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Rebecca Felgate and today we’re back with more Urban Legend!
Georgia, come through, it is your time!
We are talking the Top 10 Georgia Urban Legends!
10 - The Cursed Pillar of Augusta If you have ever been to Augusta you may have
come across the Cursed Pillar in the lower market area of downtown, on the east side
of fifth street.
The legend behind the pillar is varied depending on who tells it, but most stories say that
an evangelical priest wanted to preach in the market place but was denied by the authorities.
The legend says that he called down a tornado to destroy everything in the town except the
spot he was standing at.
The tornado came, and the priest seemed to be standing by the pillar, which remained.
Ever since, anyone who has ever messed with or touched the pillar is said to have met
terrible or even grave misfortune.
The pillar has a sign of its very own and people visit the column every day to test
their luck.
Dicey!
The pillar was damaged in 1935 and 1958 but patched up again.
The pillar was again destroyed in 2016 by a car that crashed into it, although no one
claimed responsibility.
The city has said they will rebuild the monument but nobody knows what has happened to the
person that dealt it a fatal blow.
Perhaps they too are laying in a pile of rubble!
If the legends are to be believed, anyway.
9 -The Snickers Snatchers of Smyrna I don’t like an old bridge!
I honestly am very scared they will collapse as I walk – or worse – drive – over
them!
This bridge – the Nickajack Creek Bridge in Smyrna, Georgia, was built in 1872, is
totally covered so very dark, and only one lane in width.
As you can see – it is already pretty creepy!
Anyway, the legend goes that if you drive over the bridge at night, and leave a snickers
on the bonnet of your car, the ghosts of children who drowned in the creek below will be tempted
from their watery graves, will come up and take the snickers bar.
That is the story anyway.
Why snickers?
Well, it seems that the chocolate is very tempting for the dead.
Who knew.
To be honest, I think the bigger danger is being crashed into as you park up on a covered
bridge with room for just one lane of traffic.
8 - The smoke of Ellis Hotel In 1946, the there was a terrible blaze at
the Winecoff hotel in Atlanta, Georgia.
In the early hours of the 7th December, the deadliest hotel fire in US History blazed
through a building that had previously been hailed as fully fireproof.
A lot like with the Titanic, the developers of the building had such confidence in the
so called flame retardant building that they didn’t include an automatic sprinkler system,
enough alarms or enough fire exists, meaning a lot of the guests above the third floor
where the fire broke out were trapped.
Sadly 119 people died, with many people jumping out of windows to their deaths.
The building was repaired and renamed – now called the Ellis Hotel to try and diassociate
the building from the tragedy.
It seems, though, that the tragedy has lingered.
Still today guests report smelling smoke and seeing spectres.
Some even say that items are stolen from their rooms.
It seems some of the ghosts have no respect for personal property.
One of the ghosts said to haunt the building is a woman who was famously picture jumping
to her death to avoid the flames.
7 - Katherine of Mill House Mill House in Roswell, Georgia is said to
be haunted by an electricity hating ghost by the name of Katherine.
In the 1990s a woman purchased the old mill cottage and wanted to turn the property into
a business, but when she tried to renovate, she kept returning to find the renovations
had been disrupted.
The weirdest incident came after she tried to have electricity installed and she came
back to find the house sopping wet – as if it had been flooded.
She came to the conclusion that the building was haunted and called in a medium.
The medium found the house was haunted by not one but 5 women – all the wives of former
millworkers.
The medium convinced four of the women to cross into the afterlife but the legend has
it that the fifth, Katherine, wouldn’t leave.
She complained about fire in the walls – aka the electricity the new owner was trying to
install.
It seems she flooded the house to try and get rid of it.
To this day, nobody has been able to install electricity in the home.
6 - The Weeping Statue of Gracie In the super spooky Bonadventure cemetery
in Savannah, which is over 150 years old, there is a big creepy monument of a little
girl called Gracie.
