Case file · Haunting
Cahawba ghost town
Cahawba, Alabama's first state capital, held a Confederate prison for Union soldiers and was abandoned after the Civil War and floods; a ghostly orb is said to drift through the Crocheron garden.
1865 CE · 32.32, -87.10 · status: legend
The account
The Crocheron orb story was collected by Kathryn Tucker Windham in '13 Alabama Ghosts and Jeffrey' (1969).
The sceptical view
Windham presented it as a told tale.