feel a force pulling them off course and hear voices speaking in French and Bantu.
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