Carter House

Visitors and staff at the Carter House describe the spirits of Confederate Captain Tod Carter, his sister Annie and even a phantom warhorse, along with footsteps, cold spots and poltergeist-style activity that one listing calls as gentle as a ghost can be; the horse and some other details come from ghost-tour sources. Tod was shot leading a charge in the Battle of Franklin and was carried home, where he died in the house two days later. The house stood at the center of the fiercest fighting in the battle, the Federal general Jacob D. Cox made the parlor his headquarters while the Carter family sheltered in the basement, and more than a thousand bullet holes, by one tour company's count, still scar its outbuildings. The house is run as a museum by the Battle of Franklin Trust, which gives history tours.