Kehoe House: Savannah's Most Haunted Inn

When traveling to Savannah one must experience the local color, so to speak. Many of Savannah's gracious inns provide a taste of southern tradition and hospitality, as well as a few dark secrets. Perhaps the most famous of Savannah's haunted inns is the Kehoe House. Built in 1892 by William Kehoe for his wife and ten children, the Queen Anne style mansion with its massive red brick facade, rounded windows and Corinthian columned porches is a formidable presence on Columbia Square. The fact that the Kehoe House served as a funeral parlor for much of the 20th century only adds to its intrigue and share of ghosts. The second floor of this stately mansion is said to be the most "active" with guests in rooms 201 and 203 having reported awakening to the touch of a caress on their face and the imprint of someone sitting next to them on the bed though there was no one else in the room. There have been accounts of guests waking up to the sensation of being watched only to find a group of transparent "mourners" looking down at them as if they were laying in wake! The sound of children has also been heard on the second floor laughing and playing though there were no children in the inn at the time. Perhaps these children are the spirits of the Kehoe twins who died tragically while playing in one of the house's massive chimneys, each of which have been bricked up. Whatever the occasion, a stay at the Kehoe House promises to be "surreal".