
Lindsay Morgan Building
In Wright Square, across from the Lindsay Morgan Building, is Tomochichi's
grave and monument. That is also the site of the old public gallows.
Where did they bury people after they hung them? Right across
the street, at the first burial grounds in Savannah, right under the the entire
block where the Lindsay Morgan Building is now located. Over the years the
main floor has been occupied by commercial businesses, the second floor by condos
and an art studio, but the 3rd and 4th floors have almost consistently been vacant.
The owner stopped trying to rent them out because everybody who moved in there broke
the lease in a few weeks time.
Several tenants have heard strange noises from the lower floors late at night when
no one was on the premises. They have also heard someone come up the stairs,
stop at their door and slowly turn the handle. But no one has ever been there,
and when one tenant hurriedly left the building and called the police, the police
performed a thorough search and also found no one there. Those tenants moved
out the same night.
In the center of the same block, is the York Lane Theatre - also a haunted building
built above the old cemetery. One time there was a play going on there, and suddenly
the actors stopped because they noticed some people dressed in Civil War uniforms wandering around the
stage. And while they stared at them, they disappeared.
A tenant on the main floor the Lindsay Morgan Building owned and operated a glass
shop. It seems she had a poltergeist that was mischievous and actually broke
quite a few pieces, but she put up with the antics feeling he was part of the building.
She decided to move her store to Jacksonville, FL. She wrapped everything,
set it in straw and crated it, then she nailed the lids on the crates and loaded
her van. She had an uneventful trip until she arrived at her new location
in Jacksonville. She had a bad feeling and at the same time the locks on the
doors of the van would not open. No matter how many times she tried, they
would not open. She had an overwhelming feeling of dread so she immediately
drove all the way back to the Savannah store. When she pulled up in front,
all the locks popped open. She took the last crate she had loaded back inside
and her bad feeling went away. She felt she had inadvertently boxed up
her poltergeist and he wanted to return to his haunt.
The next tenants, not knowing about the glass business situation, had experienced
so much paranormal activity that investigators were called in to research.
They set up their equipment and staked it out for an entire night.
Not only did their equipment register paranormal activity, but their recorders
picked up the conversation of a child ghost.
One day a parapsychologist entered
the store (for the first time in her life) and immediately went straight to the very back where a charcoal drawing
of a man from
the mid 1800's was hanging. Not knowing the owners or workers
she still immediately told them that the man was looking after them and as long
as he was there they were safe. The owner took the price tag off the picture
and put a 'not for sale' sign on it. When the business closed for good at
the end of 2006, she took the framed drawing home with her and it remains hanging
in her home, never to be sold.
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