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13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer
Monday, October 15th, 2012, 10:13am
13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 


Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

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13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Submitted by Donna Wallace-King, Community Web Producer
Wednesday, September 26th, 2012, 11:13am
13 Ghostly events to celebrate Alabama's haunted history

Visitors can experience Alabama’s haunted history in October with ghost trails, story-telling festivals and ghost walks.

A variety of events and trails pay homage to the state’s ghostly history including a rare moonlit tour of the famous ghost town Old Cahawba where paranormal investigators will showcase their ghost hunting equipment. In Montgomery a mortician will take you on a tour of Oakwood Cemetery in a hearse. The Black Belt Ghost Trail showcases dozens of haunted sites that include homes, restaurants, cemeteries and Civil War sites.

The Alabama Tourism Department offers the following list of 13 ghostly events taking place this month across the state.
 


Athens
7th Annual “Historic Haunts Walk” — Oct. 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
 

This annual Historic Haunts Walk, held each Tuesday night in October, begins at the Athens Visitors Center and includes tales of paranormal activity at 13 local structures.

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Man flees crash on foot, found injured

Submitted by John Shryock
Monday, July 11th, 2011, 5:25pm

ENTERPRISE, AL (WSFA) - The Enterprise Police Department is working on odd case following a one-vehicle crash over the weekend.

On Satursday, July 9, officers were called to a crash in the 300 block of Geneva Highway where witnesses said a 1996 Dodge Dakota had struck a tree.

When officers arrived on the scene, the driver, identified only as a 21-year-old male, was no where to be found.

Witnesses on the scene say the man fled on foot after crashing the truck into a tree.

A short time later officers found the man a short distance away with injuries sustained from the crash. The driver was transported by the Enterprise Rescue Squad to Medical Center Enterprise. 

The accident is still under investigation. 

 

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Notes from a paranormal investigation into the Rawls Hotel in Enterprise

Submitted by Tom Ensey, Web news producer
Monday, October 18th, 2010, 8:49am

The Rawls Hotel in Enterprise has long had a reputation for being infested with ghosts. Those yarns started during World War I. Shawn Sellers, a Montgomery man who investigates haunting and other paranormal events, had often heard stories about the Rawls when he would travel to Enterprise to hold meetings at the Wiregrass Shrine Club.

He loved to get the old Shriners telling ghost stories about the building. Sellers is the founder of Southern Paranormal Research, and conducted an investigation of the hotel, coming away with some intriguing evidence that indeed, some strange things were going on in the old building.

 He and his team of researchers will be conducting another investigation into the goings-on at the Rawls on Oct.

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