Haunted Theatres: The Savannah Theatre in Savannah, GA | Horrorwood: True Crime in Tinseltown

Ghosts? Check. Fires that start and stop on their own? Check. A presidential assassin? Check...and yikes. The Savannah Theatre really takes the whole "all theatres are haunted" belief to a whole new level, which isn't surprising considering it's more than 200 years old and located in a city that is literally built on the dead.

Standing in Chippewa Square - the backdrop for some of Forrest Gump's most iconic scenes - the Savannah Theatre has played host to some of the world's most famous - and not-so-famous - performers, and some of them refuse to leave...

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Episode Sources:

Historic Savannah Theatre Paranormal Investigations

“Portals to Hell” - Season 3 Episode 7, available on Max

Overstreet, Robert Lane, "The History of the Savannah Theater, 1865-1906." (1970). LSU Historical Dissertations and Theses. 1799 - lots of Savannah Morning News articles in this one

“The Colonial Park Cemetery (and the traces of the original cemeteries within)”

Colonial Park Cemetery

“Ghosts of Christmas Past” by Jessica Lynn Curtis

Truth In Evidence Haunted Tours

Chippewa Square

“The Savannah Theater: A Rich Heritage and Colorful History of Hauntings” by Chris Allen

“Yellow Fever at 200” by Jonathan M. Bryant