Haunted Places in Atlanta, GA
Explore 7 haunted places in Atlanta, GA — restaurants, inns, theaters and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.
- Anthony's Fine Dining (Pope-Walton House)Restaurant · Atlanta, GAThe Pope-Walton House began rising in Wilkes County around 1797 and survived the Civil War when Sherman's troops looted but spared it, reportedly because Mary Pope Walton and her infant daughter sheltered inside.
- Ellis HotelInn · Atlanta, GAOpened in 1913 and advertised as "absolutely fireproof," the 15-story Winecoff Hotel on Peachtree Street became the site of the deadliest hotel fire in U.S.
- Fox TheatreTheater · Atlanta, GAOpened on Christmas Day 1929 — two months after the stock market crash — the Fox began as a Shriners' temple before movie magnate William Fox leased it as a lavish movie palace, its Moorish minarets and Egyptian motifs making it a National Historic Landmark and the last surviving movie palace in Atlanta.
- Margaret Mitchell HouseMuseum · Atlanta, GAThe brick Tudor on Crescent Avenue was the Crescent Apartments when Margaret Mitchell and her husband took a cramped ground-floor unit she dubbed "The Dump," and it was there, between 1925 and 1932, that she wrote most of Gone with the Wind.
- Oakland CemeteryCemetery · Atlanta, GAFounded in 1850 as Atlanta Cemetery on six acres southeast of the young city, Oakland grew to 48 acres and now holds an estimated 70,000 burials beneath its oaks and magnolias.
- Rhodes HallHouse · Atlanta, GAFurniture magnate Amos Giles Rhodes raised this Romanesque Revival castle of Stone Mountain granite on Peachtree Street in 1904, naming it "Le Reve" — the Dream — after the Rhineland castles he and his wife Amanda admired in Germany.
- The Wren's NestHouse · Atlanta, GABuilt around 1870 as a farmhouse and later wrapped in ornate Queen Anne flourishes, the Wren's Nest was home to journalist Joel Chandler Harris, author of the Uncle Remus tales, from 1881 until his death in 1908.