Most Haunted Places In Augusta, Georgia To Visit

Following are the most haunted places in Augusta, Georgia, where history and hauntings are entwined beneath the shadow of moss-draped oaks. These ghostly locations, steeped in voodoo, pirates, and tragedy, are said to echo with whispers from beyond, stirring in the humid night air.

Augusta State University

: "Augusta State University was a civil war headquarters and behind the Admissions office (a converted antebellum mansion) there is a small cemetery of the Walker family and there have been sightings of a man dressed in a confederate uniform walking across the campus and disappearing into the cemetery."


Augusta State University

: "Bellevue Hall - The ghost of Emily Galt is said to haunt the building. Emily etched her name ("Emily Galt, 1816") in the glass of one of the windows before her fiance left and was killed, in the Civil War. Finding out her betrothed was dead; she threw herself out of one of the upper windows, and died. It''s said at night you can hear the two lovers arguing over whether or not he should go off to battle. Phones and TVs mysteriously go haywire. The widow still exists and is in storage at the university."


Augusta State University

: "Benet House - Footsteps upstairs, strange sights in mirrors and the sounds of rocking chairs and doors slamming by themselves."


Partridge Inn

: "People have witnessed the ghost of a young girl in a 1800s style wedding dress. They say a young girl (named Emily) died there of a broken heart, after her fiance was killed."


Pendleton King Park

: "Small cemetery in the park belongs to the Bugg family. The park is the former site of the Bugg Plantation, purchased pre-1842 by Judge John P. King and donated to the city by his son, Henry King, upon his death. Reports have been made for years involving a white figure that darts in and out of the trees surrounding the brick walled cemetery, and in and out of the cemetery itself. There are also tales of a Camellia bush that grew beside the old mansion (now burned down), it would bloom profusely in warning of the coming death of one of the King family."


The Pillar

: "There is a round pillar that stands about eight feet tall on a corner of Broad street in downtown Augusta that is said to be the remains of the old slave market from years ago. On several occasions, this pillar is scheduled to be removed for development, but on each occasion the person who was supposed to remove it died unexpectedly. A few years ago a driver lost control of his car and bumped into the pillar. He was dead in his car when the police arrived, but the accident was not life threatening. It is said that a slave put a curse on the pillar to which he was tied as he was being sold. For whatever reason, the pillar still stands alone with nothing else around it on the corner of Broad Street."