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I have always dreamed of visiting the beautiful city of Savannah. This old port dates back to colonial times and was the first city established in Georgia. Its survived war and economic difficulties with placid grace.
When I finally arrived in Savannah today, I chose to stay in the famous Historic District. This area features beautifully restored old southern homes, the world famous moss draped squares, cobblestone streets, monuments and a cemetery that's a park. There is also the antiquated River Street running along the Savannah River. It's a restored old commercial district with great eateries, pubs and unusual shops. And with so much history here, its no wonder that Savannah is abound with ghosts!
I will be doing a lot of sight seeing while I'm here and tonight my first outing will be a ghost tour. Ghost tours are big business in Savannah and its hard to know which one to choose. I was recommended by a neighbor to one of Shannon Scott's 6th Sense World Tours (866-666-DEAD). This tour promises to take us into a genuinely haunted house. Now this was no frivolous matter to me! I've had a couple of unexplained incidents happen to me. Part of my choosing this tour is to see if a haunted house feels any different. Would I feel cold? Hear things? Would strange shapes appear? Of course I don't expect to see any real ghosts. A ghost isn't going to come out to the crowd and wave saying, "Hi, I'm the ghost of this house and I'll be scaring you tonight!" No! A ghost will sneak up on you when least expected, where least expected and will make you feel like a real SUCKER!
The tour meets at Clary's Cafe and as I walk there along Abercorn Street on my way, I pass an old historic cemetery. When a pretty horse drawn carriage goes by I become aware that the air is redolent with horse dung and urine. This is summer in Savannah and its a warm sticky night with not much of a breeze. Muggy. When I arrive at Clary's it's just turning dark. Shannon greets us there and introduces us to our guide, Chris, a nice looking art student who has a few stories of his own. Chris walks us to our first destination, the Espy House.
One of Mr. Espy's sons was studying to be a minister. Unfortunately he was also fooling around with the girlfriend of a man in a local crime organization! One night, poor Mr. Espy was found badly beaten, hanging from the front gate of the house with portions of his masculinity neatly tucked into his coat lapel pocket!. The attack was believed to be the work of the jealous gangster. He later died of his injuries and ever since he has been repudiated to haunt the family home. There's a story of a lady renting one of the apartments in the Espy House years later. She claimed that something was moving her possessions around and following her or staring at her when she lay in bed. She never saw anything very literal but sensed things constantly and quickly moved out of the home.
We walk to our next destination, "Dr X-Ray's House." Its an old, towering red brick, 4 story home with a carriage house in the back. There was supposed to be three ghosts here; a little girl, a voodoo priestess who was much feared in the community in her time, and then Dr. X-Ray whose hands were badly burned in some x-ray experiments. His ghostly presence is easily identified by his mutilated hands. People have reported seeing the little girl or the priestess staring down at them from the windows. But Dr. X-Ray likes parties. He showed up at a Halloween party one time and spooked the children in attendance by rushing by through them and past them on the staircase. And of course was recognized by his missing fingers. When it was discovered it was not a trick but a real appearance by this ghost, the children at the party were thrilled. They will probably never forget that Halloween.
Another story concerns a man renting a part of Dr. X-Ray's house when he tried to play the soundtrack CD to a popular movie. As he listened to his CD, he heard crashing sounds in the other room where the Cd's were stored. When he investigated he found nothing was amiss. When he played the CD again, he didn't hear any sounds this time but when he went to put the CD away, he found his CD collection spread out on the floor in some kind of pattern. Unfortunately, none night, some tipsy priests from a nearby church, decided to exorcise the the home of Dr. X-Ray while the owner was out of the country. The owner was furious upon learning this and demanded that the ritual be undone!
Not long after these stories, we moved onto the grand finale, and entered the haunted house of Shannon Scott. Its an old white, two story house and doesn't appear too menacing from the outside. We enter a living room effectively illuminated with candle light. There is a coffee table decorated with horror magazines next to a huge, old antique bible, a corpse doll tucked comfortably in his coffin over in the corner and an indescribably demonic, towering bunny rabbit puppet costume! Grimacing from his seat in front of the fireplace, the bunny stretches his arms clean across the room! The ghosts in the house are probably scared of him! As we follow Chris into the dining room, he tells us a story. Shannon Scott used to rent in this house he now owns. While he was still a tenant, he saw his dog one night sulking about nervously with her fur all bristled out. He found nothing but an unseen force hit him on the shoulder from behind. Shannon knew he was totally alone in the apartment. Who or what had done this?
