Month: August 2024

Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.

1 December

•  1974 – TWA Flight 514 crashes near Bluemont, VA.

2 December

•  1974 – Dunleith in Natchez, MS is designated a National Historic Landmark.

3 December

 

4 December

 

5 December

 

6 December

• 1889 – Jefferson Davis dies in New Orleans, it is reported that his spirit is still in residence at his home, Beauvoir in Biloxi, Mississippi.

7 December

• 1946 – Fire breaks out in the early morning house of this date in the supposedly fire-proof Winecoff Hotel in Atlanta, Georgia killing 119 individuals. The building is now The Ellis Hotel.

8 December

 

9 December

 

10 December

 

11 December

 

12 December

 

13 December

 

14 December

•  1862 – Union troops attack Kinston, North Carolina near the current location of the South Queen Street Bridge.
• 1974 – Notorious New Orleans madame, Norma Wallace, commits suicide. Her spirit may continue to reside in her former Conti Street brothel in the French Quarter.

15 December

 

16 December

 

17 December

 

18 December

•  2016 – Augusta, Georgia’s infamous Haunted Pillar is destroyed in an automobile crash.

19 December

 

20 December

 

21 December

 

22 December

 

23 December

 

24 December – Christmas Eve

•  A truck driver taking a load to Fairmont, West Virginia picks up a mysterious hitchhiker.

25 December – Christmas Day

 

26 December

 

27 December

 

28 December

 

29 December

• 1955 – A photographer captures an image of a ghost aboard the USS Constellation in Baltimore, Maryland. 

30 December

 

31 December – New Year’s Eve

• 1862 – The first day of the Battle of Stones River fought outside Murfreesboro, TN during which Lt. Col. Julius Garesché is killed.

Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.

1 August

 

2 August

 

3 August

 

4 August

 

5 August

•  1864 – A major naval battle is fought in Mobile Bay, Alabama engaging both Fort Gaines and Fort Morgan.

6 August

 

7 August

 

8 August

 

9 August

 

10 August

• 1876 – The first burial is conducted in Pensacola, Florida’s St. John’s Cemetery on this date.

11 August

 

12 August

 

13 August

 

14 August

 

15 August

 

16 August

 

17 August

 

18 August

•  1969 – Hurricane Camille makes landfall in Bay St. Louis, Mississippi in the early morning hours of this date. In nearby Pass Christian, legend holds that storm refugees partied in the Richelieu Apartments as the storm arrived. Has this story of hubris produced paranormal activity at the former site of the apartment building?

19 August

 

20 August

 

21 August

 

22 August

 

23 August

 

24 August

 

25 August

 

26 August

 

27 August

 

28 August

•  1862 – First day of the Second Battle of Manassas fought in Virginia.

29 August

 

30 August

 

31 August

Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.

1 April

 

2 April

• 1865 – Federals under General James H. Wilson attack Selma, Alabama with fighting around the George O. Baker House.
• 1925 – The “Grand Dame of Palafox Street,” Pensacola, Florida’s Saenger Theatre opens its doors.

3 April

 

4 April

• 1841 – President William Henry Harrison dies of pneumonia at the White House.
• 1865 – Union forces burn much of the University of Alabama in Tuscaloosa but spare several buildings including the Little Round House.

5 April

•  1936 – After a devastating tornado touches down in Tupelo, Mississippi, the city’s Lyric Theatre is utilized as a temporary hospital and morgue.

6 April

 

7 April

 

8 April

 

9 April

 

10 April

 

11 April

 

12 April

• 1861 – The first shots of the Civil War are fired on Fort Sumter in Charleston Harbor.
• 1962 – Twin sisters mysteriously die within a short time of one another, despite being located in different wards at Broughton Hospital in Morganton, NC.
• 1912 – Groundbreaking nurse, Clara Barton, dies in Glen Echo, Maryland. Her home is now preserved as a museum.

13 April

 

14 April

 

15 April

•  1970 – Brice House in Annapolis, Maryland is designated a National Historic Landmark.

16 April

 

17 April

 

18 April

 

19 April

 

20 April

 

21 April

 

22 April

 

23 April

•  1940 – Fire break out in the Rhythm Night Club, an African-American jazz club in Natchez, Mississippi, killing 198 souls.

24 April

 

25 April

 

26 April – Confederate Memorial Day (first celebrated in 1866)

 

27 April

 

28 April

 

29 April

 

30 April

• 1863 – Battle of Crooked Creek fought near modern-day Vinemont, Alabama.