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One thing that I've always been passionate about and don't spend nearly enough time discussing is my utter fascination with ghosts and hauntings. I have numerous books on the subject and used to spend hours researching old mental institutions and abandoned castles online, marking which ones gave me the all-over shivers that I would love to visit one day. How fortunate for me, then, that my city is rife with a history of pirates, bloodshed, war, disease and even an exorcism or two.
Before the week is over, I intend on driving to local Bonaventure Cemetery to take pictures and film.
If the name sounds familiar to any of you, the area was featured prominently in the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" as well as the film adaptation of the same name. The Bird Girl statue that once resided in the cemetery has since been moved to a museum in an effort to circumvent tourists from disturbing it, but there are still plenty of other beautiful marble statues and carvings that one can get close enough to touch. Except for Gracie, a life-size effigy of a six year-old girl who died of pneumonia in 1889. She's enclosed behind an iron gate. Good thing my camera's got a killer zoom on it, right? She's also one of the many apparitions said to be prowling the cemetery.
Other famous Bonaventure denizens include Conrad Aiken and Johnny Mercer, though I've never found Mr. Mercer's grave. People have told me it's underneath a bench marked with his name, but there are loads of benches on the grounds, haha.
Would anybody be interested in a virtual tour of haunted Savannah?
Before the week is over, I intend on driving to local Bonaventure Cemetery to take pictures and film.
If the name sounds familiar to any of you, the area was featured prominently in the book "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil" as well as the film adaptation of the same name. The Bird Girl statue that once resided in the cemetery has since been moved to a museum in an effort to circumvent tourists from disturbing it, but there are still plenty of other beautiful marble statues and carvings that one can get close enough to touch. Except for Gracie, a life-size effigy of a six year-old girl who died of pneumonia in 1889. She's enclosed behind an iron gate. Good thing my camera's got a killer zoom on it, right? She's also one of the many apparitions said to be prowling the cemetery.
Other famous Bonaventure denizens include Conrad Aiken and Johnny Mercer, though I've never found Mr. Mercer's grave. People have told me it's underneath a bench marked with his name, but there are loads of benches on the grounds, haha.
Would anybody be interested in a virtual tour of haunted Savannah?