Haunted Tennessee

 Belmont Mansion Historical Museum

LOCATION:

Belmont Mansion Historical Museum can be found on the Belmont University Campus.

Address: 1900 Belmont Boulevard, Nashville, Tennessee 37212.

Tel: (615) 460-5459 * belmontmansion@mail.belmont.edu

Web-Site

DESCRIPTION:

Described as the most elaborate, antebellum Italianate-style villa built for that time period. It is now a historical museum, open for tours. It's 36 rooms are beautifully decorated with the antiques that Adelicia had collected and one can also see other works of inspiring art, such as 4 of the 5 sculptures she had bought after the Civil War.

The fabulous gardens are still in existence, located around the Belmont University Campus.

Tours are available by the mansion staff for individuals & groups. No matter how big the group is when they come to visit, there are only 15 people to each tour guide. Touring Hours Monday - Saturday 10:00am-4:00pm ///Sunday 1:00pm-4:00pm

In their Victorian, classy Grand Salon Room - Catering for Special Events at a reasonable cost.

Dinner at Belmont....The Belmont Mansion offers for groups (25-85) an elegant evening which includes a delicious dinner, a personally guided tour, and fabulous live entertainment during coffee and dessert, for only $35 to $45 per person.

Progressive Lunch & Dinner Tours - Begin with lunch and a tour at the Belmont Mansion, move onto afternoon refreshments and a tour at Travelers Rest, ending with dinner and a tour at the the Belle Meade Plantation.

HISTORY:

To escape the heat of LA in the summer, this "summer home," Belmont, which is an Italianate-style, 36 room, 19,000 sq. ft. villa, was created to be a work of art to be enjoyed by the family and others. It was surrounded by lovely, well-landscaped gardens. Besides the huge mansion and glorious gardens, This estate included an "art gallery, conservatories, aviary, lake and zoo."

Adelicia and Joseph had generous hearts. Because there was no park in Nashville, Adelicia and Joseph opened up the gardens and the estate to the people of Nashville. They also loved to entertain, and held wonderful parties and events at Belmont.

After her second husband was killed in the war, she saw the writing on the wall and took the initiative to secretly negotiate a deal with both sides to allow her cotton shipment to be sold in England for $960,000, a nice nest egg to see her and her 4 children through reconstruction. She took her children to Europe after the end of the Civil War, where she continued to collect art and bought 5 sculptures from renown American artists working in Rome.

On the mansion's grounds Adelicia started a college for women. Sometime after she got married again, she sold her Belmont villa, under the condition that the school would continue on the property. When she died, she left an endowment to support the college. The women's college carried on from 1880 - 1913, when it grew bigger from 1913-1951. In 1951, the Tennessee Baptist Convention started the second version of Belmont college which was a co-ed college with high educational goals. In 1991, the college became a university, growing to 2,800 students, becoming "a premier teaching university, bringing together the best of liberal arts and professional education in a consistently caring Christian environment."

The mansion itself is now a historical museum, and its grounds are part of Belmont University Campus, which is a fast growing university. By 2006, Belmont University has doubled its size and expanded in many ways. Offers more than 70 undergraduate and graduate academic programs through its seven colleges and schools.

HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:

Adelicia Hayes Franklin Acklen Cheatham may have been wealthy and lived a life enjoying doing productive activities, giving to others and experiencing the finer things of life, but she had to endure a lot of personal losses in her lifetime, yet carried on bravely.

Adelicia was born into a wealthy, Nashville family in 1817. As a young woman, her teen-aged fiancee died before he could marry her. Her first marriage was to a wealthy, older man, Isaac Franklin, with whom she had four children, who all died before they were 12. Isaac died after only 7 years into their marriage. Adelicia was no wilting flower, but a courageous person, with savvy business sense. Adelicia went forth with life with vigor and continued to run her 8,400 acre Louisiana cotton plantation.

In 1849, Adelicia fell in love and married a young lawyer, Joseph Acklen. After building, furnishing and landscaping their dream villa, Belmont and its grand estate, Adelicia and Joseph settled down and had 6 children. Tragedy struck again when her twin daughters died of scarlet fever. The Civil War came to Louisiana, and her second husband was killed.

In 1887, she sold her beloved Belmont and moved to Washington D.C. to live. She died later that same year. She is buried in Nashville.

