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Adamsville - Bottenfield Middle School - The ghost of a young man has been seen by several in the band and choir wing of the school. He appears at any hour and then vanishes just as quickly.

Adamsville - Indian Meadows - The community of Indian Meadows and its sister community Shady Grove, both built over an ancient Cherokee indian burial ground, have had several haunting's reported over the last two decades. At night, dark figures have been seen scurrying about in the woods on the outskirts of the neighborhoods. Some brave souls who dare walk the streets at night say they can feel or even hear someone following them but turn around to find that no on is there. People have reported hearing scratching noises outside their houses late at night. One man heard a scratching sound on his front porch late at night, and every time he turned on the porch light to investigate, nothing was there, but the next morning he found claw marks down the banister of the porch. Some see the shadows of people (possibly the spirits of the restless indians) rushing past their windows at night but investigate to find no one outside. In several homes, people have reported hearing footsteps late at night in hallways or on stairs, doors slamming shut by themselves, voices calling out their names, electrical equipment going on and off by itself, and even the sound of someone or something running through the house. In one house, the face of a crying man appeared on several of the doors in the house all at once. Try walking the streets of Indian Meadows or Shady Grove at night and you just night have your own creepy experience.

Alabaster - Old Buck Creek Cotton Mill - this is a old cotton mill opened in 1896.the mill is in bad shape but you can still get in. there is blood spots in some rooms, cold spots and some very scary noise.

Albertville - Albertville Public Library - Some of the workers say that the elevator will go up and down by itself, hearing the water running in the bathroom & it stops when they look to see where it is coming from. They say that the library was built over a house that was tore down in the early 1900's and that the people who lived there are mad about their house being tore down so they haunt the library. Most of the things happen early in the morning when the first person comes to work all alone.

Albertville - off Highway 431 - Believed to be haunted by one of the first owners. He died while plowing his garden with a tractor it overturned on him and killed him. Soon afterwards the man?s wife started hearing banging noises, so she moved and sold the house. The next owners had the same things had happened and they left the house in the night with all of there belongings still inside. When the house was empty neighbors would see lights come on at night and no one was there. The house has been on the market for quiet some time, the price was reduced by 20,000 dollars, when it is bought, and no one will live there longer than a month.

Albertville - Main Street Strip - At night you can foot steps of people walking and hear voices. In the early 1900's a tornado ripped through town and killed many people on what is now The Main Street Strip. People with businesses on the street have said that sometimes in the summer they can go out side and then they would feel a sudden coldness. They also heard people screaming at night at the street would be empty.

Andalusia - Prestwood Bridge - When you stop on the bridge and turn your lights, off and someone will come to you car and bang on it. they will mess you car up bad so don't do it.

Anniston - Blockbuster - The store was robbed and 2 of the employees were killed the killer was caught but the store closed down and has remained standing. Many years before the Blockbuster incident the land on which the building sets was occupied by a gas station. In the late 1960's, a woman was brutally beaten, raped and murdered there. On the far right hand side is where her body was found. The murderer, on the other hand, never was. If you walk to the right side of the building which is were the killer supposedly exited the building you can feel the energy of the spirits it is in the form of like cold wind. - February 2005 Update: the building was partially torn down and remodeled. it is currently a doctor's office. the families of the men who were killed have left four crosses in the front of the building as a memorial.

Anniston - Parker Memorial - Haunting's of a nun who killed herself by hanging herself in the main hallway. It has been known to still hear her kicking the chair out from under her feet and hearing the choking sounds late at night. The rope has been seen numerous times by many other churchgoers.

Anniston - Stringfellow Memorial Hospital - The founder of the hospital Mary Stringfellow was an old organ player. The nurses say that if you are working the 3rd shift you can hear the organ being played in the chapel. But no one is there if you go and look. The other haunting is the story of a man committing suicide in one of the rooms by shooting himself in the head with a shotgun. Patients have said on numerous occasions that they can see the body of a headless man with blood on the wall in the corner of that room.

Anniston - The Victoria - The Victoria was once a beautiful mansion. It's been adapted into a restaurant/hotel. Reports of the piano being played and footsteps in the main part of the building have scared more than a few visitors. Sometimes the glasses hanging in the bar clink, and a woman has been spotted on the upstairs landing.

