Kennesaw Mountain National Battlefield Park
From June 18 to July 2, 1864, Union and Confederate forces fought across these ridges in one of the bloodiest engagements of the Atlanta Campaign, leaving thousands of casualties scattered through the fields and ravines below the mountain. Almost as soon as the guns fell silent, accounts began circulating of soldiers who never left. Hikers describe figures in torn, blood-stained uniforms walking the trails — mistaken at first for reenactors until they vanish on approach — alongside the distant roar of phantom cannon fire and the sudden, unexplained smell of gunpowder and blood. In 2007 a father and son driving the park reported a Union cavalry officer on horseback who passed through a fence and faded into the dark, and visitors over the years have recorded disembodied voices and footsteps on otherwise silent afternoons. The accounts span decades and witnesses, making it one of Georgia's most enduring battlefield hauntings.
📍 900 Kennesaw Mountain Dr, Kennesaw, GA 30152, Kennesaw, GA · Get directions