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Ten Savannah ghost legends, counted down from #10 to #1, from a closed brewpub in an 1821 hotel to Sherman's old Union hospital. Start with Toby, the basement ghost said to haunt Moon River. End with the sick and wounded said to never leave the Marshall House.
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The brewpub occupied the former City Hotel, built in 1821, where staff named a basement ghost Toby who moved through the shadows, shoved workers and threw bottles; locals say hundreds of people, mostly children, died on the upper floors during the yellow fever years while the basement served as a makeshift morgue.
Local legend says a young girl of the Turner family fell down the stairs to her death and still rolls billiard balls through the inn after dark; guests also tell of a cigar-smoking man standing on the rooftop, where a night guard was once posted.
Savannah's oldest inn. Legend says Anna, a young woman in an arranged marriage, fell in love with a sailor and fell or leapt from an upstairs window when his ship left; her spirit is tied to room two oh four, a boy named Thaddeus leaves pennies on the tavern tables, and an unfriendly kitchen spirit throws pots and spice jars.
Tour guides say the ghost of Jim Williams, who shot his assistant Danny Hansford here in 1981, walks the halls after hours, and locals say a small blond boy appears in the windows, tied to eleven-year-old Tommy Downs, who fell from the house in 1969 onto the spiked iron fence.
Legend says the ghost of Gracie Watson, a six-year-old who died of pneumonia two days before Easter in 1889, lingers near her grave; sculptor John Walz carved her life-size seated statue from a real photograph of her.
Local legend says James Habersham Jr., who built the house, still keeps it tidy: a pin-neat colonial gentleman who straightens tables and lights candles from October to March. The darker story says he hanged himself in the basement over his wife's affair, though the source itself warns there is no historical evidence and records say he died of declining health.
Local legend says Francis Sorrel's wife Matilda fell to her death in the courtyard and his enslaved servant Molly was later found hanged in the carriage house, though historians question the story: Wikipedia's sourced summary notes no Sorrel record names an enslaved woman named Molly and records Matilda's death as suicide.
The best-known tale says a towering man named Rene Rondolier was hanged for murder and still walks the grounds as a shadowy figure, though he does not appear in historical records; visitors report figures among the headstones and a green mist over the stones.
Legend says drunken patrons were shanghaied through a tunnel beneath the tavern and woke aboard ships as forced crew, and that the ghost of Captain Flint, the Treasure Island pirate said to have died in Savannah, still walks the dining rooms with the phantoms of old seamen.
The hotel served as a hospital for Union soldiers under Sherman in eighteen sixty-four and again during yellow fever epidemics, and legend says the spirits of the sick and wounded never left: children run the halls, faucets turn on by themselves, and an amputee soldier is seen in the lobby looking for a surgeon.
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