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13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 


Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 


Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

Ghostly visitors roam the halls of the Flowers Performing Arts Centre

Once an elementary school, the halls of the now Flowers Performing Arts Center in Ozark, Ala., are filled with tragic memories, joyful times, and for the theatre the future looks bright.

Last November, Southern Paranormal Researchers traveled to Ozark, in hopes of capturing some evidence of the alleged ghostly pranksters that reside in the theatre.

The 500 seat theatre is operating under renovation by the Ozark Leisure Services. They have been working for several months on converting the run-down school, and several of the workers have reported experiencing phenomenon such as children's voices, sounds of someone walking the hallway or steps, laughing, and even lights coming back on after they have been turned off.

Thinking someone had entered the building without their knowledge, the workers would search for the trespassers only to find the halls empty.