Wrightsboro Methodist Church
Raised between 1810 and 1812 by a fading Quaker-turned-Methodist settlement, this clapboard church is nearly all that survives of Wrightsboro, a backcountry town that had withered into a ghost town by 1920. Its churchyard holds the founders of some of Georgia's oldest families alongside Revolutionary War veterans and soldiers who fell at Shiloh and Gettysburg, and the congregation finally disbanded in 1964, leaving the county to keep watch over the silent grounds. When a film crew arrived to shoot "The Hill," they say batteries drained at impossible speed and unexplained static crackled through their headsets, and a review of one scene reportedly showed a skull-like face staring back from a car window where a child's reflection should have been. As they wrapped, a crew member quietly asked their local contact whether the church was haunted — a question that suggested they already knew the answer. Whatever lingers among the old pews and weathered headstones, it seemed to have little patience for the camera's intrusion.
📍 4713 Wrightsboro Road, Thomson, GA 30824, Thomson, GA · Get directions