The Forsyth Park Inn’s Happy Ghost
If you want to stay at a real haunted house, look no further than the Forsyth Park Inn in Savannah, Georgia. A young girl who died heartbroken many years ago still ‘lives’ there.
Apparently she was taken in by a family under circumstances that are lost to history. She had a good time with them and they treated her really well. Another girl was eventually brought to live with them, and was said to be the sister of the woman who adopted the girl. She was later found to be having an affair with the man who adopted them and the first girl, out of jealous, killed her with poison.
Only after she was dead did the girl find out that the young woman she killed was really her biological mother. She went insane at that point and lived the rest of her life in a mental institution. Because she had such happy times at the home until that point, however, she is said to remain there, skipping along the corridors and laughing.
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April 30th, 2009 at 12:36 pm
The Ghost Story of Forsyth Park Inn
Our home, the Forsyth Park Inn, was purchased by the wealthy Mr. Aaron Churchill & Ms. Lois Churchill in the 1890’s as their residence for the wintertime. Mr. Churchill was known to be an astute businessman and sea captain, and established the Churchill Steamship Lines of Savannah. In 1874 Mr. Churchill married his distant cousin, Lois Churchill and wanted to raise a family here in his new home.
Unfortunately, the Churchill’s could have no children of their own, so they adopted Lois Churchill’s fourteen year old niece, Lottie. Lottie was loved by her Aunt Lo and Uncle Aaron and enjoyed all the gifts and luxuries a wealthy Savannah family could offer. Not long after Lottie was adopted, Lois Churchill’s sister, Anna, came to live at the house with the Churchill family. Anna, in time, became close to the young Lottie, and they considered themselves to be like sisters.
One day, Lottie was walking through the house and found a couple embracing and kissing in the doorway. It was her Uncle Aaron Churchill and someone else! It was not her Aunt Lo he was kissing, but instead it was her Aunt, Anna, the woman she had grown so fond of. Lottie was shocked and upset by what she saw, and withdrew from the family, keeping quiet about what she had seen. That night, Lottie tossed and turned to try and come up with a plan on how to save her family from falling apart facing adultery.
Lottie came up with a plan. That next day she slipped a dose of poison into Anna’s afternoon tea, and watched from upstairs as the poison took effect. Anna then collapsed into her sister Lois’s arms. Lottie’s plan had worked, but with consequence. She had so much guilt and remorse and later came to find out that Anna was not actually her Aunt, but in fact her real mother! She had killed her own mother, and was never the same again. The agony over what she had done caused her to go mad, and was sent to an asylum. Not long after, she died.
Lottie’s young spirit still roams the rooms and gardens of our present day Inn. Perhaps she sadly searches for her slain mother, or seeks to find answers to unfinished business. It is said that unhappy spirits cannot pass into the next world unless they have resolved all things here on earth. We believe we still have the pleasure of Lottie’s ghost here in our home. We are proud to say that our Inn and this story were featured on the Travel Channel, and enjoy having Lottie on the premises. Maybe you, too, will see her during your stay.
November 13th, 2009 at 12:04 pm
I am somewhat confused about Lottie. It says above that she died young in an asylum, but, the history of Aaron Churchill’s other house in Nova Scotia shows that she did not die until 1971. After Aaron died in 1920, his wife Loise inherited the Nova Scotia home (called “Churchill Mansion”) and when she passed away in 1927, it was passed on to Lottie. It is said that she lived from May 18, 1885 until May 24, 1971 and was also married to Armand Rainey.
I’m very confused.
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