Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.
1 May
2 May
- 1862 – Union troops under Colonel Basil Turchin sack the city of Athens, Alabama. Their spirits have been reported near the intersection of Clinton and Washington Streets.
3 May
- 1929 – A tornado strikes the community of Rye Cove, Virginia destroying its schoolhouse.
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15 May
- 1941 – Murderer Grady White is executed in downtown Philadelphia, Mississippi, possibly leading to a haunting at Marty’s Blues Cafe.
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21 May
- 1870 – John Walter Stephens is murdered in a storage room in the Caswell County Courthouse in Yanceyville, NC.
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24 May
- 1830 – The first set of railroad tracks, between Baltimore and Ellicott City, Maryland, is opened. The B & O Ellicott City Station Museum, a National Historic Landmark, pays homage to this event.
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