Haunted Alabama: USS Alabama, Fort Morgan and Historic Mansions

Alabama’s haunted stories reach from the grand homes of Selma and Florence to the historic streets of Mobile and the fortifications along Mobile Bay. This episode visits five places where documented history, local folklore and reports of unexplained activity meet.

The journey begins at Sturdivant Hall in Selma before continuing to Mobile, where the USS Alabama carries stories of phantom footsteps and lingering sailors. Nearby, the Battle House Hotel combines more than a century of hospitality with legends of spectral guests and unexplained activity.

The final stops are Fort Morgan, a coastal stronghold shaped by war, imprisonment and generations of ghost stories, and Sweetwater Mansion in Florence, where family history, Civil War loss and later folklore have become closely intertwined. Together, these locations show how Alabama’s historic places continue to preserve memory, uncertainty and legend.