Gracie Watson supposedly died of pneumonia age just six, and somewhere over the history
of time after her death, people started leaving little gifts for the girl.
She is said to enjoy playing with her gifts at night and often they can be seen to have
been moved inexplicably.
The Urban Legend goes that you should never touch or mess with Gracie’s Trinkets as
she has become very attached to them.
If you do, she is said to cry blood out of frustration.
Yikes.
Some people even say they can hear Gracie crying at night.
Another graveyard legend at number 5 we have The Stone Statue of Corrine.
In the same Bonaventure Savannah Memorial Graveyard, there is a statue of Corrine Elliot,
Don’t look the statue in the eye though, because legend has it you will turn to stone.
The story goes that Corrine was denied the chance to marry her love, a man her family
considered beneath her.
Instead, they ordered that she marry someone else, someone better suited to her status.
Corrine decided she would rather die than marry a man she didn’t love so she reportedly
rode her horse into a river the day before her wedding.
She has a creepy statue at the graveyard and the story goes that her pupil-less eyes will
curse you !
4 - The Masquerade Vampire The Masquerade nightclub in Atlanta is kind
of creepy to look at from the outside – it is painted black and everything, but whatever,
it is just a club…although is it?
Rumour has it that the nightclub is both haunted and the home of a vampire.
The building dates back to the 1800s when it was a mill but in the 1980s it opened as
a club.
The ghost or vampire in question is said to take the form of a tall man dressed in black
who has often be spotted skulking around the club.
It is said that the spectre regularly turns off Amplifiers.
Some say they hear female screams coming from the back stairs?
Are they the screams of vampire victims?
It is even rumoured that several employees died from tuberculosis in the building.
Urm?
3 - The Candler Oak Hanging Tree Get a load of this spooky but majestic looking
tree – it is over 300 years old making it the oldest living landmark in the area.
The tree in Savannah is on the property of the Savannah Law School.
Rumour has it that the tree was used for hangings in the past and that the last known hacking
was in 1911, when a black man was lynched and murdered by a mob.
It seems that a number of people who have passed the Candler Oak have seen apparitions
hanging from the low branches of the tree,
2 - The Ghosts of Moon River Moon River Brewing Company is located in Savannah,
Georgia.
The building is very famous for sitting on the site of the first guest house in Savannah,
the City Hotel.
Now a Mircobrewery, the building has seen a lot of action in its nearing 200 year history!
It also used to house the first branch of the US post office.
What a place!
These days, it isn’t only the pint glasses that are full to the brim, the historic building
is crawling with spectres.
One of the more famous ghosts is said to be that of James Stark – who was shot in the
building by Philip Minis amid a duel in 1832.
He is said to remain on the second floor of the building.
Other haunted areas include the womens toilets in the dining section of the brewery – women
have claimed to have been locked into their cubicles without reason – as if there was
someone forcing it shut.
The building is so haunted it featured in The Ghost Hunters.
1 - Cursed Lake Lanier Always a cursed lake, isn’t there!
So Lake Lanier is in Northern Georgia and is a man made body of water, rather than a
natural lake.
The reservoir provides water and hydroelectricity for the city of Atlanta and was made by the
United States Government in 1948.
Unfortunately, the lake came at the cost of 250 families, 15 businesses and 20 cemeteries
– all of which were sunk by the government after forcing the family out.
Therefore at the bottom of the lake lies a small ghost town and a number of burial sites…perhaps
this is the explanation for the mysterious deaths near the body of water.
It seems that the lake is considered by locals to be cursed… it seems in 2011 alone there
were 20 mysterious deaths near the lake and to this day the numbers continue to be strangely
high to this day.
Those who have survived accidents on the lake talk of feeling hands pulling them to the
bottom of the lake….
Very very strange and very very creepy.
I think I’d give boating on this lake a big miss!
SO…that was the Top 10 Scary Gerogia Urban Legends