Ghost tour in Savannah
Run by Savannah Terrors
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Savannah Terrors’ evening walk takes in Oglethorpe and Wright squares and the Owens-Thomas House, telling the history behind each place along with its hauntings. The company says its stories are told with the whole group in mind and to bring the kids, so it suits families as well as couples. You won’t go inside private buildings: the stories are told from the street.
1 hrFrom $26★ 4.3 · 100 reviews
Checked daily. Times and the meeting point are on Savannah Terrors.
Places
Theater
The Savannah Theatre opened in 1818 and has burned more than once. A boy ghost named Benjamin is said to tug at audience members' hair and clothes, and former house manager Dru Jones told Savannah Magazine, "I think he just wanted my attention."
House
Genteel & Bard, a Savannah ghost tour company, says many guests have seen a man in early Victorian clothes standing in the front parlor of this 1819 house. The company takes him to be George Welshman Owens, the attorney who bought the house in 1830.
Inn
The oldest part of 17Hundred90 was built as a duplex between 1821 and 1823. Owner Patrick Godley tells of Anna, a servant said to have jumped from a top-floor window after a sailor left her, who "haunts the upstairs waiting for her lover to return."
Inn
For most of the 20th century, the Kehoe House was a funeral home. It's an inn now, and Visit Savannah, the city's tourism bureau, says many guests report meeting ghost children during their stays.
Park
When Tomochichi, the Yamacraw leader who helped Savannah's first colonists, died in 1739, he was given a British military funeral and buried in what is now Wright Square. Guide Enocha Edenfield told WSAV, a Savannah TV station, that the square "just has a heaviness to it that you don't feel in some of the other squares."
Cemetery
Many of the people yellow fever killed in Savannah in 1820 were buried in Colonial Park. Local historian Ryan Dunn told WJCL, a Savannah TV station, that a recording made there at about 2 a.m. caught "a very clear response from a little girl" giving her name: "Kate."
House
Margaret Wayt DeBolt's 1984 book of Savannah ghost stories tells of a spectral cat at Isaiah Davenport's 1820 house, a large yellow one that ran in front of a boarding-house tenant on the steps. The museum there now tells no ghost stories itself: its director says it sticks to "the story that we know."
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