Join Macon Ghosts on a trek through the region’s history, where wandering apparitions and vengeful specters tell stories buried by years of progress and development.
Book NowDisease and violence drove the Creek tribe from their land, allowing settlers to establish a new community on blood-soaked grounds. Death surrounds you while exploring Macon’s most haunted locations on this frightening Macon ghost tour.
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More a stately mansion than a simple house, the Hay House also doubles as a playground for the dearly departed. Generations of playful spirits and door-slamming specters remain behind in the multi-story home, a marvel for its time when construction was completed in 1859.
Today a space where locals gather and clink glasses, Ocmulgee Brewpub wasn’t always a jovial venue serving refreshing drinks. It also was never a space that warranted an ominous presence, which may be why its resident specter is seen more as mischievous and harmless than something to fear.
It’s stressful to always have your boss breathing down your neck. Imagine if it were the owner of the establishment, and they’d been dead for many years. That the Douglas Theatre has a rumored high employee turnover rate is less about the job itself and more about the lingering presence of the building’s former owner, Charles Douglass.
The Heart of Georgia beats with sordid tales and unsolved mysteries manifesting scores of spirits and phantoms. Follow the trail of darkness with Macon Ghosts through the city’s timeline and learn about the restless apparitions and unsettling entities trapped until they finish that last bit of business.
Universities can be a breeding ground for negative energy, but the grounds on which the Kappa Alpha fraternity house was built were already charged by a vile act. Join Macon Ghosts at the figurative doorway to the other side and lift the veil into another realm to explore the grizzly history tied to the frat house.
Manifesting as a frightful sight, the wronged woman whose body was thrown to the vermin occasionally enjoys giving Kappa Alpha members a scare. Across the grounds at Boone Hall, another specter is forced to live with the consequences of her actions. Don’t get too close to her final resting place, though, or you just may be faced with piercing blue eyes that seep into your nightmares.
Listen as Macon Ghosts recounts the university’s most unsettling ghost stories, urban legends, and real encounters that have left students shaken and terrified. At the front of the School of Law building, you may even feel the heaviness of dark energy as the school’s haunts continue to haunt where their lives prematurely ended.
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To call this beautiful, red-bricked structure simply a “house” undersells its majestic stature. The Macon landmark is an ornate staple of the community that draws many through its front doors to witness history unfold within. Stand at the foot of this magnificent wonder with Macon Ghosts and feel the cold gaze of its many spectral inhabitants staring down upon you from the upper-story windows.
Through the main doors awaits a museum full of antiquities. Among them are the spirits of generations of former residents. From the original owners to the Hay children whose feet once excitedly ran down the halls, there’s no shortage of ethereal figures that call the Hay House their home.
Explore the history of one of Macon’s most iconic structures with Macon Ghosts. The haunts, while startling and maybe a little creepy at times, aren’t meant to drive visitors away. They’re merely former residents and residual memories of the many years this house was a home.
A crash of glasses echoes from the back of the pub. There’s a good chance it wasn’t an accident but the impish hands of the Ocmulgee Brewpub’s resident apparition. Long before becoming the pub that opened in 2016, the Ocmulgee’s building housed many different businesses, from a carriage repair shop to a cycle retailer.
Quench your thirst for the otherworldly as Macon Ghosts revisits tales of mysterious encounters within the Ocmulgee. The resident ghost, Vincent, isn’t a malicious entity, but he’s not afraid to play a gag or two on the living.
Enjoy the whimsy of Vincent’s trickery as he teases and taunts the pub’s employees from the great beyond. Thankfully, if he makes a mess, he’s also the first to clean it up as he respectfully haunts the pub. Where he came from remains a mystery, though speculation is he’s been around for quite some time.
Angelica Marin may be serving Macon locals some of the finest Mexican food the city has to offer, but the legacy of her restaurant lies largely in the history of the building it now resides. Formerly owned by Anjette Lyle, another restauranteur with a dark, dirty secret. A sprinkling of a special ingredient skyrocketed Anjette to infamy as the bodies piled up around her.
