Haunts to Visit, Ghosts to See: Tennessee Entertainment at it's Best!

The rolling hills of Tennessee are undoubtedly beautiful at any time of the year, along with its myriad of rocky gorges and breathtaking rivers and tree-studded hills. The state boasts a history rich with discovery, adventure, pride and ghosts… ghosts?

Well, call them what you will. Strange sightings, electro-magnetic disturbances, lost ones, shadow people, I’m sure if you live in one of the towns whose history boasts of a ‘ghost story’, you either dismiss the idea as ludicrous or you embrace the idea with enthusiasm. There are fancy names for ‘ghost hunters’ and scientific data that supposedly explain these apparitions away these days, but I’m not even going to try to spell them. I’m not leaning one way or the other on this subject either, but planting myself firmly on my imaginary fence as I relate them. If you like ghost hunting, there’s plenty of places to begin your quest, enough locations scattered around Tennessee to beckon both the thrill seeker and the merely curious for days… or nights if you dare. The most likely starting place to begin your trek is through Tennessee’s western counties, where most of the tales originate.

In Gibson County, the towns of Trenton and Medina both claim ‘mysterious apparitions’. The story behind ‘The Doll House’ in Medina’s Hope Hill Cemetery is a sad tale of a small child assaulted and murdered by her uncle. Her loving family erected a dollhouse to encompass her grave, and it’s told that at night visitors can occasionally see and hear the gentle laughter and singsong voice of a girl playing with her dolls inside the miniature dwelling.

Sleepy Hollow Lane, in the town of Trenton, has also endured strange occurrences. It’s rumored that if visitors stop and park their car, roll down the window at that specific spot and shout, “Come to me!” three times, they’ll likely get more than they bargained for. I’ll leave that one for some other brave soul to try.