Donna L. Marsh has always loved a good ghost story. Growing up in Maysville, Kentucky, she cleaned the local library out of every book she could find by the age of 10. When the family moved to her father’s birthplace of Cookeville, Tennessee, in the mid-1970s, that love went with her. She found the library and started over on a new set of books. A single mother, Marsh resides in Nashville with her younger son, a talented musician who plays nine instruments, and the Hounds of Hell, a weimaraner with ADHD and one diva of a Pembroke Welsh corgi. Her older son, a board-game enthusiast and self-proclaimed pop-culture guru, attends graduate school on the West Coast. Marsh spends her days writing a column about ghosts and hauntings and her nights investigating them with the American Paranormal Society, a group she helped found in 2003. This is Jeff Morris’s third book. His first two, Haunted Cincinnati and Southwest Ohio and Cincinnati Haunted Handbook, were both about his hometown of Cincinnati, where he lives with his wife and two children. Morris founded a ghost tour in Miamitown, Ohio, in 2006 and still runs it to this day. Garett Merk is the founder of the Tri-State Paranormal and Oddities Observation Practitioners, a paranormal study group based in Cincinnati, Ohio. Having an interest in ghosts since 2004, Merk has combined his knowledge of science with his passion for travel and technology to learn about paranormal activities around the world.

Acknowledgments

Foreword

Introduction

SECTION I, Cemeteries

• Blue Spring Cemetery
• Cedar Grove Cemetery
• Dyer Cemetery
• Evergreen Cemetery
• Forest Lawn Memorial Gardens
• Grave of Granny White
• Hendersonville Memory Gardens
• McGavock Confederate Cemetery
• Mount Olivet Cemetery
• Old Beech Cemetery
• Old City Cemetery: Boulder Tombstone
• Old Hendersonville Cemetery
• Resthaven Memorial Gardens
• Woodlawn Memorial Park Cemetery

SECTION II, Historic Houses

• Belle Meade Plantation
• Belmont Mansion
• Buchanan Log House
• Carnton Plantation
• Carter House
• Clover Bottom Mansion
• Cragfont
• The Hermitage
• Lotz House
• Oaklands Historic House Museum
• Rattle and Snap Plantation
• Rippavilla Plantation
• Roy Acuff House
• Sam Davis Home
• Smith-Trahern Mansion
• Sunnyside Mansion
• Travellers Rest Plantation
• Two Rivers Mansion

SECTION III, Bars and Restaurants

• Battle Ground Brewery & Restaurant
• Beer Sellar
• Buffalo Billiards
• Captain D’s
• Flying Saucer
• Grecians Greek and Italian
• Hard Rock Cafe
• McDonald’s
• McFadden’s Restaurant and Saloon
• McNamara’s Irish Pub
• The Melting Pot
• Merchants Restaurant
• Mulligan’s Irish Pub
• Past Perfect
• Pat’s Hermitage Cafe
• Red Rose Coffee House and Bistro Building
• Riverfront Tavern
• Tootsie’s Orchid Lounge

SECTION IV, Stores and Hotels

• Congress Inn
• Cuz’s Antiques Center
• Dillards at the Mall at Green Hills
• Drake Motel
• Ernest Tubb Record Shop
• Fate Sanders Marina
• Gaylord Opryland Resort and Convention Center
• Lawrence Record Shop
• Lebanon Premium Outlets
• Robert’s Western World
• Union Station Hotel
• Walking Horse Hotel
• Zierra Myst

SECTION V, Roads and Parks

• Adams Railroad Crossing
• Centennial Park
• Chapel Hill Ghost Lights
• Dead Man’s Curve at Demonbreun
• Dutchman’s Curve
• Edwin Warner Park
• Florence Road Railroad Crossing
• Fort Negley
• Gallatin Town Square
• Music Row
• Printers Alley
• Sanders Ferry Park
• Shy’s Hill
• Slaughter Pen at Stones River National Battlefield
• Two Rivers Golf Course
• Two Rivers Parkway
• White Screamer of White Bluff
• Whites Creek Pike’s Devil’s Elbow
• Wickham Stone Park

SECTION VI, Miscellaneous

• Athenaeum Rectory
• Austin Peay State University
• Bell Witch Cave
• Cumberland University
• Downtown Presbyterian Church
• Ellis Middle School
• Fourth Avenue Parking Area /Alley
• Grand Ole Opry House
• Hume-Fogg High School
• Nashville Public Library
• Old Tennessee State Prison
• Palace Theater
• Rock Castle
• Ryman Auditorium
• St. Mary’s Catholic Church
• SunTrust Mortgage Services
• Tennessee State Capitol
• Tennessee State Museum

Appendix I: Chapters Organized Geographically

Appendix II: Daytripping (or in this case, Nighttripping)

Appendix III: Paranormal Investigation Groups

Appendix IV: A Handful of Haunted Locations a Little More Than an Hour Away

Appendix V: Location Checklist

About the Authors