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Welcome to our tour of Savannah Haunted Crime Scenes.
This year we have added video clips narrated by your favorite authors. Yes, we've included haunted crimes scenes from the popular Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil, including Danny Hansford's grave, where our recording equipment picked up a mysterious voice. That wasn't the only ghost that we ran into on our tour. Come along with us and experience it yourself.
VIDEO: Haunted Savannah
ALTERNATE TEXT VERSION
Haunted Stories:
• Mercer House
Jim Williams was at the top of his game when he held his famous Christmas parties in this brilliantly restored mansion. It was here that Williams destroyed his career, reputation and fortune when he killed "bad boy" lover Danny Hansford.
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• Voices at Danny's Grave
Quite unexpectedly, our team recorded a very distinct voice at Danny Hansford's Grave.
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GHOST VOICE AUDIO
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• Conrad Aiken House
The youngster who was to become an American Poet Laureate never recovered from being in the house when his mentally deranged physician father shot Conrad's mother and then turned the gun on himself. The violent murder-suicide imprints the house long after the family has departed.
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• Mysterious Orbs at Aiken House
Infrared camera reveals scores of tiny light forms invisible to the naked eye darting around, mostly near the "murder room."
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• Ghostly Voices at Aiken House
Digital recorder with ultra-sensitive microphone records several different voices in various parts of the house.
GHOST VOICE AUDIO1
GHOST VOICE AUDIO2
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• Savannah's Most Haunted House
Jim Williams wanted to restore the Hampton-Lillibridge House, but the ghostly disruptions made the workmen quit. If you're restoring a house to sell you don't want ghosts, so he stayed in the house himself and was dismayed at what he witnessed. So dismayed that he asked a clergyman to exorcise the spirits that were damaging his investment.
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• The Murder of Samuel Baker
One night after work, he cut through Colonial Park Cemetery on his way home, but he was brutally assaulted and died shortly afterwards. The murder was unsolved and various theories have been suggested, but justice was never done and Samuel Baker's spirit still roams the cemetery that claimed his life.
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• Spirits at Moon River Brewery
In the 1830s, the City Hotel (now a restaurant) was popular with the rough-and-tumble sporting crowd. The men were always armed and spoiling for a fight, and many arguments ended in duals. And so it almost was with mild-mannered Dr. Philip Minis and the hot-tempered James Jones Stark.
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• Ghosts of the Pirates' House
Savannah's oldest tavern was a hangout for buccaneers and a place where unsuspecting men were shanghaied as the unwilling crew of sailing ships. Long-time employees of this popular restaurant have often seen the ghosts of these early pirates and their victims.
Crime Library Video: History of the Pirate House
Crime Library Video: The Cook's Ghost
Crime Library Video: The Rum Cellar
Crime Library Video: Earl Baumgardner
Crime Library Video: Miss Bonnie
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• Haunting of the Shrimp Factory — NEW!
Savannah was once one of the world's major cotton markets and slaves were chained up at night in the attics of the cotton warehouses along the Savannah River. The old liquor storage area above the Shrimp Factory is haunted, some think with the restless spirits of those slaves.
SHRIMP FACTORY VIDEO
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• Execution of Alice Riley — Coming Soon!
She was young and pregnant when she was arrested, along with her common law husband, for the brutal murder of William Wise, the man to whom the two Irish immigrants were indentured servants. The ghost of this first woman executed in Georgia is said to wander Hutchison Island in search of her dead child.
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• Race Path School Tragedy — Coming Soon!
It was a one-room school in rural Georgia where the handsome young schoolmaster met one fateful afternoon with the girl he wanted to marry. But her father had other ideas and went with his shotgun to stop them from eloping.
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• Murder in Pin Point — Coming Soon!
It was a small village right on the water where a kind young wife met her death in a shocking manner. It was only by chance that her savaged body was identified and her remains properly buried.
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• Haunted Crime Scenes
Dr. Katherine Ramsland tours "America's Most Haunted" scenes where ghosts of past crimes still roam the earth.
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• Haunted Crime Scenes, Part 2
Spirits of the murdered and the murderers are often trapped in the circumstances of their death or of the crime they committed. Originally published as a sequel to the very popular first Halloween special called Haunted Crime Scenes, our second special tour has just been updated with the story of a famous serial killer's ghost which is haunting another killer.
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