432 Abercorn Street
Built in 1868-69 in the Regency style for Benjamin J. Wilson, a Civil War veteran and Irish immigrant, this three-story brick home at Abercorn and Wayne once stood among Savannah's costliest residences and grew into the city's most haunted house, its name shorthand for local ghostlore. Tour-tellers spread a grim tale of Wilson lashing a daughter to a chair in the window facing the Massie School until she died in the heat, then taking his own life in the same room.
The records say otherwise: both daughters lived to marry and grow old, and Wilson died peacefully in Colorado in 1896, so the famous chapter is fiction laid over a real address. Lovingly restored and privately occupied today, it keeps its mystique while its owners report no presence.
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