(Image credit: Olga Kaya/Getty Images) (opens in new tab) Francis' wife, Matilda Sorrel, allegedly jumped to her death when she discovered her husband’s infidelity - but historical researchers point out that by the time of her reported suicide in a "moment of lunacy," the Sorrel family had moved out to another property next door. The most famous haunted house in Savannah may be the Sorrel-Weed House, which appeared in the opening shots of the 1994 film "Forrest Gump," directed by Robert Zemeckis The Sorrel-Weed house is said to be haunted by at least two vengeful ghosts: the wife and the rival lover of shipping merchant Francis Sorrel, who built the house in the 1840s.
These strange encounters included furniture moving around and doors locking themselves. Since then, no fewer than 26 families who have lived in the house have complained of various ghostly goings-on that forced them to move out. Savannah's Hampton Lillybridge House was built in 1797 and was relocated to its current location several years later - despite the discovery of a mysterious crypt beneath the new property, which has never been opened. Her ghost is said to haunt the life-size statue that stands over her grave, which like several other funereal statues in the cemetery are sometimes said to move as if they were alive, while the sounds of children playing or crying is sometimes heard nearby. Among the cemetery's resident ghosts is that of Gracie Watson, a 6-year-old who died of pneumonia in 1889. Home to dozens of celebrated haunted houses and hundreds of ghost sightings, Savannah is often called "the most haunted city in the United States" - especially by its many ghost tour operators, who often begin with a visit to the city's historic Bonaventure Cemetery, a tangle of stone tombs, eerie statues and spooky trees laced with Spanish moss. (Image credit: Sandy Auriene Sullivan) (opens in new tab) The widespread newspaper coverage prompted several schools in the Delaware Valley to close and workers to stay home, while vigilante groups roamed the countryside in search of the beast. The largest spate of sightings came in 1909, when newspapers published hundreds of claims by people who said they'd encountered the "Jersey Devil" in several parts of South Jersey and in Philadelphia. In the 1840s, the creature was blamed for attacks on livestock that were accompanied by bloodcurdling screams, and it began to be spotted regularly in the area.
It was supposedly seen by Joseph Bonaparte, the brother of Napoleon Bonaparte and the former king of Spain, who had built a mansion in the Pine Barrens, where he lived after his exile in 1813. According to the legend, the baby was born with leathery wings, a goat's head and hooves it reportedly flew up the chimney of the room, where it was born and has been killing livestock in the region ever since.īy the late 1700s, what was then known as the "Leeds Devil" had become a popular ghost story in the southern New Jersey area, and by the 19th century, it had grown into a local legend. According to the State of New Jersey (opens in new tab), the creature was born in 1735 as the 13th child of Deborah Leeds, the wife of a rival of Benjamin Franklin (who may have contributed to the tale) some versions of the story say she was a witch and that the father of the child was a devil himself. One of the most famous supernatural stories of the Pine Barrens is the tale of the Jersey Devil. William Kidd, who frequented New Jersey's Barnegat Bay, has sometimes been seen there, and a ghostly black dog is said to roam the beaches and the forests of the coast. The remains of several "ghost towns," as well as more than a few ghost stories, survive. But its prosperity and population declined sharply when coal was discovered in nearby Pennsylvania and people moved there instead. The vast forested region now known as the New Jersey Pine Barrens thrived in the colonial period, when it was home to several saw mills, paper mills and towns for the people who worked in them. (Image credit: Shutterstock) (opens in new tab) This 3D rendering shows what the mythical Jersey Devil supposedly looked like, with hoofed feet, horns and bat wings.
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