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Most haunted city in the USA: Savannah, GA

Most haunted house in Savannah? Sorrel Weed

It’s a melancholy pall that she casts over Madison Square – and that’s before we even breathe a word of the ghosts. Dead revolutionary soldiers, primitive basement surgeries, and an unhappy marriage with a tragic end are all ingredients for a real-life haunted mansion. Or at least Ghost Hunters, Buzzfeed Unsolved and If Walls Could Talk thought so.

Although the house’s history is fascinating, I don’t want to delve too deeply into it here; we’ve got Wikipedia for that: History of the house

The house offers Historic Tours, Ghost Tours and more involved Paranormal Investigations (with equipment provided). I want to share my experiences taking a Ghost Tour (no special equipment) on the night of September 13, 2023:   

1. At first, I thought was my camera was malfunctioning — and I’m still pretty sure it was.  I kid you not, nearly every photo I took had some kind of anomaly.  I was not using flash or any auxiliary lighting. Could it have all been reflection?  Likely, yes.  Some are obvious, and some a little harder to explain. Example: a second face seems to appear in a one photo of a portrait, and not in another. I’ll let you judge for yourself.

2. Did I get weird feelings?  Not so much in the main part of the house, and not in the areas of the house that our awesome tour guide, Jovi, described as generally being considered “most active”.  There was one room, referred to as the breezeway, that gave me a crazy uneasy feeling. I actually had the strong urge to leave it. Jovi told us that this area had been used to bring patients into the basement surgery. I saw some unexplained shadows in this area and started shooting video.  I didn’t manage to catch those, but something else appears.

Video: The pillar to the left of the chair in the beginning is where I saw moving shadows that I did not feel were attributed to our group. Those were never caught in the video. However, at about 0:45, the lighting anomalies begin. This was shot with an iPhone, no additional lighting sources. The voice you hear is Sorrel Weed house guide, Jovi.

3. The “Most Haunted” room — And I Got Nothin…

For many years, historians believed that this room in the carriage house belonged to an enslaved woman named Molly. The rumor was that she was being assaulted by or having a “consensual affair” with Francis Sorrel – and that this was the reason for his wife Matilda’s suicide. Molly, who was also very close to Matilda, is said to have been so distraught over the situation that she ALSO perished by hanging in this room.

Jovi explained that it had recently been discovered that the structure had not been built as early as previously thought and could not have housed enslaved persons, as it was not finished until after the Civil War had ended. I felt nothing here, and, interestingly, not a camera malfunction in sight:

Now for the “anomalies”…