Haunted Places in Savannah, GA

Explore 42 haunted places in Savannah, GA — inns, haunted houses, museums and more, each with its ghost story, address, and sources.

• 17Hundred90 InnInn · Savannah, GAOne of the oldest inns in Savannah, the 17Hundred90 keeps its most famous guest in Room 204.
• 432 Abercorn StreetHouse · Savannah, GABuilt in 1868-69 in the Regency style for Benjamin J.
• Andrew Low HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAHome to one of Savannah's wealthiest cotton merchants, and later to Juliette Gordon Low, the Andrew Low House hosted guests from Robert E.
• Bonaventure CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GABonaventure is Savannah's most beautiful burial ground, a bluff above the river draped in live oaks and Spanish moss.
• Bradley Lock & KeyLandmark · Savannah, GABradley Lock & Key has cut keys since 1883, making it the oldest continuously operating business in Savannah; it has held the ground floor of the 1850s Patrick Duffy Building, a few steps from Wright Square, since 1967.
• Calhoun SquareSquare · Savannah, GACalhoun Square is the only one of Savannah's squares still ringed entirely by its original buildings, and, many believe, the only one built over a forgotten burial ground of the enslaved.
• Colonial Park CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GASavannah's oldest surviving cemetery holds more than ten thousand souls, many of them lost to the yellow-fever epidemics that swept the city.
• East Bay InnInn · Savannah, GAEdward Padelford raised this restrained brick building with its cast-iron façade in 1852, when it stood among the cotton warehouses lining Savannah's bluff above the river.
• Eliza Thompson HouseInn · Savannah, GACotton merchant Joseph Thompson built this Greek Revival home in 1847 for his wife Eliza and their seven children, making it the first house on Jones Street, long celebrated as one of the most beautiful streets in America.
• First African Baptist ChurchChurch · Savannah, GAOrganized in 1773 and constituted in 1777, First African Baptist Church is widely regarded as the oldest continuously active Black congregation in North America, its present brick sanctuary completed in 1859 by the hands of free and enslaved African Americans who made the bricks themselves.
• Foley House InnInn · Savannah, GAWhen the Foley House was renovated, workers found a human skeleton bricked up inside a wall, the body, legend says, of a man the original owner killed and hid.
• Forsyth ParkPark · Savannah, GASavannah's grand central park, with its famous white fountain, was laid out over former military parade grounds and sits beside the old fever hospital.
• Fort Pulaski National MonumentLandmark · Savannah, GABuilt between 1829 and 1847 on Cockspur Island, Fort Pulaski guarded the river approach to Savannah until April 1862, when Union rifled cannon breached its masonry walls in barely thirty hours and rendered brick forts obsolete overnight.
• Green-Meldrim HouseHouse · Savannah, GAThis Gothic Revival mansion served as General Sherman's headquarters when he took Savannah in 1864 and famously offered the city to President Lincoln as a Christmas gift.
• Gribble House ParanormalLandmark · Savannah, GAIn 1909, the Gribble House was the scene of one of Savannah's most gruesome crimes, a triple axe murder that horrified the city.
• Hamilton-Turner InnInn · Savannah, GAThis Second Empire mansion on Lafayette Square was once the grandest home in the city, and the first with electric lights.
• Hampton-Lillibridge HouseHouse · Savannah, GAMoved and restored in the 1960s, the Hampton-Lillibridge House is often called the most haunted house in Savannah.
• Historic Savannah TheatreTheater · Savannah, GAOpen since 1818, the Historic Savannah Theatre is one of the oldest continually operating theaters in America, rebuilt again and again after fires and storms.
• Isaiah Davenport HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAOne of Savannah's very first preservation projects, the Davenport House narrowly escaped the wrecking ball before the city saved it in 1955.
• Juliette Gordon Low BirthplaceMuseum · Savannah, GAThe founder of the Girl Scouts was born in this Regency mansion in 1860, and the house stayed in her family for generations.
• Kehoe HouseInn · Savannah, GAThis grand Queen Anne mansion was home to the large Kehoe family, and legend holds that two of their children died within its walls.
• Laurel Grove CemeteryCemetery · Savannah, GALaid out on a former Springfield Plantation rice field and opened for burials in 1853, Laurel Grove was Savannah's grand Victorian answer to the overflowing Colonial Park Cemetery, its lush plantings and carved stones echoing Green-Wood and Père Lachaise.