Adelicia in her lifetime, lost a fiancee, 2 husbands and of course 6 children, which was the hardest, most painful loss to endure.

She also sold her most beloved summer home, Belmont with the plan that her college would continue, being financed by her endowment. She died in D.C. but came home to Nashville to be buried.

MANIFESTATIONS:

Adelicia can't quite rest in peace, and has set off motion detectors in Belmont and its buildings at night.

She feels the urge to supervise the living, and keep watch concerning her Belmont.

The full apparition of Adelicia, attired in a 1800s style, ante-bellum gown, has been seen by the security guards, students and museum staff floating around many parts of the villa, going about her business, checking up on the living, making sure things are in place and are being taken care of properly.

The living have come face to face with the entity of Adelicia.

It was reported that a woman was walking down a hallway one evening during an event, and who should she see face to face but the apparition of Adelicia, dressed in a elegant evening gown. YIKES!

It was reported that Adelicia appeared as a full, solid form and told a museum guide that the furniture in one of the bedrooms were not arranged correctly!

PSYCHIC RESEARCH:

A Psychic came in to investigate and reported:

She is still hurting from the loss of so many children. Adelicia is missing her children, and is looking for the ones who had died so long ago.

Adelicia was worried that Belmont would be torn down soon because the present Belmont University is growing so fast, and the buildings are being renovated and new ones are being built.

Still Haunted?

Yes indeed!

Despite the high standards taken by responsible people to be sure to not make or leave a mess on any property near the mansion, keep Belmont in terrific condition, carefully preserving and maintaining the art and antiques, and using the Grand Salon for events which she would approve of, Adelicia has made herself a member on the staff, a harmless entity supervising in her own way.

Losing children is an awful, painful, stressful experience for any parent. Adelicia lost so many, due to illnesses which are now taken care of by medicine and vaccines. Perhaps she didn't fully go through the mourning process because she had to be strong and carry on for others. She now can't rest, despite the fact that they are all on the other side waiting for her. 

 The Market Street Brewery & Public House

LOCATION:

The Market Street Brewery & Public House can be found on Second Ave N, near where Second Avenue N changes into Second Avenue South. This building is between the main streets of Church and Broadway, near the corner of Commerce Street, which runs between 8th Avenue S and Second Avenue N. It is across the street from a dinner theatre, in downtown Nashville.

Address: 134 Second Ave N, Nashville, Tennessee 37201.

DESCRIPTION:

Besides having an on-site brewery, which gives the place a nice aroma, The Market Street Brewery & Public House has two rooms for its patrons to sit and enjoy the experience. One is characterized as the dark wood room and the second room is called the sunroom, with a view of the river. There is an easy going, pub-like atmosphere which offers a place to relax and enjoy.

Tom and I ate dinner here and sat at the long wooden bar, when we visited Nashville, enjoying the dark wood decorum. Menu includes, "A mixture of traditional English pub fare, such as fish-and-chips and shepherd's pie," along with standard American dishes and of course "southern specialties." Food was pretty good. We had steak and ribs, while we enjoyed the atmosphere of the place, which is not really suited for kids, but perfect place to kick back with a beer or liquid refreshment like iced tea!

HISTORY:

The building itself dates back to the early days of Nashville. Over the years, various establishments have occupied the building. A factory, a distillery and other beer and food taverns have made their home on this comfortable street in the downtown section.

MANIFESTATIONS:

An unknown entity still enjoys hanging out here, and basically behaves itself when the place is open for business.. It says hello in little ways, letting the living know of its existence, and has a weakness for playing with electrical devices.

Chairs have been seen moving across the dining room floor by themselves.

Lights swing back and forth on their own power, when no wind or draft is present.

The entity gets its chuckles by turning the lights off and then turning them back on, when commanded to do so by the staff.

After hours, this entity is a stronger presence.

When alone in the building, the living feel uncomfortable, unsettled, sensing that they are not alone, and sometimes feel a presence keeping them company.

Still Haunted?

Yes indeed.

For some reason, this entity can't let go of this world, and loves to hang out here, a place where it enjoyed being when alive. It is probably an old customer of the present establishment or a patron or owner of an earlier tavern who enjoyed being there when alive. It could also be someone who was involved in one of the businesses which had occupied this building throughout the years.

