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 on the corner of Abercorn and Wayne once stood among the costliest residences in Savannah. Over the decades it gathered a reputation as the city's most haunted house, and its name became shorthand for Savannah ghostlore. Tour-tellers spread a grim tale of Wilson lashing a daughter to a chair in the front window facing the Massie School until she died in the heat, after which he took his own life in the same room. The records tell another story entirely: Wilson's daughters both lived to marry and grow old, and Wilson himself died peacefully in Colorado in 1896, so the most famous chapter of the legend is fiction laid over a real address. Lovingly restored and privately occupied today, the house keeps its mystique while its new owners report no presence at all.
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