The black widow’s actions manifested four wandering souls; their lives cut short by the vile actions of someone they trusted. Angelica now has to share a space with a presence from beyond the veil. Employees of Angelica’s La Bella Morelia may have the occasional frightful encounter, but to patrons, the specters of Anjette’s spree add character to the place.
Join Macon Ghosts on an exploration of one of Macon’s most sordid tales, when a mother, wife, and daughter-in-law enacted her viciousness on those she was meant to love. It’s a tragedy for the ages and one you won’t soon forget.
Knowing a spirit is expelling his limited energy to offer silent criticism is a whole different level of stress. The actors that take the stage of Macon’s The Grand Opera House know all too well the disapproving gaze of one specter who watches from the mezzanine overlooking the stage.
Get a taste of the theatrical with Mason Ghosts and imagine one actor’s dismay as they caught the ethereal figure sitting in on a rehearsal. Neither good nor evil, the ghost demands perfection from all who stand on the stage.
From an infamous photo of a pursuing apparition to the innocuous white-clad soprano with a love for singing, The Grand Opera House and its resident haunts are a piece of the region’s history and an important stop for any ghost tour.
Macon may not look like a beacon for otherworldly entities that it attracts, but its history of disease, violence, and murder feeds the unexplained activity witnessed within its city limits.
The victims of Thomas Woolfolk were interred at Rose Hill Cemetery, bringing tragedy and haunts to the 19th-century burial ground. Shapeshifting entities, dark shadows, glowing eyes, and a number of other haunting visions have become commonplace at Rose Hill, its menagerie of spirits spanning the Woolfolk victims and more contemporary specters.
Allman Brothers fans will marvel at The Big House, a museum dedicated to the band. Some of its most exciting relics include the active spirits of some of the former bandmates. When it comes time for a place to rest, do you want a sanitized modern hotel or somewhere with character? Might we suggest the 1842 Inn, a quaint establishment from the 19th century that’s still harboring some of its former visitors?
There are many spirits to get to know throughout the city, and Macon Ghosts is here to lift the veil to the other realm.
* This is a walking tour and we do not enter privately-owned buildings or private property *
Shadowy legs at the top of the stairs. Heavy footsteps echoing through empty halls. Shapeshifters and vengeful spirits roaming cemetery grounds. Macon isn’t short on the perfect elements of a real horror story. Soak in the terrifying stories of the dark entities that threaten to decay the Heart of Georgia and leave nothing but malice and tragedy in its place.
Spilled blood soaks into the grounds of Macon, tying the victims of heinous acts to the city forever. Murder is no stranger to Macon, from the brutal slaying of the Woolfolk family to the horrific killing of Mary Burge. The heavy energy left at the scene of the crime is a mix of their sorrow and the violent nature of the person or people that mercilessly took their lives.
Maybe one of the more unique haunts in Macon revolves around the “Midnight Rider” singers, the Allman Brothers. A distinct home with a very unique look, the Allman Brothers Band Museum at the Big House was the former home of the bandmates’ families as the band traveled. It’s believed that members of the band are still living within the home, especially leading man Duane Allman, who suffered a tragic motorcycle accident and died.
Georgia is a fascinating state brimming with stories from the American Civil War and milestones of the Civil Rights Movement. When it comes to ghost stories, most will say Savannah is the go-to haunt, but so many intriguing and spooky tales await in Macon. If you want to hear even more of the ghostly presences in Georgia, Macon has unknown horrors that tend to get overshadowed by the spectral activity in Savannah.
It may come as a surprise, but one of Macon’s most active haunts is a Mexican restaurant you’re encouraged to try during your stay. La Bella Morelia looks like a quaint joint, and its owner is certainly among the living. However, its past is marred by the vile actions of Anjette Lyles, a murderer responsible for the four benevolent spirits haunting La Bella Morelia.
