In the summer of 2016, Joshua Marano was flying over the Gulf when he noticed a strange pattern in the waters below. Marano is a maritime archaeologist with the National Park Service, consulted some old nautical charts. He had expected to find the ruins of an old lighthouse or beacon, but what he discovered was…
The Haunted Sachs Bridge of Gettysburg
Sachs Bridge is located on Waterworks Road in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania. The bridge was constructed around 1854 by David S. Stoner and stretches 100 feet across Marsh Creek. While the bridge is a picturesque place to be in 2025, the haunted history mixed with the smell of death that occurred on these grounds in 1863 during…
The Ghosts of Lookout Mountain
Lookout Mountain in Chattanooga rises over 1,800 feet above the Tennessee landscape. The mountain played a significant role in the Civil War and is home to a unique weather phenomenon known as “The Battle Above the Clouds.” According to Alan Brown in his Unexplained South book, “three or four times a year, a cloud bank…
Is the Civil War Still Being Fought on This North Carolina Bridge
The Haunted South Queen Street Bridge over the Neuse River in Kinston, North Carolina, once called the Frederick Jones Bridge, was the site of a Civil War skirmish in 1862, when Confederate soldiers burned it as a last-ditch effort to prevent the burning of a more significant bridge in Goldsboro and to keep the Union…
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow Lane of Union County
The name Sleepy Hollow is enough to strike fear into anyone, but adding an alleged ghost story takes it up a few notches. Legend says a man met his demise during the Civil War in the area, and now he haunts the roadway with a missing arm. Late at night, his apparition emerges, crying out…