Southern Ghost: 8 (A Death on Demand Mysteries)

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Known as the Alcatraz of the Forest, the controversial correction house has been used as a courthouse, police station and prison during its 225 year history and therefore infamy exudes upon visiting. I volunteer in the Highland County Museum 24465… located on the perimeter of the Civil War battlefield (Sitlington’s Hill) where General Stonewall Jackson’s troops fought the blue bellies in 1862. Although the hotel boasts luxury and quality hospitality, guests might also experience activity of the paranormal kind during their stay.

In South Carolina, haints are malicious ghosts, often seeking to steal or harm naughty children (maybe used as a story to make unruly children behave? In a beautiful rural setting beside the River Windrush lie the picturesque ruins of Minster Lovell Hall, a former 15th century Oxfordshire manor house. Guests have also reported seeing mysterious objects move round the room and sheets being ripped from the bed at night. Felder Rushing, who wrote a book about the history of bottle trees, says the word haint is actually derived from early European roots: the verb "hanter," meaning to stalk or inhabit. I believe there is a ghost, I named her Miss Haint…she has never spoken to me, she walks the floors and they creak… she spends most of her time in the operating room where many died most cried and maybe that included her.

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Before the second World War the building was owned for over a 100 years by the Creswykes, a family of wealthy landowners. Two ghosts reside in the hotel: Elizabeth Downing who died in 1768 and her eight year old son Christopher Downing. From the Appalachians to the Ozarks, and from Savannah to Alabama, haints, hanks, booger men, boohags, and boodaddies still haunt the woods, foggy hills and hollers, and darkened doorways of the southern imagination. The Tennessee State Library and Archives briefly recounts the Bell Witch legend and other Tennessee ghost stories in this illustrated blog post, including the "rain of blood," and "spearfinger. The castle’s rich history has certainly left its mark on its wearied walls, and there’s no surprise that ghostly goings-on are frequent.Belief in haints probably originated with the Gulla Geechee people, descendants of African slaves in the Carolina low country and barrier islands. The word "haint" is also used outside the low country, in other parts of the south, with slightly different aspects from region to region. Also on Atlas Obscura, the travel article " Haint Blue Porch Ceilings: The Lowcountry color with the power to stop evil from entering a home," provides photos and addresses where visitors can see haint blue in use on the fine historic homes of Beaufort, South Carolina. Ghosts along the Cumberland: Deathlore in the Kentucky Foothills, William Lynwood Montell, The University of Tennessee Press 1975, p.