Ash Land - Clairmont Springs Hotel - built over an Indian burial ground. Back in 1972, a train hit a six-year-old girl across the street. Every night at midnight, trains go by every five seconds, and in the hotel ghost roam around, and they say you can hear her running through the halls.

Ashland - Hudson house - It's an old house in the middle of nowhere. It is said to be haunted by a lot of ghosts. When you walk around the house you can hear voices and footsteps and you can even hear dogs panting. If you stand in front of the house you can feel someone tap you on the shoulder. There is even a creepy dark figure that runs on top of the roof.

Ashville - Engle Mountain - Two tall structures have been seen walking the midst of Engle Mountain with . Residents of the area have reported hearing shotguns going off in the night between 12:00 and 2:00A.M.. It is often said that residents around the area have computers that turn on and off in the night with ghostly looking images popping up all over the screen ....LOCK YOUR DOORS

Ashville - Pine Dale Shores - After you turn down the road you?ll see a house in the distance if you honk your horn and flash your lights a outside light will come on but the house has no power going to it

Athens - Athens State College - During the Civil War, A mysterious lady in a flowing lace dress was looking out her window when confederates bombed the place. She was so frantic; she took a one last look at her room on the very top floor, and jumped out the window. She hit an open window, splattering blood down the wall of the (what is now) college. Every Monday morning at exactly nine o'clock, you can see the horrific scene in a ghostly, transparent sort of way. Every other day of the week, you see her, standing there, looking out her window.

Atalla - Atalla Wood Bridge - Some people say that a school bus full a kids fell of the bridge and went into the lake for years people say that if you go there at night just put your front wheels on the bridge on the right side of the bridge and then put your car into neutral the children of the school bus accident will push you across so that you don't fall off.

Athens - Athens State College - McCandles Hall - Is supposedly haunted by a girl in a white dress who died in McCandles Hall. Is also supposedly haunted by Madame Childs, who haunts the young women who stay out past curfew.

Auburn - old train depot - Near auburn there is an old abandon train depot. It is said that if you go in there, no matter where you go, you always come back to the spot where you came in. The building is old so enter at your own risk. - and as always, make sure you are not trespassing, many of the places listed are patrolled by police.

Auburn - University Chapel - Haunted by a Confederate soldier

Bankhead Forrest - Lawrence & Winston CO. - A woman by the name of Aunt Jeannie Johnson lived way out there in the forest. She used a skull to do her dishes in. and she would hang trespassers on an old oak tree outside her house. Her house is partly fallen in but the rope is still hanging from the oak tree. She is buried in a family graveyard close to the home. it is said strange things happen around her house at night especially on full moon nights and stormy nights.

Birmingham - Banks Middle School - on 6th grade section in the girls bathroom on Halloween you can hear doors slamming shut while you are in class.

Bay Minette - Old public library - Was site of old city hall/morgue in early 1900's. Faces seen peering out windows, figures seen moving about, books moving by themselves.

Bayview - Bayview Bridge - It is said that a woman has been seen walking across the bridge in her wedding dress. She ran away from her wedding and when she was crossing the bridge her car ran off the bridge.

Bayview/Birmingham - Mulga - Village Falls Cemetery - There have been sightings of ghostly figures hanging from the tree. Witnesses have encountered many odd feelings of something being around. The streetlights often come off and on one by one that are surrounding the cemetery.

Bayview/Jefferson - Mulga - Bayview Bridge - Reports of a ghostly looking white dress floating in the water.

Bayou La Batre - Bayou La Batre Jail - Late at night while everyone is quiet and still, a ghostly figure can be seen leaving the cell in the middle of the jail. Also, you can hear the toilet flushing, even though no one is ever put in that cell. The legend has it that the cell served as a "drunk tank" and the cops hung a man there in the early 1980s.

Bayou La Batre - Gwodz Rd. - In the early 1930s and 40s, some members of the KKK in Bayou La Batre hung some local black folks for reasons unknown. Until this day they come back on certain nights. When you stop under the noose and turn off the vehicle and lights, and wait till you can hear scratches on top of the car, it will also shake. Also you will hear screaming and sometimes laughter.....

Bellville - Bush Upton's House - used to be a Civil War Hospital. Reports of Ghosts of soldiers throwing things at windows and breaking them.

