Haunted Antebellum Mansions

The house was converted into a hospital for Union soldiers during the Civil War. Today, it is a historic museum. Visitors claim to see ghosts and feel other paranormal activity.

The house was recently featured on the television show "Ghost Hunters" on the Sci Fi channel

Brigadier General Nathan George "Shanks" Evans and Confederate Brigadier General Martin Witherspoon Gary are said to be buried here along with other civil war soldiers.

Edgewood plantation boasts to be part of the ancestral home of U.S. Presidents William Henry and Benjamin Harrison and used by the Confederate army during the Civil War.

Today, it is national and state landmark and is rumored to be full of paranormal activity, including full-bodied apparitions.

The house was used during the civil war as a look out post for the Confederates against the Union soldiers. A soldier was hidden in the attic who still keeps a look out in the eaves behind a trap door.

It was also said that Lizzy Roland once lived there - engaged to a soldier that never returned, it is said you can see her standing in the window waiting for him to come back to her.

"TVs mysteriously turn off and on and guests have reported returning to their rooms to find their suitcases packed. Some have even been awoken in the night by the sound of horses trampling through their bedroom. People regularly hear ghostly footsteps on the third floor, especially in the Robert E Lee room."

http://www.scaryforkids.com/cashtown-inn/

"The basement of the Cashtown Inn, which was built in 1797, served as a surgery room for Confederate soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg in 1863. Inn co-owner Jack Paladino said stories about the horrors that happened in this basement -- as well as ghostly activity -- keep several of his employees from venturing down to it often."

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It is known that Alfred Denton, the father of the Denton brothers, was a "strong Union Man". The Brick house where the Curtis brothers of the Confederate Army were murdered by John Denton was said to be haunted by their ghosts.

Read "Miranda"... a civil war Ghost story by John Jakes

"....the same ghastly white-eyed creature I had glimpsed down by the creek stood in the wide doorway which led from the hall...."

"One of America's Most Haunted Homes"

The Myrtles Plantation

The house was supposedly built on ancient Indian burial grounds, which perhaps set the stage for the hauntings to come. The primary story however is about Cloe, the slave who served as the Nanny to the three children of the plantation owners. She was said to have been a secret mistress of the plantation owner, and a bit of a sleuth as well. She would frequently eavesdrop on the business of the plantation for the benefit of her fellow slaves. One one occasion, she was caught, and her punishment was the removal of one of her ears.

In an effort to save her position, (and keep from having to go work in the fields) she concocted a brew with oleander, a poisonous plant grown on the plantation, which she put into a birthday cake for one of the girls. Her intention was to make the girls and their mother ill, and show off her skills as a great caretaker of the sick. Instead, the girls and their mother died.

Her punishment was severe. She was killed by a mixed mob who hung her on the grounds.

The spirits of the four women still haunt the plantation, which today is a bed & breakfast.