Case file · Haunting
King's Tavern, Natchez
In the 1930s workmen at King's Tavern, one of the oldest buildings in Natchez, Mississippi, reportedly found three skeletons and a jewelled dagger behind a chimney wall.
1932 CE · 31.56, -91.40 · status: legend
The account
Legend makes the woman 'Madeline', a servant and mistress of tavern keeper Richard King, murdered by his wife. Staff report footsteps, a crying baby and a woman's apparition.
The sceptical view
Accounts disagree on the date and place of the find, and no record identifies the bodies.