The Marshall House

Opened in 1851 by businesswoman Mary Marshall, the Marshall House is Savannah's oldest continuously operating hotel. It served as a hospital during the city's 19th-century yellow fever epidemics and again as a Union hospital in the final months of the Civil War. During a 1990s restoration, workers pulling up damaged floorboards discovered human remains believed to be amputated limbs from the building's time as a surgery ward. Guests and staff report disembodied voices, doorknobs rattling on their own, faucets that turn on unassisted, and footsteps in empty hallways; the hotel has been featured repeatedly on national haunted-hotel television programs.