Birmingham - Banks Middle School - on 6th grade section in the girls bathroom on Halloween you can hear doors slamming shut while you are in class. also 10 to 15 years ago a teacher killed herself by jumping off the airplane that sits on top of the building. it is said that a disruptive student drove her crazy. also on Halloween the intercom will just click on.

Birmingham - Bass Cemetery - The cemetery is just over 200 years old and is the final resting places of many Civil War soldiers and deceased slaves. There have also been reports of Occult happenings there. Along with these reports came various accounts of animal corpses around the cemetery. One Crypt there has been located and the body removed. Apparitions have been seen, feeling of being followed and strange screams heard.

Birmingham - Old Public Library - They say that in the library people see the man that first opened the building and that there are strange feelings and things being moved.

Birmingham - Parkwood Apartments on 4th Ave South in Birmingham - At the apartments they say that there was a horrible homicide in the 1970's and that every year in January on the anniversary of the murders that blood appears to ooze from the upstairs foyer, the stench of burning human flesh is pungent, and one woman even reported feeling fingers caress her neck and bosom. Many believe the apparition to be that of the murderer; he was never found.

Birmingham - Sicard Hollow Road - Just Drive up and down it at night and you will feel the energy. Part of the original Alabama interstate highway over 100 years ago.

Birmingham - Sloss Furnace - Old Iron Plant, now a popular location for concerts, the ghost of a worker who was killed at the plant has been seen walking around the catwalks above the main floor, where the concerts are held.

Bonneville - Owsley County Elementary School- A girl was killed by another student in the gym and she still runs up and down the gym bleachers and also haunts the bathrooms and can be seen in the mirror after school hours and in the girls locker room which they do not use no more on the count of weird things and deaths of other students .

Boulder - Court House - It's been rumored that ghosts have been sighted walking around the courthouse grounds at night. These ghosts are said to have been the hanging victims of the death sentence carried out in the 1800's.

Brewton - County Court House - a gray orb showed up by the window of the judges office .

Camax - Mill Bridge - A very old bridge, one lane, steel overhead, located on the Country Club road north of Jasper, Al. Has been haunted by the ghost of Moon Mullins for years. Several people over the years have reported seeing and hearing strange noises and apparitions on the bridge and Black Water Creek banks nearby since Moon Died on the bridge, under strange circumstances around 75 years ago.

Camp Hill - Loveladies Bridge - 20 years ago, A woman and her baby had a car accident on a Bridge. Both died. It is said that if you go to the middle of the bridge at night and say "Lovelady Lovelady I got your baby" 3 times she will appear on the other end of the bridge and walk toward you looking for her baby.

Cardiff - Cardiff cemetery - the older people from the area say that it is where the dead look for their love ones. On Friday 13 you can drive up in the graveyard and your car dies and you can't start it for about five min.

Carleton - Mount Nebo & The Boardwalk - This is an old cemetery and right up the road is the boardwalk. In the cemetery there are headstones with faces on them and the faces will change to a smile or mad face and they move. If you go to the cemetery if the light on back of the old church isn't on then you won't see anything. On down the road a little ways is the boardwalk (6" wide boards on stilts that stretch a mile over swamp about 30ft high) when you walk through the across you get the feeling someone is around you it makes your hair stand up. You'll hear this sound of a kid screaming they say a kid got lost in the swamp during civil war times and died there.

Carrollton - Pickens County Courthouse - The original courthouse burned down, and everyone blamed Henry Wells, a rowdy black man who lived out in the county. He was arrested and locked in the attic of the new courthouse. As a thunderstorm was rolling in, a mob gathered outside demanding that Wells be turned over to them. As Wells peered out of the garret window at the mob outside thirsty for his blood, a lightning bolt struck the window, killing Henry Wells. From the strong electrical discharge, Wells' face was etched into the glass. No amount of cleaning has been able to remove the face from the pane of glass. It is still there today at the Pickens County Courthouse.

Clanton - Bridge in Refuge - There?s this bridge in a place called refuge its a little one-lane bridge in the middle of nowhere if you go there at night you can hear strange sounds and see balls of light some people have said that when you get out of your car you can hear and feel someone walking right next to you and feel a menacing presence lots of people have seen fog chasing them and there?s one area that no trees grow and everything looks dead people has reported that their cars will start rocking and being chased by an unknown entity and you can feel and evil presence on some nights.