 The Capitol Records building

LOCATION:

The Capitol Records building is located on West End Avenue, between Acklen Park Drive and Murphy Road. It sits on the corner of West End Avenue and Acklen Park Drive. Take 440 to West End Avenue Turn right if you are going north, or left if you are going south. Take West End Avenue. When you cross Murphy Road, you are getting close.

Address: 3322 W. End Avenue # 11, Nashville, Tennessee 37203.

DESCRIPTION:

The Capitol Records building is a well-kept, very modern, plain gray office building with 11 floors. It sits on the corner of West End Avenue and Acklen Park Drive. While Capitol Records is located on the 11th floor, other businesses are paying rent to Capitol Records for the space in the building.

HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:

Before the Capitol Records building was built on this plot of land, the most magnificent mansion in Nashville stood at this location, built by Jacob Schnell around 1900. However, for some un-remembered reason, his daughters were rudely snubbed by the elite of the community. If one was to speculate, perhaps it was an issue of old money verses new money, mental illness or religion. This cruel rejection hurt the daughters and deeply affected them. The girls grew up traumatized and never left the care of their father. When their father died, they became reclusive, and let the house slowly slip into a decrepit state.

After they had both passed on, the home was sold to Capitol Records, who hired people to tear down the once magnificent mansion. However, the mansion was by then a far-gone fixer-upper which no concerned preservationist wanted to attempt to renovate.

On this site, Capitol Records had an eleven story, modern, and very plain gray office building built to house its company and other businesses. Over the years, other companies have moved onto various floors, but Capitol Records is still on the 11th floor of the building.

MANIFESTATIONS:

Two gentile female entities of the sisters have made themselves at home on the 11th floor, suite 11. They have found activities to keep themselves amused; to mildly make themselves known.

Employees hear footsteps going down the hall when no one living was there.

Doors open and close all by themselves.

Items are moved around and put in odd places.

Unlocked doors are locked to the annoyance of the living.

Electrical gadgets and equipment prove to be irresistible to these entities, who like to play with them.

PSYCHIC RESEARCH:

At one point, a psychic came to investigate, and felt a great sadness throughout the 11th floor suite. The sisters can't let go of the pain they felt from the rejection they received. (Perhaps they were a little mentally ill to begin with, which could've been the main factor of this rejection.)

The sisters are in mourning for the destruction of their home, and that such an inelegant building was built here.

Still Haunted?

Yes indeed.

When spirits haunt a place, they sometimes stay and haunt the land, or move into the new structure which was built on the site. (See The Willard Library in IN, Kolb Ridge Court Housing Development (Georgia). Not only was their beloved home torn down, a cold, modern, (some would say ugly) building was built in its place, to add insult to injury. They blame Capitol Records, and have moved onto the 11th floor to be with the company so to speak who did the deed. 

 The Hermitage - Home of President Andrew Jackson

HAUNTED DWELLING:

The Hermitage - Home of President Andrew Jackson

LOCATION:

The Hermitage is found just 20 minutes northeast of Nashville, around 15 miles. Take I-40 E via the ramp on the LEFT toward KNOXVILLE/HUNTSVILLE. Get off on OLD HICKORY BLVD exit- EXIT 221B, and Turn LEFT onto LEBANON PIKE. Turn RIGHT onto BONNASPRING DRIVE.

Address: 4580 Rachel's Lane, Nashville, Tennessee 37076.

DESCRIPTION:

The Hermitage Mansion sits on an estate of 1,120 acres, which includes the entire 1,050-acre tract that Andrew Jackson owned when he died in 1845. The Hermitage Plantation Estate is huge with a lot of buildings and places of interest to see and ponder.

After visiting the Andrew Jackson Visitor Center, where the theatre, museum store, cafe and comfort stations are located, Tom and I walked up the winding, stone path to the family's mansion. Wow! What a beautiful home, befitting a war hero, public servant and a President of the United States.

One is greeted by a beautiful mansion, completely restored to the mansion it was from 1837-1845, thanks to the years of dedication of The Ladies' Hermitage Association, who not only renovated the mansion, but bought from the family most of the original furnishings, got land back land from the state and bought land from private owners, and renovated other buildings on site, including the Jackson's Hermitage Church. Archaeology sites are investigated during the summer months by experts.

