Located opposite one of Georgia's most famous and pristine squares, Savannah (Monterey Square in the city's historic center), the historic Mercer Williams home extends to Jim Williams, restored in the 1860s. Go back.
This Italian resurrection is the premature death of three people: Tommy Downs, 11 years old, who fell off the roof in 1969, Williams, who shot and killed Danny Hansford in 1981, and Williams himself died in the same. It was the scene of. A room as Hansford less than a year after he was acquitted of Hansford's death in his fourth trial. If the story sounds familiar, it's probably because you know it from the best-selling midnight in the garden of good and evil. Like the rest of the city, the house is said to have been built directly on a tomb without a grave marker. Crime rumors and the resulting ghost stories are widespread to this day.
The whole picture of Mercer Williams's house is featured in the episode of House Beautiful's Haunted House Podcast Dark House. Listen here.
Known as the Gray Gardens, East Hampton's Grand Estate has a fascinating history and many ups and downs. The four-acre site where the house is currently located is located in the George Beach district of East Hampton, one of the most expensive areas in the world, and was wealthy in 1895 before the house was built in the early 1900s. Purchased by a couple.
By 1913, it was sold to the president of a coal company and his wife Anna Gilman Hill, importing ornate concrete walls from Spain to surround the garden. The house was named Gray Garden because of the color of the dunes, the walls of the cement garden, and the fog of the sea. Then, in 1923, the house was sold to Edith Bouvier Beale (the aunt of Jackie Onassis Kennedy and Lee Radziwill's parents) and her family.
After a series of misfortunes and financial losses, the house was devastated and attacked by cats and raccoons (and perhaps something not from this kingdom?). This is because Big Eddie Beer and her daughter Little Eddie Beer couldn't afford it. Maintain your own mansion. The story of a woman (and Star Power!) Was made famous by Albert and David Maysles in a 1975 documentary.
Big Eddie retains her property until her death in 1977, her spirit remains in Gray Gardens, and she is said to be watching over the house. Among the followers is Sally Quinn, the best-known writer and journalist in her column at The Washington Post, where she bought Little Eddie's house in 1979 and vowed to be haunted.
