Hauntings Of:

Alabama

1. Birmingham, Alabama: The Sloss Furnace- In the early 1900's there was a foreman named James "Slag" Wormwood who worked the grave yard shift and was over a crew of 150 men. Slag was known to be a cruel man to the crew, ordering them to take dangerous risks to speed up production. While Slag was in charge, 47 men lost their lives. In 1906 Slag fell into a pool of melted iron and died. Some say that the spirits of his old crew got their revenge and pushed him to his death. There have been over 100 reports of ghostly workers, and even the apparition of Slag himself, telling people to get back to work.

2. Huntsville, Alabama: Maple Hill Cemetery- In the middle of the largest and oldest cemetery in Alabama is a place called the Dead Children's Playground. In the 1960's several children's bodies were found in the playground area of the cemetery, so legend says. To this day people report swings moving, and the sounds of children laughing.

3. Gulf Shores, Alabama: Fort Morgan- In the early 1900's a prisoner in the fort hung himself. Reports claim that you can hear the man crying out. Sometime in the 19th century a woman was drug into the fort and was beaten and murdered.

4. Irondale, Alabama: Bass cemetery- This cemetery is over 200 years old with the bodies of slaves and civil war soldiers buried beneath the ground. The cemetery even has an open tomb with a body missing from it.

5. Demopolis, Alabama: Gaineswood Plantation Home- The owner of the plantation was Nathan Whitfield. His first wife died in 1846. Nathan then hired a women to look after his children. However, after a long drawn out illness she passed away. Prior to her death she asked that she be buried back in her hometown in Virginia, however she had died in the winter months so Nathan placed her body in a makeshift coffin underneath his house. And although her body left the plantation her spirit stayed.