• Lucas TheatreTheater · Savannah, GAOpened on December 26, 1921 by Atlanta theater magnate Arthur Lucas, the Lucas Theatre was a 1,200-seat Spanish Baroque movie palace and the first air-conditioned building in Savannah, drawing crowds for more than four decades before it went dark after a final screening in 1976.
• Madison SquareSquare · Savannah, GANamed for President James Madison, this square honors the bloody Siege of Savannah and the soldiers who fell trying to retake the city in 1779.
• Mercer-Williams HouseHouse · Savannah, GABuilt for the family of songwriter Johnny Mercer, this mansion became famous as the setting of "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil." It was here that antiques dealer Jim Williams shot his young assistant Danny Hansford in 1981, setting off a saga of four murder trials.
• Moon River Brewing Co.Restaurant · Savannah, GABefore it poured beer, this building was the City Hotel, and later served as a hospital and morgue during the fever years.
• Old Candler HospitalLandmark · Savannah, GASavannah's oldest hospital began as a poorhouse and treated the city's yellow-fever dead, who were carried out through tunnels beneath the building.
• Old Fort JacksonLandmark · Savannah, GABegun in 1808 under Thomas Jefferson and finished in 1812, Old Fort Jackson is the oldest standing brick fortification in Georgia, raised on the Savannah River to guard the city's approaches and later abandoned by Confederate troops as Sherman closed in during December 1864.
• Olde Harbour InnInn · Savannah, GAOnce a row of cotton warehouses along the river bluff, the Olde Harbour Inn keeps a gentle ghost the staff call Hank.
• Owens-Thomas HouseMuseum · Savannah, GAAn architectural jewel of Regency Savannah, the Owens-Thomas House is best known today for its remarkably intact urban slave quarters.
• Reynolds SquareSquare · Savannah, GALaid out in 1734 as one of Savannah's earliest squares and later named for royal governor John Reynolds, this leafy green once held the colony's Filature, where silkworms were raised in a failed bid to spin a Georgia silk industry.
• River StreetLandmark · Savannah, GAPaved with the stone ballast of old sailing ships, River Street was Savannah's rough working waterfront, lined with warehouses, taverns, and the press gangs that haunted them.
• Six Pence PubRestaurant · Savannah, GAA British couple from across the Atlantic, Wally and Doris, opened a snug alehouse on Bull Street that became "Wally's Sixpence," a home away from home for expatriates and locals alike.
• Sorrel-Weed HouseHouse · Savannah, GAThe Sorrel-Weed House is one of the most investigated homes in America, and its history earns the reputation.
• Telfair AcademyMuseum · Savannah, GABuilt as a family mansion and left to the city as one of the oldest public art museums in the country, the Telfair still seems to answer to Mary Telfair.
• The Marshall HouseInn · Savannah, GAThe Marshall House has welcomed guests since 1851, but it spent the Civil War as a Union hospital and, by some accounts, a place where amputations were performed.
• The Olde Pink HouseRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt in 1771 for James Habersham Jr., the Olde Pink House is one of the few mansions to survive Savannah's great fires.
• The Pirates' HouseRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt near the old seamen's wharf, the Pirates' House was a rough tavern where sailors drank, and where some were drugged and dragged through tunnels to waiting ships, never to be seen again.
• Tybee Island LighthouseLandmark · Savannah, GAStanding since the 1700s and rebuilt more than once, the Tybee Island Light has guided ships into the Savannah River for centuries.
• Vic's on the RiverRestaurant · Savannah, GABuilt in 1859 to a John Norris design, the building above the Savannah River bluff began life as a cotton warehouse and shipping office, and during the Civil War its rooms were commandeered by General Sherman's officers — one of whom sketched a battle map of the march directly onto a plaster wall, rediscovered during a later renovation and now preserved behind glass in the dining room.
• Wormsloe Historic SiteLandmark · Savannah, GAWormsloe began as the fortified estate of colonist Noble Jones, one of Savannah's first settlers, and its mile-and-a-half avenue of live oaks is among the most photographed in Georgia.
• Wright SquareSquare · Savannah, GAWright Square rests on far older ground than its monuments suggest.