The architecture is a lovely blend of Federal, Palladian and fashionable Greek Revival Style. The inside is decorated mostly in the Greek Revival Style. The tour of the mansion takes the visitors by the first floor rooms and living space and upstairs to peek into the rooms as well, though visitors are not allowed to walk inside the rooms, so as to preserve the furnishings and rugs that the organization worked so long to acquire and restore.

HISTORY:

The Hermitage Plantation was a self-sufficient, profitable gentleman's farm, run on slave power, providing a warm home for two generations of the Jackson family. Andrew Jackson loved being at his sanctuary, when he could, where he could enjoy country living, grow their own food and provide a nice life for the love of his life, Rachel, a devout, loving woman who adored Andrew and loved the Lord. Andrew Jackson often was away because of his political, business, and military careers.

Andrew and Rachel were unable to have children, but that didn't stop them from having a family. They adopted the orphaned nephew of Rachel's, calling him Andrew Jackson Jr., who became Jackson's heir to his property. Many children over the years lived for a time with the Jacksons, who loved kids. One such child was an orphaned Indian boy, the victim of war.

Rachel began to suffer from medical problems in 1825, which became worse in 1828, when Jackson ran for President again. His political foes made "degrading remarks and taunts focused on the circumstances surrounding her divorce and her marriage to Andrew," so many years ago, which cut her deeply. She died on December 22, 1828, on the eve before the day they were leaving for the White House. Jackson blamed his political opponents for her death.

In 1845 Andrew Jackson died and was buried beside his wife in the family cemetery in the Hermitage Mansion garden, near the Hermitage Mansion. After Andrew Jackson died, Andrew Jackson Jr. inherited the Hermitage Plantation and Mansion, his wife, Sarah and two sons and a daughter took official ownership of the mansion.

Andrew Jackson Jr. wasn't much of a farmer and didn't try to improve the farm's output, but instead put his money in an ironworks operation and a lead mine, which turned out to be bad investments. (He would've been better off going to a business advisor, as he also had no business sense.) He began to sell outlying parcels of Hermitage land. In 1856, He finally had to take care of the mounting bills by selling "a 500-acre core section of the 1,050-acre farm, including the mansion and outbuildings, for $48,000 to the State of Tennessee, who planned to use it for public use."

As there was no money for public use in the state budget at this time, it was decided to allow the Jackson family to stay in the mansion as tenants. However, in 1858, Andrew Jackson Jr. sold what was left of the acreage to private owners and moved his family to a cotton plantation in Mississippi, which failed in 1860. So, they swallowed their pride and moved back in the old Hermitage to live as tenants.

The Civil War came, and both of Andrew Jackson Jr.'s sons went off to war to fight, serving as officers for the Confederacy. Only Andrew Jackson lll came home alive. Andrew Jackson Jr. died in 1865, probably not a happy camper, as they were living as tenants in their own home, one of his sons was killed, the South had lost the war, and he had to live with the fact that he failed three times in business ventures, causing the selling of the Hermitage and all of its land.

Fortunately for the Hermitage, no battles took place anywhere near it, and it was protected by both sides against marauders. After the war, Sarah and Andrew Jackson lll made a living with a very small farming operation with paid day labor and tenant farmers. When they died, they were buried in the same family cemetery in the garden.

The care of the Hermitage Mansion was at the mercy of the lumbering, indecisive government, and suffered "a slow deterioration" because of a lack of money, will and action. Andrew Jackson must have been spinning in his grave! Finally, in 1883, the state of Tennessee managed to agree to give $350 for repairing the Jacksons' Tomb and monument, and put an iron fence around it.

What finally galvanized the people of Tennessee, to preserve the Hermitage Plantation was the proposal to turn the Hermitage into a home for invalid soldiers. By the time the brew ha ha calmed down, the soldiers' home was built 1/2 mile away from the Hermitage, and The Ladies Hermitage Association had formed and took over the care of what was left of the Hermitage Plantation buildings and mansion, rescuing them from decay and neglect, with plans to get back Jackson's land as well.

HISTORY OF MANIFESTATIONS:

By 1889, The Hermitage was very long in the tooth, in deplorable shape. Despite being sold to the state of Tennessee in 1856, the state of Tennessee throughout the years because of a failure to follow through on a variety of options for the property, had done a terrible job keeping up the Hermitage. Some entities still hanging around, unable to rest, were very unhappy with the dolts among the living who should care for a former president's home! There was a reason why the two remaining people who had worked for the family, staying at the Hermitage during the day wouldn't spend the night there.

