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Lizzie Borden House
On August 4, 1892, Andrew and Abby Borden were hacked to death inside this house in Fall River, Massachusetts. It's a bed and breakfast now, and its guides have long said the room where Abby died is the one guests ask for most.
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Andrew Low House
Juliette Gordon Low, the founder of the Girl Scouts, lived in this house during the Scouts' early years, the museum says. Travel writer Alexandra Nicole Nolan passes on the Savannah lore of an older woman seen resting on a bed inside, whom some believe to be Juliette.
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Owens-Thomas House & Slave Quarters
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.
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Hampton-Lillibridge House
Wildsam, a travel publisher, says the Episcopal bishop of Georgia exorcised this house on December 7, 1963, and that the strange noises in it stopped for 12 days, then came back. The bishop was later recalled as saying, "That ghost isn't a good Episcopalian because I gave it my best shot."
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Mercer Williams House
Jim Williams shot Danny Hansford in this house's study in 1981, the killing at the heart of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil. Williams died in the same study eight months after his acquittal, and Savannah Magazine writes that "some claim he was cursed."
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Sorrel-Weed House
Shipping merchant Francis Sorrel finished this house in 1840. Visit Savannah, the city's tourism bureau, says guests report cold spots, shadowy figures, and voices, especially in the basement and the old slave quarters.
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Gardette-LePretre Mansion
Ghost tours call this the "Sultan's Palace" after a legend printed in 1922 about a sultan and five women of his harem murdered here in 1792. The house wasn't built until 1836.
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Neill-Cochran House Museum
This 1850s house was a Civil War hospital in 1865, and in 2012, its director told the University of Texas student paper that Col. Andrew Neill's ghost is said to gallop around it on horseback.
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Littlefield House
George Littlefield died in this campus mansion in 1920, and The Daily Texan, the University of Texas student paper, reports that people see a woman they take for his wife, Alice, at the upstairs windows.
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Texas Governor’s Mansion
Sam Houston is said to have paced the floors of this 1856 mansion in 1861 while Texas debated leaving the Union, and the Texas Tribune reports that his ghost supposedly still does.
