Being the scaredy-cat that I am, it’s kinda odd that I dig supernatural stuff. But
Ghost Hunters is one of the very few TV shows I follow, and I really miss the
Twilight Zone series. Wow. This really says so much about me.
Geek. Haha. Anyway, we signed up for a
ghost tour on our recent trip to Savannah. None of us really knew what to expect but we were all game and pretty open-minded.
The tour started at
Reynolds Square, by the statue of
John Wesley, at 9 PM. Surprisingly, there was a good turnout, with about 40 people. The group eventually split up into two, and us Pinoys went with Jan. Calling herself “Wimpy Jan”, our tour guide said she’d been doing the tours a long time and had unwillingly experienced a number of things paranormal. With a short introduction of the tour, some guidelines, we were off.
Our first stop was another square (which name I don’t recall) that was apparently built atop an old cemetery. It’s been reported that a number of people have felt odd or peculiar at this bench/bus stop. Maybe they were just waiting with some creepy guy.
Next stop was
Juliette Gordon Low’s house. You, former girl scouts, should know her. The house was old, smelled old, but didn’t really give me the creeps. Unlike the
Winchester House in San Jose, CA, the Low house in Savannah seemed pretty tame. The Winchester House was just bad, something was wrong with it, and I felt nauseous all throughout that tour. But the Low House was just … fine. Sure it was an old house with lots of paintings, had kind of a funny of smell—a little like my house at midtown, haha. The other Pinoys here like to kid me that my house is haunted. I beg to differ. There’s no creepy vibe here okay! Anyway, we soon left the house like chirpy girl scouts and trooped to the next stop.
A doctor supposedly lived in
Twelve West Oglethorpe at some point, and during the time when Savannah was plagued with the Black Death (am I remembering this correctly?) he took in sick people to care for them, unknowingly exposing his family to the disease. Known only as ‘Doc James’, his children and wife fell sick and died soon after taking in the sick. Out of remorse, the doctor took his life and is supposed to be haunting the premises still. He has been reported to appear by the windows and in one of the tours, he supposedly appeared in one of the photographs.
Look into its windows.
See him?
We then headed to the lot behind Doc James’ house, where our tour guide pointed out the presence of ‘orbs’. It’s been contested that the presence of orbs indicates high levels of paranormal activity. Could just have been high levels of dust captured by our cameras, right?
The tour circled back to Reynold’s Square, where we saw some more supposed paranormal orbs, and for one last picture with our tour guide.
More than anything, I thought that the ghost tour was a good excuse to walk around the historic city at night. Oh, and a cool spot for a late night treat:
Leopold’s.
Yum!
More back posts coming up!
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