Some women of The Ladies' Hermitage Association who had formed as a group in an effort to salvage and restore President Jackson's beloved Hermitage to its former glory, found out why and got an earful from these departed for the entire time they stayed there. Concerned about people breaking in, they took turns spending the night in the mansion, until a watchman/grounds keeper could be hired. They settled down to sleep on mattresses in the living room, but not for long!

MANIFESTATIONS:

1). In the middle of the night, the women were rudely awakened:

A) The entity of President Jackson made his presence and his feelings known! In the middle of the night, the women were rudely awakened by the sounds suggesting that someone was riding a horse up and down the main staircase, creating quite a racket. The message was clearly expressed by this, in the spirit of a military officer waking up new recruits; "Why are you sleeping? Get up! Fix my house!!!"

B) Past Servants and Slaves, and perhaps Sarah Jackson in the kitchen?

The loud, clanging sounds of chains being dragged across the front porch, also rang in the air, to be sure they were awake!

The women also heard sounds suggesting that havoc was reigning in the kitchen, as the cacophony of noise reverberated throughout the downstairs. The next morning, nothing was out of place; pots and pans were all on their shelves, and there was no broken dishes to clean up. All the doors and windows were still locked.

2) While Andrew Jackson met the needs of his slaves, as evidenced by adequate food, housing which was more generous than other plantations, and the ability of his slave women being healthy enough to have children, slavery was still a brutal and cruel system, and the Jacksons never forgot their slaves were property. "When Andrew Jackson felt offenses were severe, he did permit slaves to be whipped and did post runaway notices."

Some entities who were in bondage here, spent years working hard and/or serving the family, can't let go and go to the other side and thus hang around the Hermitage.

a) Throughout the years and even today apparitions of slaves congregate on the balcony in front of the master bedroom, used by President Jackson, and other family descendants.

b) Sounds of chains being dragged across the front porch still are probably heard late at night.

STILL HAUNTED?

Yes indeed!

Since all the original land is once again part of the Hermitage Plantation, and the Hermitage Mansion itself and other buildings have been beautifully restored and renovated, showing most of the original furnishings, and is well taken care of, the entity(ies) of President Jackson (and perhaps Andrew Jackson Jr. and Sarah Jackson) has/have been very quiet. Jackson hasn't done an encore of riding his horse up and down the stairs. The kitchen remains quiet. However, it is thought that he and perhaps the others still keep a close eye on the living and the beloved home, the Hermitage, which Jackson built out of love for his family.

The entities of slaves and perhaps servants still haunt the Hermitage.

 

Carnton Mansion –
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Haunted Place: Carnton Mansion

LOCATION:

Carnton Mansion is considered the most haunted house in Tennessee. It is now a museum, run by the Carnton Society. It is open to the public. Open Mon-Sat 9-4, Sun 1-4 Apr-Dec; Mon-Fri 9-4 rest of the year (615) 794-0903

Carnton Mansion is located at 1345 Carnton Lane, in the town of Franklin, Tennessee 37064, which is about 15 miles south of Nashville. It sits on land that was the site of a bloody Civil War battle, where many men were killed without mercy, in a hail of bullets that were like rain.

DESCRIPTION:

The Carnton House is a large, two story, 22 room early 1800s brick mansion, that greets the visitor upon arriving with 7 beautiful white columns and a front porch on both stories. A verandah and a closed in porch are located along the backside of the mansion. The inside rooms contain much of the original furnishings in the mansion from 1820 - 1860. All the woodwork is treated to look like mahogany and rosewood. Colors frequently used in the decorum of the mansion were mustard yellow, dark blue and Pompeii red, all colors that were found when archeologists first unearthed Pompeii in the 1800s. The discovery of Pompeii made these colors popular in American decorum of the time.

HIstory OF MANIFESTATIONS:

1) A graveyard where 1700 Confederate soldiers, who had died in the fields near this mansion were hastily buried after this bloody conflict, is located close to Carnton Mansion. After the horrible battle was over, Carnton Mansion became a hospital, where 4 generals died of their wounds, and their bodies s laid in state so the men who were lucky enough to survive could show their respect.

2) A young house servant girl was murdered in the kitchen by a jealous field hand in the 1840s, because she rejected him as a suitor.

