Haunted Places in Athens, GA

Explore 6 haunted places in Athens, GA — haunted houses, theaters, cemeteries and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• Lustrat HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt in 1847 as a faculty residence on the University of Georgia's North Campus, the Lustrat House has served as a house museum, the university president's office, and today the Office of Legal Affairs.
• Morton TheatreTheater · Athens, GABuilt in 1909-1910 by Monroe Bowers "Pink" Morton, the Morton Theatre is one of the oldest surviving vaudeville houses in the nation built, owned, and operated by an African American, hosting acts like Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, and Bessie Smith.
• Oconee Hill CemeteryCemetery · Athens, GAEstablished in the 1850s on the banks of the North Oconee River beside what is now the University of Georgia's Sanford Stadium, Oconee Hill is regarded as one of the finest Victorian-era cemeteries in the South and was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 2013.
• T.R.R. Cobb HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt around 1834 as a modest "Plantation Plain" house, this home was an 1844 wedding gift to Confederate Constitution author Thomas Reade Rootes Cobb and his wife Marion Lumpkin, gaining its octagonal wings and Doric portico by 1852.
• Taylor-Grady HouseHouse · Athens, GABuilt in the mid-1840s by Irish immigrant and planter Robert Taylor, this stately Greek Revival home was purchased in 1863 by Major William S. Grady, whose son Henry would later rise to national fame as the orator of the "New South." Major Grady never came home from the war; he was mortally wounded near Petersburg, Virginia, and died in 1864.
• The Classic Center (Fire Hall No. 1)Landmark · Athens, GABuilt in 1912 as Athens' main fire station and meeting hall, Fire Hall No. 1 was nearly demolished in the late 1980s for the city's performing arts center, but public outcry saved the brick structure, now part of The Classic Center.