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Haunted Haunts and Jaunts in Memphis

All Hallows Eve is upon us! The weather forcast bodes well for scaring up a weekend full of Halloween fun! Whether your looking for Casper the Friendly Ghost type fun or searching for some authentic Memphis Ghost Busting, we've got just the information you need!

Click the link and it will lead you to information from Zoo Boo to Elmwood Cemetery for great Memphis Halloween happenings!

Curious to know about some of Memphis's most ghostly residents?In addition to its usual Graceland and Sun/Stax tours, Backbeat Tours offers a "Walking Ghost Tour" of Downtown Memphis and its spooky inhabitants.  Memphis-MidSouth Ghost Hunters  lists our most popular paranormal personalities below:

Brinkley Female College

Demolished in 1972, this prestigious women's school located on Fifth Street was the site of Memphis' greatest ghost story involving buried treasure and a ghost child. In 1871, while practicing her music scales, a thirteen-year-old student at the school named Clara Robertson reported seeing the ghost of a young girl wearing a moldy pink dress. The apparition was later identified by local residents as Lizzie Davis who had died a decade earlier and had been buried in her favorite pink dress. Soon Lizzie reappeared to Clara and told her to dig under a stump on the property to recover a buried jar of valuables. Clara's father joined in the search, and a jar was discovered exactly where Lizzie had indicated. After Memphis newspapers reported the story, curiousity seekers clamored to see the contents of the mysterious jar. However, Lizzie appeared one week later and told Clara to wait sixty days before opening the jar publicly. Soon afterwards, Clara's father was beaten by a group of men who stole the jar which he had hidden at the end of a rope hanging from the seat of the family outhouse. The guilty parties were never captured, and the jar and its contents were never recovered. Reportedly Clara never saw Lizzie again, but later made contact with her during a seance in which Lizzie revealed that the jar contained $2,000 in gold coins, a diamond necklace, more jewelry and some valuable papers.

Libertyland

This ghost story involves a very kind man who once operated the carousel in this park. When a child's balloon flew into the carousel one day, the man offered to retrieve it, but reportedly fell into the mechanism and was decapitated. It is said the man now roams around the amusement park occasionally making his presence known.

Orpheum Theatre

According to theater legends, this grand building is haunted by the ghost of a small girl known as "Mary". She was reportedly struck and killed by a streetcar on Beale Street and somehow her spirit found refuge in the nearby Orpheum Theatre.

Overton Park Lake

In the late 1960's, the body of a woman dressed in a blue dress was found in a shallow lake in this park. She had been raped and stabbed. A woman in a blue dress has reportedly been spotted walking along the south side of the lake. She reaches out her arm as if looking for help, but if anyone approaches her, she vanishes.

Woodruff-Fontaine House

Molly Woodruff reportedly still haunts her bedroom now known as the "Rose Room". She is seen wandering through the house and frequently leaves impressions in bed covers. Once she appeared at the museum on opening day to let a docent know they had set the bed in the wrong spot. On the third floor of the mansion, many witnesses report smelling cigar smoke from a yet unidentified visitor.

Wishing you a fun-filled, safe weekend that's "trick" free!