Montgomery, Alabama
Of course, the various '13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffery' books tell a lot of Southern hauntings.
Miss Priss
The State Capitol Building - The architect of Capitol
and Custodian reported seeing the ghost of a Confederate woman roaming the halls on the second floor offices. There have also been reports of water faucets turning on by themselves in the Governor's reception area restroom. Other witnesses have claimed to hear the cries of a baby in the basement offices. The Confederate widow is said to be woman whose son was killed in the Civil War. She now wanders the halls attempting to arrange a meeting with Jefferson Davis in hopes of finding out where her son is buried.
The Red Lady
Huntington College-Montgomery, Alabama: The ghost of the Red Lady has haunted Pratt Hall on this campus for many years. She was a student from New York who was obsessed with the color red. She always dressed in red, and her room on the fourth floor of Pratt Hall was decorated in a crimson hue. The girl, never accepted by her classmates, remained aloof, alone, and homesick. One day they found her in her room dressed in her red robe, underneath a red blanket, covered with bright red blood from her slashed wrists. After she died, strange flashes of red light were seen in her former room, as the girl's red-dressed ghost roamed the fourth-floor hall and terrified students.
The Iron Bridge
From another message board:
It all started in 1985 in Montgomery Alabama, we live just 8 miles from Montgomery AFB we had a house in Prattville. To get to the base I had to drive across an old iron bridge, in the old days it was a 2 way bridge, bur later they made it into a one way and built another bridge for the out going traffic, anyway, when I got to the bridge I car't explain it I had a fear I was terrified of that bridge, I would haul across going about 70 miles an hour, one day I took my friend to the base and I scared her to death I hauled again, she asked me why I was going so fast and for some reason I could not explain, All I knew was for some reason I was scared to death. about 6 years later when we moved to Colorado, I was watching Robert Stack doing his unsolved mysteries show, they were doing a segment on the Prattville to Montgomery bridge and of course the hair on my arms stood ! up, it appears in the 50's 3 black youths were murdered on that bridge some say that they committed sucide others say that they were murdered on that bridge by the KKK its hard to explain but I had a sensation of fear and torture I don't think that we will never know but I know in my heart that those boys were murdered I cannot explain the feelings I had, but I will tell you this I will never ever forget that bridge.
Now, my personal note. I've crossed that bridge many a time. I cannot imagine what it was like when it was two way, since that was before the time I could drive. But it must have been terrifying. That bridge is narrow and I've always been terrified of having to cross it. I'd do the same thing, floor it on the bridge and whip over it as fast as safely possible. Of course, I am scared of heights, too, and there is very little sense of safety on that sucker, let me tell you.
UFO Sightings
MONTGOMERY
7/24/48
2:45 AM. Eastern Airlines Flight 576 piloted by Clarence Chiles and co-piloted by Hohn Whitted. They saw a glowing wingless cylindrical object streak past the plane. It was about 100 feet long and 25-30 feet in diameter, with two rows of windows. The object seemed to be under intelligent control as it appeared to maneuver to avoid hitting them.
Project Sign spent months tracing the flight records of 225 civilian and military aircraft to eliminate the possibility that Chiles & Whitted had seen a conventional aircraft. ... Project Sign finally settled on calling it a meteor, but admitted that the description of the object and its maneuvers did not fit that explanation.
BIRMINGHAM
02/05/99
J Vinsant writes, "At about 4:25 A.M. on December 5, 1999, I woke up to see a bright white light had lit up my entire back yard. I woke my wife and she also witnessed the light. The light then slowly climbed up my windows at a very slow pace, as if it were rising from the ground. We then watched the darkness of our house light up for approximately ten to fifteen seconds. Just as the light climbed up the window the darkness climbed up it also. Two minutes later, I heard an explosion that rocked most of Birmingham and was passed off as a meteor. I live south of Birmingham on a five hundred acre farm. However, my concern is not the light or the sonic boom. My concern is the UFO that I witnessed with my wife and her parents. After I heard the sound I then walked outside and saw an oval/circular shape covered with lights that was hovering over the mountain. The lights would rotate around the dish and would flash bright like a light house when they shone in our direction. We watched for an hour and a half. The UFO flew around and hovered without making any sound. It would sometimes appear to be one bright light and sometimes it appeared to be a complete circular saucer.
