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The spirits have earned Rugby inclusion in such books as the 1994 "Haunted Places: The National Directory.09-06 Asheville, NC - Grey Eagle 09-07 Athens, GA - Georgia Theatre 09-09 Washington, D.C. Ghosts who snore, ghosts who weep and ghosts who might appear by a visitor's bedside are part of Rugby legends. Several original buildings have been reported as haunted. The crying woman of Historic Rugbyįounded in October 1880 as a Utopian experiment, Historic Rugby remains an Victorian village on the Cumberland Plateau. One group saw a hearse drawn by four black horses circle the house. A 1979 News Sentinel article chronicled some of their experiences. While the house was empty, people chanced spending the night there. (The Association for the Preservation of Tennessee Antiquities rescued the limestone home in 1952 and restored it.)
In the early 20th century, the house stood open and abandoned.
Ghost stories have surrounded the 1797 Ramsey House at 2614 Thorngrove Pike for years. A Revolutionary War soldier walking by a downstairs window. For years, the story is that his ghostly body could be sometimes seen, still swinging from his tree gallows.Ī woman dressed in black staring from an upstairs window. 4, 1865, and hanged him from a tree near downtown's current Walnut Street-Hill Avenue intersection.Ībner's body was buried in the First Presbyterian Church cemetery but, according to the legend, his spirit roamed. Abner was arrested, but a mob took him from Knoxville's jail on Sept. They shot through the door and killed him.Īfter the war Abner Baker killed the man he thought responsible for his father's death. Baker barricaded himself in an upstairs bedroom. When Union soldiers came to his home, Dr. He treated wounded Rebels his son was fighting for the South. Baker was rumored to have Confederate sympathies. Harvey Baker, who was killed in a second-floor bedroom. The legend is that the ghost is Abner Baker.
Unexplained noises at Baker-Peters HouseĬould a Civil War Confederate's ghost haunt his family's home? That's long been the tale of the Baker-Peters House, 9000 Peters Road in West Knoxville. His ghost has been seen at Nashville's Ryman Auditorium, the ex-home of the Grand Ole Opry, and its neighboring Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge. Through the years stories have been told of Williams' spirit walking the building's halls. Some theorized Williams died at the Andrew Johnson and that was his body that was carried out. The ruling was he'd died in the car's backseat.īut legends grow around legends. Hours later, he was declared dead in Oak Hill, West Virginia. He was carried to the car and placed in the back seat. A few hours after he checked in, Williams left. At some point a Knoxville doctor gave the 29-year-old singer two shots of morphine and vitamin B-12. Williams was headed to a Canton, Ohio, appearance. His chauffeur drove the singer in his blue Cadillac convertible to the hotel New Year's Eve 1952. hotel, now the Andrew Johnson Building and Knox County Schools' headquarters. Williams spent some of his last hours at the 912 S.