Welcome To Franklin's #1 Rated Ghost Tour!

Field hospitals filled with deafening screams of the injured and dying were abundant during the Civil War, leaving many of Franklin’s buildings stained with blood and filled with a subtle stench of death. Confederate ghosts continue to patrol the land, and unexplained oddities startle and terrorize hapless passersby in what could be one of the nation’s most haunted cities.

The Ethereal Echoes of War

The Civil War changed the very fabric of Franklin’s reality, turning it into a veritable land of the dead. Join Franklin Ghosts at Franklin Battlefield, where the horrors that rushed through the front doors of Carnton Plantation sound more like legend than fact. 

Learn about the growing number of wounded Confederate soldiers that made it necessary for the plantation to partially convert into a makeshift hospital. Hear about the death of more than 150 soldiers in a single day, leaving the floors and walls painted crimson. 

Echoes of that trying day ring throughout the plantation, summoning grisly hauntings and anguished apparitions. Feel the heavy energy that continues to manifest a number of specters, from wandering soldiers to a mischievous spirit tied to an unsolved murder on a thrilling ghost tour with Franklin Ghosts.

What Will I See?

Visit Franklin’s Most Haunted Locations, Including:

• Lotz House Museum – Floorboards stained with blood say all that needs to be said about the once peaceful home. A site of innumerable wartime tragedies, the Lotz House Museum is crowded with ghosts, all trying to find peace in the hereafter. Though typically benevolent, they’re not shy in letting the living know when they’re displeased.
• Historic Courthouse Building – A house of justice, Franklin’s Historic Courthouse Building has seen an unusual amount of tragedy and death. A dark cloud has shrouded the antique building, the shadows moving within it telling odd and horrific tales of the building’s past.  
• The White Building – The exterior may be white, but the inside was once painted crimson. Another of Franklin’s historic buildings that was once used as a field hospital, The White Building’s history has been marred by the realities of a grim and brutal war. A lone presence lingers in the basement, awaiting the familiar sounds of a bygone era.

A Peaceful Home Shattered by War

Can a home have too many ghosts? Franklin Ghosts ponders this question at the Lotz House Museum, a blood-stained relic of the Civil War. Before the Confederate army converted it into a makeshift field hospital, the quaint home was the prized development of German immigrant Johann Lotz. 

Explore the history of the once-happy home with Franklin Ghosts and hear how the dream home turned into a site of great emotion months before the war when the home welcomed its first spirits. The Lotz twins were inadvertently killed by a nefarious Union plot, and in the wake of the Civil War, the home welcomed even more spirits. 

Learn about the amputee soldiers and lost souls that occasionally make their presence known and how the numerous hauntings have now become a part of working for the museum on a spine-chilling Franklin Ghost tour.

A Gallery of Ghosts 

Sadness lingers in a space that was once boisterous and filled with entertainment and delight. Gallery 202, formerly known as Clouston Hall, used to host gatherings of affluence. Presidents and businessmen gathered for evenings of entertainment, a far cry from the art gallery it is today. 

That joy that used to radiate from Clouston Hall has now been replaced by darkness. Ties to the Civil War are evident in the blood stain that refuses to be cleaned, the remains of what many believe to be the young Confederate soldier that lingers. 

Follow Franklin Ghosts through the history of Gallery 202 and learn about a nearby apartment where an apparition still awaits justice for her unsolved murder. Find out why a spirit known as Elizabeth is trapped in an eternal loop of her death, forever knowing her killer but unable to alert the living. This story and more await on a heart-pounding Franklin ghost tour.

Why is Franklin so Haunted?

The Horrors of the Morgan Family Murder

War breeds brutality, but the personal nature of murder manifests restless spirits that can never find peace. Join Franklin Ghosts to a 20th-century farmhouse long since demolished after its residents were all brutally slain.

The blood-stained farmhouse housed the only clues of who killed the Morgan family, though it’s possible their unsettled apparitions return frequently to seek closure. With the farmhouse gone, the family moves throughout Franklin, their presence felt in buildings like the old courthouse.

Will the Morgans ever find peace? The site of their murder may have been demolished, but the aura of their vicious end continues to move around Franklin, possibly in search of anyone who can help their plight. 

Franklin’s Most Haunted

A region so ripe with history is bound to have a bounty of specters, poltergeists, and apparitions. Franklin is brimming with haunted locations, some more difficult to tour than others. So, while you may stop in front of the Gothic facade of the Franklin Masonic Hall to try and spot the wandering Confederate soldier, you’ll probably want a little more time to yourself exploring the haunts of CJ’s Off the Square near Gray’s building.

A heavy air circulates through Franklin as memories of the Trail of Tears course through the city’s veins, leaving a trail of darkness that feeds the spectral energy at Shuff’s Music. The shop’s resident ghost, Sallie the Spy, manifests among other haunts tied to the Civil War and the Battle of Franklin.

A local favorite, The White Building is somewhere you’ll want to visit beyond the tour, even if it’s just to grab a coffee at the corner Starbucks. With a history dating back to the Civil War, it’s no surprise that every inch of the aptly named building, which now houses small businesses and the coffee giant, is swirling with otherworldly energy. The veil is lifted in the building’s basement, where a trapped Union soldier may respond to your questions.

* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *