Haunted things to do in Savannah
Looking for haunted things to do in Savannah? These 5 are the real ones — The Marshall House, Sorrel-Weed House and Kehoe House among them — actual dark-history sites and genuinely unsettling places, not a seasonal haunted house with a fog machine. They spread across Broughton Street, Historic District, Madison Square, Historic District, Columbia Square, Historic District, South Historic District and 1 more area, so two or three can make a whole afternoon. Every entry is hand-vetted against real sources — not scraped off a top-ten list or averaged out of crowd ratings.
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The Marshall House
Savannah's oldest operating hotel served as a Union Army hospital in the final months of the Civil War and, decades earlier, as a ward during the city's yellow fever epidemics. Guests on the first floor still report seeing soldiers with missing limbs.
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Sorrel-Weed House
A Greek Revival mansion Robert E. Lee visited twice, now run as one of Georgia's first two State Landmarks — and the rare haunted house that debunks its own most famous legend. The oft-repeated story of an enslaved woman named Molly has been shown by historians to be pure fiction, even as nightly paranormal investigations still center on it.
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Kehoe House
Built in 1892 by iron-foundry owner William Kehoe, cast almost entirely from his own foundry's ironwork, the house later spent decades of the 20th century as a funeral home before becoming an inn. Two of Kehoe's own children reportedly died inside in a 'careless accident,' and guests in Room 201 report being woken by small unseen hands.
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Colonial Park Cemetery
Closed to new burials since 1853, this six-acre municipal park still holds roughly 9,000 graves, including some 700 victims of the catastrophic 1820 yellow fever epidemic. When Union troops occupied Savannah in December 1864, soldiers reportedly camped among the vaults and altered dates on headstones for a joke.
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Little Gracie Watson Monument (Bonaventure Cemetery)
A life-size white marble statue of a 6-year-old girl in a starched pinafore sits at her own grave in Bonaventure Cemetery, sculpted by local artist John Walz in 1890 from a photograph — the girl died in 1889 of blood poisoning brought on by a severe attack of pneumonia. Wikipedia calls it one of the only funerary monuments in Georgia carved to someone's exact likeness. Visitors still leave coins, toys, and trinkets at the now-fenced plot (gated in 1999), and tours visit to mark her birthday each year.
Haunted things to do in Savannah — FAQ
Which haunted places & dark-history spots in Savannah are the strangest?
Ranked by how strange they actually are: The Marshall House, Sorrel-Weed House and Kehoe House. The Marshall House — Savannah's oldest operating hotel served as a Union Army hospital in the final months of the Civil War and, decades earlier, as a ward during the city's yellow fever epidemics.
Where in Savannah are they?
Across Broughton Street, Historic District, Madison Square, Historic District, Columbia Square, Historic District, South Historic District and Thunderbolt / Bonaventure, Savannah. Each listing gives the neighborhood and address so you can cluster a couple into one outing.
Is this a good weird date in Savannah?
That's what the list is built for. Every entry has a specific move rather than a vague recommendation — at The Marshall House, for instance: Book a room low in the building, then take a nightcap at the bar under the 120-foot cast-iron veranda and compare notes on any floorboard creaks that feel a little too deliberate.
How were these haunted places & dark-history spots chosen?
An agentic research system digs for the genuinely obscure — the spots even locals miss — and every one is verified against real sources before it makes the list. We deliberately skip the landmarks already on every Savannah guide.