The Pirates' House

Operating since the 1750s, The Pirates' House began as a pub serving sailors near the Savannah waterfront, and tunnels dug beneath the property once ran from its rum cellar straight to the docks — used, by local account, to smuggle unsuspecting men down to ships in need of crew, a practice known as shanghaiing. The building's reputation grew large enough that Robert Louis Stevenson is said to have drawn on it while writing Treasure Island, naming it as the place where his fictional pirate Captain Flint meets his end. Staff and visitors report heavy footsteps and yelling echoing from the old tunnels, a persistent sense of being watched, and occasional full apparitions on the building's second floor.