Now the tour was finished. We all survived being in the haunted house without incident. I was secretly disappointed. Not a thing happened, no noises, cool breezes, a pinch or anything. But my night was not over yet. Everyone drifted away pretty fast (they were scared I suppose), but I stayed and told a few of my own stories to Chris. I then went to my hotel. I sat up and watched TV until 12:45 AM. I fell fast asleep at 1AM exactly and then the smoke alarm in my very non-smoking hotel room started yodeling for no apparent reason. I jumped up straight out of bed, my poor head wobbling frantically. I don't care what anyone says, I slept the rest of the night with the lights on! The hotel could never find out why the alarm went off. Do you think one of THEM followed me back to my hotel? I won't rule it out considering all that I absorbed this evening while on the tour. It made their abstractness suddenly so literal and I felt more a part of Savannah's ghost story lore in my own unique way and much more than I ever could have imagined!
Born in Terra Haute, IN and native of Rantoul, Illinois, Shannon Scott arrived to Savannah, GA to study fine arts at The Savannah College of Art & Design and has been a tour guide since 1989. At age 25, he opened his own publishing company, Jones Street Productions Inc, and published the city’s most advanced and specialized maps and travel guides. He has taken an active stand for “better information” for visitors and locals alike through his many endeavors. His fervid love for Savannah’s history began with pioneering the first tours focusing on women’s history, architecture, Civil & Revolutionary Wars, and an entire tour just dealing with Savannah's River Street. This broadbased understanding of the Low Country ultimately added to the richness of his ghost stories. In 1999, Scott became a part of the creative team responsible for the Fox Family Channel Hit, “Scariest Places On Earth” hosted by Linda Blair (The Exorcist) & narrated by Zelda Rubenstein (Poltergeist). He served as story researcher and produced a number of episodes for the Southeast. In 2002, he organized the first annual parapsychology conference for the country’s most recognized field research group, The American Institute of Parapsychology, and personally received the group’s highest honorarium of “America’s Most Haunted City”™ on behalf of the City of Savannah. He was further honored with being made Georgia Sectional Director of The A.I.P. The city’s receiving the honor became the largest worldwide news story to hit Savannah since the publishing success, Midnight In The Garden of Good and Evil. In 2005, “The New York Times” voted Sixth Sense Savannah as the only tour company among its “Top 10 Things To Do When In Savannah” A followup in 2007 from The New York Times” once more complimented his 2nd touring venture America’s Most Haunted City™ as its pick for a top shelf family driven tour. The same year, Scott sold documentary production rights to, America’s Most Haunted City - Part One and is slated for release in Fall of 2009. The 2 hour documentary represents over 10 years of research and film record. Shannon believes the story in the making as its the first time an insider has shared Savannah's stories with the outside world using such a medium. Scott served as Executive Producer, narrator, interviewer and on camera host.
2009 marked another pivotal year as Scott joined forces with writer Dr. Tony Chiorazzi and composer Edwin Brown in forming Bonaventure Film Studios. Brown composed the original soundtrack for America's Most Haunted City - Part One, while Chiorazzi is a major film studio screenplay author now living in Savannah. Together, Scott and Chiorazzi are on the verge of producing several projects, putting their first feature film into production called The Cemetery in Spring of 2010.
Savannah is the largest city in, and the county seat of, Chatham County, Georgia, USA. Savannah was established in 1733 and was the first colonial and state capital of Georgia. Each year Savannah attracts millions of visitors, who enjoy the city's architecture and historic buildings: the birthplace of Juliette Gordon Low (founder of the Girl Scouts of the United States of America), the Telfair Academy of Arts and Sciences (one of the South's first public museums), the First African Baptist Church (one of the oldest African American Baptist congregations in the United States), Temple Mickve Israel (the third-oldest synagogue in America), and the Central of Georgia Railway roundhouse complex (the oldest standing antebellum rail facility in America). Today Savannah's downtown area, which includes the Savannah Historic District, the Savannah Victorian Historic District and 21 parklike squares, is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States (designated by the U.S. government in 1966). Savannah was the host city for the sailing competitions during the 1996 Summer Olympics held in Atlanta, Georgia.
On February 12, 1733, General James Oglethorpe and his settlers landed at Yamacraw Bluff and were greeted by Tomo-Chi-Chi, the Yamacraws, and Indian traders John and Mary Musgrove. (Mary Musgrove often served as a translator.) The city of Savannah was founded on that date, along with the colony of Georgia. In 1751, Savannah and the rest of Georgia became a Royal Colony and Savannah was made the colonial capital of Georgia.
Savannah's architecture and history are internationally known, as is its reputation for Southern charm and hospitality; for example, the city's former promotional name was "Hostess City of the South," a phrase still used by the city government. Each year, Savannah attracts millions of visitors from across the country and around the world. Savannah's downtown area is one of the largest National Historic Landmark Districts in the United States.
The city's location offers visitors access to the coastal islands and the Savannah Riverfront, both popular tourist destinations. Tybee Island, formerly known as "Savannah Beach", is the site of the Tybee Island Light Station, the first lighthouse on the southern Atlantic coast. Other picturesque towns adjacent to Savannah include the shrimping village of Thunderbolt and two residential areas that began as summer resort communities for Savannahians: Beaulieu and Vernonburg.