3) Out of their five offspring, only 2 of the Cantron children made it into adulthood.

INSIDE MANIFESTATIONS:

1) Two spirits haunt the kitchen area of the mansion, and sometimes move to other parts of the house.

A) A mischievous spirit likes to play tricks on the living, when not doing chores like washing the dishes in the kitchen. Hearing some noises from the small, enclosed porch off the back of the house, the curator went to investigate. She found two old panes of glass, on either side of the back door, which had been taken down from a box of panes, located on a shelf. It is thought that this spirit was the girl who had been murdered.

B) The head of a cook who worked for the family during the Civil War years was seen floating in the hallway, near the kitchen.

C) The cook is often also heard bustling around in the kitchen, doing her various duties, going about her business, letting the living know that she is still there.

2) A beautiful young girl, with long brown hair appeared to a workman on the second floor hall way, inspiring his hasty retreat down the stairs. Workmen now go upstairs in pairs.

3) A soldier's spirit has moved into one of the bedrooms. Perhaps he died there, or close by outside, and decided to move into the mansion and stay there, perhaps not quite ready to leave. A picture of the mansion mysteriously crashed to the floor in this bedroom, and was found on top of the floor heater, a place that it couldn't get to by itself.

4) A ghost of a lady dressed in white haunts the back porch area, sometimes floating into the backyard.

5) Spirits of the fallen are especially active in the Autumn months, at dusk. One general isn't able to rest, because he knew that his men wouldn't hold up too well and is still fretting about the coming battle he knew would be a bloodbath . This spirit, General Pat Cleburne, a man with a mustache, a short beard and piercing eyes, paces the back porch, walks around the outside parameter of the mansion, and on occasion talks to lone persons.

A) A man, Mr. P, who had an ancestor fight in the Franklin battle came at just after 5:00 PM to see Carnton Mansion, but it was closed, so he walked around the place, on a path that led to the back of the mansion, trying to soak up the atmosphere, and thinking about his relative who fought here and survived.

Near the porch, he saw the silhouette of a man that he thought was about to get on a horse, but the horse vanished. Noticing another man on the porch, Mr. P asked him what had happened to the horse. The man explained that the horse was shot from under the other soldier, like his horse had been earlier.

This mysterious man, standing on the porch, dressed like a Civil War Confederate Officer, went on to explain that whether on horse or on foot, they would be at the mercy of the enemy tonight.

Furthermore, if Mr. P was coming with him, P had better have a pistol, or he wouldn't last long. This Civil War officer further predicts in an angry voice that not many men were going to make it through the night, and it was the fault of that fool, Hood, who had ordered his men into this soon to be slaughter. He then hums a line or two of a rallying song.

Mr. P was thinking that this officer must have been part of a Civil War enactment, and must have thought that Mr. P was part of it. Mr. P asks this officer what kind of carbine he was carrying. "It's an Enfield .577. What do you have?"

Mr. P confesses that he doesn't have any, and wouldn't know how to use it. His comment astonished and alarmed the officer, who urgently told him to quickly leave and go to either the Carter house or to town, out of harm's way.

The officer then talks to another spirit by his side. "Well, Govan, if we are to die, let us die like men." The officer then throws his hat up in the air, in an angry, forceful way, and melts into the air.

Mr. P then heard the sequence of the sounds of battle. The officer's voice, yelling "Charge men! Charge." Then a swell of the sound of shots, shells, muskets and cannons fill the air. He heard the music of a regiment band, playing "Annie Laurie." Then he heard a whole army of rebel yells, which were fierce, nerve-jolting cries. Terrified, Mr. P tried to run toward his car, surrounded by the unearthly din of battle, as he felt the cold, creepy feeling of death surrounding him. He found himself stumbling around in the graveyard near the mansion.

The next day, Mr. P went back to Carnton Mansion when it was open, and found out that the officer he had talked to was indeed the much loved Irishman, General Pat Cleburne .

B) Still another officer paces back and forth in heavy boots on the front porch.

STILL HAUNTED?

Definitely yes!

The spirits are especially restless at dusk, during the Fall months, when the Battle at Franklin took place.

The cook is usually heard in the kitchen around meal times. Perhaps she doesn't know that she is dead, or feels she has unfinished business in the kitchen. The other spirits let the living know that they are still around, sharing the mansion.