The Pickens County Courthouse in the county seat of Carrollton, Alabama is the courthouse for Pickens County, Alabama. Built in 1877–1878 as the third courthouse in the city, it is noted for a ghostly
Pickens County Courthouse 2
A historical sign erected in 1974 near the courthouse tells the story of the image in the window.
13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey is a book first published in 1969 by folklorist Kathryn Tucker Windham and Margaret Gillis Figh. The book contains 13 ghost stories from the U.S. state of Alabama. The bo
Pickens County Courthouse (Alabama)
…separate events had repeatedly been combined into one myth: Henry Wells' story was included in Kathryn Tucker Windham's book of Alabama ghost stories, 13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey (1969); Ghost Stories from the American South (1985), edited by W.K. McNeil; and Phantom Army of the Civil War and Other Southern Ghost Stories (1997…
First edition image