The Wren's Nest

Author and folklorist Joel Chandler Harris, best known for collecting and publishing the Brer Rabbit and Uncle Remus tales, lived in this West End house from 1881 until his death in 1908; it takes its name from a family of wrens that once nested in the mailbox. Now a National Historic Landmark and house museum, staff and visitors since the early 2000s have reported disembodied voices and unexplained noises, apparitions of two young boys believed to be Harris's grandchildren playing on the stairs and in the yard, and a figure resembling Harris himself seen sitting in his favorite rocking chair. The house hosts annual paranormal investigation tours each fall.