Explore this month through the lens of Southern spirits with this haunted book of days.
1 October
2 October
3 October
4 October
5 October
6 October
7 October
- 1780 – Patriots defeat the British at Kings Mountain in present day Upstate South Carolina.
8 October
- 1862 – Confederates under General Braxton Bragg are defeated at Perryville, Kentucky.
9 October
10 October
11 October
12 October
- 1896 – University of Montevallo founded in Montevallo, Alabama.
13 October
14 October
15 October
- 1859 – John Brown and his fellow raiders stay at the Kennedy Farm in Sharpsburg, Maryland prior to their failed attempt to seize the Federal Armory in Harpers Ferry, West Virginia.
16 October
17 October
18 October
19 October
20 October
21 October
22 October
23 October
24 October
25 October
26 October
27 October
- 1927 – The Trunk Murders occur at 715 Ursulines Street in the French Quarter of New Orleans, Louisiana.
28 October
29 October
30 October
31 October – Halloween
- 1927 – Carolina Theatre in Greensboro, North Carolina opens.