Haunted Places in Jekyll Island, GA
Explore 5 haunted places in Jekyll Island, GA — haunted houses, parks, inns, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.
- Cherokee CottageHouse · Jekyll Island, GABuilt around 1915 as the Shrady-James Cottage and soon nicknamed Cherokee Cottage, this twenty-room winter home stood in the gilded enclave of the Jekyll Island Club, where Gilded Age railroad and banking families wintered along the Georgia coast.
- Driftwood BeachPark · Jekyll Island, GAOn the northern shore of Jekyll Island, decades of erosion have hollowed out a maritime forest into a boneyard of sun-bleached oaks and pines, their roots clawing the sand like the skeletons of some vast wreck.
- Jekyll Island Club ResortInn · Jekyll Island, GABuilt in 1887 as the winter retreat of America's wealthiest families, the Jekyll Island Club drew Morgans, Rockefellers, Pulitzers, and Vanderbilts to its riverfront verandas, a Gilded Age enclave so exclusive that members were said to control a sixth of the world's wealth.
- Sans SouciHouse · Jekyll Island, GABuilt in 1896 on the millionaires' retreat of Jekyll Island, Sans Souci was one of the first condominium-style apartment buildings in America, its six units reserved for a handful of Club founders including financier J.P.
- Villa OspoHouse · Jekyll Island, GADesigned in 1927 by John Russell Pope, the architect of the Jefferson Memorial, Villa Ospo was the winter retreat of Standard Oil director Walter Jennings, who with his wife Jean turned the Spanish-eclectic cottage into the unofficial welcome house of the Jekyll Island Club.