Haunted Places in Macon, GA

Explore 7 haunted places in Macon, GA — inns, haunted houses, theaters and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• 1842 InnInn · Macon, GAJudge John Jones Gresham, a Macon attorney, jurist, and two-time mayor, raised the Greek Revival mansion on College Street in 1842 as a forever home for his family, living there until his death in 1900.
• Burke MansionHouse · Macon, GABuilt in 1887 for businessman Thomas C.
• Cannonball HouseHouse · Macon, GABuilt in 1853 as a Greek Revival townhouse for Judge Asa Holt, the home earned its name on July 30, 1864, when a Union cannonball fired during General Stoneman's raid skipped off the sidewalk, struck a front column, tore through the parlor, and came to rest in the interior hallway without exploding or killing anyone.
• Douglass TheatreTheater · Macon, GAIn 1911, Charles Henry Douglass opened the Douglass Theatre on Macon's Broadway, building it into one of the South's premier stages for Black performers, where Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey, Cab Calloway, and a young Otis Redding and James Brown all took the spotlight.
• Grand Opera HouseTheater · Macon, GAOpened in 1905 with the largest stage in the Southeast, the Grand Opera House on Mulberry Street still anchors downtown Macon as a 1,030-seat performing arts hall.
• Hay HouseHouse · Macon, GABuilt between 1855 and 1859 by William Butler Johnston and his wife Anne after a European honeymoon, the 24-room Italian Renaissance Revival mansion atop Coleman Hill was so opulent it earned the name "Palace of the South," passing through the Felton and Hay families before becoming a Georgia Trust museum in 1977.
• Rose Hill CemeteryCemetery · Macon, GANewspaper publisher and civic promoter Simri Rose laid out Rose Hill Cemetery in 1840 along the bluffs of the Ocmulgee River, designing it as both a public park and a burial ground in the new garden-cemetery style.