Savannah Terrors

12. Marshall House

Savannah, GA

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The Marshall house is Savannah's oldest hotel, built in 1851 and owned by Mary Marshall. But from 1864 to 1865, it was occupied by union forces under General Sherman and served as a union hospital until the end of the Civil War. In 2007 and 2008 the hotel underwent a complete renovation. When workers were performing structural checks in the crawlspace, they kept touching hard objects they thought were rocks, which they simply tossed aside as they made their way through the crawl space. But when they used their flashlights to identify what it was that they had been bumping into, they discovered that the rocks were actually bones from the amputated arms and legs of Union soldiers. In the Civil War, amputation was a common medical practice given to any wound on an extremity. Limbs were often simply tossed out of windows and piled up. At the Marshall House, they were discarded under the house in the crawl space. What's more, others claim that Civil War soldiers haunt the hotel. Apparitions are seen searching for lost limbs and painful, agonizing screams can be heard coming from rooms that, when investigated, are vacant. During the renovation, one of the workers was walking through the hotel late at night and felt a strong tug on his belt. When he turned around, he heard a voice proclaim, "Point your cannons to the east!" Before the hotel reopened in 2008, officials from the hotel stayed there for a meeting. One woman brought her daughter to stay in the hotel with her. The little girl ran out of the shower with a bite mark on her stomach and said that a little boy had tried to bite her in the shower. There are some rooms reported by workers to be haunted by harmful ghosts that they try to avoid. Some even claim that Gracie Watson makes occasional visits to the house, in search of attention.