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I've got a few UNA stories!!!(there are many more, just ask!!!)


Florence - University of North Alabama area - Guillot University Center - Before it was built, a dorm for girls stood in it's place. It existed while what is now UNA was Florence State Teacher's College. In the early 1900's, a student at the college who lived in the dorms was said to have a secret that stressed her out so very much that she hung herself from the elevator shaft in the tower of the building. No one knew what her secret was or why she felt she had to kill herself. Later, security guards in the building would hear noises that sounded like a swaying body hanging from a rope. Now the Guillot Center stands in its place and noises are still heard on it's second floor. There have been security guards in the building at night that have heard and seen crazy things!

Florence - University of North Alabama area - Norton Auditorium - is haunted by a ghost named George who was a construction worker helping build the auditorium some time ago. He fell from a scaffold to his death. He has been heard walking on the catwalk and various other things.

Florence - University of North Alabama area - Off Campus Bookstore - In the late 30's or early 40's, a young girl named Molly lived in the building with her parents. For her 11th birthday, her parents bought her a puppy. Soon, her puppy contracted rabies and bit her hand. Within a week, she died. Her ghost has been seen many times in the upstairs window, looking down. This house/bookstore used to be the Kappa Sigma house, and Molly was seen there by some of the brothers. Now they have a house a few streets away, and Molly moved with them----she goes back and forth from the bookstore to the Kappa Sig's house! Also, the people that work in the bookstore say the 2nd floor, used for storage, always cold. They can't get any heat to stay up there.

Florence - University of North Alabama area - Weslyan - is haunted by a civil war general's son who drowned when he jumped head first into Cypress Creek from the old one lane bridge on Waterloo Road a couple minutes from campus. His wet footsteps can be seen at night. One Florence resident wrote a book about strange things in the quad cities, and used this story----she actually did an interview with the General himself!!! Crazy, I know!!

Tuscumbia - Bellemont Mansion - Antebellum house. Sits on old plantation. There have many sightings of the spirits of the slaves. It is a tourist attraction now and the shackles still remain on the cellar walls.

Lauderdale - Elgin - Jazz Man - The story goes that a jazz musician was walking across the Second Creek Bridge when a car struck him. He walks up and down the bridge, still wearing his white Zoot suit, looking for a ride to Florence. If you stop to pick him up, he says something about his trumpet and disappears.

Hartselle - Cry Baby Holler - People claim that a woman was driving over this narrow bridge and wrecked. She lived, but the baby in her car died. Now when you drive over that bridge at night. Stop and sit there, until you hear a baby cry. Leave candy on the bridge. Come back a couple of minutes later...a piece of the candy is gone. I've done this one(not the candy part) to see if I could hear the baby cry-----it's creepy anyway cause it's in the middle of nowhere!

Florence - Sweetwater Plantation - Music is played occasionally on an old piano that sits in the parlor where guests were entertained by a former Governor back in the late 1800's. The caretaker recalls a light being turned on at night on the second floor and faucets being turned on at night when she is trying to sleep.

Florence - Ghost Bridge - Supposedly a run-away slave was hung from the bridge during the civil war. There have been many sightings there. I've been here too, and there are many stories that float around about this one. The true story is not as scary as the others, unfortunately.....Some say, the phrase "Hang 'em high, or Hang 'em low" came from this story, depending on if the soldiers were hung underneath the bridge or above it---they say the soldiers that fought in the civil war were hung from this bridge, supposedly a general of the opposing side was hung underneath......not the true story though.....

ETA: More Stories!!!!