![]() PLUS no one was staying in the rooms down that hallway except us. At first I thought it was just someone’s loud footsteps, but the time between each “bounce” on the floor was too long and drawn out to be footsteps. It went up and down the hallway past our door twice. At 5 AM, I was woken by the sound of a bouncing ball outside our door in the hallway. The first night of our stay it was dead silent (no pun intended). The smell came and went rapidly and we couldn’t figure out a source. It was as if someone had blown out a lantern or birthday candles in our room. The second random aroma my mom and I experienced, we were sitting in the room relaxing when out of nowhere we smelled the scent of a just-blown-out candle. I wonder if that was the same scent we smelled in room 222. The only way the smell was removed was by playing gospel music in the rooms for a period of time. In the book Haunted Savannah, James Caskey writes about rooms 214, 314, and 414 having a strange odor that the hotel tried desperately to get rid of. The hallway where our room was located and where I heard ghostly sounds. We couldn’t pinpoint it and researching online others have complained about this smell during their stay, yet there seems to be no explanation. It honestly reminded me of the smell cancer patients have in their end days (I am a nurse and this smell is pretty easy to identify). First, our room, located in the interior of the building, greeted us with a sickeningly sweet odor. ![]() Yes, we believe we were smelling otherworldly smells. Multiple times during our stay, my mom and I had clairsalient moments (clairsalient means clear smelling). ![]() Some said it was from amputations during the Civil War, yet others claim there was no proof this actually happened. In 1990 after being vacant for some years, the hotel was renovated and legend has it that body parts were found in the floorboards. It has a sad history – it was used as a hospital during the Civil War, as well as twice for yellow fever epidemics that ravaged the city. The Marshall House was built by Mary Marshall in the mid eighteen hundreds on property given to her by her father. The Marshall House Hotel in Historic District Savannah The Marshall House Ghostsīeing that we were going to be in the most haunted city in America, we decided to stay in one of Savannah’s most haunted locations – The Marshall House Hotel. Many theories abound as to why Savannah is so haunted. So is it the restless souls of the dead whose graves are covered by buildings and long-since forgotten that haunt the city? Or is it the sorrowful souls of the slaves brought to Savannah on ships and through tunnels? It could also be due to the “Native American burial ground” that people claim also existed there before the settlers ever came. Don’t forget there were wars fought here (Revolutionary and Civil), as well as two decimating yellow fever epidemics that killed hundreds of people at a time. One that I won’t get too much into here, but suffice to say, I cried more than once during our visit learning about the heinous treatment of our African predecessors. In addition to building over top the dead, Savannah has a sad, intense history of slavery. So they left them and built homes, businesses and roads on top of them! Historical marker This is because the people believed yellow fever (which caused much death in the city back in the day) was contagious and if they moved the dead, they might stir it back up. You might wonder why they didn’t move the graves. They even say the unevenness in the sidewalks is caused by disintegrating graves underneath. The historic district was literally built over graves that were once a part of Colonial Park Cemetery. This statement seems dramatic, but it’s actually true. Savannah is called the “City Built Upon Her Dead”. Savannah locals are dead-serious (pun intended) when they say their city is most definitely haunted. I expected to get creeped out a bit but I wasn’t expecting to have such blatant brushes with Savannah’s restless ghosts. And me being a witch, of course I was interested because of Savannah’s history and Conjure roots. My mom is a ghost hunter, so this was right up her alley. This year we decided to visit Savannah, GA, the most haunted city in America. Every year my mom and I take a mother-daughter trip to somewhere new.
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