The Savannah International Trade & Convention Center is located on Hutchinson Island, across from downtown Savannah and surrounded by the Savannah River. The Belles Ferry connects the island with the mainland, as does the Eugene Talmadge Memorial Bridge.
The Savannah Civic Center is located on Montgomery Street and is host to over 900 events each year, including the Memorial Health Hockey Classic.
Savannah's historic district has 21 squares (one other original square is now undergoing restoration). The squares vary in size and personality, from the formal fountain and monuments of the largest, Johnson, to the playgrounds of the smallest, Crawford. Elbert, Ellis, and Liberty Squares are classified as the "lost squares," destroyed in the course of urban development during the 1950s. Elbert and Liberty Squares were paved over to make way for a realignment of U.S. highway 17, while Ellis Square was demolished to build the City Market parking garage. Separate efforts are now under way to revive all three squares. The city has restored Ellis Square after razing the City Market parking garage. The garage has been rebuilt as an underground facility, the Whitaker Street Parking Garage, and it opened in January 2009. The newly restored Ellis Square is scheduled for completion at the end of 2009.
Historic churches and synagogues
Savannah is home to a number of historic houses of worship.
Founded in 1733, with the establishment of the Georgia colony, Christ Church is the longest continuous Christian congregation in Georgia. Early rectors include English evangelists John Wesley and George Whitefield. Located on the original site on Johnson Square, Christ Church continues as an active congregation.
The First Bryan Baptist Church is an African-American church that was organized by Andrew Bryan in 1788. The site was purchased in 1793 by Bryan, a former slave who had also purchased his freedom. The first structure was erected there in 1794. By 1800 the congregation was large enough to split: those at Bryan Street took the name of First African Baptist Church, and Second and Third African Baptist churches were also established. The current sanctuary of First Bryan Baptist Church was constructed in 1873.
In 1832, a controversy over doctrine caused the First African Baptist congregation at Bryan Street to split. Some members left, taking with them the name of First African Baptist Church. In 1859, the members of this new congregation (most of whom were slaves) built their current church building on Franklin Square.
The oldest standing house of worship is First Baptist Church, Savannah (1833), located on Chippewa Square. Also located near Chippewa Square is the Independent Presbyterian Church, which was founded in 1775.
Other historic houses of worship in Savannah include: Cathedral of St. John the Baptist, Temple Mickve Israel, and St. John's Church (Episcopal).
Historic haunted house
Sorrel Weed House
Green-Meldrim House
Among the historic homes that have been preserved are: the Pink House, Sorrel Weed House, Juliette Gordon Low's birthplace, Green-Meldrim House, Owens-Thomas House, William Scarbrough House, and Wormsloe plantation of Noble Jones. The Mercer-Williams House, former home of Jim Williams, is the main location of Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
Historic cemeteries
Colonial Park Cemetery (an early graveyard dating back to the English colony of Georgia), Laurel Grove Cemetery (with the graves of many Confederate soldiers and African American slaves) and Bonaventure Cemetery (a former plantation and the final resting place for some illustrious Savannahians).
Historic forts
* Fort Jackson — near the historic district
* Fort Pulaski National Monument — 17 miles east of Savannah via the Islands Expressway
Other registered historic sites
Forsyth Park
River Street
* Savannah Historic District and the Savannah Victorian Historic District
* Forsyth Park
* Juliette Gordon Low Historic District
* Central of Georgia Railroad: Savannah Shops and Terminal Facilities and Central of Georgia Depot and Trainshed — a 33.2-acre historic district that was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1978.
* Riverfront Plaza and Factors' Walk — River Street's restored nineteenth-century cotton warehouses and passageways include shops, bars and restaurants
* City Market — Savannah's restored central market features antiques, souvenirs, small eateries, as well as two large outdoor plazas
* Savannah State University campus and Walter Bernard Hill Hall — The Georgia Historical Commission and the Georgia Department of Natural Resources have recognized both the Savannah State campus and Hill Hall as a part of the Georgia Historical Marker Program. Hill Hall, which was built in 1901, was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 1981
* Telfair Museum of Art and Telfair Academy of Arts of Sciences — the South’s first public art museum.
* Ossabaw Island
Pinkie Masters Bar which has been the site of presidential visits and political aspiration. Pinkie Masters (a local political figure) was a friend of President Jimmy Carter, who made several visits to the bar and the city.
Club One — Home of The Lady Chablis made famous in the book and movie "Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil".
Saint Patrick's Day Celebrations — Annually Savannah holds celebrations in honor of Saint Patrick's Day. The actual parade route changes from year to year but usually travels through Savannah's Historic Park District and along Bay Street. The Savannah Waterfront Association has an annual celebration on Historic River Street that is reminiscent of Mardi Gras on Bourbon Street.
Oatland Island Education Center — facility owned and operated by the Board of Education, is a place to see animals that are or were found in this region.
Tybee Island — popular coastal city with public beaches and attractions.
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